I choose to take full responsibility for this. No lol but seriously I'm glad it's a movie you enjoyed, it really is a great film. Recently came off a ramble from my friend about how they use colors in this movie, very interesting stuff.
So the woman who sang as Moses’ mother, Yocheved, is actually a famous late Israeli singer named Ofra Haza and recorded the song in 17 friggin different languages. English, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Swedish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, and Hebrew
Lovely reaction! And since I couldn't see her acknowledged her - Moses' mom, Yocheved, is voiced by the very beloved late Israeli singer Ofra Haza. She was huge here at the 80-90's, and passed away not long after this movie came out. She was crazy talented and voiced this role in multiple languages.
I’m a godless heathen and The Prince of Egypt is one of my favorite movies ever! The music, the animation, the acting, the story, I’ve loved all of it ever since I was little! You can really tell the production team had so much passion when making it and it comes through in the final product. The opening scene gives me chills every time, especially when Jochebed is singing There was actually a stage adaptation put on I believe in Utah a few years ago and I would pay so much money for a bootleg of it 😆
08:09 "Feels like some Biblical shit, tbh" Mary Clare, when are you putting this on merch?!?!? Also hey, since I'm early enough: the actor who voiced Moses (Val Kilmer) was also the primary voice for God to reflect the individualized, personal connection. BUT they also had other actors and actresses from the cast read lines and layered their voices in with Kilmer's to create that otherworldly sound.
I’m an Athiest, but this movie is not only up there as one of my favorites, but has cemented the Exodus story as one of my favorite biblical stories (right behind the one where some Hebrews convince a rival city to circumcise themselves after one of their guys raped one of their girls to weaken them for invasion)
@@sjh3217 it’s been a looong time since I’ve read the Bible. So had to look it up again, but it’s Genesis 34. Basically a neighboring price r@pes one of the Hebrew woman, then tries getting his dad to buy her as a bride. The Hebrews are like “oh yeah we’d love to but our God has a think bout dick skin. You guys get every male in your kingdom to circumcise themselves, then we’ll happily let you marry her.” So the king does, and while everyone is icing their dicks, the Hebrews come in with their army and slaughter the city as revenge.
@@sjh3217 If I remember correctly, it’s the story about the city of Shechem where supposedly the Prince of the city ( or King, I don’t recall ) fell for Dinah - the daughter of Jacob and Leah, kidnapped her and raped her. And then I think later Simeon and Levi, two sons of Jacob, told the Prince that if he wants to marry their sister then him and all the men in the city must be circumcised. And so that came to pass, and on the day the men of the city were circumcised and weakened, Simeon and Levi came in and slaughtered all the men in the city and took their sister back. Jacob disapproved of this slaughter and I think later on when he was very old and near death and blessed his sons, to Simeon and Levi he said something like “Let their anger be far away from me.”
@@b.whittz5975 look bud I know you mean well, but if your God existed then he’d know what it’d take to convince me. I can tell you for sure it isn’t random Bible verses, because reading the book was one of the things that helped me loose my faith in the first place.
A great attention to detail moment with the animation team is when you see moses standing in the river of blood, where he is standing is just pure water so that the plague of blood does not touch him since he is protected by God
Just to let you know! (if you didn’t already) Dreamworks made another movie about Joseph and how the Israelites came into Egypt for this movie, and it’s called Joseph King of Dreams which is also a really really great movie! The story itself is just as good in my opinion, and the music is also really good (probably not as amazing as in this movie I think, but the songs are still really catchy)
Being an ardent Catholic Christian myself, I watched this movie with my family this Sunday. My sister didn't want it at first, as she thought it would be a cheap, boring Biblical movie. By the end of the opening she was already crying her heart out at this masterpiece, along with all of us. 8:52 The text doesn't explicitly state Moses knew who he was, as it unknown how long could his mother actually influence him. It would make sense for the Imperial family to sunder him from her as soon as he stopped needing to be breastfed, to avoid Hebrew influence on him. He might have actually not known she was his mother. The movie chooses to avoid this uncertainty and goes all into the idea that he didn't know her, though. Honestly the best choice for the adaptation, and plenty of movies have explored the other direction, so it's not like the full story is untold. 11:07 Again, not explicit. The Bible does state that he did it discreetly and hid the body, unlike the movie, but was reported by the Hebrews themselves. I'd say there's some nice leeway in the text for whether he actually intended to kill the Egyptian, or just to pick up a fight with him and accidentally went too far and killed him. 27:31 Easter and Passover are the same thing. Those two words are the same in every single language except English; for instance, it's _Pascha_ in Latin, hence _Páscoa_ in my native Portuguese, which both religions use indistinctively here in Brazil. So there's no 'cUlTuRaL aPpRoPrIaTiOn' here (which BTW is not a thing; another one of those bizarre concepts the USA made up). Yours was the best commentary I've seen on this movie so far. Thank you for following along the text in Scripture and giving enlightening insight on the adaptation; that is particularly important for those who haven't read, or don't readily remember, the Exodus. God bless you!
I remember when this came out as a teen and was still very involved in my faith. I loved this movie, its beautiful. Also, everything I read is that this is one of THE MOST researched movie, and had consulting work with Judaism and Muslim faith leaders, and not only a Christian faith view or background.
I personally think this movie is the best of the traditional 2D animation that Dreamworks did. Everything is gorgeous in this movie and I hope I'm not the only one to think Dreamworks was YEARS in advance in their animations compared to Disney. 9:30 sometimes for me, a music will mark me in an emotional way. A very simple example is "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong, this version specifically makes me feel sad because it was the song played at my grandpa's funeral. Just thinking about it makes me tear up rn.
As a Judaic studies major, it’s awesome to see authentic appreciation for this movie, without attempts to commodify it. Huge fan of your work Mary Clare!
1) The movie shows (and you can see from the hairstyles) that Moses knows he's a Hebrew, but doesn't know his family well enough to recognize them as adults, which is what you'd expect from someone who was raised by his family for the first 2-6 years of his life, which is the range for weaning. Somewhere between age 5 and age 7, most children go through a significant neural pruning, and in that process most people loose the bulk of their episodic memory prior to that point. 2) In Ancient Egypt (as in a number of "divine" dynasties), It was fairly common for Pharoah's daughters to be married to Pharoah's sons, as they carried divine blood and therefore anyone outside the royal family would be beneath them. So it is entirely appropriate for Pharaoh's daughter to also be a Pharaoh's wife. 3) The Bible doesn't specify the name of the Pharoah, but many historians had postulated that Rameses II was the Pharaoh faced by Moses. Where archaeologists and the movie diverge is that it is more commonly thought that the Hebrews were making bricks to build two inland trade cities rather than pyramids. 4) I'm pretty sure God HAS spoken to me that clearly... yeah, it's amazing. Also, it's abosolutely it's not gentle parenting. I'm pretty sure it's because nothing short of a giant red cartoon hammer gets through my thick skull. I mean, it's gentle when it can be, but when those intense experiences happen, it's rarely one of those times, so the gentleness always comes after I've reached a point of full submission and acceptance, so... Yeah. Don't be too jealous. I do with everyone could feel that at least once, but I'm pretty sure that once should be enough for most people. 5) It sucks that people are the casualties, but then when one of the people is claiming to BE a manifestation of one of the divine beings, it's kinda hard to keep the people out of it. And God doesn't waste our pain; The passover narrative, -- like the near-sacrifice of Isaac, the introduction of dualistic apocryphal prophecy from exposure to the Babylonians, and the introduction of the Gospel to the Greeks through Paul's ministry -- was absolutely necessary for Jesus' followers to make sense of the crucifixion and come to see him as fully human and fully divine.
