When Christian Bale made a few snide comments about Moses recently, calling the prophet "schizophrenic" and "barbaric", many presumed that Ridley Scott's latest movie, Exodus: Gods and Kings, would be inaccurate in many places. Of course, history and religion are open to interpretation, so if Scott does take a few creative liberties with the retelling of the famous story, then it is his right as a filmmaker to do so. After all, he has the formidable The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) to beat.
The story begins with the Egyptian Pharoah Seti I (John Turturro) planning....