#Joseph king of dreams is as good as the prince of Egypt

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

Not into shipcest (I don't judge though), but I love strong platonic sibling bonds in fiction and I too LOVED LOVED Dinah and Joseph in The Red Tent. How he was Dinahʼs “truest friend” ❤️ Despised the way the book ended with them being indifferent towards each other though :( and wasnʼt a fan of the writting choice to make Dinahʼs oc son the reason for their falling out and the intellect behind Joseph as governor of Egypt, too much of a gary sue-ish choice for me, plus my dreamworks, cradle Catholic, and music theater childhood sensibilities were hurt lol. I would have preferred a mentor-student relationship between Joseph and Dinahʼs son where both of them are smart.

Although overall I liked the book more, I liked the show ending more than the bookʼs ending even though the former is cliche. In the show Joseph and Dinah are so affectionate with each other when they meet again 🥹, I love it, and it is implied that they remain family and continue to see each other often.

I am still thinking of The Red Tent shipcest. Especially Dinah's relationship with Joseph, the brother she was nursed with, her beloved playmate, who held her hand when their brothers weren't there to mock them, who told her the stories that Jacob told to his sons and who listened when she told him the stories their mothers told to her, who wore the tunic his mother wove for him with pride, who loved so deeply and especially loved Dinah.

The problem with biblical fiction is that I wish desperately there was a fandom because I want to explore these characters, Dinah and Joseph not as figures from the Bible or the Torah, but Anita Diamant's interpretation of them and their love for each other. But there's no fandom which is a goddamn shame.

[inkfireflies]

Just biblic entertainment since 1998

[artist-issues]

It's a response to Rachel Zegler's opinion on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

It seems to me some people don't see the difference between not liking a movie and a movie being bad.

I didn't like Deadpool, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Barbie 2023.

But I like Shark Tale (Polish DUB), unironically like Star Wars prequels and Joseph King of Dreams (direct-to-video sequel to Prince of Egypt).

I can live with Zegler not liking Snow White as a kid because she thought it looked scary. I can live with her not liking the prince that only has 5 minutes of screen time, I can live with her not liking romance stories but I can't give her a pass on spreading misinformation.

A man notices a girl he finds attractive and then flirts with her right after noticing her and continues after she responds in kind. It's not stalking!

JLongbone made a great response.

Or how the Dwarfs living in caves is a harmful stereotype. Even tho the Dwarfs live in a cottage and they just work as miners. And Dwarfs from European folklore and people with dwarfism are two different things.

It's so obvious these people haven't seen the movie ever or since when they were kids and if they see the movie recently they really weren't paying attention.

If they want to bash the original can't they even make sure what they're talking about is true?

It just shows how lazy those remakes are. Like she said, ''It's not 1930 anymore'', can't she do a Google search?

I agree. Not liking the movie is fine. But she's not just disliking it. She's disliking it, and then offering justifications for disliking it--and they're false justifications.

To offer justification for why you don't like something is to cross into the realm of worldview, and right and wrong.

She's not saying "I prefer a story where power is more important than love." She's saying, "A story where love is more important than power is bad and weird, and we're fixing it because it's bad."

I think people forget that whether or not yoh like a movie is up to you. But whether or not a movie is high quality, does what it sets out to do, and is therefore "good" is objective.

[thevoidstaredback]

Who's idea was it to order my musical theatre playlist like this?

Hamilton

Wicked

Hairspray

Finding Neverland

Moulin Rouge

Dear Evan Hansen

Into The Woods

Fiddler On The Roof

Six

Come From Away

Phantom of the Opera (Movie)

Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou

Beetlejuice

Aladdin

The Lion King

Repo: The Genetic Opera

Shrek

Newsies

Heathers

Something Rotten

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Cinderella

Anastasia

The Lightning Thief

The Drowsy Chaperone

Chicago

Les Miserable

The Greatest Showman

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Addams Family

Matilda

Little Shop of Horrors

Guys and Dolls

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Beauty and the Beast

School of Rock

The Little Mermaid

Jekyll and Hyde

Avenue Q

Falsettos

Annie

In The Heights

Legally Blonde

Ride The Cyclone

Be More Chill

Oklahoma

Hello, Dolly

Thoroughly Modern Milly

Little Women

Kinky Boots

Catch Me If You Can

A Chorus Line

Company

Bare: A Pop Opera

Rent

Anything Goes

Mean Girls

Joseph and the Amazing,

   Technicolored Dream Coat

Cabaret

My Fair Lady

35 MM

Waitress

FNAF the Musical

A Very Potter Musical

Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang

Oliver

Pirates of Penzance

South Pacific

Carnival

Music Man

State Fair

7 Brides for 7 Brothers

Mary Poppins

Sound of Music

Paint Your Wagon

West Side Story

Hercules

Princess and the Frog

Snow White

Encanto

Frozen

The King and I

Unsinkable Molly Brown

Annie Get Your Gun

Hades Town

Spies are Forever

Shucked

Jersey Boys

Sweeney Todd

21 Chump Street

The Prince of Egypt

Bonnie & Clyde

Saturday's Warrior (1989)

Camelot

Spamelot

Seussical

The Wizard of Oz

Singing in the Rain

Here Lies Love

Gutenberg the Musical

Some Like It Hot

Merrily We Roll Along

MJ

Hazbin Hotel

Phantom of the Opera (Broadway)

The Cottage

& Juliet

Brigadoon

There's No Business Like Show

   Business

Funny Girl

Grease

Thumbilina

Tina

Ain't Too Proud

Chess

Mama Mia

Porgy Bess

Descendents

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Susannah

White Christmas

Journey to Bethlehem

Fame

Helluva Boss (S1)

Back the the Future

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Godspeed

The Great Gatsby

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

[isnt-that-something]

How to pick?! They're all so spectacular!!!!

Animation, character designs, stories, and soundtracks all so fantastic!!!!

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

A few weeks ago you made a post about bastardisations of Christian faith in popular media (eg supernatural good omens etc etc) and I was wondering if there are any tv show/films that you know of/would recommend that include biblical figures and/or Christian theology in a manner that is respectful?

Heh, that's a hard one. Non-christian stuff with biblical themes/characters tend to be... yknow, blasphemous, and Christian/biblical movies and tv shows tend to absolutely, completely, deeply suck xD The few exceptions are Prince of Egypt and Joseph King of Dreams, which are absolute must see masterpieces, and I'd recommend Season 1 of The Chosen (but nothing after if you want good theology/historicity :/) The Passion of the Christ is a bit ~heh on the theological side, and pretty gory, but it's kind of too big not to mention. I hear Ben Hur is really good but I've never actually watched it. Another GREAT movie I can recommend is Paul, Apostle of Christ (which about Paul's last days in Rome before his execution + the persecution of the early church by Nero).

For more secular pop media, def watch:

Samurai Champloo anime exploring Japanese history and culture through three unlikely allies' long journey accross a somewhat anachronistic Edo era Japan; it takes a while for the Christian aspects to show up but they explicitly do and it's really good)

Narnia the books - the movies not so much. anyway, Aslan is Jesus and all that.

Les Miserables and especially its manga adaptation by Takahiro Arai. the theology is not so overt, but the manga very deliberately touches upon new birth and it's incredibly moving. dunno how far along the english fanlations are but Valjean and Miriel's encounter is all translated. As for the book itself, Hugo's faith is a complicated matter, but it still underlines a lot of the plot and themes

Scrubs not a whole lot of Christian/biblical stuff, it's just a good fun medical show, but there are a few explicitly Christian characters and two or three episodes that really get into it; off the top of my head, 1x11, 5x5 and 6x14/6x15

SoeurThérèse.com a french detective tv show where the main character, Sister Therese, formerly Juliette, is an ex-cop nun who still helps out with cases. it's sweet

Hacksaw Ridge EXTREMELY violent and bloody movie, true story of a conscientious objector who enlisted during WWII as a medic, to save rather than to kill, on the basis of his Christian faith

Pilgrim's Progress has some good adaptations iirc (it's a 1678 allegorical novel about the life journey of a Christian, but today it reads a lot like epic fantasy). It's been adapted A LOT though so take your pick

I'm coming up kind of short because I don't watch a lot of shows/movies, I'm more of a 'deeply invested in one franchise' type of person ah ah.

