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''The Prince of Egypt'' is a [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1998]] animated film based on the [[TheBible biblical book of Exodus]], as well as the very first 2D animated film made by DreamworksAnimation. Until ''TheSimpsons Movie'' came out in 2007, it was the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film of all time.
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''The Prince of Egypt'' is a [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1998]] animated film based on the [[TheBible [[Literature/TheBible biblical book of Exodus]], as well as the very first 2D animated film made by DreamworksAnimation. Until ''TheSimpsons Movie'' came out in 2007, it was the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film of all time.
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* AGodAmI: Never said exactly, but Ramsees repeatedly refers to himself as "the morning and the evening star," pointing to the fact that as Pharaoh, he is supposed to be a god incarnate.
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* AGodAmI: Never said exactly, but Ramsees repeatedly refers to himself as "the morning and the evening star," pointing to the fact that as Pharaoh, he is supposed to be a god incarnate.
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* BigFun: Jethro.
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* BigFun: Jethro.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Rameses' first reaction to his little brother killing a man in front of multiple witnesses is to declare him innocent. When Moses returns after years of being gone, he is ready to give his brother a high position and wipe away the crime. That didn't turn out.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Rameses' first reaction to his little brother killing a man in front of multiple witnesses is to declare him innocent. When Moses returns after years of being gone, he is ready to give his brother a high position and wipe away the crime. That didn't turn out.
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* {{Bookends}}: The movie begins with Jocheved singing "Deliver Us", and ends with her singing the single line "Deliver Us" as Moses comes down from Mt Sinai.
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* {{Bookends}}: The movie begins with Jocheved singing "Deliver Us", and ends with her singing the single line "Deliver Us" as Moses comes down from Mt Sinai.
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* TheFaceless: Tzipporah's youngest sister. She only appears in a couple of scenes, but whenever shown her eyes are the only part of her face not concealed by her oversized [[NeverBareheaded headscarf]].
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* TheFaceless: Tzipporah's youngest sister. She only appears in a couple of scenes, but whenever shown her eyes are the only part of her face not concealed by her oversized [[NeverBareheaded headscarf]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Hotep and Huy's snake conjuration was done with such theatrics that it's hard to tell if they actually did magic or just managed some sleight of hand. Their attempt at turning water to blood seems a bit more fake, though.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Hotep and Huy's snake conjuration was done with such theatrics that it's hard to tell if they actually did magic or just managed some sleight of hand. Their attempt at turning water to blood seems a bit more fake, though.
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* ProdigalHero: Being an adaptation of [[TheBible the story of Moses]] the film tells this story, mixing both the accidental murder as well as disgust of the Egyptians' treatment towards the Jews.
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* ProdigalHero: Being an adaptation of [[TheBible [[Literature/TheBible the story of Moses]] the film tells this story, mixing both the accidental murder as well as disgust of the Egyptians' treatment towards the Jews.
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: When Moses' snake eats the pair that Hotep and Huy conjured.
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: When Moses' snake eats the pair that Hotep and Huy conjured.
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* TragicVillain: Rameses, unlike his counterparts from ''TheTenCommandments'' and ''TheBible''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
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* TragicVillain: Rameses, unlike his counterparts from ''TheTenCommandments'' and ''TheBible''.
''Literature/TheBible''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: The major driving force of the movie, which sets it apart from TheTenCommandments LoveTriangle
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: The major driving force of the movie, which sets it apart from TheTenCommandments LoveTriangle LoveTriangle
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Hotep and Huy vanish after a scene during the plagues when Rameses overturns a table. TheBible does say Pharaoh's magicians could not even show themselves for being covered in boils, so this could be a case of AllThereInTheManual.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Hotep and Huy vanish after a scene during the plagues when Rameses overturns a table. TheBible Literature/TheBible does say Pharaoh's magicians could not even show themselves for being covered in boils, so this could be a case of AllThereInTheManual.
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True event, but not the trope
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Some of the Egyptian guards are seen joining the Hebrews and assisting them on their journey.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Some of the Egyptian guards are seen joining the Hebrews and assisting them on their journey.
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It\'s not just \"likely,\" they DID do tat. There many histories of what we now call atrocities, since at the time they were something to be celebrated
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* RuleOfDrama: In RealLife, it's unlikely that a Pharaoh would actually record the slaughter of hundreds of Hebrew babies under his reign, and he ''definitely'' wouldn't put it on a wall mural that his subjects could see. But the painting provides an easy way for Moses to find out about his origins, and the animation sequence that it's used for works very well as a filmmaking device.
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I was referring to the fact that they didn\'t record major losses, or things that would cast a negative light on their rulers. Yes, they recorded their history with wall paintings, but the Pharaohs also kept close watch on which PARTS of their history were recorded, since they knew that recorded history shaped their legacy.
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I was referring to the fact that they didn\'t record major losses, or things that would cast a negative light on their rulers. Yes, they recorded their history with wall paintings, but the Pharaohs also kept close watch on which PARTS of their history were recorded, since they knew that recorded history shaped their legacy.
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* RuleOfDrama: In RealLife, it's unlikely that a Pharaoh would actually record the slaughter of hundreds of Hebrew babies under his reign, and he ''definitely'' wouldn't put it on a wall mural that his subjects could see. But the painting provides an easy way for Moses to find out about his origins, and the animation sequence that it's used for works very well as a filmmaking device.
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** Implicitly inverted as well--from the expression on Moses's face during this sequence, you can almost hear him mentally begging God not to allow this to happen.
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** Implicitly inverted as well--from the expression on Moses's face during this sequence, you can almost hear him mentally begging God not to allow this to happen.
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it is prideful, but I don\'t think that\'s what was meant
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* AntiVillain: (Type I --> Type II or III) Rameses, to the point where the creators had to rewrite some scenes between him and Moses because he came off as ''too'' sympathetic and Moses as cruel. He's forcing the Hebrews to work as slaves and refuses to let them go, just cracking down harder on them when Moses returns and demands their freedom. However, we're shown that he's been raised on the beliefs of his father, that a single weak king could cause the collapse of a long and prideful dynasty, and Rameses refuses to let that be him.
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* AntiVillain: (Type I --> Type II or III) Rameses, to the point where the creators had to rewrite some scenes between him and Moses because he came off as ''too'' sympathetic and Moses as cruel. He's forcing the Hebrews to work as slaves and refuses to let them go, just cracking down harder on them when Moses returns and demands their freedom. However, we're shown that he's been raised on the beliefs of his father, that a single weak king could cause the collapse of a long and prideful proud dynasty, and Rameses refuses to let that be him.
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Maybe it\'s me, but I don\'t see how that\'s foreshadowing, sine nothing in the first scene indicates that the second scene i going to happen. Maybe a Call Back?