Right before they dump the wine down below in Moses’s and Ramases discussions of the “weak link”, before that, Moses is walking around whistling “Deliver Us” around the palace.
Glad you reacted to this movie. While its not 100% accurate, its still a masterpiece of music and animation. But just to clarify, it’s absolutely NOT cultural appropriation. Christians also have the Old Testament as part of the Bible. The Old Testament is almost entirely a type and shadow of Jesus Christ. We celebrate Passover also because it was a direct foreshadowing of Christ. The blood of Christ was shed so that we could be forgiven for our sins and saved from hell and be reconciled to God. The Hebrews had to sacrifice a lamb and put the blood over the doors so that death would pass over them. Jesus is the perfect lamb of God whose blood was shed so we could be saved. Christians most definitely recognize and celebrate Passover.
Jewish here, and I also don't feel like it's any sort of cultural appropriation. Giving my side of scriptures support - in the Hagada (the Passover traditional text) it clearly says: "The more the story of Exodus is told - the better." (my own translation, might be lacking)
It's lovely to see a Christian perspective on this movie! Most of the other movie reactions I watch to this are people who are not religious, and sometimes barely even know the original story, so watching you being able to identify and talk about where they did and did not follow the Biblical story was very cool. I also adore this movie in general, so the more attention it gets, the better!
First and foremost, I might not know what your beliefs are but I commend you young lady for being the first time reactor I have seen that literally brings a bible in order to really understand the story and knowing that the language is Hebrew then translates some of the lyrics of the song in the opening when the mother was singing.
I love old testament is the way of understanding why christ saved humans. Mostly people only watches how christ finds his disciples and crucifixion but doesn't understand why he is the savior.
Girl... I know this is commentary and reaction, but you litteraly missed many important escenes and half the movie by looking away and keep talking. just a comment.
"So is the woman that saved him supposed to be Pharoah's wife or his daughter in this adaptation?" I mean, given that it's Ancient Egypt, possibly both. Seti probably married his sister, and his father could have been the one responsible for the drowning of the Hebrew babies. Or Seti could have married his daughter, and therefore she could have been both sister and mother to Rameses. But considering she says to young Rameses "let's go show Pharoah your new baby brother" not "let's go show your father", the ruler then could have been hers/Seti's father.
Why did I JUST get the whole thing of all of the Egyptian first born dying and all that paralleling when Pharaoh killed all of those Hebrew baby boys :| God really said “right back at ya” omg no 😭
ahhh this reaction was GREAT! :D It was kinda funny how shocked you were at certain scenes. I feel like more reactions in the future would be so fun-😩🤌💖
I'm not religious, but when reading/viewing stories from the bible I keep in mind that when God kills, he will pay back that debt with paradise if you were good. A man who murders a man can never do the same. I love this movie, it's amazing how well they were able to pace the story in just 90 minutes.
I remember the HIGHLIGHT of when I went to Catholic school from first grade till my final year was whenever the teachers choose to put this movie on every so often throughout the years - even when we were 16/17 we all wooped when we knew we were going to watch this masterpiece of a film!
This is one of the best animations out there. I, myself, dont believe in god so i look at the film differently. I see an animation that is based on a historical moment, maybe its true, maybe it isnt. But it has some great morals, lessons and overal its a beautfiful tragic story. I am very openminded. So i do like to see how people who believe in god and know the story, react to this film. And i love that everyone i've seen, loved this film. How they appreciate the whole story line. I sometimes even learn some things about this film and the story from the bible/exodus?. I really enjoyed your reaction! You are a very kind and open person. I've seen that you dont really react to films, but if you do, i would gladly watch them. You're very enjoyable to watch.
Does it count as being invited to Passover Seder if Messianic Jews believe that all believers in Christ become part of the tree of Israel? Because if so, I think it'll be just fine... There are actually observable aspects of Christ in all of the Jewish high holy days. He is after all the fulfillment of God's law personified. I feel it's important to recognize and celebrate Christianity's Jewish roots. Otherwise things stay as they are now where it's basically us versus them, despite us believing in the same God.
Hello! First I should preface I'm an atheist and I've always loved this movie since I was a young child! I DID go to church when I was little, but don't remember why we stopped--but also I think I still remember hearing this story once when I was there one time? Either way, I watched this movie when it first came out, and it remains one of my favorites to this day! It was also nice to someone actually feeling/empathizing with Ramses as well. Dreamworks did a fantastic job with that dynamic! This is a masterpiece and work of art.
I don't know if you knew this; now, I agree, Passover isn't a Christian holiday. However, there was an early branch of Christians for whom Passover was a holiday. They were the Jewish Christians, an early branch that broke off since they still upheld all the Jewish traditions and practices. They believed Christ was the Messiah, but if I remember correctly, they either thought he was the Son of God without adhering to the traditional trinity belief, or they considered him a human prophet, similar to how Muslims believe I forget. Ultimately, they were classified as heretics by many Christians for their practices and views, including the perception of Christ. Edit: A Jewish Christian movement, for example, was that of the Ebionites in the early Christian era. 2nd edit: Also, for clarification, Jewish Christians are said to be the basis of Christianity before some movements and doctrines within Christianity made it an official religion. Those early Jewish Christians formed a strong link between Christianity and Judaism, upholding Jewish beliefs and traditions. Their view on Christ persisted even as Christianity as a whole moved towards a new path, and the early stages of modern Christian denominations developed, like the early holy orthodox Catholic Church before their eventual split.
Im jewish (Orthodox) i liked that you spent time on the hebrew text. Also to understand the full story you need to read the old testament with the commentary.
Ramses is actually the name of City we're all that took place pharaohs real name the Pharaoh that Moses has to go again his name was I can't really say the Egyptian name but I can't say the Hebrew name it translates into the brother of Moses Pharaoh seti the first was actually killed in combat his head was crushed inward by axis
I don’t not know what your beliefs are but thumbs up for taking extra step of bringing a bible in order to really understand the story, knowing the language is Hebrew then translates the lyrics when the mother was singing and like breaking down it throughout the reaction 👍🏽
There’s a lot of good in this movie just watching it, but the behind the scenes/creator of it also so interesting. The cast, the use of language and visual story telling, it’s different inspirations, and the first major animated work held by a female director in the us. My friend randomly told me that one day, I suggest it to my non religious friends all the time. It’s *chef kiss* one of my top Movies of all time.
