Posted by Runshouse21 at nytgate1.nytimes.com on February 23, 2004 at 14:39:05:
In Reply to: check out the veggie tales jonah one.... posted by Diomira on February 23, 2004 at 14:31:31:
: they get a point for depicating a personified person getting swallowed by a whale.......................
the prince of egypt
"The most severe loss of points was due to violence: slavery, beatings, murder, infanticide, and babies used as food for crocodiles (in a mural). Though these things are not just based on a true story, but ARE a true story, they are still violence and can have an impact or influence on your children. Next in severity of loss of points were matters of unholy reality such as the demonic doers, calling on power from unholy gods, and belittling remarks about the power of prayer and God's sincerity. And, believe it or not, there was sexual material in The Prince of Egypt: an "under-skirt" scene of the posterior of the young Pharaoh with unmistakable reference to it, shadows of a nude female on a curtain, and old women bathing a nude Moses with Moses uttering an implicating remark. The Bible says nothing about these three ignominies, so I guess they are elements of "poetic license." But why are they in the movie at all?"