The Ten Commandments is a movie about the book of Exodus and Moses. The movie began at the first order to kill all Hebrews under the age of two. Here Moses is cast off into the Nile and the story begins. It ends with the end of Moses’s life and Joshua taking over. The movie, for the most part, stayed true to the book of Exodus, but some detail and major plotline were different. The movie was good, but the added love story and power struggle made the movie a little off topic. The story itself, Moses being adopted, raised, sent away, and then came back and freed the people is the same, so Exodus is followed in a general way. Some detail is not, like some of the plagues are different (Plague seven was just hail, not hail on fire), and some characters are not existent in the Bible, but appear in the movie. The movie was very good and is one of the best Moses and Passover movies of all time. The only flaw was the details that the movie lacked or were incorrect.
The movie was very similar to the book of Exodus. Although some details are different, the plot does stay true to Moses’s life. The first part of the movie is true with Exodus, with Pharoah killing all the first-born Israelite children and with Moses’s mother sending Moses away in a basket down the Nile. He is raised as a prince of Egypt, with some differences, and kills an Egyptian. It may have been over dramatic but, Moses did kill the Egyptian. He left to Midian and saved some female shepherds from some men and was able to marry one of them. He married the oldest and settled down on a farm. These major plot lines were correct in the movie, and some detail is similar. In the second half of the movie, Moses returns. Aaron does act as his partner and they talk ...
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...only parts that took away from the message were the Datham and Nefreteri stories. These just added drama to the story and didn’t show the power of God to its fullest extent.
The movie itself was a great movie. It followed the storyline of Exodus and it felt like it stayed true to the book. After a closer look at Exodus, you see that there was some added plot lines to the movie and some detail is inadequate. The stories of Datham and Nefreteri do take away some meaning. These don’t help the cause to show the strong power of God. The movie itself is one of the best Moses movies of all time and I love watching it when it is on during Easter time. The movie does show the story of Moses in color and in a good way, which can put a good image for Exodus in your head. Now, when reading Exodus, I can see the movie being played out, helping me understand it.
The story Zora Hurston portrayed in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God drastically changed in the movie that Oprah sought to make using her book. Many changes, such as the differences between the relationships like how Oprah sought to change it in the movie. The characters changes and how they didn't interact the same as they did or not shown at all. The symbols and how Oprah stressed some but didn't really throw in others images. The details she felt irrelevant had also removed such as entire parts of the book that didn't show at all in her movie. These changes brought with it a whole new feel in the movie than it did from the book changing it from the story of a young woman who the product of rape but, well brought up women
Most of the novel revolves around World War II and the aftermath of the war. Most of the Jew population was murdered by the Nazis, this event is known as the Holocaust. There were many attempts to get Jews out of camps and to Palestine because they are safe in Palestine, but many were unsuccessful. Most of the world in 1946 despised the Jews. Most of the Jews did not know why such things would happen to them and thought that God was punishing them. World War II is very significant in the book Exodus because many of the children have not had a life outside of concentration camps and refugee camps. The war changed every Jew’s life because many of them lost family members and friends. This novel tells a story of what life would be like after the war for the
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
The Commandments are laws in which determine how we act and what we do and the Beatitudes are on how we should act. The Commandments were given to us directly by God and the Beatitudes were given to us by God, but through the teachings of Jesus. The Ten Commandments are found on the stone tablets given by Jesus and the Beatitudes are found in the Gospel of Matthew. The Commandments are more commonly known and taught today. There are Ten Commandments, but only eight
What did you enjoy better? The movie or the book? They were both different in many ways, but they were also the same in many ways. First, in the movie, some of the characters were missing such as Gitl, Tzipporah, Rueven, Yitzchak, Fayge, Rachel, Yente, and Rosemary(Hannah's friend). Also Cousin wolf and grandpa Will. The reason for this is because the movie isn’t trying to match up with the book, but to illustrate how harsh the Holocaust was and ,in addition to how inhumane the Jews were treated in the concentration camps. Also, without all of these characters, it makes it easier to get the point across. Another thing was that Hannah was old enough to drive and get a tattoo and was an only child in the movie. However, in the book, Hannah was 13 and had a younger brother named Aaron. Finally, in the book, there is no seder in the women's barracks. But in the movie, in order to make Rivka feel better after her mother's death Hannah does a seder
The film does a great job showing how powerful myths can be. It shows how even though people can believe that myths are outdated they are still used, and still influence different parts of our culture today. This series poses many though provoking examples of how myths influences everything from religion to seemly unrelated films such as Star Wars. This series is a must see for anyone who enjoys mythology, or anyone who is questioning their place in the heavens among the
After discussing this movie in class it all makes sense. All the details that I missed throughout the movie I saw when we started discussing it. I saw most of the religious themes, some like the pale horse evaded me. This was a great movie and one that I would recommend to anyone. The way that it is written and the way that is was played out is amazing. I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface with the meanings behind this movie.
