Ridley Scott's "Exodus"

[Rowsdower!]

Heston looks like he's about the take a bite out of Bale's face in that picture.

 

[Loki882]

Bale is part of the long and proud tradition of white guys playing Moses, an ancient Jewish man from the Middle East. Heston and Kilmer would be so proud. Not that I'm complaining, the first two were fantastic and I'm sure that Bale will be as well. It's just a funny notion.

 

[Herolee10]

Lmao but seriously they could handle it like Ridley handled it in Kingdom of Heaven. Balian threw a rock onto the ground near a bush and the rock sparked off another rock igniting the bush. I dk where the voice of god would come from tho. Maybe the burning bush is Moses smoking some hash.

That's what I'm worried..that they'll likely chalk up the religious factors, namely the key ones such as the burning bush or even when Moses received the commandments as something of a figment of his imagination.

That's like the biggest slap a person could do to any type of mythological adaptation.

Man, I was looking forward to this film, but if they're just going to try present this film as though the religious factors are non-existent and that all of the miraculous stuff are just plain coincidences/scientific stuff, t hen I'm not going to give my hard earned money for it.

Bale is part of the long and proud tradition of white guys playing Moses, an ancient Jewish man from the Middle East. Heston and Kilmer would be so proud. Not that I'm complaining, the first two were fantastic and I'm sure that Bale will be as well. It's just a funny notion.

We at least Kilmer was only voicing the character, thus the character's appearance in the animated film stayed more true to what Moses would have actually looked like during that period.

And judging by the information present for this film, it seems like this film will be the first Moses/Exodus film that treats God and the religious aspects as nothing more than a myth or belief.

 

[Loki882]

Do we know what Ridley's religious beliefs are, or if he even has any? Between this and Darren Aronofsky's Noah, some religious people might be really pissed off this year.

 

[Loki882]

I am by no means an expert in history, but isn't Bale's haircut a little too... modern?

Well, we don't really know what Moses looked like, and he's been portrayed as looking quite differently in different things (paintings, drawings, films, etc). So I'll give them some leeway this time and chalk it up to another interpretation.

 

[Herolee10]

Do we know what Ridley's religious beliefs are, or if he even has any? Between this and Darren Aronofsky's Noah, some religious people might be really pissed off this year.

I think he's also an Atheist as well, but from what I've heard of Darren's Noah film, he's at least staying a bit more true to the source material than Ridley is doing.

Though I guess a part of me shouldn't have been surprised that Ridley would do this considering on how he had portrayed "Robin" hood with Crowe.

Personally, I don't think a person has to be a believer of the material that they're showing on the big screen, but they should at least try pay some respect to the source material.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I think he's also an Atheist as well, but from what I've heard of Darren's Noah film, he's at least staying a bit more true to the source material than Ridley is doing.

Though I guess a part of me shouldn't have been surprised that Ridley would do this considering on how he had portrayed "Robin" hood with Crowe.

Personally, I don't think a person has to be a believer of the material that they're showing on the big screen, but they should at least try pay some respect to the source material.

Ridley definitely believes in a God. He talks about it very briefly on the Blade Runner's collectors edition.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Ridley hates organized religion.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Ridley hates organized religion.

You can still believe in a God and hate organized religion.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Kinda like me.

 

[Herolee10]

Well whether he's religious or not is one thing, but to potentially take on a classic biblical tale and potentially portray its events on a gritty and realistic matter while sacrificing the religious elements that has always had a major part in the story....it just feels like he's disrespecting the material and is just trying to make money off of these well known characters.

Granted, Charlton Heston's "Ten Commandments" wasn't exactly accurate to the actual biblical events, but it still stayed true the fundamental parts of the story, which is more than I can say for this film.

I mean to potentially make a film that presents a biblical story where they treat (within the confines of the given story) that God isn't real and that all of the miraculous stuff was just a man made or sci-fi thing is like the most ultimate form of disrespect to this story.

 

[titansupes]

I would have thought he was just going to leave it ambiguous, up for the audience to decide if Moses was actually charged by God. Half the characters in the film believe it, the other half think he's a liar/loon etc.

That kind of thing.

 

[Herolee10]

I would have thought he was just going to leave it ambiguous, up for the audience to decide if Moses was actually charged by God. Half the characters in the film believe it, the other half think he's a liar/loon etc.

That kind of thing.

Heck, that would be a lot better than having a Exodus film where it presents a story in which God is portrayed as a purely made up entity by the Hebrews.

 

[slumcat]

Anybody else thing Bale is horribly miscast as Moses? From the still I don't get a Moses feeling from him at all. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who a million people would follow out to form a new civilization.

We are trading really down going from Charlton Heston to Bale.

 

[dustbros]

^ Nope. And we didn't even see the film.

 

[slumcat]

^ I specifically and clearly said in my post that I was talking about the look. I think the look is very ordinary.

 

[dustbros]

^ Alright.

 

[dark_b]

whaaaaaaaaaat?

we will not get this?

what is even the point of a 200 million Moses movie? to see him scream and on a horse ride into battle? with a bow?

thats like making a porn movie without sex.

 

[dustbros]

^ Ridley said he's parting the red sea.

And looks like hebrews on sightseeing worlds largest aquarium rather than runaway from their masters in the last pic you took

 

[Schlosser85]

Anybody else thing Bale is horribly miscast as Moses? From the still I don't get a Moses feeling from him at all. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who a million people would follow out to form a new civilization.

We are trading really down going from Charlton Heston to Bale.

Christian Bale is a better actor than Charlton Heston any day of the week.

 

[slumcat]

Christian Bale is a better actor than Charlton Heston any day of the week.

I humbly disagree. Heston could absolute own these titanic larger than life characters, with his outstanding screen presence, movie-star acumen, outsized charisma and general talent. He was a good actor too. I find Bale just about average or below average.

 

[jacobed]

I'd say you can't have Moses without God. Noah eh you shouldn't but if you wanted to it would be at least feasible. But Moses, its just not possible. God is the third main character behind Moses and Ramses. I love the idea that half the characters do not believe God is helping Moses but to have him nonexsistent is just bad

 

[DarkKnight88]

I'd say you can't have Moses without God. Noah eh you shouldn't but if you wanted to it would be at least feasible. But Moses, its just not possible. God is the third main character behind Moses and Ramses. I love the idea that half the characters do not believe God is helping Moses but to have him nonexsistent is just bad

Agreed. Taking God out of the Moses story is dumb. Basically the equivalent of having Superman come from Earth and eliminating that he's an alien from Krypton/Jor-El. It doesn't work. Why don't they take God out of the story of Jesus while they're at it.

 

[terry78]

Haha, this is probably the last place ever I would expect people to gripe about God not being included in a work.

 

[Loki882]

Especially since we don't know for sure HOW this movie will play it.