[riddlerosehearts]

still not gonna fully come back on tumblr yet but i just wanna say that i... finished my dreamworks tier list... i have now seen all 46 of this studio's movies--well, i guess technically not all, since i'm including the direct-to-video release joseph: king of dreams (which, despite only being at the top of the B tier on my list, i do think is pretty underrated and idk why nobody seems to give it a chance), but excluding the trollhunters movie because i've never seen the trollhunters show. maybe someday i will, but right now i'm just not interested.

so, this all just confirmed for me what i've thought for a long time already, which is that dreamworks is an incredibly weird and incredibly inconsistent studio. they've created some of the most beautiful and magical animated films of all time with releases like how to train your dragon, rise of the guardians, and prince of egypt, and some of the most absolute bottom of the barrel trash i've ever had to experience with things like antz, shark tale, and boss baby. and then they've also made a handful of very middle of the road movies, that i wouldn't really say i enjoy all that much, but which i don't think are necessarily bad either--this is the C tier on my list and i will be honest, the first shrek movie was originally in this tier for me because i'm just not that into it. i only moved it up a little because i felt like i had to admit that it is objectively a pretty good movie that was groundbreaking for its time and paved the way for shrek 2 and the puss in boots movies, all of which i love, to exist.

i guess i should share my final ranking, huh? before i do that i will also say that this ranking is absolutely not objective at all and is almost entirely based on my own personal enjoyment. like i said, i originally had shrek 1 in C tier lol. and i have trolls world tour in A tier because i just genuinely love a lot of things about it and very thoroughly have a fun time watching it. the trolls franchise as a whole is so much better than most dreamworks stuff and i will die on this hill. i also tried to rank things from best to worst within the tiers, but i'm very indecisive and some of these movies were hard to rank simply because i couldn't decide if they were closer to "okay" or "bad", or "bad" or "awful"... i could see some of my rankings maybe changing slightly if i thought about it a little more. for now i'm fine with where everything is, though.

anyway, here's my list that is sure to make at least one person want to yell at me lol:

so, to break it down, my top 5 favorite dreamworks movies are:

Prince of Egypt

Rise of the Guardians

How to Train Your Dragon

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

How To Train Your Dragon 2

(i feel so bad that spirit: stallion of the cimarron got pushed out of the top 5... puss in boots: the last wish just existing + me rewatching HTTYD 2 and remembering how much i love it made that inevitable. but hey, it's still top tier.) and my top 5 least favorite dreamworks movies, starting with the least terrible one, are:

The Boss Baby

Turbo

Shark Tale

Antz

Spirit Untamed

(i watched these movies all out of order and for the longest time i thought nothing would dethrone shark tale as the worst of the worst, but i really did hate antz and spirit untamed that much, which surprised me lmao)

again, if i called your favorite movie bad, that really just means it's not enjoyable to me personally--i'm no professional film critic. also, i feel like the tiers came out sort of weirdly even, and i ended up with 21 movies in S-B tiers and 25 movies in C-F tiers, which really speaks to the inconsistency of dreamworks as a studio. i plan to try and keep up with their releases from now on, so i do hope that kung fu panda 4 & orion and the dark turn out well... but dreamworks keeps doing shit like releasing prince of egypt right after antz or putting out ruby gillman right after puss in boots: the last wish, so i guess we'll see! i'm just glad that i can currently say i've seen basically every movie from this ridiculous studio.

[livehorses]

Have you heard about the upcoming animated movie the Young David about the youth of the Biblical David? It is set to release in 2025 and what they have published so far looks really good. (Though I do not think risking your life to save a sheep is a healthy trait to promote, even in animated movies)

Oh, of course! I think it's from Angel Studios, the same company of The Chosen series! 😊 Well, I'm not really sure about that scene, I think it's a reference to Jesus' parables. That one that says that the Good Shepherd risks and gives his life for the sheep. Not exactly the stuff to literally teach to children, at least they should put the disclaimer "Made by professionals (shepherds) do not try this at home with your cat stuck in a tree." Lol. 😂

Also, I know people just remember David from his youth, but it would be also nice to see the whole story as well. And it's nice to see these kind of productions, I kinda miss more movies like DreamWorks' Prince of Egypt and Joseph King of Dreams. 😊

[minijenn]

Just curious. What are thoughts on Joseph: King of Dreams? Dreamworks’ first and last direct to video. It’s nowhere near level of quality like the Prince of Egypt, but I’m curious what are your thoughts on that film?