I think something people forget is that God keeps hardening the Pharoes heart so it seems like the God didn't want them to leave until he had done everything he wanted
Before they were reinventing fairy tales, Kung Fu stories, funny animal pictures, Holiday legends, and superheroes, DreamWorks was reinventing one of the greatest Bible stories ever told.
I saw Prince of Egypt in theatres as a kid!! I couldn't believe you had never seen it but had to remember you either weren't born yet or were a baby when it came out. I used to own the soundtrack on CD because it is so good and I think I still have some sheet music for it. Loved watching your reaction especially to "Deliver Us." I remember "When You Believe" getting most of the attention at the time it came out but my personal favorites are "Deliver Us" and "Playing with the Big Boys." You're making me want to rewatch it! Also, fun fact, Ramses is voiced by Ralph Fiennes who later played Voldemort and I think also played a Nazi in Schindler's List. So apparently he does villains well or is really getting typecast!
I’ve been watching this film ever since I was a child and it’s always been one of my favorites. This was a great reaction by the way. They actually recently did a stage adoption in the west end, also when Covid awareness has started they had all the fans submit a video of them singing when you believe. I was one of the few that was chosen to be in the video. If you wish to see that video as well as listen to the musical soundtrack you can find it on UA-cam. And I would highly recommend you check out it’s pretty cool/sequel, Joseph: King of dreams, And I would also recommend the 10 Commandments from 1956 which is also a very long but very detailed story of the book of Exodus. I also would love to see you do more movie reactions. 🧡💙
There’s no such thing as cultural appropriation, because there is no one group of people that has claim over anything. Cultures have always intertwined and adapt otherwise there would be no growth.
15:51 when Moses refuses that he can speak to the hebrews, there have been ideas that it was not cause he was the prince of Egypt but because he had a fat tongue or was a stuttered a lot.
So because I'm a Christian, I can't celebrate and honor my God freeing His chosen people, the Hebrews from slavery with Passover? By that logic Atheists can't celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter... That's not "appropriating", that's *appreciation.*
As a Jew, I don't have any problem with it. However, the issue mainly lies in the WAY it's often done. I really appreciated this disclaimer because 9/10, I've been made to feel pretty uncomfortable by how my Christian friends chose to "celebrate" a holiday that is an integral part of my culture and religion.
So....I'm messianic..and have celebrated the Passover for many years....and as long as you study the Bible and follow the correct practices and rules of the Passover....I don't see why you can't keep it......The Bible literally says if the foreigner residing among you is circumcised, they may also eat the Passover meal....
So, there's a pretty big difference between "eat the Passover meal" and "go home and perform your own Seder". The textual implication of "a foreigner residing among you" is that said foreigner is amongst Jews and sharing in the tradition. Not that the foreigner hears about the tradition and decides the like it and want to keep it. That being said, I do agree with you that its totally fine as long as the correct practices and rules of Pesach are followed. However, I've had a lot of really negative experiences of everyone from Messianics to Catholics representing Passover as a Christian holiday and deleting its heritage from the equation. If you feel that you can celebrate Passover without potential doing that, then go for it.
I do not understand your comment about appropriating Passover. If someone truly believes in celebrating it, how is that appropriation? It is true that we Christians are not bound by the same Covenant that the Hebrews have with God but it doesn't prohibit us from celebrating it. If you remember it wasn't just Hebrews that put lamb's blood above the door some Egyptians did as well and those who did were spared.🤗 By the way, you do know we observe Passover through Communion, right?
This reminded me that I had such a crush on Moses, in fact my crush on him may have even pre-dated my crush on Disney's Robin Hood (yes, I found out I was gay because of a cartoon anthropomorphic fox).
Wow... a Christian who isn't trying to gate keep the Bible... That's a refreshing change. And btw, Moses' mother is voiced by the late Israeli pop star Ofra Haza.
The hardest part about the plagues for me is the text specifically says God hardens Pharaoh’s heart through it. The writers clearly wanted to show that God > Egyptian Gods. Yes the Egyptian magicians could replicate a couple plagues, but here’s the Hebrew God dunking on important cultural things tied to Egypt. For me it really shows God’s cruelty when I’m sure the authors meant it to show his power.
The pharaoh's heart was already hardened. It's not as if God took away his free will. God only completed the process, because he knew the Pharaoh wouldn't give in no matter what. It's not as if God is cruel. He created life so he can take it and resurrect it. For us it's murder because we can't resurrect life, but God can. And since christianity is true, we don't really die we just change locations.
@@Anti-Alphabet_Mafia Exodus 4:21, 9:12, and 10:20 clearly state God is hardening Pharaohs heart. He is directly making Pharaoh unwilling to free the Hebrews. Now don’t get me wrong, plenty of this is on Pharaoh’s head as he hardens his own heart, but the text is very clear that this is on God to an extent.
@@georgev3433 And I agree. That's why I said that the Pharaoh already had hardened his heart halfway. All God did was complete the process since the Pharaoh wouldn't have given in no matter what so might as well.
@@Anti-Alphabet_Mafia if Pharaoh wasn’t going to be able to be swayed, then his heart wouldn’t have needed more hardening. Now we are definitely coming at this from two different angles. It sounds, to some extent, you believe this story as historical, were as I believe it to be completely mythological. Mythologically it makes sense to keep pushing the plagues. You are showing off, not only is your god is super powerful, but he easily crushes the Egyptian pantheon. Of course you should join this religion. But going off from a “I believe in this” aspect, it’s just OT version of God kinda being a dick. I mean why 10 plagues? Why not just publicly punish the royal cast, not the individual citizens? Why not start with the 10th plague if he knew for sure that’d work? Obviously there’s no biblical explanation for exactly why, and it’s up to interpretation, but it’s not the black and white story kids books make it out to be. Honestly that’s one of the reasons I still love this movie, cause they show some of the greyed morals in it.
