0:46 The good old days of tripping balls and blaming your adopted brother for your issues, classic. Also, if your workforce were non Egyptian you could say it was built by aliens.
Well if we read the Bible, it says clearly that God hardens the Pharaoh heart, meaning God made him not listening while God was punishing Egypt as a whole instead of the rulers. So God is the bad guy. I mean, he could just teleport the slaves away from Egypt into the promised land anyways...
@Jake007123 that's not what that means in context. When it says God hardened Pharoahs heart, it was referring to how this supreme God's power would inevitably reveal the stubbornness of a human who thought he was a god. Pharoahs believed they were gods on earth. Moses's God proved they weren't and Pharoah hated that. Also, it wasn't just about the people being free. It was God returning some portion of the 430 odd years stolen from them by the Egyptians through slavery.
The real villain is the Hebrew god. He performed those miracles and then specifically went out of his way to harden Ramses' heart (resulting in him not letting the Hebrew go) to make him and everybody suffer more than needed just to prove a point. Like, what kind of sadistic god does that? Did he get some sick enjoyment out of actively escalating the situation instead of, you know, not hardening Ramses' heart so that he would let the Hebrew go after the first scourge, saving a lot of suffering on both sides.
What I found weird was the fact that Ramses Father the guy who presumably started this whole mess most likely died without receiving any retribution for his deeds yet it still falls all on Ramses simply because the other guy is dead.
Yes but even if the father had lived to preside over the plagues, Ramses would still be the firstborn son to die. So he gets a pretty bad deal no matter what
@@mandalorethemaximum1408 “The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself.”
Honestly its a tragedy from moses prespective as well. Hes turned by god against whats essentily his brother whom he grew up with and loved. He then inflicted 9 plagues on the nation he considered his home culminating with him killing what's essentialy his nephew. And for what? , for wandering for 40 years in the desert and dying before entering the promised land.
As a descendant of people who were freed under Harriet Tubman's guidance, I gotta disagree with this gang. You don't enslave an entire people and think its an OK thing to do.
@@okamiexe1501 It's still tragic; regardless of the circumstance he was stripped of the family that raised him by a war of rights and culture, killed countless children who had nothing to do with slavery, and his people went from indenturrd servitude to beibg nomads everyone hated for millenia. In the story of exodus one terrible situation was traded for another that was little better, and it cost Moses everything but his life. That's really tragic, if his people returned home and lived well, that would be bittersweet, but they kinda got monkey pawed.
@@okamiexe1501 While this is true, slavery in the US was a byproduct of old European standards. The civil war was a war between which economy prevailed. The founding fathers needed the support of the pro-slave south to win the revolutionary war. and slavery was a highly contentious thing even during its founding. The term, "A more perfect union" was an acknowledgement that sure things were messed up now in terms of a government, but with time, more sensible policies would prevail. The real tragedy is that while the US won the civil war, we lost reconstruction. If Abe Lincoln wasn't shot by some B-list actor, we would be in a much better position today. Unfortunately, we ended up with Jim Crow and over 100 years of delays in progress.
It is wild to me just how well this movie still holds up overall. I’m not even religious but it is such a heartbreaking tale of how two brothers can be fundamentally opposed to each other but still desperately don’t want to carry out what they see as their responsibilities and burdens. That song still gives me chills.
@@Nomsynho You consider breaking out into the video game sector with these type of videos; because I think resident evil from Umbrellas point of view or even Weskers pov would be funny. You could also give Halo a go from the pov of the prophet of Truth.
The reason this religious movie succeeds where others fail is because it works as secular media as well as religious. It’s so much more than some paint-by-numbers moralistic parable, it’s a tragedy about brotherhood and duty and fate.
I am mostly going from memory but, as I recall, the ten plagues were actually easily explained via natural events leading to cause and effect chains. The blood(1), whatever it actually was (common theory is red tide algea), killed the fish that ate the frogs and their eggs. The frogs(2) then hatched out in record numbers because there were less eaten. They died and their bodies rotted in greater than normal numbers providing sustenance for insect life. That caused a dramatic increase in the lice(3) and biting fly(4) populations. More biting insects means higher likelihood of diseases spreading thus the mass deaths of the livestock(5). It also meant a lot more boils(6) on people due to the increased biting. The hail(7) is a normal thing that happens and could have just been more severe than normal, same with the locusts(8). The three days of darkness(9), possibly a long sandstorm? Not a lot on that one though. Then we come to the big one. The deaths of the first born(10). When the hail came, there was panic to get the crops in quickly so as to save as much as possible. As a result, they likely would have not been as thorough in checking for mold. In times of crisis, the Egyptians fed their first born sons more to improve the chances kf the family line making it through. More infested food for specifically the first born sons meant they were most affected. As for the blood over the door preventing it, anyone who would have listened to that likely would have also adhered to hebrew traditions involving more meticulously cleaning of the food and care for it's storage which means they would jave found the mold and not been exposed. Again, this is from memory so it could be a bit off but I feel like it holds up nicely.
I have a few problems with this theory. I'd rather just believe that the Bible is true and take it at face value, seeing as these were supernatural works that could not ordinarily be explained, especially in such quick succession. May the Lord God bless you all. Turn away from sin and believe in Jesus Christ for salvation
@@reynardvanderwalt8251what are your problems with this theory? If you can explain why these aren’t plausible explanations I would be very interested especially as you specifically state ordinary reasoning can’t explain it despite the reasoning being the comment you responded to
@@sleepyninjarin7971 we spent enough time and enough moral ambiguity was provided by the advisors that it is hard to NOT feel for him. Also, the breaking of strong bonds definitely will bring out the feels. It very well writen
It's honestly not that simple. Imagine, you're in the position to make that choice. Remember that choosing to free them all will cripple your kingdom and likely cost tons of lives. The realistic solution would have been to offer Moses a deal. He would do his best to fix this system in his reign and abolish slavery. But for now he still needs the workforce, but the slaves will be treated better over time until they're equal to normal workers. This compromise would eventually free Moses people while not sacrificing the empire's stability. Also, realistically the freed slaves would just die before they can build anything significant from nothing lol. Ofc god is in this story so he probably kept them safe and well fed. This story also is just such a self debunk of the bible. Because according to this story, some humans are NOT gods people. So he didn't create them all or he has favorites, aka he's not all good/loving. But anyone who actually read the bible would know god is not loving at all. He's quite the whimsical mass murderer. Not even just the big catastrophes. He used bears to pettily kill children on multiple occasions lmao. God's a real psycho. No wonder humans are as messed up as they are if they're made in god's image 😂
It's said in the bible that God purposely hardened Pharaoh's heart and that's the reason why he didn't free the slaves in the first few plagues as they were made to undermine the major Egyptian gods.
