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Mr. Sensei
"Speak"
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Singing
Movie
It was just another day for Moses, he was in the fields just pasturing the sheep, when he disappeared in blue flames.
Tziporah was playing with her younger sisters, their father Jethro watching them from his tent, the smaller one was running around when they all disappeared in blue flames.
Miriam and Aaron were in there little house resting from a hard day of work when they too disappear in blue flames.
Rameses was in his throne room, his son in his lap. Hotep and Huy were doing a little magic show to keep them entertained. They all disappeared in the now familiar blue flames.
They all appeared unconscious in a white marble room, Moses was the first to wake up, he run to Tziporah and tried to wake her up, "Tziporah, come on, what happened?".
"Moses?" Moses turn around and saw who was calling him.
"Rameses?" He could not believe it, what was he doing here? Where was here?
Everyone else started to wake up at that moment. "What is this place?" asked Jethro.
"This is my watching room" from a dark corner of the room said a voice that seem to be made of thousands different voices speaking in a perfect heavenly harmony, everyone turn to look at the corner and saw that is a a very skinny looking boy with his eyes closed, wearing only an old piece of cloth around his waist and shackles on his wrists.
"Who are you? Answer me boy if you know what's good for you" Demanded Rameses, using a threatening tone.
As the boy opened his eyes they all took a step back seeing that they were not eyes but rather, warm blue flames that dance softy on his sockets "I am who I am, I am Yehowah, god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" He said in a calm tone. Out of respect all the hebrews vowed to him, "Please rize my children, so I can explain you why I have brought you here" and so they did, but before he could explain Rameses interrupted him.
"You are a god?! Yeah right, you are just a scrawny kid with weird eyes, if you were a god, shouldn't you be great and glamorous?" Exclaimed Rameses in a mocking voice.
"I chose to take the form that better represent my children, for they are now young, inexperienced, weak and in chains, I should also be be to share their pain" God raised his hands and let liquid light come out of them, it then surrounded all of them and started to levited them, the light started to concentrated, forming three rows of seats, the first with 5 seats, the others with 4 each and a white screen, it resemble a movie theater but ancient egyptian style, when the last of the light died down they were all put down in their seats. In the first row it was God, Jethro, Moses, Zipporah and Ephorah (the oldest of Tziporah sisters), in the second row it was Aaron, Miriam, Ajolidoforah (middle), and Indah (youngest), and in the last one it was Hotep (the fat one), Huy (the tall one), Amun (Rameses son) and Rameses.
God got up from his seat and turn to face everyone, "The reason that I brought you here is because I want to show you the past, present and future" he said in his warm, calm tone.
"With what purpose?" asked Ramses, after the show with the lights he was convinced that he was a god, not the God, but a god.
God smiled at him "With the purpose that you Ramses make a choice, to free the hebrews people from slavery or to let the events I'm about to show you happen"
"Then why have you brought us here for?" asked a curious Moses.
"I brought you all here because what I'm about to show you affects all of you" said God still with his warm smile "And it would be fun for all of you"
Hotep and Huy looked at each other and shrugged comically.
"If there is nothing else, I think we should begin" said God sitting down.
(A/N: Since God is showing the past, present and future and not a movie per say, it's totally normal for there to be singing).
Wide shots of an Egyptian statue. Followed by wide shot of Hebrew slaves working on monuments. Overseen by belligerent Egyptian slave drivers barking out orders and whipping the slaves. In the background you can hear the sound of the song Deliver Us.
Egyptian Guards:
Mud...Sand...Water...
Straw...Faster!
Mud...and Lift...Sand...and Pull
Water...and raise up...
Straw...Faster!
With each word one can see images of the slaves performing the orders being barked out by the guards.
The hebrews had expressions of shock and terror, but the Egyptians were either sadistly proud or unamused.
Hebrew Slaves:
With the sting of the whip on my shoulder
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
Elohim God on high
Can you hear your people cry?;
"I always can" said God sadly in a low voice.
Help us now
This Dark hour...
Deliver us
Hear our call
Deliver us
Lord of all
Remember us, here in this burning sand
Deliver us
There's a land you promised us
Deliver us to the promised land...
All of the hebrews were shaking in fear while single tear came out of God's fiery eyes.
Scene now changes from the Hebrew Slaves working on the Egyptian monuments
to the Hebrew settlement of Goshen. It is a stark change from the smooth angular cold lines of the Egyptian buildings. Despite the rundown element of the mud huts in which they live, there is a warm glow to the shacks. The settlement is crawling with Egyptian soldiers carrying spears. Camera pans inside one of the huts where a Hebrew woman by the name of Yocheved looks fearfully outside her window. Perhaps for the Egyptian soldiers.
"Mom?" asked Aaron
At this Moses looked more closely at the screen, apricieting how beautiful her mother was.