@@georgev3433 God doesn't deal with in betweens. Just like nowadays; he prefers us to either be a full christian or a full on atheist. God doesn't have time for halfsies A lukewarm christian might as well belong to satan. God isn't evil for getting rid of people who got in his way. Just like if a citizen were to get in the way of the police's justice. And it's not as if the regular citizens were innocent. They were all for the slavery, except for a few. God needed to get his promised people into the promised land to bring forth the promised messiah/lawyer to save on the day of judgement. And if anyone got in the way of God's salvation they got judged on the spot. That doesn't make God a cruel being. Unless you think that criminals are innocent people.
way i see it, pharaoh was the only one responsible for that "collateral damage" from the plagues. the real question is why does God kill anyone if he is "good?" ..or let them die? (theologically speaking) ..also you should do this kind of breakdown with the movie Noah with Russel Crowe! VERY different "bible movie" than this one haha
I love the enthusiasm but....the background is really harsh on my eyes if possible in the future could you use darker backgrounds like grey black or more color other then white and pink...like this background in 1:28
I've just stumbled on your channel here. I wonder if you've considered checking out "God on Trial". It's about the Jewish men waiting for their demise in the Third Reich, and they debated whether or not God had broken the covenant between them and their lord. The short film was famous with its very critical position near the end. It is incredibly difficult to find online, at least for me. I remember seeing the whole short film on UA-cam which has since been removed. I know little about theocratic culture, and you've given a lot of points to explore that I'm not familiar with. So I know I would enjoy your reaction and analysis to this short film
You gotta check out the other bible movie Dreamworks did, Joseph: King of Dreams. It didn't have quite as big a budget as this one but it was still excellent, including the songs.
@27:37 Christians, if any of you see this, pay it no heed. This blurb is nonsensical. First off, Numbers 9:14... anyone who chooses to observe Passover is permitted to observe Passover, per God. Second, how can anyone deny a servant of God the right to celebrate His glory? Jesus, His Apostles, and the early church celebrated Passover. Christian tradition may have distanced itself from that, but it is as much a part of our heritage, as a faith, as it is a part of Judaism.
Just throwing this out there to the wind. In my opinion. God allowing bad things to happen.... Welp, How can we have free will, the freedom to choose our own paths without the bad existing?? What choices would we have otherwise?? good and better?? What is better if all is good?? Get what I'm saying? We all choose what to label as good or bad as a collective and as an individual. We decide as society what good and bad are but there are always outliers who disagree and the only technical reason that they are wrong is because it goes against what that society decided good and bad were. It's complicated, there are no simple answers though, we can only individually do the absolute best that we can.
Hey, I'm new here. It seems you know a lot about the bible and Judaism, I'm Jewish and some things you said I completely forgot. I have to ask, are you Jewish, or did you choose to study this? Cause here in Israel you must take bible class to graduate highschool and most of the kids I know hate this class and wish they didn't have to learn all of this...
So I was a small atheist in a Catholic house (I thought for a long time that God was like Santa: an obviously fake thing that adults insisted was real in front of kids for reasons?????) so I don’t really know the theology of this at all-if this was a cosmic war between two deities, is the Christian perspective that Ra was legit?
Not Ra. Notice how she points out Rameses calling himself "the morning star" and stuff. Pharaohs were considered deities in ancient Egypt, and She's pointing out how Rameses refused to yield to the God of the Hebrews, because it would hurt his reputation as a god of Egypt.
I'm not an expert but I saw a theologist weigh in on this before. Hebrew God forbids worship of other deities and it's thought that the Egyptian gods were "legitimate" but had miniscule actual power/love compared to Hebrew God. Their magic was allegedly legit though, but taboo to Hebrews for obvious reasons
Love this ❤ however celebrating Passover isn’t cultural appropriation as it is actually a foundation of the Christian faith, Christianity cannot be separated from Judaism, as Jesus himself was a Jew, came to save the Jews first, and then the rest of the world, and since the OT is still relevant in the sense that Jesus didn’t come to do away with the law but to fulfill it
OMG, can I just take a moment to say THANK YOU. It is so refreshing to see a Christian watch this movie and both acknowledge that, while yes, Exodus is a part of the Christian faith, it is ALSO part of the Jewish faith AND that Passover (Pesach) is exclusively a Jewish holiday and that it is not appropriate to take that on without understanding the cultural intricacies involved in its celebration. I cannot tell you the number of exclusionary reactions I've seen of this film in which its Jewish roots weren't even acknowledged in the slightest. You absolutely did not overstep your bounds here. I felt really happy that you stopped to look up the meaning of the Hebrew to help deepen your understanding and interpretation. You both recognized moments in which you could learn more and shared your own knowledge when appropriate. There's nothing wrong with that :)
I'm so glad you made that point about Passover being a Jewish tradition not a Christian one, because I never thought about that before but it's so true. I have never celebrated it but this group of friends at my Christian college alma mater that I internally called the "Elite Christians" (because it seems like that's how they see themselves) celebrate it together yearly and it always rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe that was more because they were exclusionary about it and it seemed like just another thing for them to show off how religious they are, but I suppose I shall add the cultural appropriation to the list of why I want to avoid emulating them. Ah, my bitterness towards them does often fade into judgement, and both feelings are not ideal, but nonetheless I am glad you made this point so that I can raise my awareness of it.
I choose to take full responsibility for this. No lol but seriously I'm glad it's a movie you enjoyed, it really is a great film. Recently came off a ramble from my friend about how they use colors in this movie, very interesting stuff.
honestly yes do take full responsibility your comment is actually why i made this video!
@@FaithEvolving I'm still watching the video and it actually makes me so happy how much you're enjoying it lol
@@FaithEvolving Now watch superbook. If not, I will unscrubscribe.
It's true; textual critics have indeed long compared the Exodus to the backstory of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I LOVE THIS COMMENT 🤣🤣😭
So the woman who sang as Moses’ mother, Yocheved, is actually a famous late Israeli singer named Ofra Haza and recorded the song in 17 friggin different languages.
English, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Swedish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, and Hebrew
Lovely reaction!
And since I couldn't see her acknowledged her - Moses' mom, Yocheved, is voiced by the very beloved late Israeli singer Ofra Haza. She was huge here at the 80-90's, and passed away not long after this movie came out. She was crazy talented and voiced this role in multiple languages.
I’m a godless heathen and The Prince of Egypt is one of my favorite movies ever! The music, the animation, the acting, the story, I’ve loved all of it ever since I was little! You can really tell the production team had so much passion when making it and it comes through in the final product. The opening scene gives me chills every time, especially when Jochebed is singing
There was actually a stage adaptation put on I believe in Utah a few years ago and I would pay so much money for a bootleg of it 😆
08:09 "Feels like some Biblical shit, tbh"
Mary Clare, when are you putting this on merch?!?!?
Also hey, since I'm early enough: the actor who voiced Moses (Val Kilmer) was also the primary voice for God to reflect the individualized, personal connection. BUT they also had other actors and actresses from the cast read lines and layered their voices in with Kilmer's to create that otherworldly sound.
I'm going to have to get on designing then!
I’m an Athiest, but this movie is not only up there as one of my favorites, but has cemented the Exodus story as one of my favorite biblical stories (right behind the one where some Hebrews convince a rival city to circumcise themselves after one of their guys raped one of their girls to weaken them for invasion)
....wait....WHAT story was that second one?!
