{"id":21455,"date":"2014-09-03T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T02:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2014-09-08T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T08:49:06","slug":"go-behind-the-scenes-of-exodus-gods-and-kings-in-a-new-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/go-behind-the-scenes-of-exodus-gods-and-kings-in-a-new-featurette.html","title":{"rendered":"Go behind the scenes of <i>Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i> in a new featurette"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-2-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-2-a-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"exodus-yahoo2-2-a\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21458\"><\/a>With less than three months to go before the film premieres overseas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/movies\/the-word-epic-gets-thrown-around-a-lot-these-96565646722.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo! Movies<\/a> has released the first behind-the-scenes clip for Ridley Scott\u2019s <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/exodus-2015\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/a><\/i>. It\u2019s called \u2018The World\u2019 and it focuses on director Ridley Scott and production designer Arthur Max, both of whom explain how they went about making what might be the biggest film of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the usual behind-the-scenes stuff \u2014 actors doing their thing in front of greenscreen backdrops, etc. \u2014 the clip includes two shots from the film that were not included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/07\/the-exodus-gods-and-kings-trailer-a-shot-by-shot-analysis-lots-and-lots-of-horses-and-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-simple-minds.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the trailer<\/a>. Interestingly, however, the <i>dialogue<\/i> in those shots was <i>heard<\/i> in the original trailer. Check it all out below the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, here is the behind-the-scenes clip itself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/video\/exodus-gods-kings-featurette-world-173805806.html?format=embed\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here are the two new shots, in which Moses approaches a sword-bearing Ramses \u2014 in an apparently otherwise empty room \u2014 and tells him, \u201cI came to tell you that something is coming that is out of my control\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-1.jpg\" alt=\"exodus-yahoo2-1\" width=\"590\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21460\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-2.jpg\" alt=\"exodus-yahoo2-2\" width=\"590\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21459\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, as best as I can make it, is a transcript of what Scott and Max say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Ridley Scott:<\/b> First of all, it\u2019s epic in scale. And second of all, the Moses story was a massive challenge, which I really love. I wanted to explore the complexity of his character, and I was stunned by the giant lifespan story, and what he went through. The idea they were brothers, and then rivals, and then later go to war with each other, was very interesting. The process of creating this film, it\u2019s really difficult.<\/p>\n<p><b>Arthur Max:<\/b> It\u2019s an immense production. Everything is as big as we can build, but at the same time, Ridley has bigger ideas in mind. <\/p>\n<p><b>Ridley Scott:<\/b> What attracted me to the material is I felt there was a  beauty to the massive scale. You\u2019re working with at least 700 crew, plus the 4,000 extras, and of course the army will be expanded exponentially. Four thousand will be tiled and grown into 20,000.<\/p>\n<p><b>Arthur Max:<\/b> It\u2019s quite elaborate. It\u2019s the biggest film I\u2019ve ever done. <\/p>\n<p><b>Ridley Scott:<\/b> Pretty amazing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to say, this featurette doesn\u2019t really give me a very good sense of what the movie will be like.<\/p>\n<p>We already know Ridley Scott is great at battle sequences, and that the film will begin with a battle sequence against the Hittites. (Just to be clear: I don\u2019t mind the inclusion of non-biblical battle sequences from Moses\u2019 days as an Egyptian prince. There\u2019s a precedent for this in the writings of Josephus, among other things.)<\/p>\n<p>But what about the <i>biblical<\/i> story? What sort of relationship will Moses have with his fellow Hebrews? What sort of relationship will he have with their God? What will his relationship with Jethro be like? That\u2019s the sort of thing that interests <i>me<\/i>, but there\u2019s almost nothing in this featurette that even begins to answer those questions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, no need to worry just yet. There <i>are<\/i> almost three months to go, after all.<\/p>\n<p><b>September 5 update:<\/b> There is a YouTube version of this featurette now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Exodus: Gods and Kings | \"The World\" Behind the Scenes [HD] | 20th Century FOX' width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CheFWltomg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/exodusmovie\/posts\/264183527126293\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook page<\/a> has also posted a GIF based on this featurette:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-greenscreen.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/exodus-greenscreen.gif\" alt=\"exodus - greenscreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21520\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out my shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer here:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/07\/the-exodus-gods-and-kings-trailer-a-shot-by-shot-analysis-lots-and-lots-of-horses-and-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-simple-minds.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The first trailer<\/a> (July 8, 2014)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first behind-the-scenes featurette has a couple new shots from the film, plus hints of other scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2431,743,342,872,27],"class_list":["post-21455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-arthur-max","tag-exodus-2015","tag-moses","tag-ramesses","tag-ridley-scott"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Go behind the scenes of Exodus: Gods and Kings in a new featurette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first behind-the-scenes featurette has a couple new shots from the film, plus hints of other scenes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/go-behind-the-scenes-of-exodus-gods-and-kings-in-a-new-featurette.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go behind the scenes of Exodus: Gods and Kings in a new featurette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first behind-the-scenes featurette has a couple new shots from the film, plus hints of other scenes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/go-behind-the-scenes-of-exodus-gods-and-kings-in-a-new-featurette.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-04T02:39:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-08T08:49:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2014\/09\/exodus-yahoo2-2-a-238x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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