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** There are also more subtle ones. In the beginning, when the basket is drifting towards the palace, a flock of birds fly away. Now, look at how the Plagues musical number begins...
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sethi in regards to ordering his army to slaughter the Hebrew firstborn.
--> '''Sethi:''' Sometimes for the greater good, sacrifices must be made...Oh my son. They were only slaves.
--> '''Sethi:''' Sometimes for the greater good, sacrifices must be made...Oh my son. They were only slaves.
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* OhCrap: Several.
** Rameses had one when Moses tells him that they are late for the banquet.
** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.
** Rameses had one when Moses tells him that they are late for the banquet.
** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.
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* OhCrap: Several.
**Several. Rameses had one when Moses tells him that they are late for the banquet.
** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.banquet.
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** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.
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Not the trope. Moses warning Ramses is Dont Make Me Destroy You, and Oh Crap is not just \"Is surprised,\" but is \"I now realize that I\'m screwed\"
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* IWarnedYou: Rameses can't say that Moses warned him about the consequences of not releasing the Hebrews. Can't say that Moses tried.
--> '''Moses:''' Something else is coming. Something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
* KillEmAll: "Don't just stand there! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!"
* MassOhCrap:
** The Egyptians ''and'' the Hebrew slaves after Moses kills the overseer.
** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
** The Egyptian soldiers, moments before the Red Sea engulfs them.
--> '''Moses:''' Something else is coming. Something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
* KillEmAll: "Don't just stand there! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!"
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** The Egyptians ''and'' the Hebrew slaves after Moses kills the overseer.
** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
** The Egyptian soldiers, moments before the Red Sea engulfs them.
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* IWarnedYou: Rameses can't say that Moses warned him about the consequences of not releasing the Hebrews. Can't say that Moses tried.
--> '''Moses:''' Something else is coming. Something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
* KillEmAll: "Don't just stand there! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!"
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**MassOhCrap: The Egyptians ''and'' the Hebrew slaves after Moses kills the overseer.
** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
** The Egyptian soldiers, momentsjust before the Red Sea ocean engulfs them.
--> '''Moses:''' Something else is coming. Something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
* KillEmAll: "Don't just stand there! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!"
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** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
** The Egyptian soldiers, moments
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* KillEmAll: "Don't just stand there! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!"
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** The Egyptians ''and'' the Hebrew slaves after Moses kills the overseer.
** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
** The Egyptian soldiers, moments before the Red Sea engulfs them.
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** The Egyptians ''and'' the Hebrew slaves after Moses kills the overseer.
** The Hebrews once Rameses and his army catches up with them at the Red Sea.
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* IWarnedYou: Rameses can't say that Moses warned him about the consequences of not releasing the Hebrews. Can't say that Moses tried.
--> '''Moses:''' Something else is coming. Something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
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* OhCrap: Several.
** Rameses had one when Moses tells him that they are late for the banquet.
** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.
** Rameses had one when Moses tells him that they are late for the banquet.
** Tzipporah has one when she thinks that Moses is going to sic the guards on her. Instead, he allows her to escape.
** Moses's first moment is when he finds out about his heritage. The second is when he meets up with Tzipporah again.
** The Egyptian guards Rameses sic on Moses when the Nile turns to blood. Cue guards freaking out.
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* AntagonistInMourning: Inverted. Moses breaks down in tears after the final plague. He is crying not only for the loss of his nephew, but the loss of his relationship with Rameses.
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* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Hebrew:]] Moses's mother provides the vocals in the opening. Brilliantly done by Ofra Haza.
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Trivia, and not the Gratuitous trope, which is when characters mix foreign words or sayings into their speech, not when they actually talk in a foreign tongue
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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[TopGun Iceman]] is Moses. He also plays God. [[HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]] is his brother, Rameses II. [[XMen Professor Xavier]] is Pharaoh Seti and [[TheQueen Queen Elizabeth]] is the queen. [[TheBlindSide Leigh Anne Tuhoy]] and [[IndependenceDay David Levinson]] are Miriam and Aaron respectively. [[BatmanReturns Catwoman]] is Tzipporah. [[LethalWeapon Roger Murtaugh]] is her dad. Moses' birth mother was played by the late Israeli singer and actress Ofra Haza.
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HeyItsThatVoice: [[TopGun Iceman]] is Moses. He also plays God. [[HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]] is his brother, Rameses II. [[XMen Professor Xavier]] is Pharaoh Seti and [[TheQueen Queen Elizabeth]] is the queen. [[TheBlindSide Leigh Anne Tuhoy]] and [[IndependenceDay David Levinson]] are Miriam and Aaron respectively. [[BatmanReturns Catwoman]] is Tzipporah. [[LethalWeapon Roger Murtaugh]] is her dad. Moses' birth mother was played by the late Israeli singer and actress Ofra Haza.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[TopGun Iceman]] is Moses. He also plays God. [[HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]] is his brother, Rameses II. [[XMen Professor Xavier]] is Pharaoh Seti and [[TheQueen Queen Elizabeth]] is the queen. [[TheBlindSide Leigh Anne Tuhoy]] and [[IndependenceDay David Levinson]] are Miriam and Aaron respectively. [[BatmanReturns Catwoman]] is Tzipporah. [[LethalWeapon Roger Murtaugh]] is her dad. Moses' birth mother was played by the late Israeli singer and actress Ofra Haza.
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* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Hebrew:]] Moses's mother provides the vocals in the opening. Brilliantly done by Ofra Haza.
HeyItsThatVoice: [[TopGun Iceman]] is Moses. He also plays God. [[HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]] is his brother, Rameses II. [[XMen Professor Xavier]] is Pharaoh Seti and [[TheQueen Queen Elizabeth]] is the queen. [[TheBlindSide Leigh Anne Tuhoy]] and [[IndependenceDay David Levinson]] are Miriam and Aaron respectively. [[BatmanReturns Catwoman]] is Tzipporah. [[LethalWeapon Roger Murtaugh]] is her dad. Moses' birth mother was played by the late Israeli singer and actress Ofra Haza.
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* [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod Nice Job Breaking It, Pharoah:]] Sethi I ordering the murder of all Hebrew newborns in an attempt to thwart the prophecy of the deliverer.
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* [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod Nice Job Breaking It, Pharoah:]] Pharaoh:]] Sethi I ordering the murder of all Hebrew newborns in an attempt to thwart the prophecy of the deliverer.
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None of the firstborns were missed
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* [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod Nice Job Breaking It, Pharoah:]] Sethi I ordering the murder of all Hebrew newborns in an attempt to thwart the prophecy of the deliverer.The slaughter of the male firstborn.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The Pharoah to Moses: "They were only slaves."