@@sjh3217 it’s been a looong time since I’ve read the Bible. So had to look it up again, but it’s Genesis 34. Basically a neighboring price r@pes one of the Hebrew woman, then tries getting his dad to buy her as a bride. The Hebrews are like “oh yeah we’d love to but our God has a think bout dick skin. You guys get every male in your kingdom to circumcise themselves, then we’ll happily let you marry her.” So the king does, and while everyone is icing their dicks, the Hebrews come in with their army and slaughter the city as revenge.
@@sjh3217 If I remember correctly, it’s the story about the city of Shechem where supposedly the Prince of the city ( or King, I don’t recall ) fell for Dinah - the daughter of Jacob and Leah, kidnapped her and raped her. And then I think later Simeon and Levi, two sons of Jacob, told the Prince that if he wants to marry their sister then him and all the men in the city must be circumcised. And so that came to pass, and on the day the men of the city were circumcised and weakened, Simeon and Levi came in and slaughtered all the men in the city and took their sister back. Jacob disapproved of this slaughter and I think later on when he was very old and near death and blessed his sons, to Simeon and Levi he said something like “Let their anger be far away from me.”
John 3:16 , Romans 6:23
I know you say that you're an atheist, but I pray that you're eyes & heart would be open to the truth my friend
@@b.whittz5975 look bud I know you mean well, but if your God existed then he’d know what it’d take to convince me. I can tell you for sure it isn’t random Bible verses, because reading the book was one of the things that helped me loose my faith in the first place.
A great attention to detail moment with the animation team is when you see moses standing in the river of blood, where he is standing is just pure water so that the plague of blood does not touch him since he is protected by God
Just to let you know! (if you didn’t already) Dreamworks made another movie about Joseph and how the Israelites came into Egypt for this movie, and it’s called Joseph King of Dreams which is also a really really great movie! The story itself is just as good in my opinion, and the music is also really good (probably not as amazing as in this movie I think, but the songs are still really catchy)
Being an ardent Catholic Christian myself, I watched this movie with my family this Sunday. My sister didn't want it at first, as she thought it would be a cheap, boring Biblical movie. By the end of the opening she was already crying her heart out at this masterpiece, along with all of us.
8:52 The text doesn't explicitly state Moses knew who he was, as it unknown how long could his mother actually influence him. It would make sense for the Imperial family to sunder him from her as soon as he stopped needing to be breastfed, to avoid Hebrew influence on him. He might have actually not known she was his mother. The movie chooses to avoid this uncertainty and goes all into the idea that he didn't know her, though. Honestly the best choice for the adaptation, and plenty of movies have explored the other direction, so it's not like the full story is untold.
11:07 Again, not explicit. The Bible does state that he did it discreetly and hid the body, unlike the movie, but was reported by the Hebrews themselves. I'd say there's some nice leeway in the text for whether he actually intended to kill the Egyptian, or just to pick up a fight with him and accidentally went too far and killed him.
27:31 Easter and Passover are the same thing. Those two words are the same in every single language except English; for instance, it's _Pascha_ in Latin, hence _Páscoa_ in my native Portuguese, which both religions use indistinctively here in Brazil. So there's no 'cUlTuRaL aPpRoPrIaTiOn' here (which BTW is not a thing; another one of those bizarre concepts the USA made up).
Yours was the best commentary I've seen on this movie so far. Thank you for following along the text in Scripture and giving enlightening insight on the adaptation; that is particularly important for those who haven't read, or don't readily remember, the Exodus.
God bless you!
I'm a Baptist and I grew up with this film. It's a hidden gem and masterpiece.
I remember when this came out as a teen and was still very involved in my faith. I loved this movie, its beautiful. Also, everything I read is that this is one of THE MOST researched movie, and had consulting work with Judaism and Muslim faith leaders, and not only a Christian faith view or background.
I personally think this movie is the best of the traditional 2D animation that Dreamworks did. Everything is gorgeous in this movie and I hope I'm not the only one to think Dreamworks was YEARS in advance in their animations compared to Disney.
9:30 sometimes for me, a music will mark me in an emotional way. A very simple example is "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong, this version specifically makes me feel sad because it was the song played at my grandpa's funeral. Just thinking about it makes me tear up rn.
As a Judaic studies major, it’s awesome to see authentic appreciation for this movie, without attempts to commodify it. Huge fan of your work Mary Clare!
Okay I think we need to make a list of all the Christian movies you haven't seen because this shit had me rolling 😂
you'd be astounded how few of them i've seen
1) The movie shows (and you can see from the hairstyles) that Moses knows he's a Hebrew, but doesn't know his family well enough to recognize them as adults, which is what you'd expect from someone who was raised by his family for the first 2-6 years of his life, which is the range for weaning. Somewhere between age 5 and age 7, most children go through a significant neural pruning, and in that process most people loose the bulk of their episodic memory prior to that point.
2) In Ancient Egypt (as in a number of "divine" dynasties), It was fairly common for Pharoah's daughters to be married to Pharoah's sons, as they carried divine blood and therefore anyone outside the royal family would be beneath them. So it is entirely appropriate for Pharaoh's daughter to also be a Pharaoh's wife.
3) The Bible doesn't specify the name of the Pharoah, but many historians had postulated that Rameses II was the Pharaoh faced by Moses. Where archaeologists and the movie diverge is that it is more commonly thought that the Hebrews were making bricks to build two inland trade cities rather than pyramids.
4) I'm pretty sure God HAS spoken to me that clearly... yeah, it's amazing. Also, it's abosolutely it's not gentle parenting. I'm pretty sure it's because nothing short of a giant red cartoon hammer gets through my thick skull. I mean, it's gentle when it can be, but when those intense experiences happen, it's rarely one of those times, so the gentleness always comes after I've reached a point of full submission and acceptance, so... Yeah. Don't be too jealous. I do with everyone could feel that at least once, but I'm pretty sure that once should be enough for most people.
5) It sucks that people are the casualties, but then when one of the people is claiming to BE a manifestation of one of the divine beings, it's kinda hard to keep the people out of it. And God doesn't waste our pain; The passover narrative, -- like the near-sacrifice of Isaac, the introduction of dualistic apocryphal prophecy from exposure to the Babylonians, and the introduction of the Gospel to the Greeks through Paul's ministry -- was absolutely necessary for Jesus' followers to make sense of the crucifixion and come to see him as fully human and fully divine.
They do establish he remember the tune of the song as he was whistling it when he was sewing the bag to fill with punch.
Right before they dump the wine down below in Moses’s and Ramases discussions of the “weak link”, before that, Moses is walking around whistling “Deliver Us” around the palace.
Glad you reacted to this movie. While its not 100% accurate, its still a masterpiece of music and animation.
But just to clarify, it’s absolutely NOT cultural appropriation.
Christians also have the Old Testament as part of the Bible.
The Old Testament is almost entirely a type and shadow of Jesus Christ. We celebrate Passover also because it was a direct foreshadowing of Christ.