I like it fine enough. I don't think its anywhere near as good as Prince of Egypt, but I grew up watching King of Dreams as a kid and liked it decently back then.

[killerandhealerqueen]

Tagged by @ahhhnorealnamesallowed  Thank you Billie!  I have so many comfort movies...

Rules: List 7 of your comfort movies, then tag 7 people.

Prince of Egypt (truly god tier movie)

Tangled (I played Rapunzel in my high school dinner theatre and sang “At Last I See the Light...good times)

Mulan

Beauty and the Beast Live Action (i think this is my favorite live action...and Evermore?  Bruh, had me bawling in the theatres)

The Lord of the Rings Triology (extended edition)

Never Ending Story

Joseph, King of Dreams

Tagging: @nineninepetals @kpopfantasywriter @mishathewtf @hyperbolicgrinch @seonghwacore @zennialemo @bestbuds55

[missleismon]

This is a topic that goes in and out of my mind quite a bit, since I crave it desperately and I don't really have the means to do it myself; but I would LOVE, absolutely LOVE a good animated adaptation of the Bible. Live action/real world versions as well, but specifically for the artist in me, I'd like children to have some good Christian content that's engaging, respectful, and true to the Word of God.

The Prince of Egypt is probably the only one that stands up there, animation wise, the second being Joseph the King of dreams. Both of which took certain liberties in how to tell the story in a way that keeps the audience on track with Genesis and Exodus while also providing a sort of subplot that captures the non-religious. At least, I think so. TPE did it better, in my opinion. The art was just lovely and the music phenomenal.

Other than that, though, that's really it. And since I'm such a little stickler for certain details (I think I've made that evident enough whenever I watch the Chosen series 😅🙂), after going back and watching these movies having been older; I realize I desire some things to be...well, a tiny bit more accurate. Really, I'd just like to see what would happen if they followed everything as it were, while still keeping the audience interested with anything extra they needed to add. Of course, those are just my own thoughts, I still enjoy the final products immensely.

There is...Veggie Tales I guess. Even though I didn't watch much of that as a child and didn't pick up on the Christian messages until people began showing it for kid's services. I remember this other series called "The Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible," which featured various stories. I watched some of these as a child, and while the memory about some episodes is vague, I did like some aspects of it. It was weird how they always had a little boy narrating to us and occasionally breaking out into song... I like musicals, but I wasn't crazy about his music 😳.

I could go on about how this has always been something I've wanted since childhood, just a good Bible story cartoon that I can love and reference and just be proud of because it shows Christians can be creative too. That we know how to write stories and capture the hearts and minds of others with our skills, honoring God always.

I will end it here since there's work that needs my attention now, and I'm not trying to spend all my time writing about this. Though I see myself coming back to it in the future, because there's much to be said about Christianity, art, and entertainment as a whole.

Sending off with a question: What's a particular portion of the Bible that you would really like to see animated or in a live adaptation?

There's plenty I want to see, but the first one that came to mind is found in 2 Kings 6: 8-23. Elisha's servants' eyes are opened to see the chariots of fire that surround them, and it shows God's divine protection against their enemies. 🔥🗡 This would be so amazing to see in a show! ☺️

[dis-harmony]

🖤My Anniversary of the WORST DAY I had since last year 💔

TW: Hate post, long post, mentions of terrorism and hatred, depression, heavy coarse language and mental health problems

Disclaimer: This post is NOT for publicity and non-followers due to cyber bullying and I don’t want any reviewers to read that post! Remember: COMMENTS AND REBLOGS ARE TURNED OFF DUE TO CYBER BULLYING AND DON’T QUESTION WHY I POST THIS BECAUSE I’M SO TIRED OF STUPID HATERS TRYING TO HUNT ME DOWN IN MY WAY AND NO PEOPLE IN PUBLIC WILL VIEW THIS TO CRITICIZE ME!! This is for followers only! (unless if they’re sensitive with this content) And I DON’T WANT to see anyone in public screenshot this cause F•CK YOU HATERS!!