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: When Moses' snake eats the pair that Hotep and Huy conjured.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: '''''{{God}}'''''. A point made at several times in the Old Testament, and referenced when Moses is speaking to the Burning Bush, is that God is so far above humanity that we can not comprehend his actions. When Moses questions why he is being selected, God explicitly states that he has done so much more than Moses will ever even be able to conceive. One also sees some elements of an OmniscientMoralityLicense in the plagues, particularly the Plague on the Firstborn.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: '''''{{God}}'''''. A point made at several times in the Old Testament, and referenced when Moses is speaking to the Burning Bush, is that God is so far above humanity that we can not comprehend his His actions. When Moses questions why he is being selected, God explicitly states that he He has done so much more than Moses will ever even be able to conceive. One also sees some elements of an OmniscientMoralityLicense in the plagues, particularly the Plague on the Firstborn.
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* OneSceneWonder: Jephro, who manages to get a truly ''amazing'' song out of it.
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* OneSceneWonder: Jephro, Jethro, who manages to get a truly ''amazing'' song out of it.
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Yes, that\'s true. That doesn\'t explain where they are for the rest of the movie, though. if it does explain it, then this whole note should be deleted
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** During "The Plagues" song, you can actually hear Rameses yell at the two to get out.
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* AllStarCast: Including Val Kilmer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Ralph Fiennes and ''Patrick Stewart''.
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->''"The story of two men. One born to rule, the other destined to lead."''
''The Prince of Egypt'' is a [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1998]] animated film based on the [[TheBible biblical book of Exodus]], as well as the very first 2D animated film made by DreamworksAnimation. Until ''TheSimpsons Movie'' came out in 2007, it was the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film of all time.
The film covers part of the life of Moses, from his being found and adopted by Pharaoh's family to his young adulthood, where he discovers his Hebrew heritage, to his adult life, when God tells Moses to confront the current Pharaoh and persuade him to free the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
''The Prince of Egypt'' admits up front in a disclaimer that it takes liberties with the original story. In this version, Moses and Rameses are raised as [[CainAndAbel brothers]] instead of (as is more likely) a nephew and his uncle respectively. In Exodus, Moses is accompanied by his brother Aaron to assist the tongue-tied Moses while speaking to Pharaoh, yet in the movie, Aaron is a more skeptical background character who is voiced by the tongue-tied actor JeffGoldblum. The film also contains several elements not mentioned or specified in the Bible, such as Rameses being the Pharaoh (whereas some scholars contend it may have been Thutmose III), the comic relief characters Huy and Hotep (possibly loosely based on the two magicians "Jannes and Jambres" referenced from old Jewish folklore in the New Testament) portrayed by Martin Short and Steve Martin, a few show-stopping musical numbers from StephenSchwartz, and a very well written background score by Hanz Zimmer. It won considerable acclaim in its time, however, and even got an Oscar for one of those songs.
Compare ''TheTenCommandments''.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: God is a burning bush, he also speaks to Moses with his own voice.
* AGodAmI: Never said exactly, but Ramsees repeatedly refers to himself as "the morning and the evening star," pointing to the fact that as Pharaoh, he is supposed to be a god incarnate.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: For Moses
* AdaptationDistillation: Of the first half of Exodus.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the Book of Exodus, everything from Moses's birth to his exile and marriage is covered in a single chapter, which, in a printed book, would take up less than two pages. These two pages are expanded into the entire first half of the movie.
* AdultFear: The murder of the newborns in the prologue, which is the entire reason why Jocheved sends baby Moses away in the river. [[spoiler:And then, the final Plague]].
* AllAnimationIsDisney: A frequent victim of this trope, more so than DreamWorks' other 2-D animated features.
* AllStarCast: Including Val Kilmer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Ralph Fiennes and ''Patrick Stewart''.
* AncientEgypt
* AnimatedMusical
* AnimationBump: Any scene which uses CGI for the backgrounds. The highest point would be the parting of the red sea.
* AntiVillain: (Type I --> Type II or III) Rameses, to the point where the creators had to rewrite some scenes between him and Moses because he came off as ''too'' sympathetic and Moses as cruel. He's forcing the Hebrews to work as slaves and refuses to let them go, just cracking down harder on them when Moses returns and demands their freedom. However, we're shown that he's been raised on the beliefs of his father, that a single weak king could cause the collapse of a long and prideful dynasty, and Rameses refuses to let that be him.
* ArtisticLicense: The disclaimer at the opening of the film is open and straightforward about this. Some changes are made from the original Exodus story for the sake of drama--for example, Moses probably always knew that he was a Hebrew in the original story, whereas in this film he doesn't figure it out until around his adult life.
* ArtShift: The wall-painting dream sequence.
* AwardBaitSong: "When You Believe", which won the Best Song Oscar. Also qualifies as a BreakoutPopHit, as there are many fans of the song who only know it as "that Whitney/Mariah song". Especially combined with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfL6TxY2aMo "multi-lingual version"]] Interestingly, the version within the film has aged much better, as it lacks the "here's the obligatory Disney-style pop ballad" qualities of the end-credits version.
* BadassBeard: Jethro wins the prize for the movie's biggest, most awesome beard. Whether or not Jethro himself is badass is debatable, but his beard certainly is.
* BannedInChina: The film was banned in the Maldives, Egypt, and Malaysia because of Islamic custom of never portraying the image of the prophets. In Egypt, it was also because of the villainous portrayal of Pharaoh Rameses, a well-respected historical leader whom the Egyptians hold to be separate from the Pharaoh of Exodus.
* BarefootPoverty: Several characters.
* [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Bathe Her And Bring Her To My Brother]]
* BigFun: Jethro.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Moses successfully leads the Hebrews out of their lives as slaves, but his brotherly relationship with Rameses is destroyed forever.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: '''''{{God}}'''''. A point made at several times in the Old Testament, and referenced when Moses is speaking to the Burning Bush, is that God is so far above humanity that we can not comprehend his actions. When Moses questions why he is being selected, God explicitly states that he has done so much more than Moses will ever even be able to conceive. One also sees some elements of an OmniscientMoralityLicense in the plagues, particularly the Plague on the Firstborn.
* BibleTimes
* BigBrotherInstinct: Rameses' first reaction to his little brother killing a man in front of multiple witnesses is to declare him innocent. When Moses returns after years of being gone, he is ready to give his brother a high position and wipe away the crime. That didn't turn out.
** Also Aaron for Miriam.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Rameses, when God makes the Red Sea sweep him backwards.]]
* BigWordShout: Rameses, when we see him after the Red Sea returns to normal, alone and defeated:
-->''[[SayMyName "MOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!"]]''
* BilingualBonus: Many of the songs contain individual lines or entire choruses in Hebrew, sung along with the predominantly English lyrics. No translations are offered [[hottip:*:except in the booklet for the soundtrack CD]], but the tone and context of the songs at least hint at their meanings.