The blood of Christ was shed so that we could be forgiven for our sins and saved from hell and be reconciled to God. The Hebrews had to sacrifice a lamb and put the blood over the doors so that death would pass over them.
Jesus is the perfect lamb of God whose blood was shed so we could be saved.
Christians most definitely recognize and celebrate Passover.
Jewish here, and I also don't feel like it's any sort of cultural appropriation.
Giving my side of scriptures support - in the Hagada (the Passover traditional text) it clearly says: "The more the story of Exodus is told - the better." (my own translation, might be lacking)
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Thank you for your insight. 🙂
It's lovely to see a Christian perspective on this movie! Most of the other movie reactions I watch to this are people who are not religious, and sometimes barely even know the original story, so watching you being able to identify and talk about where they did and did not follow the Biblical story was very cool. I also adore this movie in general, so the more attention it gets, the better!
"When you've read the manga" 🤣🤣🤣 bish I am CRYING, I hate how much that made me laugh at a truly traumatic moment.
First and foremost, I might not know what your beliefs are but I commend you young lady for being the first time reactor I have seen that literally brings a bible in order to really understand the story and knowing that the language is Hebrew then translates some of the lyrics of the song in the opening when the mother was singing.
I’m so glad you’ve gotten to see this absolute masterpiece! It’s been one of my top 10 fave movies most of my life ❤️❤️❤️
I love old testament is the way of understanding why christ saved humans. Mostly people only watches how christ finds his disciples and crucifixion but doesn't understand why he is the savior.
Fun fact: The writing of the ten commandments at the end is the actual ten commandments written in order, in ancient Hebrew writing.
its not appropriation when its appreciation.
Thank you for a great reaction..
i vaguely remember this movie spooking me as a kid but i do remember the music being really fantastic!!
Girl... I know this is commentary and reaction, but you litteraly missed many important escenes and half the movie by looking away and keep talking. just a comment.
I grew up Holiness na dmy mom was a reverend. This is by far the best depiction of the Exodus I've ever seen. Amazing
"So is the woman that saved him supposed to be Pharoah's wife or his daughter in this adaptation?" I mean, given that it's Ancient Egypt, possibly both. Seti probably married his sister, and his father could have been the one responsible for the drowning of the Hebrew babies. Or Seti could have married his daughter, and therefore she could have been both sister and mother to Rameses. But considering she says to young Rameses "let's go show Pharoah your new baby brother" not "let's go show your father", the ruler then could have been hers/Seti's father.
lmfao "is it his wife or his daughter" it's an Egyptian dynasty, they kept marriage in the family to a point their DNA was a ball of taped yarn.
Wowowowowowow loved hearing your analysis of it and the added context and also your reactions to the BANGERS
Why did I JUST get the whole thing of all of the Egyptian first born dying and all that paralleling when Pharaoh killed all of those Hebrew baby boys :|
God really said “right back at ya” omg no 😭
ahhh this reaction was GREAT! :D It was kinda funny how shocked you were at certain scenes. I feel like more reactions in the future would be so fun-😩🤌💖
Following that there is another movie called JOSEPH: King of Dreams (2000)
I'm not religious, but when reading/viewing stories from the bible I keep in mind that when God kills, he will pay back that debt with paradise if you were good. A man who murders a man can never do the same. I love this movie, it's amazing how well they were able to pace the story in just 90 minutes.
I remember the HIGHLIGHT of when I went to Catholic school from first grade till my final year was whenever the teachers choose to put this movie on every so often throughout the years - even when we were 16/17 we all wooped when we knew we were going to watch this masterpiece of a film!
This is one of the best animations out there. I, myself, dont believe in god so i look at the film differently. I see an animation that is based on a historical moment, maybe its true, maybe it isnt. But it has some great morals, lessons and overal its a beautfiful tragic story. I am very openminded. So i do like to see how people who believe in god and know the story, react to this film. And i love that everyone i've seen, loved this film. How they appreciate the whole story line. I sometimes even learn some things about this film and the story from the bible/exodus?. I really enjoyed your reaction! You are a very kind and open person. I've seen that you dont really react to films, but if you do, i would gladly watch them. You're very enjoyable to watch.
Does it count as being invited to Passover Seder if Messianic Jews believe that all believers in Christ become part of the tree of Israel? Because if so, I think it'll be just fine...
There are actually observable aspects of Christ in all of the Jewish high holy days. He is after all the fulfillment of God's law personified. I feel it's important to recognize and celebrate Christianity's Jewish roots. Otherwise things stay as they are now where it's basically us versus them, despite us believing in the same God.
Hello! First I should preface I'm an atheist and I've always loved this movie since I was a young child! I DID go to church when I was little, but don't remember why we stopped--but also I think I still remember hearing this story once when I was there one time? Either way, I watched this movie when it first came out, and it remains one of my favorites to this day!
It was also nice to someone actually feeling/empathizing with Ramses as well.
Dreamworks did a fantastic job with that dynamic!
This is a masterpiece and work of art.
I don't know if you knew this; now, I agree, Passover isn't a Christian holiday. However, there was an early branch of Christians for whom Passover was a holiday. They were the Jewish Christians, an early branch that broke off since they still upheld all the Jewish traditions and practices. They believed Christ was the Messiah, but if I remember correctly, they either thought he was the Son of God without adhering to the traditional trinity belief, or they considered him a human prophet, similar to how Muslims believe I forget. Ultimately, they were classified as heretics by many Christians for their practices and views, including the perception of Christ.
Edit: A Jewish Christian movement, for example, was that of the Ebionites in the early Christian era.
2nd edit: Also, for clarification, Jewish Christians are said to be the basis of Christianity before some movements and doctrines within Christianity made it an official religion. Those early Jewish Christians formed a strong link between Christianity and Judaism, upholding Jewish beliefs and traditions. Their view on Christ persisted even as Christianity as a whole moved towards a new path, and the early stages of modern Christian denominations developed, like the early holy orthodox Catholic Church before their eventual split.
"Jewish Christians", otherwise known as Messianic Jews, still exist.
You’re excitement about the Hebrew didn’t read as offensive to me
You know how royalty in the past was like. Marrying family members. lol
God does get angry but not in the way we do .
It's a righteous anger because he loves us more then we understand.
Im jewish (Orthodox) i liked that you spent time on the hebrew text. Also to understand the full story you need to read the old testament with the commentary.
Ramses is actually the name of City we're all that took place pharaohs real name the Pharaoh that Moses has to go again his name was I can't really say the Egyptian name but I can't say the Hebrew name it translates into the brother of Moses Pharaoh seti the first was actually killed in combat his head was crushed inward by axis
I don’t not know what your beliefs are but thumbs up for taking extra step of bringing a bible in order to really understand the story, knowing the language is Hebrew then translates the lyrics when the mother was singing and like breaking down it throughout the reaction 👍🏽
There’s a lot of good in this movie just watching it, but the behind the scenes/creator of it also so interesting. The cast, the use of language and visual story telling, it’s different inspirations, and the first major animated work held by a female director in the us. My friend randomly told me that one day, I suggest it to my non religious friends all the time. It’s *chef kiss* one of my top
Movies of all time.