@@NomsynhoSo, God hardens his heart by showing him miracles, hardens his heart by demonstrating his power, hardens his heart by demanding he let the people go. God’s not hardening his heart literally by taking his free will away or by doing heart surgery or something like that; He’s hardening his heart by confronting wicked Pharaoh with light, and Pharaoh closes his eyes. This is what Jesus does in the Gospels when He shows His miracles to the Pharisees, and they reject Him. It hardens their hearts, but only by Him doing the very thing that would soften the heart of a person who’s open to God. edit, hope that makes sense for you guys
@@55alegria we don’t see this sort of single-cause thing where God just grabs someone’s heart and says, 'I’m going to make you reject me.' No, no, it’s like, 'You’re going to reject me, and as I show you more light, you’re going to reject me even more because you’re going to harden your heart. I’ll harden it by showing you more light.' That’s how I see it.
I mean I just cannot believe the caliber of voice actors in this film... Like Moses/God are VAL KILMER?! Like what... It's so random but it makes sense why, the dude can sing... He was Jim Morrison afterall
This movie is a masterpiece. Extraordinarily adult for a cartoon, especially considering when it came out. And yes, i too watched it for the first time at school.
It really was quite good. It's also one of the few stories that didn't feel preachy. It wasn't a lesson in following a specific religion. Just God saying "Hey, I don't want my people as your slaves. Let them go or else.". No demands of conversion or anything. So many religious stories have that element pretty front and center and it gets old after a while but this did it pretty well.
Funny overall. I'm a Christian and understand jokes are jokes, if anyone is getting offended then don't worry about it. People should understand what a joke is
And even worse, according to the source material Mozes' God literally HARDENED Ramses' heart. He would've let them go far sooner, only he was prevented in doing so! Luckily evidence suggests that this particular story never actually happened, so that's a consolation.
@@thispersonwriting1889 LMAO I remember reading a book about Princess Bintanath as a kid, expecting it to be a nice princess story. Instead, I got an incest romance between two narcissists. I was so traumatized by it that I couldn't take Prince of Egypt seriously anymore. We know that Ramesses married *at least* five of his daughters: Bintanath, Meritamun, Nebettawy, Meritre and Henutmire. In the case of Henutmire, there is even a chance that she was one of the daughters of Ramesses' daughter-wives. Imagine marrying a daughter, having a daughter with your daughter and then marrying that (grand)daughter, what the f- Two other of Ramesses daughters ,Takhat and Anuketemheb, were married to an Egyptian pharaoh, but it is uncertain whether it was the father(Ramesses), brother(Meneptah) or nephew(Seti II). Then there are two more daughters of Ramesses, Baketmut and Henuttawy (not to be confused with the other six daughters of Ramesses who were also all named Henut: Henutmire, Henutpahuro,Henutsekhemu, Henutpare, Henuttaneb and Henuttadesh ) were possibly also wives of their father as in some depictions they were dressed in the garments of queens and not princesses. Ramesses' family tree was a nightmare and the Egyptian succession so chaotic that after Ramesses' death, there was a huge succession crisis. But to be fair, we don't know whether the father-daughter marriages were really consummated
just a reminder. "And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go."-Exodus 4:21
could you imagine if Disney films had did a movie on King James Oh! My Gosh! the content he'd have to work with! King James the 1st if im not mistaken.
Rameses is just trying his best to run an extremely stressful family business, the amount of pressure the poor man must be under and now his brother Moses is trying to sabotage his life’s work? It’s extremely tragic, a real shame the shrooms warped Moses’ mind into insanity.
It's even more sad in the Bible. God literally made the pharaoh a cruel bastard then punished innocent Egyptians for it. Exodus 4:21 21 And Yehováh said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
God made the pharaoh no more evil than he already was. Notice that God didn’t harden the pharaoh’s heart untill the 6th plague, and the very next plague Pharaoh hardens his own heart. In this way God was merely acting in accordance with the pharaoh’s will. Let’s not kid ourselves he wouldn’t let God’s people go no matter what - he and his ancestors were abusing God’s nation and the Egyptians were complicit in that.
@@atenek9243 It literally says he harden the pharaoh's heart before Moses asked for his people to be set free. The pharaoh had no choice in the matter. It's even brought up in the New testament how God was a prick and cruel to the Egyptians.
@he had the choice - see all the verses when he did harden his heart on his own. Knowledge of the outcome does not negate free will. Also do you know the reason Moses was sent to the israelites - to free his people who suffered under egyptians ? They literally killed their babies
This channel is so cozy. I usually put this on while I’m like cooking or getting ready for bed or otherwise physically occupied but want something to listen to. This channel works perfect for that and it’s super entertaining. Love the content keep it up 🫶🏼
I'm an Atheist/Agnostic and this movie is still a masterpiece imo, absolute perfection Anyways Megamind but from Tighten's perspective please please please 😭🙏
Well to be fair the priests made two sticks-snakes so I think it’s right to assume that Ra is at least twice as strong as their god. At the very least in the snakes-out-of-sticks part of the business
Imagine how powerful you could be if you worshipped the sticks-into-snakes god!!! 🤩 Especially since, as we see in the movie, the size of the snake is related to the size of the stick. Technically, a downed tree could be seen as a stick. Or a teeny tiny twig. So many options! So much variety! By the power of Ra! 🥳💖
It's crazy how many well known actors are in this, Val Kilmer, Sandra bullock, Jeff goldblum, Steve Martin, Patrick Stewart, Martin short, I never realized that as a kid, the Prince of Egypt is probably the best animated film of all time, even though it's not 100% Biblically accurate, it's still q great movie
0:08 You think showing a religious movie at school is a common thing? Maybe, but I grew up in an extremely religious area, and my public school never showed us anything like this, just an endless stream of Land Before Time movies
Oh, we where shown this in 3rd or 4th grade when we where learning about Judaism in school. Not sure if your school had anything similar but we had a class Called RLE (religion, lifestyle and ethics(they later changed it to KRLE where the k was from Christianity))
Ramses II wasn’t the first born child of Seti I. He was technically the middle child. The rule from god was the first born child would die, and only a few women would be spared. Given that information, God therefore can’t break his own rule to kill Ramses, because he’s the middle child. Not much is known about his older sister Tia
It's hard to poke fun at this movie. Not only is it so very religious, but it's also a masterpiece. I still find it so wild that they took a story so religiously rooted and then changed the focus, to make it really be about the conflict between these brothers.