* {{Bookends}}: The movie begins with Jocheved singing "Deliver Us", and ends with her singing the single line "Deliver Us" as Moses comes down from Mt Sinai.
* BreakTheHaughty: What God does to Rameses for repeatedly refusing to let the Hebrews go. The final straw was [[spoiler: the death of Rameses's son.]]
* BrickJoke: When Tzipporah is offered to Rameses by the priests she tries to bite his hand and Moses teases him: "Not much of a snake charmer, are you?" When Moses shows up at the palace for the first time and tells Rameses to "let his people go" and then transforms his staff into a snake, Rameses smirks and says "Hotep, Huy, show this snake charmer our answer". Moses had brought Tzipporah to the palace as his wife.
* BringIt: "Playing With The Big Boys Now" is basically the priests giving one of these to Moses, and God by extension. [[spoiler:He brings it.]]
* CainAndAbel: Moses and Rameses are almost a deconstruction of this trope.
* CallAndResponseSong: The Plagues.
* CatapultNightmare: After the wall-painting sequence.
* ChangelingFantasy: Inverted -- Moses does not take the news of his real heritage too well...
* CherubicChoir: When the Israelites are finally leaving Egypt, a song of praise to God is being sung by children in the background. In Hebrew, no less.
** The song in question, Mi Chamocha, was supposedly composed ''by Miriam during the Exodus itself''.
* CounterpointDuet: The much-mentioned "The Plagues" song includes one of these, culminating in Moses and Rameses simultaneously singing "Let my people go" and "(I will never) let your people go". Just one of many reasons this song is in the CrowningMusicOfAwesome section.
* ConspicuousCG: Moses's basket and the plague of frogs, among other things, have much more [[IncrediblyLamePun dimension]] than the rest of the animation. According to the commentary, [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste this was intentional.]]
* DarkReprise: During the "Plagues" sequence, we get a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oX-Kcx2BAc more bitter, anger-filled version]] of "All I Ever Wanted" from both Moses and Rameses.
-->'''Moses:''' This was my home.\\
''and later''\\
'''Rameses:''' Is this what you wanted?!
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Moses confronting Rameses after the latter's son has been killed in the final plague of Egypt.
* DemotedToExtra: Aaron, Moses's compatriot and aide in the Exodus, becomes less relevant to the story and does not personally support Moses until after the plagues have been unleashed; conversely, Tzipporah becomes an AscendedExtra. She instead of Aaron is with Moses in the staffs-to-snakes scene.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Used at the end of "All I Ever Wanted", when there is an ArtShift to a hieroglyphics style in Moses's dream. Justified in "Playing With the Big Boys Now", because the effects are being created within the film by the two characters performing the song.
* DoingItForTheArt: The film was a truly sincere effort by DreamworksAnimation to try and make a great movie, hence why there was little merchandise made for the film. They even consulted many religious groups to give the A-OK to the story material.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Rameses [[spoiler:telling Moses to leave him after his son's death as a result of the final plague]]
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: In the scene immediately preceding the plague of the firstborn, Moses practically begs Rameses not to let things continue, all the while staring at Rameses' son. [[spoiler:Rameses refuses, of course, which makes Moses extremely upset.]]
* DreamingTheTruth: Moses realizes where he came from in a dream depicted in various Egyptian art images.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: If the chariot race sequence is to be believed, crazy teenage drivers have been a problem [[OlderThanTheyThink a lot longer than we currently believe]].
* EpicMovie: From the point of conception, Jeffrey Katzenberg intended this to be his Big Damn Epic Movie and marketed it as such. It was his first film since ''TheLionKing'', after all, and he wanted to show [[DisneyAnimatedCanon his former studio]] what he was capable of.
* ExactWords: "There will be a great cry in the land of Egypt".
* FaceHeelTurn: Take a wild guess.
* TheFaceless: Tzipporah's youngest sister. She only appears in a couple of scenes, but whenever shown her eyes are the only part of her face not concealed by her oversized [[NeverBareheaded headscarf]].
* FacialProfiling: The Hebrews are depicted with curly mops of unruly dark hair and many of them have larger noses. They also have lighter skin compared to the darker Egyptians. The Egyptians themselves have round, smooth faces with high cheekbones, narrow eyes and smooth black hair. This was intentional, as explained in the promotional materials. The Egyptians in general are composed of angular, symmetric, geometric lines in contrast to the Hebrews' rounded, more natural and varied forms. [[http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/33_semiticimages.html Authentic Egyptian art depicts Semites as bearded and lighter skinned in contrast to the clean-shaven, darker Egyptians.]]
* FlippingTheTable: Rameses does this to the priests' table right before he jumps into his half of the emotionally-charged "Plagues" duet.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Moses finds the burning bush when searching for a lost sheep.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a few moments in the beginning, especially the 'weak link' part (which gets a CallBack later on) and the conversation between Moses and Rameses that follows. In that conversation, Moses jokingly says Rameses will bring down the entire empire by himself. He wasn't far off...
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Ramses is the responsible older brother, while Moses is the freewheeling younger brother.
* FreudianExcuse: This version of Rameses' reasoning of his obstinacy against freeing the Hebrews.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Ladies, please, you've cleaned every inch of me -- WHOA! I was wrong."
* GilliganCut: After the Chariot Race:
-->'''Rameses:''' You don't think we'll get in trouble for this, do you?\\
'''Moses:''' [[TemptingFate No, not a chance]].\\
[''Cue Moses and Rameses being scolded for the chaos the race caused.'']\\
'''Seti''': ''Why'' do the gods torment me with such reckless, destructive, ''blasphemous'' sons!?
* {{God}}: His voice, anyway.
* GoodIsNotNice: God is working to free His enslaved people as promised, but the film doesn't gloss over how thorough His vengeance on Egypt was, especially in the eye-for-eye smiting of the Firstborn even down to the young children.
* HappilyAdopted: Moses was this until certain events...
* HappilyEverBefore: The film stops immediately after the Red Sea Crossing, with a brief subsequent image of Moses bringing down the Ten Commandments. The scene after that? [[spoiler:Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, probably for the second time, considering what the Bible says happened the first time...]]
* HeroicBSOD: Moses has several: the first occurs when he discovers he's an adopted Hebrew, and the second comes after the 10th Plague, as does Rameses' VillainousBreakdown.
* InfantImmortality: Painfully, cruelly averted. Twice.
* IWantSong: Inverted with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRl8OQZYw4 "All I Ever Wanted"]]. Rather than singing about wanting more out of life, the song is about Moses trying to convince himself that he already ''has'' everything he could ever want and has no reason to be dissatisfied.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Hotep and Huy's snake conjuration was done with such theatrics that it's hard to tell if they actually did magic or just managed some sleight of hand. Their attempt at turning water to blood seems a bit more fake, though.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Look at your family/people. They are free."