I think something people forget is that God keeps hardening the Pharoes heart so it seems like the God didn't want them to leave until he had done everything he wanted
Before they were reinventing fairy tales, Kung Fu stories, funny animal pictures, Holiday legends, and superheroes, DreamWorks was reinventing one of the greatest Bible stories ever told.
i appreciate your mimic the bible text into the movie. lot of knowledge come right from the original source is always welcomed.
I’m telling you God wasn’t messing around in the Old Testament.
I saw Prince of Egypt in theatres as a kid!! I couldn't believe you had never seen it but had to remember you either weren't born yet or were a baby when it came out. I used to own the soundtrack on CD because it is so good and I think I still have some sheet music for it. Loved watching your reaction especially to "Deliver Us." I remember "When You Believe" getting most of the attention at the time it came out but my personal favorites are "Deliver Us" and "Playing with the Big Boys." You're making me want to rewatch it!
Also, fun fact, Ramses is voiced by Ralph Fiennes who later played Voldemort and I think also played a Nazi in Schindler's List. So apparently he does villains well or is really getting typecast!
I’ve been watching this film ever since I was a child and it’s always been one of my favorites. This was a great reaction by the way. They actually recently did a stage adoption in the west end, also when Covid awareness has started they had all the fans submit a video of them singing when you believe. I was one of the few that was chosen to be in the video. If you wish to see that video as well as listen to the musical soundtrack you can find it on UA-cam. And I would highly recommend you check out it’s pretty cool/sequel, Joseph: King of dreams, And I would also recommend the 10 Commandments from 1956 which is also a very long but very detailed story of the book of Exodus. I also would love to see you do more movie reactions. 🧡💙
I've adored this movie for as long as it's been around. SO nice to see it through your eyes with your depth of knowledge!
I'm not even Christian but I LOVE this movie so much
we watched this in 6th grade and i went home and rewatched it so many times. The MUSIC !!!!! i mean come ON
There’s no such thing as cultural appropriation, because there is no one group of people that has claim over anything. Cultures have always intertwined and adapt otherwise there would be no growth.
15:51 when Moses refuses that he can speak to the hebrews, there have been ideas that it was not cause he was the prince of Egypt but because he had a fat tongue or was a stuttered a lot.
2:41 Didn’t acknowledge this beautiful note 😔
So because I'm a Christian, I can't celebrate and honor my God freeing His chosen people, the Hebrews from slavery with Passover?
By that logic Atheists can't celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter... That's not "appropriating", that's *appreciation.*
As a Jew, I don't have any problem with it. However, the issue mainly lies in the WAY it's often done. I really appreciated this disclaimer because 9/10, I've been made to feel pretty uncomfortable by how my Christian friends chose to "celebrate" a holiday that is an integral part of my culture and religion.
So....I'm messianic..and have celebrated the Passover for many years....and as long as you study the Bible and follow the correct practices and rules of the Passover....I don't see why you can't keep it......The Bible literally says if the foreigner residing among you is circumcised, they may also eat the Passover meal....
So, there's a pretty big difference between "eat the Passover meal" and "go home and perform your own Seder". The textual implication of "a foreigner residing among you" is that said foreigner is amongst Jews and sharing in the tradition. Not that the foreigner hears about the tradition and decides the like it and want to keep it. That being said, I do agree with you that its totally fine as long as the correct practices and rules of Pesach are followed. However, I've had a lot of really negative experiences of everyone from Messianics to Catholics representing Passover as a Christian holiday and deleting its heritage from the equation. If you feel that you can celebrate Passover without potential doing that, then go for it.
No one usually cares, but this movie actually got a prequel, Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
6:37 Yes, she’s the pharaoh wife.
I love God to he is awesome
I do not understand your comment about appropriating Passover. If someone truly believes in celebrating it, how is that appropriation?
It is true that we Christians are not bound by the same Covenant that the Hebrews have with God but it doesn't prohibit us from celebrating it. If you remember it wasn't just Hebrews that put lamb's blood above the door some Egyptians did as well and those who did were spared.🤗
By the way, you do know we observe Passover through Communion, right?
This reminded me that I had such a crush on Moses, in fact my crush on him may have even pre-dated my crush on Disney's Robin Hood (yes, I found out I was gay because of a cartoon anthropomorphic fox).
30:44 that’s my favorite scene when, Moses open the Red Sea. 🌊
You should come back. You’re amazing
Glad I saw the comments about your "cultural appropriation" rant before I bothered watching.
Wow... a Christian who isn't trying to gate keep the Bible... That's a refreshing change. And btw, Moses' mother is voiced by the late Israeli pop star Ofra Haza.
The hardest part about the plagues for me is the text specifically says God hardens Pharaoh’s heart through it. The writers clearly wanted to show that God > Egyptian Gods. Yes the Egyptian magicians could replicate a couple plagues, but here’s the Hebrew God dunking on important cultural things tied to Egypt. For me it really shows God’s cruelty when I’m sure the authors meant it to show his power.
The pharaoh's heart was already hardened. It's not as if God took away his free will. God only completed the process, because he knew the Pharaoh wouldn't give in no matter what.
It's not as if God is cruel. He created life so he can take it and resurrect it.
For us it's murder because we can't resurrect life, but God can. And since christianity is true, we don't really die we just change locations.
@@Anti-Alphabet_Mafia Exodus 4:21, 9:12, and 10:20 clearly state God is hardening Pharaohs heart. He is directly making Pharaoh unwilling to free the Hebrews. Now don’t get me wrong, plenty of this is on Pharaoh’s head as he hardens his own heart, but the text is very clear that this is on God to an extent.
@@georgev3433 And I agree. That's why I said that the Pharaoh already had hardened his heart halfway. All God did was complete the process since the Pharaoh wouldn't have given in no matter what so might as well.
@@Anti-Alphabet_Mafia if Pharaoh wasn’t going to be able to be swayed, then his heart wouldn’t have needed more hardening. Now we are definitely coming at this from two different angles. It sounds, to some extent, you believe this story as historical, were as I believe it to be completely mythological. Mythologically it makes sense to keep pushing the plagues. You are showing off, not only is your god is super powerful, but he easily crushes the Egyptian pantheon. Of course you should join this religion.
But going off from a “I believe in this” aspect, it’s just OT version of God kinda being a dick. I mean why 10 plagues? Why not just publicly punish the royal cast, not the individual citizens? Why not start with the 10th plague if he knew for sure that’d work? Obviously there’s no biblical explanation for exactly why, and it’s up to interpretation, but it’s not the black and white story kids books make it out to be. Honestly that’s one of the reasons I still love this movie, cause they show some of the greyed morals in it.