Yocheved: Yal-di ha-tov ve ha-rach (My Good and tender son)
Al ti-ra veh al tif-chad (Don't be frightened and don't be scared)
She looks at the small baby in her arms.
"Is that..?" asked Moses.
"You" said Miriam sobbing "It is the day we send you away".
My Son, I have nothing I can give
But this Chance that you may live
I pray we'll meet again
If He will deliver us
She then motions towards her two other children a boy of about 4 named Aaron and a girl of about 7 named Miriam. Yocheved looks outside again to see whether or not the soldiers are coming. Seeing that the coast is clear she takes the baby and runs followed by Miriam who holds a basket and Aaron.
Miriam and Aaron gave Moses sad apologetics looks. Moses didn't see this as he was stile fix to the screen looking at his mother .
Hebrew Slaves:
Deliver Us
Hear our prayer
Deliver us
From despair
These years of slavery grow too cruel to stand
Deliver Us
There's a land you promised us
Deliver Us
Out of bondage and
Deliver us to the promised land...
Rameses was frowning all the way through the scene. He couldn't see why he, the morning and the evening star of the greatest empire on earth, should care about some whortless salves.
The scene cuts to Yocheved and her family running through Goshen. Unnoticed by
Egyptian soldiers who are too intent on a "search" for what we don't know. But they are knocking Hebrew women aside to get inside their homes.
Seeing the confusion of Jethro and his children, God explained in a sad tone "They killed the youngest child of every of my families".
They all gasphed and Zipporah got up and looked at Rameses with discuss, "You killed children?!"
He didn't answered, he didn't even looked at her, he didn't even bother to say that it was his father who did it.
Seeing that he wouldn't answer Zipporah reluctantly sat down.
Cut back to Yocheved and her family running towards the Nile. They stop at the river's edge. Miriam puts down the basket and Yocheved places the baby boy inside the basket. Yocheved begins to sing to the infant so that he will fall asleep. Her eyes begin to swell with tears.
Yocheved:
Hush now, my baby
Be still, love, don't cry
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember
My last Lullaby
So I'll be with you when you dream
Moses was moving his lips to match the lullaby in real time. Miriam saw this and smiled at moses singing the song.
River, O river
Flow gently for me
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere
He can live free?
River deliver him there...
Yocheved lets the basket go and watches as it flows down the Nile river. Miriam
follows the progression of the basket from the shore. The basket and its contents are nearly devoured by a crocodile, but it is saved just in time by hippos who jump in and run interference.
"Did you sended the hippo there?" asked Jethrodiadah (the youngest sister) in a sweet innocent tone.
God looked thoughtful for a second before saying "Maybe" in his usual smile and then winks at her, making her giggles at him.
Next the basket is almost caught up in the nets of a passing fishing boat.
But becomes dislodged and falls back down into the Nile. Next it gets caught up the swell of several passing boats and gets pushed further downstream until it floats into the Queens water garden.
Everyone looked at God with widen eyes full of disbelief, admiration and fear (three guesses from whom). He looked at all of them "Her prayer deserved to be answered" he said simply.
The Queen is standing in the water playing with her young son, Ramses the crowned prince of Egypt. Feeling something bump her leg, she looks down surprised to find the basket. Curious She hands Rameses to one her maids who is standing on the steps, and bends down and picks up the lid and is shocked to see a baby.
Both Moses and Ramses smile softly, neither had seen the woman they both called Mother for many years.
Moses because he runned away to the dessert, Ramses because she had alongside his father, died.
But this only lasts a moment the instant he smiles at her she is smitten and bends down and picks him up and kisses him. Meanwhile Miriam who has been watching the entire event with trepidation relaxes. She knows that her baby brother is safe.
Miriam:
Brother, you're safe now
And safe may you stay
For I have a prayer just for you:
Grow baby brother
Come back someday
Come and deliver us too...
"Did that prayer deserve to be answered to?" asked Miriam.
God nodes in response "Of course my child".
The Queen takes the baby and starts for the palace. Her two servant girls look a bit too boldly at her and the foundling. The Queen gives them a look that not only puts them back in their place but also tells them to be silent about what they have just witnessed.
Young Rameses trots at his Mother's heels his arms stretched up towards her so that he can be carried
Rameses:
Mamma!
The Queen looks down at her son.
Queen: Come Rameses let us show Pharaoh your new baby brother... Moses.
"So you were always her favorite" said Ramses jokingly, trying to light the mood.
It didn't work.
The camera pulls back from the sight of the Queen, Rameses and her two servant girls climbing the steps leading to the palace. The camera shifts back to the Egyptian monuments, where the Hebrews are slaving.
Hebrew Slaves:
Deliver us
Send a shepherd to Shepherd us
And Deliver us to the Promised Land
Deliver us to the Promised land.
We see a panoramic view of the Egyptian city of Rameses
Yocheved:
Deliver Us!