* MonumentalDamage: So ''that'' is [[HistoricalInJoke what happened to the Sphinx's nose...]]
* MoodWhiplash: 'When You Believe' is an inspiring song about how the strength of faith can bring about miracles. Played right after the plagues, [[TropesAreNotBad a glimmer of hope against the destruction]].
* NeverTrustATrailer: The original trailer made this look like a more action-packed, definitely more kid-friendly film.
* NonSingingVoice: Averted with Ralph Fiennes (Rameses), Steve Martin and Martin Short (Hotep and Huy), and Michelle Pfeiffer (Tzipporah), all of whom did their own singing. Oddly enough Val Kilmer did ''not'' do his own singing, even though he has a really good voice and has sung in other movies he has made.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Egyptian Chanting]]: Used to a degree in "Playing With the Big Boys", in which the names of several Egyptian gods are chanted at the beginning and later in the background.
* OneSceneWonder: Jephro, who manages to get a truly ''amazing'' song out of it.
* OneWomanWail: A truly beautiful example provided by the [[AuthorExistenceFailure late]] Israeli singer Ofra Haza.
* PapaWolf: An important take-away lesson: do ''not'' anger {{God}} by oppressing His people and murdering their babies. You really won't like the [[PayEvilUntoEvil blowback]].
* PetTheDog: Subverted. Seti clearly cares about his sons. When he finds Moses reeling at the fate of the Hebrew children, Seti hugs him, speaks in the soothing tones of PatrickStewart...''and tells Moses it was justified because they were just slave children.'' The worst part of this is that ''Seti thought this would make Moses feel better''.
* PlayingAgainstType: It is a bit unnerving to hear Patrick Stewart (as Pharaoh Seti) justifying ''murdering thousands of innocent Hebrew babies'' in that soothing TeamDad voice.
--> '''Seti:''' Oh, my son, they were only ''slaves''...
* ProdigalHero: Being an adaptation of [[TheBible the story of Moses]] the film tells this story, mixing both the accidental murder as well as disgust of the Egyptians' treatment towards the Jews.
* TheQueensLatin: Most of the Egyptian characters (save for Hotep and Huy) speak with British accents, while the Hebrews speak with American accents.
* RedOniBlueOni: Moses and Rameses, respectively. As young men, Moses is rambunctious and flippant while Rameses is more introspective and prone to angsting. When they grow up, they retain their oni roles, but in a different way. Moses is passionate and warm while Rameses is cold and ruthless. Even their clothing reflects this. Rameses wears blue and white while Moses wears red and earth tones.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The climax, where Rameses, despite freeing the Hebrews earlier, [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]] and decides to lead his men in a chase to slaughter the Hebrews before they escape. Thanks to God's interventation, [[CurbStompBattle they fail miserably.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: In the opening sequence the Hebrew slaves look upon with awe at the statue of Ra that they just put up, which symbolized [[TheEmpire the power of the Egyptians over them]]. Toward the end of the plagues sequence, the statue crumbles. Some scholars believe that the plagues were meant to rebuke the various Egyptian religions and their gods (Ra, god of the Sun falls on the onset of the plague of darkness).
* SarcasmMode: "Moses! Let me guess. You want me to...''let your people go."''
* SceneryPorn: The opening sequence showing the Hebrews raising Egyptian monuments, the Plagues, and the crossing of the Red Sea.
* SceneryGorn: After the plagues are done with Egypt.
* TheScourgeOfGod: ''The Plagues'', currently the trope page's quote.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Rameses promises to absolve Moses from the crime of murder because he is "the morning and the evening star" and can change the laws however he deems fit.
* SexySilhouette: Subverted. After Moses has Tziporrah sent to his chambers by Rameses, he sees a shadowy figure sitting on his bed behind a curtain, looking as if it is her sitting there with her arms crossed defiantly. He laughs awkwardly before pulling the curtain back to reveal that it is the servant who had escorted her there all tied up. He then realizes that his dogs are tied up as well and there is a BedsheetLadder going out his window.
* ShooOutTheClowns: In one scene, Rameses overturns a table, and Hotep and Huy vanish for the rest of the movie. Things turn ''very'' dark shortly afterward. If you listen very carefully, you can even hear Rameses shouting "Get out!" just under the music.
* ShownTheirWork: Many examples, but one that stands out is the silhouette of a whale shark seen behind the watery walls of the Red Sea passage.
* SilenceYouFool
* TheStinger: The credits end with quotes from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Koran stating how important Moses was as a prophet.
* TheSwarm Some of the 10 plagues were this.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: Averted behind the scenes - they just decided to screw casting a machine as God and just got Val Kilmer to voice him (as well as Moses - hey, it worked for [[TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston]]...), which of course led to....
* TalkingToHimself: ... this.
* TearfulSmile: Moses has one right after meeting with the Lord for the first time.
* TemptingFate:
** "Playing With The Big Boys Now" can be seen as a challenge to God. As the next song ("The Plagues") shows, this was not wise.
** When Rameses says that "there will be a great cry in the land of Egypt" (see ExactWords above).
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hotep and Huy
* ThreatBackfire: Angered with Moses' insistence on letting his people go, Rameses says that the Hebrews need to be punished even harder and "there will be a great cry in the land of Egypt". His words turn out to be prophetic - however, it's not the Hebrews who will let out this great cry...
* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: Shown with an ewe's lambing.
* TomatoInTheMirror: When Moses slowly realizes that he is a Hebrew, during the sequence preceding "All I Ever Wanted".
* ToppledStatue: The same statue shown being raised in the opening [[spoiler:is destroying during the Plagues]].
* TragicVillain: Rameses, unlike his counterparts from ''TheTenCommandments'' and ''TheBible''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
* VillainousBreakdown: In a very tragic example, Rameses ''snaps'' after the death of his son, riding after Moses and the Hebrews and, when they try to escape him through the Red Sea, he shouts to his men "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!" The last of him seen in the film is him screaming in rage and agony, cursing Moses.
* VillainSong: Rameses' DarkReprise of "All I Ever Wanted" might count, and while they are more inept evil sidekicks than true villains, Hotep and Huy's "Playing With The Big Boys Now" counts.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Hotep and Huy make an offer something like to Moses during their VillainSong.
--> ''"Just to show we feel no spite/you can be our acolyte!"''
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The major driving force of the movie, which sets it apart from TheTenCommandments LoveTriangle
* WellDoneSonGuy: Even after the death of his father, Rameses is still struggling with the man's immense shadow and wants to be the kind of Pharaoh his father was. This leads to tragedy for the Egyptians. TruthInTelevision for this one, at least for the first half of that statement. Rameses II is by all accounts one Egypt's greatest Pharaoh, and many speculate that his ''insane'' achievements were motivated by a desire to live up to his distant father's legacy.
