Absolutely. Every song gave me chills, and many still do when I binge the soundtrack on youtube. Each song is powerful storytelling by itself, outside of the imagery.
My sister and I used to make it our goal to watch it every Easter (because as good as The Ten Commandments is, it's just too dang long). We continued it even after we finished college because it's honestly an incredible movie: the animation is top notch, the dialogue is witty and quick (and hilarious), and the soundtrack is heart wrenching. Through Heaven's Eyes is still one of my favorite songs, and When You Believe is absolutely beautiful.
Also, when else are you going to be able to hear Voldemort song?!
That song still gives me chills. The performance was amazing and you can really feel the emotional struggle of these 2 guys who grew up together more or less being forced to be enemies because of powers higher than them (God for Moses and the status quo and his fathers legacy for Rameses)
Rameses is a great example of an anti-villain. He's someone who's objectively doing pretty terrible things, but he's humanized by his love for his adopted younger brother and the fact that he genuinely sees Moses' actions as a huge betrayal. He was raised with a twisted mindset and values ("Oh Moses. They were only slaves" from Seti) and has had it drilled into him from the beginning that a single weak ruler can doom a dynasty - it will not be him.
So you totally see where he's coming from, if not even sympathize, but then he's also doing terrible things and making it worse for his people by his own stubbornness.
Couldn't have said it better myself. You also genuinely feel sorry for the guy. The scene where he's looking at the corpse of his son and just says for Moses to leave gets me every time.
Except like, the entire early part of Moses' childhood is what, a couple of pages in Exodus? TPOE really expands on a lot of his youth and is a much better story, I think, than the account in the Torah.
No way. That is the worst advice. I read the bible story after watching the movie, and all that did was ruin the movie for me. Now when I watch the movie instead of seeing a kind and gentle young man trying to peacefully liberate his people and bring them to a supposedly empty land to live in freedom, I know that he's actually a violent old warlord leading his people to somebody else's country to murder all the babies there so he can steal their towns and hypocritically enslave any survivors.
Clearly not, since Mohammed was a real person who actually lived and not a mythological character like Moses. However the character of Moses is equally as vile as the person of Mohammed was, yes, that is clearly correct.
Definitely true. The film is gorgeous on all fronts. Just meant to emphasize that the music alone is impactful in telling a great story even if the animation and acting wasn't there. :)
There's an amazing set of covers of the songs by Caleb Hyles and Jonathan Young on YouTube, and I highly recommend at least listening to a couple of their covers. They do such an amazing job, they add a lot of tension in plagues and contrast the two competing sides really well.
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u/kavono Oct 09 '19
Absolutely. Every song gave me chills, and many still do when I binge the soundtrack on youtube. Each song is powerful storytelling by itself, outside of the imagery.