miss-nerd-alert:

autumnhobbit:

underrated prince of egypt things

•how they handle the violence of the story. the dead guard moses threw off the scaffolding with only his hand shown. the children being ripped from weeping mothers’ arms. it’s enough to draw horror without being gratuitous.

•little ramses jumping up trying to see moses. just. how their relationship was portrayed. it would be so easy to see these deadly opponents and not buy into the idea that they love each other. but they did. and they do. and then it’s broken.

•tzipporah saying ‘i won’t be given to anyone! especially an arrogant palace brat!’ and later marrying moses of her own free will.

•moses sarcastically saying that ramses singlehandedly destroyed the greatest kingdom on earth, and it actually coming true.

•ramses chariot-racing moses in the intro and moses nearly ramming him to death, and ramses in the red sea being thrown off his broken chariot in his vengeance and bloodlust.

•moses returning to the palace in the dark and gently touching the same pillar, and finding ramses sitting in the same place he used to. ramses’ son standing in front of the mural of the killing of the children, something which affected moses so deeply, without even noticing it was there.

•how God is portrayed in this movie. the design is gorgeous and otherwordly and powerful. the sound design and the soundtrack grabs you. it is respectful to faith and twinged with the awe the presence of God creates.

•how Moses finds the burning bush by following a lost sheep. I love the allusions to other Biblical figures and tropes. I love me some Jesus prefigurement.

• The way they give Ramses the line “And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there never has been, nor ever will be again”, which in the Bible is the word of God, making it clear Ramses is the architect of his own kingdom’s destruction
• In fact, since Moses is a prophet, that scene is even more epic because he’s literally hearing the word of God from his own brother’s mouth, and it’s horrifying
• The way Ramses’ inferiority complex drives him to undertake all these massive building projects as compensation, and even to make his own statue even bigger than his dad’s

• And yet he still can’t measure up

• How quiet and haunting the death of the firstborn is, especially in comparison to the other plagues. The Plagues is by far one of the most iconic songs from this movie, but when the time comes for the final plague, there’s no music, no singing, nothing. Just the wind, and the last breath each child takes.

ileolai:

happy pride, here is the entire summary of what it means to be ‘’visibly queer’’ to me, watch the Birdcage