---> '''Moses''': ''All he cares about is your approval. I know he will live up to your expectations. He only needs the opportunity.''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Aside from the "man-woman-child" voice of God described above, a scene with a talking camel was scrapped.
** Also Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run totally counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Hotep and Huy vanish after a scene during the plagues when Rameses overturns a table. TheBible does say Pharaoh's magicians could not even show themselves for being covered in boils, so this could be a case of AllThereInTheManual.
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->''"The story of two men. One born to rule, the other destined to lead."''
''The Prince of Egypt'' is a [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1998]] animated film based on the [[TheBible biblical book of Exodus]], as well as the very first 2D animated film made by DreamworksAnimation. Until ''TheSimpsons Movie'' came out in 2007, it was the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film of all time.
The film covers part of the life of Moses, from his being found and adopted by Pharaoh's family to his young adulthood, where he discovers his Hebrew heritage, to his adult life, when God tells Moses to confront the current Pharaoh and persuade him to free the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
''The Prince of Egypt'' admits up front in a disclaimer that it takes liberties with the original story. In this version, Moses and Rameses are raised as [[CainAndAbel brothers]] instead of (as is more likely) a nephew and his uncle respectively. In Exodus, Moses is accompanied by his brother Aaron to assist the tongue-tied Moses while speaking to Pharaoh, yet in the movie, Aaron is a more skeptical background character who is voiced by the tongue-tied actor JeffGoldblum. The film also contains several elements not mentioned or specified in the Bible, such as Rameses being the Pharaoh (whereas some scholars contend it may have been Thutmose III), the comic relief characters Huy and Hotep (possibly loosely based on the two magicians "Jannes and Jambres" referenced from old Jewish folklore in the New Testament) portrayed by Martin Short and Steve Martin, a few show-stopping musical numbers from StephenSchwartz, and a very well written background score by Hanz Zimmer. It won considerable acclaim in its time, however, and even got an Oscar for one of those songs.
Compare ''TheTenCommandments''.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: God is a burning bush, he also speaks to Moses with his own voice.
* AGodAmI: Never said exactly, but Ramsees repeatedly refers to himself as "the morning and the evening star," pointing to the fact that as Pharaoh, he is supposed to be a god incarnate.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: For Moses
* AdaptationDistillation: Of the first half of Exodus.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the Book of Exodus, everything from Moses's birth to his exile and marriage is covered in a single chapter, which, in a printed book, would take up less than two pages. These two pages are expanded into the entire first half of the movie.
* AdultFear: The murder of the newborns in the prologue, which is the entire reason why Jocheved sends baby Moses away in the river. [[spoiler:And then, the final Plague]].
* AllAnimationIsDisney: A frequent victim of this trope, more so than DreamWorks' other 2-D animated features.
* AllStarCast: Including Val Kilmer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Ralph Fiennes and ''Patrick Stewart''.
* AncientEgypt
* AnimatedMusical
* AnimationBump: Any scene which uses CGI for the backgrounds. The highest point would be the parting of the red sea.
* AntiVillain: (Type I --> Type II or III) Rameses, to the point where the creators had to rewrite some scenes between him and Moses because he came off as ''too'' sympathetic and Moses as cruel. He's forcing the Hebrews to work as slaves and refuses to let them go, just cracking down harder on them when Moses returns and demands their freedom. However, we're shown that he's been raised on the beliefs of his father, that a single weak king could cause the collapse of a long and prideful dynasty, and Rameses refuses to let that be him.
* ArtisticLicense: The disclaimer at the opening of the film is open and straightforward about this. Some changes are made from the original Exodus story for the sake of drama--for example, Moses probably always knew that he was a Hebrew in the original story, whereas in this film he doesn't figure it out until around his adult life.
* ArtShift: The wall-painting dream sequence.
* AwardBaitSong: "When You Believe", which won the Best Song Oscar. Also qualifies as a BreakoutPopHit, as there are many fans of the song who only know it as "that Whitney/Mariah song". Especially combined with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfL6TxY2aMo "multi-lingual version"]] Interestingly, the version within the film has aged much better, as it lacks the "here's the obligatory Disney-style pop ballad" qualities of the end-credits version.
* BadassBeard: Jethro wins the prize for the movie's biggest, most awesome beard. Whether or not Jethro himself is badass is debatable, but his beard certainly is.
* BannedInChina: The film was banned in the Maldives, Egypt, and Malaysia because of Islamic custom of never portraying the image of the prophets. In Egypt, it was also because of the villainous portrayal of Pharaoh Rameses, a well-respected historical leader whom the Egyptians hold to be separate from the Pharaoh of Exodus.
* BarefootPoverty: Several characters.
* [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe Bathe Her And Bring Her To My Brother]]
* BigFun: Jethro.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Moses successfully leads the Hebrews out of their lives as slaves, but his brotherly relationship with Rameses is destroyed forever.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: '''''{{God}}'''''. A point made at several times in the Old Testament, and referenced when Moses is speaking to the Burning Bush, is that God is so far above humanity that we can not comprehend his actions. When Moses questions why he is being selected, God explicitly states that he has done so much more than Moses will ever even be able to conceive. One also sees some elements of an OmniscientMoralityLicense in the plagues, particularly the Plague on the Firstborn.
* BibleTimes
* BigBrotherInstinct: Rameses' first reaction to his little brother killing a man in front of multiple witnesses is to declare him innocent. When Moses returns after years of being gone, he is ready to give his brother a high position and wipe away the crime. That didn't turn out.
** Also Aaron for Miriam.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Rameses, when God makes the Red Sea sweep him backwards.]]
* BigWordShout: Rameses, when we see him after the Red Sea returns to normal, alone and defeated:
-->''[[SayMyName "MOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!"]]''
* BilingualBonus: Many of the songs contain individual lines or entire choruses in Hebrew, sung along with the predominantly English lyrics. No translations are offered [[hottip:*:except in the booklet for the soundtrack CD]], but the tone and context of the songs at least hint at their meanings.
* {{Bookends}}: The movie begins with Jocheved singing "Deliver Us", and ends with her singing the single line "Deliver Us" as Moses comes down from Mt Sinai.
* BreakTheHaughty: What God does to Rameses for repeatedly refusing to let the Hebrews go. The final straw was [[spoiler: the death of Rameses's son.]]
* BrickJoke: When Tzipporah is offered to Rameses by the priests she tries to bite his hand and Moses teases him: "Not much of a snake charmer, are you?" When Moses shows up at the palace for the first time and tells Rameses to "let his people go" and then transforms his staff into a snake, Rameses smirks and says "Hotep, Huy, show this snake charmer our answer". Moses had brought Tzipporah to the palace as his wife.