YES! UA-cam didn't copyright strike your video😃 Miriam the girl actually goes up to the daughter of Pharoh, not queen, to ask if she want a baby siter which was their own family, and she agrees so Moses still grows up with his own family and they actually get paid for their labor. This entire course of this story actually takes 80 years, 40 years as Egyptians then 40 years in Midian before called by God, but you wouldn't know just by watching this movie.
When Moses went to Pharaoh and demanded he let the Hebrews go, imagine how funny it would've been if Pharaoh said "Ok, fine. Your people are free and no longer welcome in Egypt." Then signed a proclamation or whatever essentially kicking the Hebrews out. It's a totally different vibe when you're forced to leave lol.
@@maxstrike3022 No need to try, he'd sit there and take it if he wants them free that bad. And there's no way his god would be fine with genociding babies but not letting a single man die to get what he wants.
I absolutely adore your videos! And I understand why you added the caveat at the end there; it wasn't necessary but who wants to be cancelled over a clear joke, lol? Please do Viki from iRobot? I mean she was trying her best to save humanity and we sure could use a Viki rn
@@queenratiganthefirst5442 Every thing he did was because he wanted the one girl who said no when he had a harem following him around. Even from his perspective, it would be a tall order to spin that into anything positive sounding. I REALLY look forward to him taking on that challenge.
9:20 finally, I get to be the guy. It's most likely a mis-translation. The books we have today are compies, of simplications, of translations, of copies, of copies, of interpretations, of translations, of copies ext. From my understanding, the original text didn't say snake, I can't member the actual translation for the word (I only study old ass languages for fun, cut me some slack) but it was a great scaled beast, or something to that effect from what I remember. So it's possible it was meant to be a crocodile, which makes way more sense. Crocodiles were kind of like cats, in that they were believed to be connected to their god. Their crocodile god, Sorbek was a major diety, litterally representing life given by the Nile, and military strength. So summoning a croc from your staff that wrecks the 2 crocks summoned by your high priests is litterally a pokemon fight between minor godlike beings, and he did that shit on a whim, in your throne room, infront of everyone. This first interaction is a show of power that could have ended the whole fight, but obviously as bad as things get, no matter how many plagues god sent, ramses never gave in untill his own son is killed.
That would make way more sense. Both religions consider snakes as bad news, but turning a stick into a crocodile would be both impressive and not outright evil.
No, the word used for Moses' staff was adapted to modern Hebrew for crocodile. In Antiquity it was understood as some sort of snake monster with multiple heads and you can even find a few medieval drawings of it
@frantisekvrana3902 not the case for Egyptian religion, snakes were powerful and could be good OR evil. It was also a bit complicated in ancient Judaism
Please do the first Transformers from Megatron's perspective. He literally landed on Earth in Antartica with the very mcguffin he's been looking for mere feet away and he got frozen. He then wakes up decades later in a secret military facility inside a giant wall made by upright-walking ants dressed in silly outfits and doing primitive science experiments. He breaks out, meets up with his hommies, is told his arch nemesis is on the planet with his soldiers and they have the mcguffin. He goes to face him, succeeds in owning his forcess and his arch enemy, only to get killed by one particular ant with the very mcguffin he was looking in the most absurd way possible that not even he saw coming nor probably understood in his last moments (Also, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is an absolute gem from both Optimus Prime and Megatron's perspectives).
It's crazy that the pharaoh didn't kill mosses despite doing all this to his people and son, just because mosses himself was a brother/best friend growing up
Funny thing is that the pharaoh did all this because god mind controlled him 😂 It said something like god hardened pharaohs heart. Which means he probably originally would have agreed to releasing them otherwise why harden his heart if he wouldn't have let them go in the 1st place 😂
Fun fact, Ramses II (The Ramses in this film) is the phaoroh named Ozymandias by the greeks, supposedly responsible for the 'Look upon my works ye mighty and dispair' quote after having built the most prosperous civilization in history (up to that point)... until his brother came home.
There's always been a quite popular theory that the story of Moses was accidentally mis-attributed to Ramses and instead was the result of the volcano in Santorini 500 miles north that wiped out the Minoans. It would provide a "chain of events" similar to the plagues (starting from Cinnabar-laced ash that would have turned the Nile red,) and would have the added benefit of creating erratic enough weather that it could generate winds strong enough to create a "standing wave" effect in the "Sea of Reeds" instead of the Red Sea, an oft-cited mistranslated of the original text, similar to a "parting" that would have subsided when the winds shifted during the night/day cycle.
If anyone likes The Plagues song from Prince of Egypt, you should look up the cover by Elsie Lovelock The song goes hard, but she makes it at leat twice as hard and having a woman sing it is neat
The funniest bit about Prince of Egypt is that it was supposed to be DreamWorks money maker for that year. Yeah, sure, it did well, no doubt about that. But the ironic part about it is Shrek. Shrek was supposed to be the production "gulag" where DreamWorks sent their troublemakers to work on a project they didnt put much stock into. Turns out Shrek would out perform Prince of Egypt in every way possible aside from the abso-fucking-lutely beautiful animation style PoE presented. Its kinda sad in a way. American hand-drawn animation was really doing something in this era, and we kind of just dropped it over CGI and other means of animation. Like, seriously: Lost City of Atlantis, Prince of Egypt, Treasure Planet, The Iron Giant? All of these were seriously underrated films.
