{"id":340,"date":"2020-03-17T00:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=340"},"modified":"2020-03-17T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:08:18","slug":"085-exodus-gods-and-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/03\/17\/085-exodus-gods-and-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"085 – Exodus: Gods and Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We as Oscar watchers can\u2019t quit predicting Ridley Scott just like Ridley Scott can\u2019t stop making historical epics that end up underwhelming. In 2014, he gave us one of them – a retelling of Moses story (minus all that religion) called Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i>. With Christian Bale at the forefront, the film stirred controversy for casting all white actors led to a tepid box office, with the film becoming one of many late year disappointments in 2014.<\/p>\n

This week, we unpack how this film stands up against previous versions of the exodus story, The Ten Commandments<\/i> and The Prince of Egypt<\/i>. We also lament some of Scott\u2019s big budget habits (that he might be returning to later this year with The Last Duel<\/i>) and the many ways that Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i>\u2019 does not stand up to his best work.<\/p>\n

Topics also include Joel Edgerton\u2019s rising Oscar trajectory, our top ten films of 2014, and the Oscar-winning dueling divas of \u201cWhen You Believe\u201d.<\/p>\n

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We as Oscar watchers can\u2019t quit predicting Ridley Scott just like Ridley Scott can\u2019t stop making historical epics that end up underwhelming. In 2014, he gave us one of them – a retelling of Moses story (minus all that religion) called Exodus: Gods and Kings. With Christian Bale at the forefront, the film stirred controversy … Continue reading “085 – Exodus: Gods and Kings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,416,423,50,422,424,3,6,48,425],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-christian-bale","tag-exodus-gods-and-kings","tag-historical-epics","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-mariah-carey","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-ridley-scott","tag-whitney-houston","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}