* BringIt: "Playing With The Big Boys Now" is basically the priests giving one of these to Moses, and God by extension. [[spoiler:He brings it.]]
* CainAndAbel: Moses and Rameses are almost a deconstruction of this trope.
* CallAndResponseSong: The Plagues.
* CatapultNightmare: After the wall-painting sequence.
* ChangelingFantasy: Inverted -- Moses does not take the news of his real heritage too well...
* CherubicChoir: When the Israelites are finally leaving Egypt, a song of praise to God is being sung by children in the background. In Hebrew, no less.
** The song in question, Mi Chamocha, was supposedly composed ''by Miriam during the Exodus itself''.
* CounterpointDuet: The much-mentioned "The Plagues" song includes one of these, culminating in Moses and Rameses simultaneously singing "Let my people go" and "(I will never) let your people go". Just one of many reasons this song is in the CrowningMusicOfAwesome section.
* ConspicuousCG: Moses's basket and the plague of frogs, among other things, have much more [[IncrediblyLamePun dimension]] than the rest of the animation. According to the commentary, [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste this was intentional.]]
* DarkReprise: During the "Plagues" sequence, we get a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oX-Kcx2BAc more bitter, anger-filled version]] of "All I Ever Wanted" from both Moses and Rameses.
-->'''Moses:''' This was my home.\\
''and later''\\
'''Rameses:''' Is this what you wanted?!
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Moses confronting Rameses after the latter's son has been killed in the final plague of Egypt.
* DemotedToExtra: Aaron, Moses's compatriot and aide in the Exodus, becomes less relevant to the story and does not personally support Moses until after the plagues have been unleashed; conversely, Tzipporah becomes an AscendedExtra. She instead of Aaron is with Moses in the staffs-to-snakes scene.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Used at the end of "All I Ever Wanted", when there is an ArtShift to a hieroglyphics style in Moses's dream. Justified in "Playing With the Big Boys Now", because the effects are being created within the film by the two characters performing the song.
* DoingItForTheArt: The film was a truly sincere effort by DreamworksAnimation to try and make a great movie, hence why there was little merchandise made for the film. They even consulted many religious groups to give the A-OK to the story material.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Rameses [[spoiler:telling Moses to leave him after his son's death as a result of the final plague]]
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: In the scene immediately preceding the plague of the firstborn, Moses practically begs Rameses not to let things continue, all the while staring at Rameses' son. [[spoiler:Rameses refuses, of course, which makes Moses extremely upset.]]
* DreamingTheTruth: Moses realizes where he came from in a dream depicted in various Egyptian art images.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: If the chariot race sequence is to be believed, crazy teenage drivers have been a problem [[OlderThanTheyThink a lot longer than we currently believe]].
* EpicMovie: From the point of conception, Jeffrey Katzenberg intended this to be his Big Damn Epic Movie and marketed it as such. It was his first film since ''TheLionKing'', after all, and he wanted to show [[DisneyAnimatedCanon his former studio]] what he was capable of.
* ExactWords: "There will be a great cry in the land of Egypt".
* FaceHeelTurn: Take a wild guess.
* TheFaceless: Tzipporah's youngest sister. She only appears in a couple of scenes, but whenever shown her eyes are the only part of her face not concealed by her oversized [[NeverBareheaded headscarf]].
* FacialProfiling: The Hebrews are depicted with curly mops of unruly dark hair and many of them have larger noses. They also have lighter skin compared to the darker Egyptians. The Egyptians themselves have round, smooth faces with high cheekbones, narrow eyes and smooth black hair. This was intentional, as explained in the promotional materials. The Egyptians in general are composed of angular, symmetric, geometric lines in contrast to the Hebrews' rounded, more natural and varied forms. [[http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/33_semiticimages.html Authentic Egyptian art depicts Semites as bearded and lighter skinned in contrast to the clean-shaven, darker Egyptians.]]
* FlippingTheTable: Rameses does this to the priests' table right before he jumps into his half of the emotionally-charged "Plagues" duet.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Moses finds the burning bush when searching for a lost sheep.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a few moments in the beginning, especially the 'weak link' part (which gets a CallBack later on) and the conversation between Moses and Rameses that follows. In that conversation, Moses jokingly says Rameses will bring down the entire empire by himself. He wasn't far off...
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Ramses is the responsible older brother, while Moses is the freewheeling younger brother.
* FreudianExcuse: This version of Rameses' reasoning of his obstinacy against freeing the Hebrews.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Ladies, please, you've cleaned every inch of me -- WHOA! I was wrong."
* GilliganCut: After the Chariot Race:
-->'''Rameses:''' You don't think we'll get in trouble for this, do you?\\
'''Moses:''' [[TemptingFate No, not a chance]].\\
[''Cue Moses and Rameses being scolded for the chaos the race caused.'']\\
'''Seti''': ''Why'' do the gods torment me with such reckless, destructive, ''blasphemous'' sons!?
* {{God}}: His voice, anyway.
* GoodIsNotNice: God is working to free His enslaved people as promised, but the film doesn't gloss over how thorough His vengeance on Egypt was, especially in the eye-for-eye smiting of the Firstborn even down to the young children.
* HappilyAdopted: Moses was this until certain events...
* HappilyEverBefore: The film stops immediately after the Red Sea Crossing, with a brief subsequent image of Moses bringing down the Ten Commandments. The scene after that? [[spoiler:Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, probably for the second time, considering what the Bible says happened the first time...]]
* HeroicBSOD: Moses has several: the first occurs when he discovers he's an adopted Hebrew, and the second comes after the 10th Plague, as does Rameses' VillainousBreakdown.
* InfantImmortality: Painfully, cruelly averted. Twice.
* IWantSong: Inverted with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRl8OQZYw4 "All I Ever Wanted"]]. Rather than singing about wanting more out of life, the song is about Moses trying to convince himself that he already ''has'' everything he could ever want and has no reason to be dissatisfied.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Hotep and Huy's snake conjuration was done with such theatrics that it's hard to tell if they actually did magic or just managed some sleight of hand. Their attempt at turning water to blood seems a bit more fake, though.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Look at your family/people. They are free."
* MonumentalDamage: So ''that'' is [[HistoricalInJoke what happened to the Sphinx's nose...]]
* MoodWhiplash: 'When You Believe' is an inspiring song about how the strength of faith can bring about miracles. Played right after the plagues, [[TropesAreNotBad a glimmer of hope against the destruction]].
* NeverTrustATrailer: The original trailer made this look like a more action-packed, definitely more kid-friendly film.
