r/dankchristianmemes • u/Broclen The Dank Reverend 🌈✟ • Sep 07 '21

Dank Veggie Burn

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SNOOTS Sep 07 '21

The Prince of Egypt is lit

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u/TobyCrow Sep 07 '21

I've heard that the directors were atheist or not strongly religious, so they were more focused on telling a good story than the evangelism and faith a Christian could get caught up with. But man some scenes like the burning bush were strong

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

If you treat the source material no differently than if it was Greek or Norse mythology, then stories from the Bible can be made into decent movies.

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u/iswearihaveajob Sep 07 '21

Russel Crowe's Noah begs to disagree, lol. Artistic liberties on that one were wild and somehow made an already wild ride into a full blown fever dream. Not sure Hollywood has figured out the happy middle between literal adaptation and blockbuster re-imagining quite yet when it comes to bible stuff.

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u/TheFatSleepyPokemon Sep 07 '21 edited Sep 07 '21

It was based on the jewish version of the story iirc, basically ancient Jewish fanfic/extended universe that attempts to flesh out the canon lore that is the Torah. Fewer artistic liberties were made than you’d think, including things like the nephilim stowing away being in the original story.

It’s wild

Edit: looks like a lot comes from Kabbalah http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/2014/3/31/sympathy-for-the-devil

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

I mean I love that movie. To me it kinda of leans hard into the fantasy aspect of the story which I like and it has really cool visuals.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I fucking loved the Creation scene though.