Cool thing about this (I think it happened at the end of Genesis/ the beginning of Exodus) is that when God sent the 10 plagues He was fighting against 10 gods of Egypt. God was showing Egypt who the one true living God is so much so that some of the Egyptians converted after everything that happened.
Most metal thing about the plagues is thet they symbolise God killing all the egyptian gods one by one. - turning Nile into blood symbolised death of Hapi, god of Nile - sending frogs was to mock Heket, goddes of fertility who had a frog's head The death of Pharaoh's son was aimed at the Pharaoh himself, as he was worshipped as the son of Ra in flesh.
Slaves in egypt were of many ethnicities including egyptians themselves, they became slaves out of circumstances (such as debt or being prisoners of war or criminals, or just born from slaves) rather than due to their ethnic origins. Hebrews being a mostly enslaved group is a myth, there were hebrews in many different spheres of egyptian society
I truly believe that this is the best religious film ever written. Given, the bar today is low, but mean that as a heartfelt compliment. Religious filmography could learn a lot from this movie.
It’s been so popular and modern media nowadays to take old stories and make the villain the hero in the hero into the villain. An example would be like maleficent or pretty much any vampire show nowadays. I wonder if someone at Disney will have the balls to try to flip the script on this story. Make Moses into the villain and the pharaoh into the hero, but in the end he still loses making the show into a tragedy. 🎭
I don't really like religious movies, Other than some comedies like the Bruce almighty. But Prince of Persia was one of my favorite animated movies as a kid alongside Disney movies. But I do like the refreshing perspective of the pharaoh. Every tale is always told from the other side. And the pharaoh's actions make more sense from the way you describe it from his perspective. Great job.
0:46 The good old days of tripping balls and blaming your adopted brother for your issues, classic. Also, if your workforce were non Egyptian you could say it was built by aliens.
hahhahah man
I'm not saying it was the aliens but it definitely was the aliens, ancient aliens. * csi Miami theme intensifies *
😂
Lol that Pyramid alien joke.
The plot twist of a century
The real villain are the advisor charlatans. They convinced Ramses that the miracles that Moses' God was performing weren't special.
Exactly! Always hated those two as a kid (though their song is beyond kickass).
Well if we read the Bible, it says clearly that God hardens the Pharaoh heart, meaning God made him not listening while God was punishing Egypt as a whole instead of the rulers. So God is the bad guy. I mean, he could just teleport the slaves away from Egypt into the promised land anyways...
@Jake007123 that's not what that means in context. When it says God hardened Pharoahs heart, it was referring to how this supreme God's power would inevitably reveal the stubbornness of a human who thought he was a god. Pharoahs believed they were gods on earth. Moses's God proved they weren't and Pharoah hated that. Also, it wasn't just about the people being free. It was God returning some portion of the 430 odd years stolen from them by the Egyptians through slavery.
The real villain is the Hebrew god. He performed those miracles and then specifically went out of his way to harden Ramses' heart (resulting in him not letting the Hebrew go) to make him and everybody suffer more than needed just to prove a point. Like, what kind of sadistic god does that? Did he get some sick enjoyment out of actively escalating the situation instead of, you know, not hardening Ramses' heart so that he would let the Hebrew go after the first scourge, saving a lot of suffering on both sides.
@JohnSkilz God's actions made Ramses chose to harden his heart, he still had free will.
What I found weird was the fact that Ramses Father the guy who presumably started this whole mess most likely died without receiving any retribution for his deeds yet it still falls all on Ramses simply because the other guy is dead.
No escaping judgement of the soul, brother.
Yes but even if the father had lived to preside over the plagues, Ramses would still be the firstborn son to die. So he gets a pretty bad deal no matter what
The sins of the father fall upon the son.
@@mandalorethemaximum1408 “The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself.”
@davidbarton8375 yes but also...Job.
Honestly its a tragedy from moses prespective as well.
Hes turned by god against whats essentily his brother whom he grew up with and loved.
He then inflicted 9 plagues on the nation he considered his home culminating with him killing what's essentialy his nephew.
And for what? , for wandering for 40 years in the desert and dying before entering the promised land.
As a descendant of people who were freed under Harriet Tubman's guidance, I gotta disagree with this gang. You don't enslave an entire people and think its an OK thing to do.
@@okamiexe1501 It's still tragic; regardless of the circumstance he was stripped of the family that raised him by a war of rights and culture, killed countless children who had nothing to do with slavery, and his people went from indenturrd servitude to beibg nomads everyone hated for millenia. In the story of exodus one terrible situation was traded for another that was little better, and it cost Moses everything but his life. That's really tragic, if his people returned home and lived well, that would be bittersweet, but they kinda got monkey pawed.
Did you like forget plot about the tens of thousands of slaves he wanted freed or..
@@okamiexe1501 While this is true, slavery in the US was a byproduct of old European standards. The civil war was a war between which economy prevailed. The founding fathers needed the support of the pro-slave south to win the revolutionary war. and slavery was a highly contentious thing even during its founding. The term, "A more perfect union" was an acknowledgement that sure things were messed up now in terms of a government, but with time, more sensible policies would prevail. The real tragedy is that while the US won the civil war, we lost reconstruction. If Abe Lincoln wasn't shot by some B-list actor, we would be in a much better position today. Unfortunately, we ended up with Jim Crow and over 100 years of delays in progress.
all for the coming of The Lord and Savior Yeshua Hamashiech aka Jesus Christ
It is wild to me just how well this movie still holds up overall. I’m not even religious but it is such a heartbreaking tale of how two brothers can be fundamentally opposed to each other but still desperately don’t want to carry out what they see as their responsibilities and burdens.
That song still gives me chills.
Patiently waiting for a "Road to Eldorado from Tzekel-Kan perspective" video
As much as I'd like to, I'm hesitant to make videos on DreamWorks for a while, atleast until after I see what happens with Bee Movie
@Nomsynho you're dead to me
@Nomsynho just kidding, I look forward to whatever you put out nomsy
It's alright bro, it's frustrating for me too because Dreamworks has been some of my best videos y'know?
