{"id":6469,"date":"2013-03-27T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2013-04-06T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T23:01:42","slug":"flashback-over-one-hundred-years-of-moses-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/03\/flashback-over-one-hundred-years-of-moses-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Over one hundred years of Moses movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s Passover this week, so it seemed like an opportune time to dust off and re-post the various articles I have written on movies about Moses and the Exodus.<\/p>\n

The grand-daddy of them all would have to be \u2018Lights! Camera! Plagues!<\/a>,\u2019 which first appeared in the February 1999 issue of Bible Review<\/i> and, to my amazement, has since popped up on the required or recommended reading lists for various university<\/a> courses<\/a>. The article, which was written to coincide with the release of The Prince of Egypt<\/i> (1998), was originally quite a bit longer than what ended up in the magazine, so now, for the first time ever, I have posted an extended version of it here.<\/p>\n

In addition to that article, I also wrote a sidebar<\/a> for Bible Review<\/i> on recent efforts to find and retrieve the sets for the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments<\/i>, which Cecil B. DeMille buried in the California sand once he had finished shooting his movie, to prevent rival filmmakers from making cheap knock-offs of his film.<\/p>\n

Other articles re-posted to the archive include:<\/p>\n