7: The burning bush scene from The Prince of Egypt
I first saw this movie when I was much younger and this scene actually scared me back then. Now that I'm older, I'v been able to study this scene with a bit more depth and understanding than I possessed back then. This scene amazes me simply because of how much the film makers did with only five minutes. In that short running time, we see dozens of God's attributes, from loving, gentle, compassionate, warm, mysterious, and radiant but also wrathful, all-powerful, and definantly not someone to be trifled with or taken lightly.
I think my fear back then was well-justified. Maybe there's an element of God that should terrify us when He comes to us since He's so much bigger than we can ever understand.
Simply a brilliant scene.
Did you know that the voice of God was done by composition many voices of both male and female actors. A far cry from the standard Charlton Heston or James Earl Jones voice our culture had been used to.
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