* NonSingingVoice: Averted with Ralph Fiennes (Rameses), Steve Martin and Martin Short (Hotep and Huy), and Michelle Pfeiffer (Tzipporah), all of whom did their own singing. Oddly enough Val Kilmer did ''not'' do his own singing, even though he has a really good voice and has sung in other movies he has made.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Egyptian Chanting]]: Used to a degree in "Playing With the Big Boys", in which the names of several Egyptian gods are chanted at the beginning and later in the background.
* OneSceneWonder: Jephro, who manages to get a truly ''amazing'' song out of it.
* OneWomanWail: A truly beautiful example provided by the [[AuthorExistenceFailure late]] Israeli singer Ofra Haza.
* PapaWolf: An important take-away lesson: do ''not'' anger {{God}} by oppressing His people and murdering their babies. You really won't like the [[PayEvilUntoEvil blowback]].
* PetTheDog: Subverted. Seti clearly cares about his sons. When he finds Moses reeling at the fate of the Hebrew children, Seti hugs him, speaks in the soothing tones of PatrickStewart...''and tells Moses it was justified because they were just slave children.'' The worst part of this is that ''Seti thought this would make Moses feel better''.
* PlayingAgainstType: It is a bit unnerving to hear Patrick Stewart (as Pharaoh Seti) justifying ''murdering thousands of innocent Hebrew babies'' in that soothing TeamDad voice.
--> '''Seti:''' Oh, my son, they were only ''slaves''...
* ProdigalHero: Being an adaptation of [[TheBible the story of Moses]] the film tells this story, mixing both the accidental murder as well as disgust of the Egyptians' treatment towards the Jews.
* TheQueensLatin: Most of the Egyptian characters (save for Hotep and Huy) speak with British accents, while the Hebrews speak with American accents.
* RedOniBlueOni: Moses and Rameses, respectively. As young men, Moses is rambunctious and flippant while Rameses is more introspective and prone to angsting. When they grow up, they retain their oni roles, but in a different way. Moses is passionate and warm while Rameses is cold and ruthless. Even their clothing reflects this. Rameses wears blue and white while Moses wears red and earth tones.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The climax, where Rameses, despite freeing the Hebrews earlier, [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]] and decides to lead his men in a chase to slaughter the Hebrews before they escape. Thanks to God's interventation, [[CurbStompBattle they fail miserably.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: In the opening sequence the Hebrew slaves look upon with awe at the statue of Ra that they just put up, which symbolized [[TheEmpire the power of the Egyptians over them]]. Toward the end of the plagues sequence, the statue crumbles. Some scholars believe that the plagues were meant to rebuke the various Egyptian religions and their gods (Ra, god of the Sun falls on the onset of the plague of darkness).
* SarcasmMode: "Moses! Let me guess. You want me to...''let your people go."''
* SceneryPorn: The opening sequence showing the Hebrews raising Egyptian monuments, the Plagues, and the crossing of the Red Sea.
* SceneryGorn: After the plagues are done with Egypt.
* TheScourgeOfGod: ''The Plagues'', currently the trope page's quote.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Rameses promises to absolve Moses from the crime of murder because he is "the morning and the evening star" and can change the laws however he deems fit.
* SexySilhouette: Subverted. After Moses has Tziporrah sent to his chambers by Rameses, he sees a shadowy figure sitting on his bed behind a curtain, looking as if it is her sitting there with her arms crossed defiantly. He laughs awkwardly before pulling the curtain back to reveal that it is the servant who had escorted her there all tied up. He then realizes that his dogs are tied up as well and there is a BedsheetLadder going out his window.
* ShooOutTheClowns: In one scene, Rameses overturns a table, and Hotep and Huy vanish for the rest of the movie. Things turn ''very'' dark shortly afterward. If you listen very carefully, you can even hear Rameses shouting "Get out!" just under the music.
* ShownTheirWork: Many examples, but one that stands out is the silhouette of a whale shark seen behind the watery walls of the Red Sea passage.
* SilenceYouFool
* TheStinger: The credits end with quotes from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Koran stating how important Moses was as a prophet.
* TheSwarm Some of the 10 plagues were this.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: Averted behind the scenes - they just decided to screw casting a machine as God and just got Val Kilmer to voice him (as well as Moses - hey, it worked for [[TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston]]...), which of course led to....
* TalkingToHimself: ... this.
* TearfulSmile: Moses has one right after meeting with the Lord for the first time.
* TemptingFate:
** "Playing With The Big Boys Now" can be seen as a challenge to God. As the next song ("The Plagues") shows, this was not wise.
** When Rameses says that "there will be a great cry in the land of Egypt" (see ExactWords above).
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hotep and Huy
* ThreatBackfire: Angered with Moses' insistence on letting his people go, Rameses says that the Hebrews need to be punished even harder and "there will be a great cry in the land of Egypt". His words turn out to be prophetic - however, it's not the Hebrews who will let out this great cry...
* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: Shown with an ewe's lambing.
* TomatoInTheMirror: When Moses slowly realizes that he is a Hebrew, during the sequence preceding "All I Ever Wanted".
* ToppledStatue: The same statue shown being raised in the opening [[spoiler:is destroying during the Plagues]].
* TragicVillain: Rameses, unlike his counterparts from ''TheTenCommandments'' and ''TheBible''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: People were so distracted by the priests' theatrics that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake eating the two that they produced.
* VillainousBreakdown: In a very tragic example, Rameses ''snaps'' after the death of his son, riding after Moses and the Hebrews and, when they try to escape him through the Red Sea, he shouts to his men "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!" The last of him seen in the film is him screaming in rage and agony, cursing Moses.
* VillainSong: Rameses' DarkReprise of "All I Ever Wanted" might count, and while they are more inept evil sidekicks than true villains, Hotep and Huy's "Playing With The Big Boys Now" counts.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Hotep and Huy make an offer something like to Moses during their VillainSong.
--> ''"Just to show we feel no spite/you can be our acolyte!"''
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The major driving force of the movie, which sets it apart from TheTenCommandments LoveTriangle
* WellDoneSonGuy: Even after the death of his father, Rameses is still struggling with the man's immense shadow and wants to be the kind of Pharaoh his father was. This leads to tragedy for the Egyptians. TruthInTelevision for this one, at least for the first half of that statement. Rameses II is by all accounts one Egypt's greatest Pharaoh, and many speculate that his ''insane'' achievements were motivated by a desire to live up to his distant father's legacy.
---> '''Moses''': ''All he cares about is your approval. I know he will live up to your expectations. He only needs the opportunity.''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Aside from the "man-woman-child" voice of God described above, a scene with a talking camel was scrapped.
** Also Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run totally counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Hotep and Huy vanish after a scene during the plagues when Rameses overturns a table. TheBible does say Pharaoh's magicians could not even show themselves for being covered in boils, so this could be a case of AllThereInTheManual.
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