Thursday, December 4, 2014

Who parted the Red Sea better? Ridley Scott's Exodus - or this Egypt fiction author?

I think I'll give it to Ridley

(Above, Moses facing the Red Sea, me on a visit to Wave Rock Australia)

I caught Ridley Scott's Exodus Gods and Kings in 3D at the first possible screening - a matinee at 12 noon yesterday.

Of course I can't resist this sort of thing.

Overall, well staged and dramatic - once I got past forgivable Hollywood lapses like putting princes on horseback. (Ancient Egyptian elite were averse to the indignity of sitting upon horses and kept their horses for drawing chariots.)

The character who sticks in my mind most, oddly, was Ben Mendehlson as a viceroy as twisted as a snake, a smaller role but a memorable one.