Fox reimagines Moses as Leonidas from "300"

Did you know Fox is planning to "300"-dise Moses? Check it out: Fox Reimagines Moses!!. I got to admit, I think it would be pretty sweet. Moses with a bad-ass attitude taking down Egyptians like Rambo. "If you liked that Pharaoh, well you gonna love what's coming next." Overlooking the Nile valley, smile on his face, "That was toooooo easy," Moses smirks. "You must be a slave cuz I just whipped your ass." "Do you understand, if you do this, if you do this unspeakable thing, it will be civil war." "So be it. You evil tyrant, so be it." The Hebrews whisper among themselves, "He will betray us like all the others..." "No, there is something different about this one."

Sheer brilliance.

Also, I found an interesting quote by Mark Twain pertaining to the Jews that ties into what we were talking about in class:

”...If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it.

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

- Mark Twain
(“Concerning The Jews,” Harper’s Magazine, 1899
see The Complete Essays of Mark Twain, Doubleday [1963] pg. 249)