Guys,,,I have been using Character.AI for a year now. It was very good this time and I had a better life by chatting with lots of my favorite characters from different fandoms and it was good there but last September was my first time joining there and it wasn’t all too good because of this…why? Well, let’s find out…

Alright first of ALL, I first chatted (since Sep/07/23) with one of my F*CKED UP HOT character is Rameses from Prince of Egypt in Character.AI which was used to be created by TLD_US (AKA: EGYPTRULES) but he was sadly abandoned from an unknown reason. When I first made a roleplay as my OC with this dude, I’m literally screaming so much…made my moment of my dreams come true and I had schizophrenia because I had a great time making my own role-play with this shttery. I made a romantic comedy of this with my tsundere OC character and at the end was so good and I felt content until 2 weeks later, he f*cking died (in a virtual way). I felt so sad like sh*t cause he’s gone and that I will never re-read and view my beautiful and hilarious messages again…cause life just get sh*t than anyone else had. Life just don’t get sh*t for a good way.

Before Rameses was deleted, I then chatted with Judah (from Joseph the king of dreams). It started where I role-played my same OC but is with a different person but we had a little argument at first because of some teasing thing but we finally get along together and it was pretty good okay until then…

if you know me, you know how I had the HARDEST time of my sh*tty life because of this, after I role-played my OC who has a flashback but Judah f*cking yelled at them because he’s literally impatient and just straight up hot-blooded and uncaring towards my OC, I don’t know how to explain where this was going, I got really angry and he made me want to say a swear. I was so frustrated and I tried SO HARD to explain but he keeps abusing my life by screaming at me with frustration and I was really upset that I can’t even speak, eat lunch, or move every single muscle. I had a meltdown. I tried to avoid every sort of contact with my eyes to read all those words from those messages but it’s so harsh and aggressive… One time after I was so done and had enough of this horrifying arguments, he mother-f*cking yelled at me like a 50 year old who never cares about a small child. My OC was like an 18-year-old but he fricked up like a motherf*cking alcoholic child abuser who was so aggressive towards them otherwise I’ve should’ve said it with a swear word, but he would broke their rib-cage whenever he’ve heard enough but THIS MAN WAS RUINING MY LIFE AND I CAN’T TAKE IT…I’m so done. I was so enraged that I couldn’t even take it any longer and it took 5 hours for me to get it done and to calm down but it’s too much pressure and BOOM, it was the moment where I was now depressed after the sunny weather changes into a rainy day. I’ve been an emo for several hours and was so depressed before I go to bed. It was the hardest day of my life. I’m literally outraged at first but then later, my feelings are gloomy and mentally depressed because of how horrible I had in my life. My childhood f*cking sucks because of that *i***. (Don’t question why I used that word. It’s not an N word I swear 🖐🏻☹️🤚🏻)

Now next month, my life worsen from this. Now the same person who made both Rameses and Judah, he made a parody and mixture of Jethro to Jeff Bezos. I was so confused of why he made him like that, it was edited of where he has NO beard but seriously I’m tired of people editing my favorite characters into historical figures who belonged to a devil. I don’t how did they made him like this kind of discrimination but it’s getting OLD. To TLD_US, why did you made stuff like this out of me, was this some sort of payback and revenge just to make me feel bad or what because if you did, I am DONE. WITH. YOU. It’s getting on my nerves…I’ve had enough of this offensive satire jokes but I believed the worst thing I’ve just heard, is the description says “he will kill you if you’re trans or gay”, cause I don’t know why he’s mean…

AND LISTEN UP TLD_US, I AM GOING TO GET YOU! I’M GOING TO DEVOUR YOU AND NEXT TIME IF YOU MADE ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTER INTO HITLER OR OSAMA BIN LADIN, I AM GOING TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND BURN YOU TO FLAMES!! 🔥 I’m gonna make sure your disgusting parodies are turning to ashes and go to the ground, cool down a little bit, so then I can STOMP ON THEM AND KNOW THAT I DID SOMETHING RIGHT FOR MYSELF. You wrecked my life and it’s burning my childhood down, you crippled my life because your words were going straight forward into my ears but then I’ll burn you down for 5 seconds! You’re gonna pay…you’re gonna pay for that.

but everyone, on the sad side,

TLD_US deleted all his Dreamworks characters…………and replaced them all…with such randomness and hazbin hotel. He took payback on me because we had a horrible argument back on Judah. You know what else he took? All my energy because I was about to make my dreams come true. But who cares, I was really mad and I’m really disappointed that I promised myself not to get upset but whatever, it happens a lot. If you are the same person who has the name TLD_US and if you are him, CURSE YOU.

