![]() ![]() Again, it's superbly done – the shadow of a whale shark looming through the parted sea is a nice touch – but not particularly accurate. Moses leads the Hebrews to the Red Sea, which whooshes back to allow them through. ![]() Man of the people … Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Egyptian royal inscriptions tended to stick to the positive stories. The plagues were not recorded in Egyptian texts, but this doesn't mean they didn't happen. As is the Book of Exodus: there's a song in chapter 15. Or maybe that's just because this is a musical. There are lice, locusts, frogs, hail (upgraded dramatically to massive bolts of fire plummeting out of the sky), dead cows, boils, and a new and horrifying 11th plague of people bursting into song. Pharaoh won't free the slaves, so God sends plagues. Admittedly, it's hard to see how you'd get Exodus 4:24-26 into a kids' film without sending the entire audience into permanent psychological trauma. It's not the only time Prince of Egypt sanitises the biblical story. In Exodus, Moses murders an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave and hides his body in the sand. ![]() The ancient Egyptians may have been portrayed in the Bible as a bunch of imperialist slave-driving genocidal maniacs, but they really did have a delightful artistic sensibility. This isn't in Exodus either, but it looks fantastic on film, told through a beautiful piece of animation based on Egyptian frescoes. Moses has a dream which reveals he is really a Hebrew. Writing's on the wall … Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/DreamWorks SKG ![]()
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