As Christians, we often reflect on the Exodus, especially for the Jewish Religion. Moses is a key character in the story, due to his role that he received from God himself.
There are a lot of differences between Ben-Hur the movie and Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ. The movie has more details than the book. Because there are so many details, the differences between the movie and the book are mostly from small details. Even though most of the differences are small details, there are still many big differences like change in characters, characters names changing, and the time that things happened. At the beginning of the movie, Judah and Messala are not nineteen and seventeen, but in the book they are. This is an example of how there are small details that are different in the movie. In the book, Amrah was a faithful slave who helped the family before and after they were separated. In the movie, Esther is the faithful slave who loves Judah and helps his family before and after they were separated. This is an example of
There are several similarities between the movie The Prince of Egypt and the book of Exodus. The first of these similarities between the book and the movie is that the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians, “They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with
What catches your attention when you start watching it are the subtitles, since the movie is Israeli, and all the dialogs and conversations throughout the film are being lead in Hebrew. Even though, some people find the subtitles distracting, I really liked the fact that it was in Hebrew, since all the characters live in Jerusalem, and the movie’s main theme is definitely faith (in the context of Judaism) and believing in God’s ability to create miracles in our lives. So, the fact that the movie was not in English made it feel more authentic, and it also helped me to feel the atmosphere of Israel better.
Although Aaron, Miriam, Pharaoh, Jethro and Joshua played significant parts in the Book of Exodus, the central character is Moses. He was born in 1393 BCE, in Egypt. At this time the Hebrews were being oppressed through slavery under the Egyptians. God sent Moses to lead the Hebrews away from the oppression in Egypt, into the Promise Land. Moses fought the Pharaoh to let ‘his people go’. This is when the ten plagues were unleashed upon Egypt, in a successful attempt to free the Hebrews. This later leads onto the the parting of the Red Sea which lead to the escape of his people.
It is seen through various movies that the ten commandments have a vital role in the development of their plot, action, and related matter thereof. The commandments, however, differ in severity from an inconsequential tidbit to the entire premise and scheme of the movie. From what was gathered, movies which have a commandment broken usually centralize the commandment as a main element in the movie or a major detail. For example, the entire movie of “Liar Liar” focuses on the breaking of the eighth commandment. On the other hand, movies which have a commandment followed usually treat it as a minor aspect of the movie; this can be seen in the “Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” as whether or not Gollum was spared was irrelevant to the plot. The reasoning
Following this, lessons regarding proper behavior are enforced for the brothers. However, this again is short lived, as Moses soon learns his true heritage. Subsequently, he flees his upbringing, and seeks solace in the desert, with a nomadic tribe that raises sheep, a lifestyle not uncommon for this era. The remainder of the film becomes very biblical: entailing the burning bush, Moses return to Egypt to try and free the Hebrew people, the subsequent plagues that finally result in their release, and the parting of the Red Sea. All incidents relayed in the
Within the old testament the ten commandments are used to convey the idea of justice. Along with the ideas of democracy, individual worth, freedom, the rights of human divine purpose in the world. The commandments are a set of rules that are given by god to allow an individual to take the “just” path to righteousness. When you look within the ten commandments you begin to see that the first four targeting the person vs person relationship while the last six focus the person vs person interaction . The ten commandments