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<\/a>The Facebook page for Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/a><\/i> released a new video of Ridley Scott discussing the movie and how he came to make it today, and along the way he mentions a plot element that I hadn\u2019t heard anyone mention before.<\/p>\nSpecifically, he says that the purpose of the plagues is to \u201cturn the population against Ramses, because it can only be the population [that] will make Ramses toe the line,\u201d and that a \u201crevolution\u201d starts when the people raid the granaries and are shot at by Ramses\u2019 archers.<\/p>\n
This is a fascinating wrinkle, and one that actually has a sort of biblical basis, given that passages like Exodus 11<\/a> make it pretty clear that Pharaoh\u2019s officials and the Egyptians as a whole were siding with Moses and the Hebrews rather than the Pharaoh by the time the plagues were done. The text says Pharaoh\u2019s officials even begged him<\/a> to let the Hebrews go. So did the common people exert their own kind of pressure, too, by rioting against the Pharaoh\u2019s troops? It\u2019s not impossible.<\/p>\n In any case, you can watch the video below:<\/p>\n