{"id":12265,"date":"2013-12-30T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2014-01-04T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T17:49:36","slug":"our-first-official-look-at-christian-bale-as-moses-in-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/12\/our-first-official-look-at-christian-bale-as-moses-in-exodus.html","title":{"rendered":"Our first official<\/i> look at Christian Bale as Moses in Exodus<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Two months ago<\/a>, we saw some pictures of Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramesses on the set of Ridley Scott\u2019s Exodus<\/a><\/i> \u2014 but those were basically paparazzi shots, unauthorized by the studio. Today, however, we have our first officially-sanctioned picture of Bale as Moses, courtesy of Empire<\/a><\/i> magazine \u2014 and, like the earlier pictures which showed Moses holding a bow and arrow, the new picture is slightly unusual in that it shows Moses sitting on a horse, which I can\u2019t recall seeing him do in any other film before. (He usually walks or, in his prince-of-Egypt days, drives a chariot.) You almost wonder if Scott is subconsciously turning this into another Robin Hood movie<\/a>. Anyhoo. Click on the picture above to see a bigger version of it.<\/p>\n

January 3 update:<\/b> A few days after the first \u201cofficial\u201d photo came out, the Italian website Bad Taste<\/a> followed it up with the picture below \u2014 and unless I\u2019ve missed something, this might be our first look at Scott directing Bale on-set:<\/p>\n

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A quick bit of snooping around the Bad Taste website reveals that they also posted the picture below back in October<\/a>, though I somehow hadn\u2019t seen it until now:<\/p>\n

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January 4 update:<\/b> A friend of mine noted on Facebook that the giant stone face in the background of the \u201cofficial\u201d photo is reminiscent of the monumental faces<\/a> that we saw in Scott\u2019s earlier film Prometheus<\/a><\/i> (2012). This led to some jokes about \u201cMoses parting the Black Goo,\u201d etc. It will be interesting to see what other visual obsessions Scott can work into this film (beheadings, brightly-lit wet sidewalks, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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