{"id":14798,"date":"2015-03-17T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=14798"},"modified":"2015-03-17T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:16:51","slug":"exodus-god-and-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/03\/17\/exodus-god-and-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in the Movies part 3:- Exodus: God and Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Exodus: God and Kings<\/h5>\n<p>This is part 3 of my &#8220;Landslides in Movies&#8221; series (following <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/10\/07\/the-croods\/\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/12\/01\/railway-children-1970\/\">Part 2<\/a>). In 2014 the film-maker Ridley Scott released <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exodus:_Gods_and_Kings\">Exodus: God and Kings<\/a>, an epic fantasy film that retells the biblical story of Moses as he rebels against the Egyptian Pharoah Ramses, and leads an exodus of 600,000 people from the plagues of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>A critical juncture in the movie comes when Moses is struck and buried by a mudslide during a heavy rainstorm whilst looking for his sheep.\u00a0 The website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/\">comingsoon.net<\/a> has a short film about how this scene was shot.\u00a0 You should be able to see the video embedded below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/dvd\/trailers\/419779-exclusive-how-ridley-scott-created-the-mudslide-in-exodus-gods-and-kings#\/slide\/1\">or you can view it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.springboardplatform.com\/js\/overlay\"><\/script><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"cs008_1499339\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.springboardplatform.com\/embed_iframe\/71\/video\/1499339\/cs008\/comingsoon.net\/10\/1\/\" width=\"618\" height=\"386\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The film is interesting, not least because it shows the enormous effort that needs to go into creating even a comparatively small mudslide.\u00a0 They actually did a pretty good job, the resulting mudslide is quite credible:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14799\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/03\/15_03-exodus-1-e1426579200311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14799\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/03\/15_03-exodus-1-e1426579200311.jpg\" alt=\"Exodus: God and Kings\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exodus: God and Kings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is also interesting to see the care that was needed to secure the safety of Christian Bale when he was buried by the mudslide. It nicely illustrates the low survival rates from these types of landslides.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video has been released for the 2014 movie, Exodus: God and Kings, showing how they made the scene in which Moses gets buried by a mudslide. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":14799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[808],"tags":[848,577],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-bible","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}