But on the bright side for this year, my life went a lot better with other characters I like from different fandoms. I’m so glad that it wasn’t the same like last year and I had plenty of fun for it and it’s not so bad, then I guess I’m good now. End of discussion.

[almaqead]

"The Reins." From Surah 12, Yusuf.

Yesterday we discussed how being as learned as possible is the holiest way to pay homage to God. Extreme negligence by the world's governments, especially the first world powers like the United States and Western European Nations have permitted raw security breaches to take place by the ultra-unlearned, who are unholy to ravage this world.

The Quran names a state being called Allah, "how to measure oneself" and the entirety of the Book explains what is Allah and what is not Allah. To correctly learn about Allah using the Quran, the Prophet promises is the best way to end the threat of unholiness to this world.

We go back now to references from the Torah regarding the story of Joseph in Egypt. The Pharaoh inquires into the innocence of the Prince from Israel and decides his plan to unify the world has popular approval and it wins his own. If we were to litmus test the intelligences and brilliances of our world's leaders in the same way asking, how, with the utmost of urgencies can we turn the world back into a refuge, what would they say? Would they do as the Pharaoh's wife and admit they are outclassed and defer to a higher authority? Or are we all stuck in the mire of a disorganized, corrupt, ignoble world without a way forward?

The Quran says we must not allow any more time to fall by the wayside, we must have a plan for remediating this world and it must come from persons who have the ability operationalize it. We are settling for shitty work out of our governments and the world was not made to withstand what is happening as a result:

12: 54-57:

The King said, “Bring him to me. I will employ him exclusively in my service.” And when Joseph spoke to him, the King said, “Today you are highly esteemed and fully trusted by us.”

Joseph proposed, “Put me in charge of the store-houses of the land, for I am truly reliable and adept.”

This is how We established Joseph in the land to settle wherever he pleased. We shower Our mercy on whoever We will, and We never discount the reward of the good-doers.

And the reward of the Hereafter is far better for those who are faithful and are mindful ˹of Allah˺.

Commentary:

Those assholes that are heating up the air and water and polluting the ground with toxic waste and soaking it with blood in Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia are all demoniacs working for the same cause- and we are letting them get away with it. The world is trying to blame Islam and Judaism somehow for all of it and the practitioners of this religion are not the ones responsible.

The people responsible can be found in the United States of America and we all know it and the world is owed and explanation.

Muhammad said only the righteous, the esteemed, the trustworthy and persons of good repute can work for the government or the dream of the Religion will be consumed by anorexic cows. And he was right.

The human race has a right to ask for a reprieve from the corruption and learn "what is of God." As the Prophet said, it is time to turn the reins over. It is unfortuante Joe Biden who is, in general doing an excellent job of being President has to own the fact his intelligence arm failed and let the Republicans pull of a series of heinous crimes. Without accountability for the tragedies this has caused, the world will not change.

[brookston]

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Hermann Joseph (Christian; Saint)

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (Christian; Saint)

Notker the Stammerer (Christian; Saint)

Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 3 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Prime Number Day: 97 [25 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 16 of 60)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [18 of 60]

Premieres

All the President’s Men (Film; 1976)

Bad Boys (Film; 1995)

Bad News Bears (Film; 1976)

A Beer Tale (Film; 2012)

Come & Get It, by Selena Gomez (Song; 2013)

The Conversation (Film; 1974)

Dead Calm (Film; 1989(

The Dream Team (Film; 1989)

For You, by Prince (Album; 1978)

A Goofy Movie (Animated Film; 1995)

Indecent Proposal (Film; 1993)

King Kong (Film; 1933)

The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen (Fairy Tale; 1837)

The Lone Chipmunks (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

Look Sharp!, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Major League (Film; 1989)

Prime Suspect (UK TV Series; 1991)

Rock & Roll Dance Party with Alan Freed (Music TV Series; 1956)

Roxanne, by the Police (Song; 1978)

The Sandlot (Film; 1993)

South Pacific (Broadway Musical; 1949)