@@Nomsynho You consider breaking out into the video game sector with these type of videos; because I think resident evil from Umbrellas point of view or even Weskers pov would be funny. You could also give Halo a go from the pov of the prophet of Truth.
The reason this religious movie succeeds where others fail is because it works as secular media as well as religious. It’s so much more than some paint-by-numbers moralistic parable, it’s a tragedy about brotherhood and duty and fate.
With good animation and a *killer* soundtrack
I am mostly going from memory but, as I recall, the ten plagues were actually easily explained via natural events leading to cause and effect chains.
The blood(1), whatever it actually was (common theory is red tide algea), killed the fish that ate the frogs and their eggs. The frogs(2) then hatched out in record numbers because there were less eaten. They died and their bodies rotted in greater than normal numbers providing sustenance for insect life. That caused a dramatic increase in the lice(3) and biting fly(4) populations. More biting insects means higher likelihood of diseases spreading thus the mass deaths of the livestock(5). It also meant a lot more boils(6) on people due to the increased biting. The hail(7) is a normal thing that happens and could have just been more severe than normal, same with the locusts(8). The three days of darkness(9), possibly a long sandstorm? Not a lot on that one though. Then we come to the big one. The deaths of the first born(10). When the hail came, there was panic to get the crops in quickly so as to save as much as possible. As a result, they likely would have not been as thorough in checking for mold. In times of crisis, the Egyptians fed their first born sons more to improve the chances kf the family line making it through. More infested food for specifically the first born sons meant they were most affected. As for the blood over the door preventing it, anyone who would have listened to that likely would have also adhered to hebrew traditions involving more meticulously cleaning of the food and care for it's storage which means they would jave found the mold and not been exposed.
Again, this is from memory so it could be a bit off but I feel like it holds up nicely.
Wow this is actually kind of cool
Nice
I have a few problems with this theory. I'd rather just believe that the Bible is true and take it at face value, seeing as these were supernatural works that could not ordinarily be explained, especially in such quick succession. May the Lord God bless you all. Turn away from sin and believe in Jesus Christ for salvation
@@reynardvanderwalt8251what are your problems with this theory? If you can explain why these aren’t plausible explanations I would be very interested especially as you specifically state ordinary reasoning can’t explain it despite the reasoning being the comment you responded to
@@reynardvanderwalt8251 You can believe what you want. I won't begrudge you for that. I'm just positing a totally normal explanation.
This is such a fun concept for a video, I always found it kinda heartbreaking from rameses' perspective... but also just free his people!
@@sleepyninjarin7971 we spent enough time and enough moral ambiguity was provided by the advisors that it is hard to NOT feel for him. Also, the breaking of strong bonds definitely will bring out the feels. It very well writen
It's honestly not that simple.
Imagine, you're in the position to make that choice. Remember that choosing to free them all will cripple your kingdom and likely cost tons of lives.
The realistic solution would have been to offer Moses a deal. He would do his best to fix this system in his reign and abolish slavery. But for now he still needs the workforce, but the slaves will be treated better over time until they're equal to normal workers.
This compromise would eventually free Moses people while not sacrificing the empire's stability.
Also, realistically the freed slaves would just die before they can build anything significant from nothing lol.
Ofc god is in this story so he probably kept them safe and well fed.
This story also is just such a self debunk of the bible. Because according to this story, some humans are NOT gods people. So he didn't create them all or he has favorites, aka he's not all good/loving.
But anyone who actually read the bible would know god is not loving at all. He's quite the whimsical mass murderer. Not even just the big catastrophes. He used bears to pettily kill children on multiple occasions lmao. God's a real psycho. No wonder humans are as messed up as they are if they're made in god's image 😂
It's been proven that the pyramids were NOT built by slaves. They were highly paid, skilled workers.
@@ardynizunia9709You do know the Jews are called Gods people specifically because of the covenant with Abraham. He's still the God of all people.
@@ardynizunia9709"Some humans are not God's people."
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It's said in the bible that God purposely hardened Pharaoh's heart and that's the reason why he didn't free the slaves in the first few plagues as they were made to undermine the major Egyptian gods.
Bloody hell, that's ruthless
So, according to the Bible, God is the real villain of the story. Do I have that right?
So, God made it harder for his people to get their freedom? That's not very nice!
@@NomsynhoSo, God hardens his heart by showing him miracles, hardens his heart by demonstrating his power, hardens his heart by demanding he let the people go. God’s not hardening his heart literally by taking his free will away or by doing heart surgery or something like that; He’s hardening his heart by confronting wicked Pharaoh with light, and Pharaoh closes his eyes. This is what Jesus does in the Gospels when He shows His miracles to the Pharisees, and they reject Him. It hardens their hearts, but only by Him doing the very thing that would soften the heart of a person who’s open to God. edit, hope that makes sense for you guys
@@55alegria we don’t see this sort of single-cause thing where God just grabs someone’s heart and says, 'I’m going to make you reject me.' No, no, it’s like, 'You’re going to reject me, and as I show you more light, you’re going to reject me even more because you’re going to harden your heart. I’ll harden it by showing you more light.' That’s how I see it.
Can we talk about how Seti has a voice worthy of sailing the very stars?
I mean I just cannot believe the caliber of voice actors in this film... Like Moses/God are VAL KILMER?! Like what... It's so random but it makes sense why, the dude can sing... He was Jim Morrison afterall
This movie is a masterpiece. Extraordinarily adult for a cartoon, especially considering when it came out.
And yes, i too watched it for the first time at school.
It really was quite good. It's also one of the few stories that didn't feel preachy. It wasn't a lesson in following a specific religion. Just God saying "Hey, I don't want my people as your slaves. Let them go or else.". No demands of conversion or anything. So many religious stories have that element pretty front and center and it gets old after a while but this did it pretty well.
When kid's cartoons were still teaching you stuff and were not just brainrot
Funny overall.
I'm a Christian and understand jokes are jokes, if anyone is getting offended then don't worry about it. People should understand what a joke is
I mean I don't really expect people to take offence but it's better to be sure and to explicitly state there was no ill intention
@@Nomsynho Someone will always take offence.
And even worse, according to the source material Mozes' God literally HARDENED Ramses' heart. He would've let them go far sooner, only he was prevented in doing so!
