To prepare for the role of Moses for the upcoming film, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” Christian Bale studied the biblical story, and came to realize that Moses was a very complicated figure.
“He was so much more human than I had ever imagined… had all sort of temptations and indulgences that he had grown up with,” Bale said in an interview with “Nightline.” “[He was] absolutely seen as a freedom fighter for the Hebrews, but a terrorist in terms of the Egyptian empire.”
“What would happen to Moses if he arrived today?” Bale pondered. “Drones would be sent out after him, right?”
Ridley Scott, who directed “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” depicted another ancient empire in upheaval in the 2000 movie, “Gladiator.” He teamed up with frequent collaborator Steve Zaillian, who wrote the script, for “Exodus: Gods and Kings.”
“What he is writing is a story of revolution,” Bale said. “And that’s a story that can resonate, no matter what time.”
Maybe Moses should have been droned for his horrible war crimes.
In a 1452 campaign against the Midianites, the Israelites under Moses, killed all the Midianite men, torched their cities, and took all the women and children captive. Biblical scholars estimate there were about 32,000 captives. Moses then ordered, “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him. But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” The Israelites then slaughtered the boys and older women while keeping gthe virgin girls for themselves.
Incidentally this atrocity was in violation of Deuteronomic law then just as it would be in violation of the Geneva Convention now. [references are to Numbers, Chapter 31.]
Moses knew to kill these idolatrous bastards before they could corrupt the Jews with their pagan beliefs. Moses knew segregation was the only way the Jews would survive as a group. This is the mistake America has made .1965 America was 90% white with vary little of the problems we have now .Giving blacks civil rights and allowing millions of Third world bottom feeders in this country is one of the reasons we have so many problems especially in the cities..Moses was right and if we would have done the same our nation would be so much better off. Some genocide is good and morally right. Whites will learn again why we had segregation to begin with.
Jackson one more thing ,FUCK THE GENEVA CONVENTION.I give not one rats ass what any world body says on any topic.
you’re right bb, geneva convention shouldn’t apply to you
hey pea brain , should not be allowed for anybody.
The commandment of God supersedes the mosaic law: Like Kora an Saul, they bring a curse on themselves The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. 10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. 11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, 12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
“Studied the biblical story” and that was some 3500 years ago! I get pissed when contemporary people try and apply their views and morality on people who lived 100 years ago and we have their own writings, photographs, even their very homes to examine. Prominent people soon become mythical and ordinary people almost unimaginable with the passage of time. Yes, they were living breathing human beings with the full range of emotions and intellect we possess but everyone of us is a creature of our time. Can any of us even conceive of a going to a Roman Coliseum to watch gladiators fight and people and animals being put to death for our entertainment? Living in a world where there were no anesthetics and disease was unknown but death arrived inexplicably? Even a world where candles or a whale oil lantern was the only way to illuminate the night? GMAFB! If the Egyptian economy depended on slave labor and your labor force skipped out on you what are you going to do? Tell the Egyptian scribes and priests to dirty their hands and hoe the fields?
Mr. Bale should be droned for not understanding ancient history.
The ONLY evidence for the Exodus story is in the Old Testament. No other Northern Africa / Mediterranean / or Mideast culture makes any reference to this event. The near total LACK of evidence is a strong indication it never happened
The book of Numbers says 603,000 Hebrew male sales left Egypt ….. if you expand that to families (women and children), anywhere from 2-7 million Hebrews left Egypt.
Huge Problem Number 1: ———- The 10th plague …. The Angel of Death killed ALL the firstborn of Egypt. Egyptian population was about 7 million at the time. WHERE is the evidence ….. the mass death, graves, and written evidence by the Egyptians. The Egyptians kept very very good records. For example, hieroglyphics talk about such mundane things as to how much grain was sold to whom. Surely, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people IN ONE DAY would have merited SOME kind of record, somewhere. But, all you have is crickets.
Huge Problem Number 2: ———- The Sinai is one of the driest places on earth which makes it ideal for preservation. If a minimum of two million people lived in the Sinai for40 years there MUST be evidence of it; dead bodies, latrines, pottery, dead animals, gold and silver (the Hebrews supposedly emptied the Egyptian treasury). Again … crickets.
Huge Pronlem Number 3: ——– The entire Egyptian army drowned in the Red Sea. Oh, really? And N OT ONE SINGLE WORD of this cataclysmic event in all the anals of Egyptian history. Really???
There are other problems with Exodus as well … such as many of the places mentioned Exodus simply never existed, or various cities that didn’t exist at the same time, or attributing events to the wrong Pharaoh at the wrong time …. it would be like saying George Washington wrote the Gettysburg Address … which have led archeologists to wonder whether the writer(s) of Exodus even ever set foot in Egypt!
Believers, of course, WILL believe, regardless of the evidence against their object of belief …. this is called “faith” … aka believing in things you know ain’t so. Therefore, fire away. But, don’t expect a rebuttal. I’ve said my piece.
for we walk by faith, not by sight–
Faith is the evidence of things unseen.
Perhaps somewhere in the endless cycle of creation and destruction there was an exodus. Maybe the Israelites escaped a small troop. Maybe the town was small and only a few firstborn died.
Stories have way of getting blown out of proportion in the re-telling. A guy said his co worker was given to dramatic incident reports; he wrote that he had an encounter with the Mexican army, when in reality he had confronted 3 guys in army uniform.
Stucky , go pound some more salt .
If I recall correctly, it seems as though Jethro, Moses’ father in law, was Midianite.
That was from his first wife.