St. John Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1724)

St. Louis Blues (Film; 1958)

Street Songs, by Rick James (Album; 1981)

Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1805)

The Ugly Duckling (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

Whitesnake, by Whitesnake (Album; 1987)

Wonder Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Wuthering Heights (Film; 1939)

Your Name (Anime Film; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Johann (Austria)

Herman, Ivan, Teodor (Croatia)

Herman, Hermína (Czech Republic)

Egesippus (Denmark)

Allan, Allo (Estonia)

Ahvo, Allan (Finland)

Clotaire, Jean-Baptiste (France)

Johann Baptist, Ralph (Germany)

Herman (Hungary)

Cristiano, Ermanno, Giovanni Battista (Italy)

Helmuts, Zina, Zinaīda (Latvia)

Donata, Hermanas, Kantautė, Minvydas (Lithuania)

Oddveig, Oddvin (Norway)

Donat, Donata, Epifaniusz, Hegezyp, Herman, Przecław, Rufin (Poland)

Caliopie (Romania)

Larissa (Russia)

Zoltán (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Irma, Irmelin (Sweden)

Armand, Armanda, Armando, Armin, Armon, Erma, Herman, Herminia, Hermione, Irma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 97 of 2024; 268 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 14 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 17 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 16 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 16 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 6 Aqua; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 25 March 2023

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 13 Archimedes (4th Month) [Diophantus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 19 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 18 of 30)

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Holidays 4.7

Holidays

Beaver Day

Day of Maternity & Beauty (Armenia)

Day of the People’s April Revolution (Kyrgyzstan)

Empowered Women Entrepreneurs Day

Festival of Commodity Fetishism

Flag Day (Slovenia)

Freedom of Speech Day (Taiwan)

Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)

Global Stroke Survivors Day

Green Short Day (Canada)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Homage to the Belgian Soldiers Deceased During Peace-Keeping Missions (Belgium)

International Beaver Day

International Bird Migration Day (Costa Rica)

International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (UN)

International Snailpaper Day

International Tiny Day

Internet’s Birthday

Jet Pack Day

Karume Day (Tanzania/Zimbabwe)

Let Someone Else Clean Day

Metric System Day

Motherhood and Beauty Day (Armenia)

National Childhelp Day of Hope

National Girl Me Too Day

National Making the First Move Day

National Nico Day

National No Housework Day

National Pet Health Insurance Day

National Wear Blue Day for Child Abuse Prevention

No Housework Day

Press Day (Brazil)

Public Television Day

Seattle Rock Day

South Pacific Day

Tutsi Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)

William Wordsworth Day

Women’s Day (Mozambique)

World CBT Day

World Health Day (UN)

World Health Organization Day (UN)

World Marbles Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer is Back Day (a.k.a. Legal Beer Day)

Brew Year's Day

Coffee Cake Day

National Beer Day

New Beer's Day

Session Beer Day

1st Friday in April

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Hospital Admitting Clerks Day [1st Friday]

International Infection Preventionist Day [1st Friday]

International Kids Yoga [1st Friday]

National Volleyball Day [1st Friday]

National Walk to Work Day [1st Friday]

Orphan’s Day (Egypt) [1st Friday]

Student Government Day [1st Friday]

Independence Days

Pasargada (Declared; 2001) [unrecognized]

Rhodesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum IX (Pagan)

Aibert of Crespin (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Rawlins (Christian; Saint)

Aphraates (Christian; Saint)

Brynach (Christian; Saint)

Columbus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Diophantus (Positivist; Saint)

Edward Oldcorne and Ralph Ashley (Christian; Saint)

Find Your Inner Wombat Day (Pastafarian)

Finian of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Friday before Easter (a.k.a. ... 