Luckily evidence suggests that this particular story never actually happened, so that's a consolation.
Imagine the splitting of the Red Sea from a fish's perspective.
Poor Ramesses, loosing his son! Every egyptologist knows how close Ramesses was with his children. Especially the daughters-
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
Wait a minute, what are you talking abou-OH MY GOODNESS!
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LMAO I remember reading a book about Princess Bintanath as a kid, expecting it to be a nice princess story. Instead, I got an incest romance between two narcissists. I was so traumatized by it that I couldn't take Prince of Egypt seriously anymore. We know that Ramesses married *at least* five of his daughters: Bintanath, Meritamun, Nebettawy, Meritre and Henutmire. In the case of Henutmire, there is even a chance that she was one of the daughters of Ramesses' daughter-wives. Imagine marrying a daughter, having a daughter with your daughter and then marrying that (grand)daughter, what the f-
Two other of Ramesses daughters ,Takhat and Anuketemheb, were married to an Egyptian pharaoh, but it is uncertain whether it was the father(Ramesses), brother(Meneptah) or nephew(Seti II). Then there are two more daughters of Ramesses, Baketmut and Henuttawy (not to be confused with the other six daughters of Ramesses who were also all named Henut: Henutmire, Henutpahuro,Henutsekhemu, Henutpare, Henuttaneb and Henuttadesh ) were possibly also wives of their father as in some depictions they were dressed in the garments of queens and not princesses. Ramesses' family tree was a nightmare and the Egyptian succession so chaotic that after Ramesses' death, there was a huge succession crisis. But to be fair, we don't know whether the father-daughter marriages were really consummated
are you hinting @ a long time (disturbing) trend amoung American Elites-ist Famalies 🤔
just a reminder. "And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go."-Exodus 4:21
Beautiful Bible quote!
could you imagine if Disney films had did a movie on King James
Oh! My Gosh!
the content he'd have to work with!
King James the 1st if im not mistaken.
First born sons, sons with living fathers is probably the cut off.
Best explanation I can think of
makes sense
It shows how freat Prince of Egypt is when switching the perspectives still gices you a complex and well written story.
Rameses is just trying his best to run an extremely stressful family business, the amount of pressure the poor man must be under and now his brother Moses is trying to sabotage his life’s work? It’s extremely tragic, a real shame the shrooms warped Moses’ mind into insanity.
So you like slavery?
That's pathetic excuses, and I'm disappointed this UA-camr is liking these comments.
@@echothesilent4693 I think they are joking??
It's even more sad in the Bible. God literally made the pharaoh a cruel bastard then punished innocent Egyptians for it.
Exodus 4:21
21 And Yehováh said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
God made the pharaoh no more evil than he already was.
Notice that God didn’t harden the pharaoh’s heart untill the 6th plague, and the very next plague Pharaoh hardens his own heart.
In this way God was merely acting in accordance with the pharaoh’s will.
Let’s not kid ourselves he wouldn’t let God’s people go no matter what - he and his ancestors were abusing God’s nation and the Egyptians were complicit in that.
he is a great writer thats for sure
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It literally says he harden the pharaoh's heart before Moses asked for his people to be set free. The pharaoh had no choice in the matter.
It's even brought up in the New testament how God was a prick and cruel to the Egyptians.
@he had the choice - see all the verses when he did harden his heart on his own.
Knowledge of the outcome does not negate free will.
Also do you know the reason Moses was sent to the israelites - to free his people who suffered under egyptians ? They literally killed their babies
I had to sub. He's too genuine of a guy not to love.
Hey thanks, I appreciate that
This channel is so cozy. I usually put this on while I’m like cooking or getting ready for bed or otherwise physically occupied but want something to listen to. This channel works perfect for that and it’s super entertaining. Love the content keep it up 🫶🏼
I'm an Atheist/Agnostic and this movie is still a masterpiece imo, absolute perfection
Anyways Megamind but from Tighten's perspective please please please 😭🙏
Oh shit! Did not expect this! Awesome! Well done!
Still waiting for Twilight from Charlie's POV. Or Mortal Kombat 1995 & Annihilation from Shao Khan's
Honestly this could be kind of funny
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Well to be fair the priests made two sticks-snakes so I think it’s right to assume that Ra is at least twice as strong as their god. At the very least in the snakes-out-of-sticks part of the business
Yeah, but then that snake ate both of the other snakes so what does that say about power
That's stupid logic. I'm disappointed in that logic. And they didn't even actually do that.
@@tripleg2513very true, I reckon it was, however, a slightly thicker stick.
Imagine how powerful you could be if you worshipped the sticks-into-snakes god!!! 🤩
Especially since, as we see in the movie, the size of the snake is related to the size of the stick. Technically, a downed tree could be seen as a stick. Or a teeny tiny twig. So many options! So much variety!
By the power of Ra! 🥳💖
It's crazy how many well known actors are in this, Val Kilmer, Sandra bullock, Jeff goldblum, Steve Martin, Patrick Stewart, Martin short, I never realized that as a kid, the Prince of Egypt is probably the best animated film of all time, even though it's not 100% Biblically accurate, it's still q great movie
0:08 You think showing a religious movie at school is a common thing? Maybe, but I grew up in an extremely religious area, and my public school never showed us anything like this, just an endless stream of Land Before Time movies
That's interesting actually, I was shown this movie in both my primary and secondary school and they were quite religious
Oh, we where shown this in 3rd or 4th grade when we where learning about Judaism in school. Not sure if your school had anything similar but we had a class Called RLE (religion, lifestyle and ethics(they later changed it to KRLE where the k was from Christianity))
@@heroic_antagonist759 I have.... just *so* many questions for the people who decided that Christianity starts with a K.
@@sylvirgiomanach1491 to be fair it's Called "Kristendom" in Norwegian 🤷🏻
Ramses II wasn’t the first born child of Seti I. He was technically the middle child.
The rule from god was the first born child would die, and only a few women would be spared.
Given that information, God therefore can’t break his own rule to kill Ramses, because he’s the middle child.
Not much is known about his older sister Tia
She married another guy named Tia which is pretty funny and rare for an Egyptian princess.