@@georgev3433 God doesn't deal with in betweens. Just like nowadays; he prefers us to either be a full christian or a full on atheist. God doesn't have time for halfsies
A lukewarm christian might as well belong to satan.
God isn't evil for getting rid of people who got in his way. Just like if a citizen were to get in the way of the police's justice. And it's not as if the regular citizens were innocent. They were all for the slavery, except for a few.
God needed to get his promised people into the promised land to bring forth the promised messiah/lawyer to save on the day of judgement. And if anyone got in the way of God's salvation they got judged on the spot. That doesn't make God a cruel being. Unless you think that criminals are innocent people.
I do wish God bless me with spiritual ears to talk to me...🙏❤️
This is one of my favorite movies of all time and I literally never caught that what the Pharoah and Moses say to Ramses is foreshadowing
"God loves a juicy twist." 😂
way i see it, pharaoh was the only one responsible for that "collateral damage" from the plagues. the real question is why does God kill anyone if he is "good?" ..or let them die? (theologically speaking) ..also you should do this kind of breakdown with the movie Noah with Russel Crowe! VERY different "bible movie" than this one haha
I love the enthusiasm but....the background is really harsh on my eyes if possible in the future could you use darker backgrounds like grey black or more color other then white and pink...like this background in 1:28
you did it! You got it up on the youtubes. Good job for not giving in to the copyright demons.
I've just stumbled on your channel here. I wonder if you've considered checking out "God on Trial". It's about the Jewish men waiting for their demise in the Third Reich, and they debated whether or not God had broken the covenant between them and their lord. The short film was famous with its very critical position near the end.
It is incredibly difficult to find online, at least for me. I remember seeing the whole short film on UA-cam which has since been removed.
I know little about theocratic culture, and you've given a lot of points to explore that I'm not familiar with. So I know I would enjoy your reaction and analysis to this short film
You did a good job bringing the bible out. Is it the Hebrew bible or a Christian bible?
You gotta check out the other bible movie Dreamworks did, Joseph: King of Dreams. It didn't have quite as big a budget as this one but it was still excellent, including the songs.
I wish they did it with the same budget. I love the joseph story. It has less “action” than Moses but the drama is still at 💯. It hits me so much.
@27:37 Christians, if any of you see this, pay it no heed. This blurb is nonsensical.
First off, Numbers 9:14... anyone who chooses to observe Passover is permitted to observe Passover, per God.
Second, how can anyone deny a servant of God the right to celebrate His glory? Jesus, His Apostles, and the early church celebrated Passover. Christian tradition may have distanced itself from that, but it is as much a part of our heritage, as a faith, as it is a part of Judaism.
Great reaction!
Can you react to Joseph king of dreams next?
I truly believe that the first play water treinta blood represented all first born male children that was Slaughter during the slave Purge
12:45I don't think I like what your implying when you say Jesus at the well with the woman they were not romantic in any way
Just throwing this out there to the wind. In my opinion. God allowing bad things to happen.... Welp, How can we have free will, the freedom to choose our own paths without the bad existing?? What choices would we have otherwise?? good and better?? What is better if all is good?? Get what I'm saying? We all choose what to label as good or bad as a collective and as an individual. We decide as society what good and bad are but there are always outliers who disagree and the only technical reason that they are wrong is because it goes against what that society decided good and bad were. It's complicated, there are no simple answers though, we can only individually do the absolute best that we can.
This is Christian 😊
This was a great video
Hey, I'm new here. It seems you know a lot about the bible and Judaism, I'm Jewish and some things you said I completely forgot. I have to ask, are you Jewish, or did you choose to study this? Cause here in Israel you must take bible class to graduate highschool and most of the kids I know hate this class and wish they didn't have to learn all of this...
So I was a small atheist in a Catholic house (I thought for a long time that God was like Santa: an obviously fake thing that adults insisted was real in front of kids for reasons?????) so I don’t really know the theology of this at all-if this was a cosmic war between two deities, is the Christian perspective that Ra was legit?
Not Ra. Notice how she points out Rameses calling himself "the morning star" and stuff. Pharaohs were considered deities in ancient Egypt, and She's pointing out how Rameses refused to yield to the God of the Hebrews, because it would hurt his reputation as a god of Egypt.
@@itsalladream5559 Thank you for the clarification
Also, each of the plagues corresponds to one of the Egyptian gods, which makes it more purposeful than random as I grew up thinking.
I'm not an expert but I saw a theologist weigh in on this before. Hebrew God forbids worship of other deities and it's thought that the Egyptian gods were "legitimate" but had miniscule actual power/love compared to Hebrew God. Their magic was allegedly legit though, but taboo to Hebrews for obvious reasons
Love this ❤ however celebrating Passover isn’t cultural appropriation as it is actually a foundation of the Christian faith, Christianity cannot be separated from Judaism, as Jesus himself was a Jew, came to save the Jews first, and then the rest of the world, and since the OT is still relevant in the sense that Jesus didn’t come to do away with the law but to fulfill it
Hey can tou react to 1987 when the day comes?
OMG, can I just take a moment to say THANK YOU. It is so refreshing to see a Christian watch this movie and both acknowledge that, while yes, Exodus is a part of the Christian faith, it is ALSO part of the Jewish faith AND that Passover (Pesach) is exclusively a Jewish holiday and that it is not appropriate to take that on without understanding the cultural intricacies involved in its celebration. I cannot tell you the number of exclusionary reactions I've seen of this film in which its Jewish roots weren't even acknowledged in the slightest.
You absolutely did not overstep your bounds here. I felt really happy that you stopped to look up the meaning of the Hebrew to help deepen your understanding and interpretation. You both recognized moments in which you could learn more and shared your own knowledge when appropriate. There's nothing wrong with that :)
Amazing film!
Lol my childhood was so ruined when I found out they weren’t actually brothers lol
The thing you fear will bring about the very thing you fear
if Dr. Wrenn has a million fans...I am one of them, if she has one fan...it is me, if she has zero fans...I am dead.
I could only hope to meet a cool Christian like you IRL lmao. You're hilarious
I'm so glad you made that point about Passover being a Jewish tradition not a Christian one, because I never thought about that before but it's so true. I have never celebrated it but this group of friends at my Christian college alma mater that I internally called the "Elite Christians" (because it seems like that's how they see themselves) celebrate it together yearly and it always rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe that was more because they were exclusionary about it and it seemed like just another thing for them to show off how religious they are, but I suppose I shall add the cultural appropriation to the list of why I want to avoid emulating them. Ah, my bitterness towards them does often fade into judgement, and both feelings are not ideal, but nonetheless I am glad you made this point so that I can raise my awareness of it.
12:33 Like a meet-cute? Are you saying the bible conforms to literary tropes? That's hilarious...Well, I suppose it must have originated a few.