The whole was to much for Moses, he was on the brink of tears, so Zipporah puts her hand on his shoulder to calm him down.
He smiles thankfully at her and dries his face from tears.
ACT I Scene I
Fast forward almost 20 years. Two chariots come racing out of a building at top
speed. Both are being driven by two young men. The first his head completely shaven except for a single lock of hair, is Ramses the crowned prince of Egypt. Driving the other chariot is a longhaired youth and sporting a fashionable goatee is his brother Moses.
"Wow, father, Can I do that? Can I? Can I?" asked the overexcited prince.
"We will see when you are older" answer Ramses.
The prince whines at this and the rest laugh at him.
Jethrodiadah pulls from Moses slive to call his attention "Yes, what is it?"
"Why does your hair looks so funny?" She ask
Moses smiles at her and whispered to her ear as if sharing a secret "It's a wig"
Both are bare chested outlining their young healthy physiques. Their behavior is loud raucous and irreverent. They are Princes of Egypt sons of the most powerful kingdom in the world. They don't have to answer to virtually anyone and their manner reflects this fact.
Rameses:
Faster you beasts! You run like Mules!
Rameses pauses to look at the hieroglyphics on a mural outlining Egypt's glorious
history.
Moses (shouting):
Hey Rameses! How would you like to see your face carved on a wall?!
Rameses:
Someday yes!
Moses:
How about now!
Moses thrusts his chariot towards Rameses forcing his brother against the wall. Rameses almost goes crashing into the wall. For a precarious moment the chariot rides on one wheel until Rameses gets it back under control.
Moses looked down to the floor in shame of his past-self irresponsible and immature actions.
Rameses:
You almost killed me!
Moses:
Come on! where's your sense of fun?!
Rameses:
Oh it's fun you want!
Rameses following the move of his brother drives his chariot into Moses own. But
Moses anticipating this pulls his chariot back. Rameses completely misses Moses chariot and goes sliding down an embankment. Rameses pulls his chariot to a stop and looks around.
Rameses:
Moses?
Moses (from above):
Yahoo!
Everyone ohss and wows at the race. Well except for the ones that were the racers who looked ashamed (Moses) or sheepishly yet proud (Rameses).
Rameses sees his brother and his chariot flying by overhead. He laughs and joins in hot pursuit. The two young princes race through the city heedless of anyone or anything that crosses their paths. The route of the race even continues up on to rooftops where Rameses looking down at his younger brother shouts.
Rameses:
Admit it Moses! You've always looked up to me!
Moses (looking up at this brother and getting an eye full of his undergarments):
Yes! But it's not much of a view! Ha! Ha! Ha!
All of the people that weren't there laughed at the joke. Ramses gave Hotep and Huy a stinking look and they shut up immediately.
Rameses comes crashing back down onto the street right in front of Moses. Moses pulls back just in time in order to avoid a collision.
Rameses:
Second born! Second place!
Moses:
Not for long!
Moses shocked his head and thought I was right in more ways that one.
The race continues towards a monument in the process being built of their father.
The Pharaoh Seti. Camera cuts to another scene where two priests Huy and Hotep are leading their minions oblivious to the race that was going through the city.
Hotep bounced in his seat "I remember this part"
Huy smiles then frowns "Do you remember what came next?"
Hotep thought about it for a second and then paled considerably "Oh"
Ramses and Moses proceed to race up the scaffolding. A workman loses his balance and the paintbrush he's holding leaves a mark beneath Seti's nose which curiously looks like a smile.
All the hebrew laughed this time of how ridiculous the smile looked. The egyptians wanted to but did not out of respect for the late Pharaoh.
The safety rope holding the workman causes him to swing to the point where he hits a load of bricks sitting on scaffold. The bricks become loose and hit the nose of the statue, hence dislodging it causing it to go crashing down on the scaffolding. It breaks through each level and coming dangerously close to crashing down on the Princes who have started their descent down the scaffolding.
Oh no was the general thought that went through everyone's minds.
Rameses reaches the bottom safely, but Moses has to jump from the second level to avoid being crushed by the "nose". Barely escaping with their lives both Princes stop and breathe with relief and laugh. But their mirth is short lived. They have not landed on solid ground but on a bin holding gallons and gallons of sand!
The bonds holding the sand bin together break under the weight of the chariot and an avalanche ensues carrying the two young princes and their chariot's along with them.
"Of course you would land on the sand and not on the ground, that's just your luck isn't it?" Tziporah said playfully to Moses.
"You know me" he replied "Always in some kind of trouble".
The avalanche travels through the temple of Ra burying the two temple priests and their minions. But Moses and Ramses land on the other side unscathed.
Rameses:
You don't suppose we'll get in trouble for this?
Moses (confident):
No! Not a chance!
Moses got a small grin in his face "Ok, maybe a small chance"