Appreciate you turning everyone's voice into an old timey radio host to avoid copyright strikes.
Gotta do what I gotta do... DreamWorks cancelled my appeal on Bee Movie... So...
It's hard to poke fun at this movie. Not only is it so very religious, but it's also a masterpiece. I still find it so wild that they took a story so religiously rooted and then changed the focus, to make it really be about the conflict between these brothers.
And thank goodness they did….
@@cynicalsenpai u got some cans on u
Nice take really
YES! UA-cam didn't copyright strike your video😃
Miriam the girl actually goes up to the daughter of Pharoh, not queen, to ask if she want a baby siter which was their own family, and she agrees so Moses still grows up with his own family and they actually get paid for their labor.
This entire course of this story actually takes 80 years, 40 years as Egyptians then 40 years in Midian before called by God, but you wouldn't know just by watching this movie.
Nah they took some liberties that's why I added the line about him being really early
@@Nomsynho that was funny
15:53 I thought Ramses' older brother died in a boating accident, thus he was a popular pick for the biblical Pharoah in the first place
If you ever put "this is a case of the big treason" on a shirt I'll have to buy one
Dr Ivo Robotnik perspective in the live action sonic the hedgehog movie.
When Moses went to Pharaoh and demanded he let the Hebrews go, imagine how funny it would've been if Pharaoh said "Ok, fine. Your people are free and no longer welcome in Egypt." Then signed a proclamation or whatever essentially kicking the Hebrews out. It's a totally different vibe when you're forced to leave lol.
Been kicked out of-
That actually happened to Egyptian Jews in the 50s and 60s and yeah it sucked and was horrible
Great video, as always thank you for supplying us with awesome videos.
Basically, when your brother goes nuts but your parents blame you for not being enough compassionate.
Hey, it was pretty clear to me no offense was meant, all jokes in good fun. Here’s to a good 2025 🥰✝
Brilliant as always. Thanks for the many good laughs in a hard time.
Honestly if I was Rameses near the end, I'd be so pissed off that I'd just say to Moses "Fine they can be free, but you have to die in exchange."
Ur gonna try to kill the guy that attacked you with his pet still and made all your water red and dirty?
@@maxstrike3022 No need to try, he'd sit there and take it if he wants them free that bad. And there's no way his god would be fine with genociding babies but not letting a single man die to get what he wants.
@someonerandom9939 oh buddy I'm gonna need you to read the entirty of Genesis, because you must've forgotten a story or two about that
The running gag about Rameses listening to the Hebrews sing😂
I absolutely adore your videos! And I understand why you added the caveat at the end there; it wasn't necessary but who wants to be cancelled over a clear joke, lol? Please do Viki from iRobot? I mean she was trying her best to save humanity and we sure could use a Viki rn
I had somebody say my video was Blasphemy lmao... I dunno if I said anything anything blasphemous... but yeah someone actually took offense lmao
02:03 Secret Technique; HOLLOW WICKER BASKET!
I still wanna see Beauty and the Beast from Gaston's POV
@@queenratiganthefirst5442 Every thing he did was because he wanted the one girl who said no when he had a harem following him around. Even from his perspective, it would be a tall order to spin that into anything positive sounding. I REALLY look forward to him taking on that challenge.
The one time a Sub 5 Man/Orc managed to steal a girl from Chad.
9:20 finally, I get to be the guy. It's most likely a mis-translation. The books we have today are compies, of simplications, of translations, of copies, of copies, of interpretations, of translations, of copies ext. From my understanding, the original text didn't say snake, I can't member the actual translation for the word (I only study old ass languages for fun, cut me some slack) but it was a great scaled beast, or something to that effect from what I remember. So it's possible it was meant to be a crocodile, which makes way more sense. Crocodiles were kind of like cats, in that they were believed to be connected to their god. Their crocodile god, Sorbek was a major diety, litterally representing life given by the Nile, and military strength. So summoning a croc from your staff that wrecks the 2 crocks summoned by your high priests is litterally a pokemon fight between minor godlike beings, and he did that shit on a whim, in your throne room, infront of everyone. This first interaction is a show of power that could have ended the whole fight, but obviously as bad as things get, no matter how many plagues god sent, ramses never gave in untill his own son is killed.
That would make way more sense. Both religions consider snakes as bad news, but turning a stick into a crocodile would be both impressive and not outright evil.
No, the word used for Moses' staff was adapted to modern Hebrew for crocodile. In Antiquity it was understood as some sort of snake monster with multiple heads and you can even find a few medieval drawings of it
@frantisekvrana3902 not the case for Egyptian religion, snakes were powerful and could be good OR evil. It was also a bit complicated in ancient Judaism
I can't help but find it insane that this still holds up, I completely forgot this was made WAY back in the day.
If you took offense, you need to buck up .... There's a lot worse in the world. Great video🎉🎉🎉
Can you please do "Joseph king of dreams" it's in the same style Prince of Egypt and no one ever talks about it
^•^ thanks
I'd love to, got a huge list to work through but yeah
I feel so sorry for that movie...
It is REALLY GOOD, just ended up getting so overshadowed by Prince Of Egypt that everyone forgets how amazing it is.
fun fact it is now believed that it wasn't slaves building the pyramids but generation of stone masons
I watched this during the New Year. More fun than watching the ball drop.
I remember seeing this as a kid and I just showed my 10 year old brother it haha he loved it
13:13 that whole album was FIRE. I had it on CD as a kid
As always, your content is amazing!
Please do the first Transformers from Megatron's perspective. He literally landed on Earth in Antartica with the very mcguffin he's been looking for mere feet away and he got frozen. He then wakes up decades later in a secret military facility inside a giant wall made by upright-walking ants dressed in silly outfits and doing primitive science experiments. He breaks out, meets up with his hommies, is told his arch nemesis is on the planet with his soldiers and they have the mcguffin. He goes to face him, succeeds in owning his forcess and his arch enemy, only to get killed by one particular ant with the very mcguffin he was looking in the most absurd way possible that not even he saw coming nor probably understood in his last moments (Also, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is an absolute gem from both Optimus Prime and Megatron's perspectives).
