Books vs Movies, Tuesday first period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Right, welcome back." Jon rubbed his eyes and gestured toward the screen. "I...actually, I hadn't planned doing two children's movies back to back, but there are so very many awful biblical movies out there, so this is what you get. At least it's slightly less whitewashed than most of them.

"Anyway, enjoy it, think of how it chose to expand on, ignore, or subvert the original text, and then let's discuss it.

"And for next week, please read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'."

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Re: OOC!

[furrybluefreak]

I grew up on the Yul Brynner and Charleton Heston movie. But I will say Prince of Egypt always impressed me that for a kids movie they didn't water things down as much as they could have. I got chills several times watching it.