The people who are making this movie have a considerable record. "Chariots of Fire" was a terrific movie. "Chinatown" is a brilliant film noir, one of the best. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is a cult classic that has remained alive for more years than you could imagine, although I have no particular desire to see it.
What I'm getting at is that this movie is likely to be more than just another stupid Hollywood bomb. Which perhaps is bad news, since it might be better if it were.
What a freaking moron. A first year egyptologist could tell this guy he was smoking crack.
Making a film about Moses in an Islamic country is dangerous business. Muslims regard the use of actors to portray prophets to be blasphemy, regardless of content. A lot of them were even madder than Christians when Last Temptation of Christ (boring but not blasphemous IMO) was released.
"For this you shall drink BITTER waters!"
Democrats... (Eddie Murphy laugh)...
"Egypt's history is greatly ignored by the film industry besides 'Cleopatra' and 'The Ten Commandments' and that's it,"
How dare he forget "The Scorpion King"!
Any relationship between this bogus movie and Egypt's history will be purely coincidental.
The speaker disdains common grammar, so his logical powers might be questionable.
There is a lot of uncertainty in the dating of both Thera's final major eruption and Akhenaton's reign. But I think there are strong arguments for a coincidence of the two events around 1380 B.C. I think Amenhotep IV was the Pharaoh of the Bible. And the Hebrews were a subgroup of the Hyksos, possibly the first of them, who had infiltrated, then ruled Egypt 400 years earlier, to be deposed and enslaved by Ahmose I, a "pharaoh who knew not Joseph". After the disaster, Amenhotep I changed his name to Akhenaton and "founded" monotheism (according to the secular record) in an imperfect imitation of Moses' superior God.
The Thera eruption brought about the Plagues and a tsunami that wiped out the Minoans as well as the drying and reflooding of the Sea of Reeds in the Nile delta - not the Red Sea as mistranslated - that allowed the Israelites to escape and destroyed the egyptian pursuers.
Huh. Didn't I see this on an episode of "Duck Dodgers"?
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uh.... first I've heard of it in ... 33 years of my life since I started Bible learning.
He also produced "Jesus," filmed on location in Israel in Biblical settings and subsequently translated in more than 850 languages.
How many identifiable languages have been spoken since time began?
Dream cast for "Moses and Nefertiti"
Moses/Akhenaten William Shatner
Nefertiti Whoopi Goldberg
Aaron Will Smith
Tut Gary Coleman [alternate if Gary
not available: Steve Martin]
Tzippora Aretha Franklin
Narrator Dan Aykroyd
Music Allanah Miles "Black Velvet"
Led Zeppelin "Kashmir"
Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar"
Labelle "Voulez Vous Couchet Avec Moi?"
Music-credits roll Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot "Voulez Vous Couchet Avec Moi?"
Steve Martin "King Tut"
Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Queen "We Are the Champions"
Linda Ronstadt "Somewhere Out There"
;-)
Heyman, who produced or co-financed major films such as "Chinatown", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Marathon Man", is also known for creating the Genesis project -- a scholarly endeavor to put all the Hebrew and Christian scriptures on film.
"Scholarly?" I wonder if he, or anyone involved in the project, ever bothered checking into the source... The bible? Nahhhh... Why should they have to check that old thing?
Mark
If this is an example of the Left's new focus on religion, the Republicans can afford to relax.
More hogwash, like the Davinci Code.
Heyman, who produced or co-financed major films such as "Chinatown", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"...hehehehe: Exodus meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show, this ought to be good!
This has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard in recent times.