You are slowly winning me over
I think the whole point of Rameses' character is that you totally understand why he's doing evil things.
He's freaking out about something 😂
I think you should do a video on wreck it Ralph from king candy’s perspective
It's crazy that the pharaoh didn't kill mosses despite doing all this to his people and son, just because mosses himself was a brother/best friend growing up
I love that you did this movie!
When your adopted brother takes advantage of a red tide/volcanic event to ruin your family business 💀
Funny thing is that the pharaoh did all this because god mind controlled him 😂
It said something like god hardened pharaohs heart. Which means he probably originally would have agreed to releasing them otherwise why harden his heart if he wouldn't have let them go in the 1st place 😂
Right-and Im like isnt that messing with his free will? Isnt that why he doesnt show himself to give us free will to…have faith 🥴
Fun fact, Ramses II (The Ramses in this film) is the phaoroh named Ozymandias by the greeks, supposedly responsible for the 'Look upon my works ye mighty and dispair' quote after having built the most prosperous civilization in history (up to that point)... until his brother came home.
WELL, WELL... LOOKS LIKE MY FAVORITE INTERNET DOPAMINE DEALER IS BACK WITH THE GOOD GOOD
Watching this video felt like reading a fanfiction (in a good way)
I just watched this movie two days ago. Here for the timing of this video.
16:52 I guess you could call this a deus ex machina.
There's always been a quite popular theory that the story of Moses was accidentally mis-attributed to Ramses and instead was the result of the volcano in Santorini 500 miles north that wiped out the Minoans. It would provide a "chain of events" similar to the plagues (starting from Cinnabar-laced ash that would have turned the Nile red,) and would have the added benefit of creating erratic enough weather that it could generate winds strong enough to create a "standing wave" effect in the "Sea of Reeds" instead of the Red Sea, an oft-cited mistranslated of the original text, similar to a "parting" that would have subsided when the winds shifted during the night/day cycle.
If anyone likes The Plagues song from Prince of Egypt, you should look up the cover by Elsie Lovelock
The song goes hard, but she makes it at leat twice as hard and having a woman sing it is neat
Your description explains how the algorithm brought me here.. you know what, i like the way you make videos crackhead, Im gonna subscribe! Lol 🍻
The drug of choice of our Ancient Egyptian ancestors was actually the Lotus Flower
"This god fellow doesn't seem to be very consistent" 😂
am happy for good old bro Ramses he wanted to play Subnautica but it didnt go all that well but atlesat had a chance to do more stuff later. :o
This videos are getting better and better.
Next: Rogue One from Director Krenick's perspective.
Would be hilariouus!!!!
I feel attacked. I played this in RE.
The funniest bit about Prince of Egypt is that it was supposed to be DreamWorks money maker for that year. Yeah, sure, it did well, no doubt about that. But the ironic part about it is Shrek. Shrek was supposed to be the production "gulag" where DreamWorks sent their troublemakers to work on a project they didnt put much stock into. Turns out Shrek would out perform Prince of Egypt in every way possible aside from the abso-fucking-lutely beautiful animation style PoE presented.
Its kinda sad in a way. American hand-drawn animation was really doing something in this era, and we kind of just dropped it over CGI and other means of animation. Like, seriously: Lost City of Atlantis, Prince of Egypt, Treasure Planet, The Iron Giant? All of these were seriously underrated films.
Dam, this is beautiful!
I would say though, it's kinda hard to do the treat everyone right if you don't think there is a God.
Cool thing about this (I think it happened at the end of Genesis/ the beginning of Exodus) is that when God sent the 10 plagues He was fighting against 10 gods of Egypt. God was showing Egypt who the one true living God is so much so that some of the Egyptians converted after everything that happened.
Ayyyy, you did it!
thank you moist critical
Please do Cal from Titanic. He had his girl stolen by a vagabond
I’ve been watching this channel all week and I just realized that’s bionic pig maybe?
also for 3 days i think the sun didn't rise and it was pitch black
My fav movie of all time
...Well. I was today years old when I realised Emperor Seti was voiced by *goddamn Patrick Stewart*. As a hardcore Star Trek nerd, I am shamed.
That movie was so insanely well made.
You know what's crazy? It was the first movie by DreamWorks animation
oh em gee yes! the video has been made!
Most metal thing about the plagues is thet they symbolise God killing all the egyptian gods one by one.
- turning Nile into blood symbolised death of Hapi, god of Nile
- sending frogs was to mock Heket, goddes of fertility who had a frog's head
The death of Pharaoh's son was aimed at the Pharaoh himself, as he was worshipped as
the son of Ra in flesh.
It's not a children's film just because it's animated
Next do please: Star Wars Prequels from Padme's perspective is crazy
I bought a property in Egypt
Slaves in egypt were of many ethnicities including egyptians themselves, they became slaves out of circumstances (such as debt or being prisoners of war or criminals, or just born from slaves) rather than due to their ethnic origins.
Hebrews being a mostly enslaved group is a myth, there were hebrews in many different spheres of egyptian society
Hoping you will try Condorman. It's a lessor known movie, but the film from their perspective is crazy.
13:00 what is the music in the background here? I remember it from super smash bros but I can't remember where its from.
Gerudo Valley
@ thank you
promised I'd sub for this video, so I did
I truly believe that this is the best religious film ever written. Given, the bar today is low, but mean that as a heartfelt compliment. Religious filmography could learn a lot from this movie.
Tbh, Ramses wasn't such a bad of a guy as far as old cartoon villains do. You kind of feel bad for him actually.
10:43 It’s treason then.
It’s been so popular and modern media nowadays to take old stories and make the villain the hero in the hero into the villain. An example would be like maleficent or pretty much any vampire show nowadays.
I wonder if someone at Disney will have the balls to try to flip the script on this story. Make Moses into the villain and the pharaoh into the hero, but in the end he still loses making the show into a tragedy. 🎭
I don't really like religious movies, Other than some comedies like the Bruce almighty. But Prince of Persia was one of my favorite animated movies as a kid alongside Disney movies. But I do like the refreshing perspective of the pharaoh. Every tale is always told from the other side. And the pharaoh's actions make more sense from the way you describe it from his perspective. Great job.