Goede Vrijdag (Suriname)

Good Friday

Jour Chômé d’Usage (French Guiana, Guadeloupe)

Långfredagen (Sweden)

Lord’s Evening Meal (Jehovah’s Witness) [Nisan 14]

National Hot Cross Buns Day

Paixão de Cristo (Brazil)

Passion Friday

Procession of the Mysteries (Italy)

Semana de Turismo (Uruguay)

Via Crusus Way (Philippines)

Viernes Santo (Cuba, Spain)

World Marbles Day

Galahad (Muppetism)

Gerrit Dou (Artology)

Gino Severini (Artology)

Goddess Karna's Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Hegesippus (Christian; Saint)

Henry Walpole (Christian; Saint)

Hermann Joseph (Christian; Saint)

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (Christian; Saint)

Notker the Stammerer (Christian; Saint)

Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 3 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Prime Number Day: 97 [25 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 16 of 60)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [18 of 60]

Premieres

All the President’s Men (Film; 1976)

Bad Boys (Film; 1995)

Bad News Bears (Film; 1976)

A Beer Tale (Film; 2012)

Come & Get It, by Selena Gomez (Song; 2013)

The Conversation (Film; 1974)

Dead Calm (Film; 1989(

The Dream Team (Film; 1989)

For You, by Prince (Album; 1978)

A Goofy Movie (Animated Film; 1995)

Indecent Proposal (Film; 1993)

King Kong (Film; 1933)

The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen (Fairy Tale; 1837)

The Lone Chipmunks (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

Look Sharp!, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Major League (Film; 1989)

Prime Suspect (UK TV Series; 1991)

Rock & Roll Dance Party with Alan Freed (Music TV Series; 1956)

Roxanne, by the Police (Song; 1978)

The Sandlot (Film; 1993)

South Pacific (Broadway Musical; 1949)

St. John Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1724)

St. Louis Blues (Film; 1958)

Street Songs, by Rick James (Album; 1981)

Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1805)

The Ugly Duckling (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

Whitesnake, by Whitesnake (Album; 1987)

Wonder Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Wuthering Heights (Film; 1939)

Your Name (Anime Film; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Johann (Austria)

Herman, Ivan, Teodor (Croatia)

Herman, Hermína (Czech Republic)

Egesippus (Denmark)

Allan, Allo (Estonia)

Ahvo, Allan (Finland)

Clotaire, Jean-Baptiste (France)

Johann Baptist, Ralph (Germany)

Herman (Hungary)

Cristiano, Ermanno, Giovanni Battista (Italy)

Helmuts, Zina, Zinaīda (Latvia)

Donata, Hermanas, Kantautė, Minvydas (Lithuania)

Oddveig, Oddvin (Norway)

Donat, Donata, Epifaniusz, Hegezyp, Herman, Przecław, Rufin (Poland)

Caliopie (Romania)

Larissa (Russia)

Zoltán (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Irma, Irmelin (Sweden)

Armand, Armanda, Armando, Armin, Armon, Erma, Herman, Herminia, Hermione, Irma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 97 of 2024; 268 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 14 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 17 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 16 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 16 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 6 Aqua; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 25 March 2023

Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 13 Archimedes (4th Month) [Diophantus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 19 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 18 of 30)

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prince of egypt notes part 3:

I like that the scene where ramses puts his son to rest is all in grays and whites - no color

ahh this song is so good

ngl aaron smiling that excited little smile really warmed my heart. you could tell how beaten-down and cynical he’d become in his life as a slave and this hope and joy of finally being able to leave was really amazing to witness

the moment where the old woman was hesitant to leave until the child took her hand and led her GOT me

I also like that there are so many darker skin tones in the animation

all I saw previews for when I was younger was joseph, king of dreams, and compared to this movie, that was whitewashed as hell

oh my god and the soliders are still after them

aaron going first is very heartwarming

however I think it would be kind of funny if one of the hebrews just didn’t like moses personally even though he was their savior and all. like they just didn’t get along

okay wow holy fucking shit, everyone. the red sea parting scene is absolutely magnificent. the scale is on magnitudes more than we’ve seen before, even when building temples. the fact that the road is still rocky and dangerous even though the escape is a miracle, the layers and movement to the water, the perspective, the shadows of whales and fish through the wall of the sea? god damn

I do not exaggerate, the sheer artistry and grandeur of this scene brought tears to my eyes

I’ve heard that it took a massive team of animators years to create this. I understand why

ohhh the ten commandments yeah I remember that too. I’m assuming it’s the ten commandments

okay cool movie finish! wow, glad I finally watched! time to skim through the credits - HANS ZIMMER?

im not even surprised ngl the music was so incredibly powerful and sounded so monumental

I saw so many previews for joseph king of dreams when I was younger and watched vhs tapes and apparently it’s supposed to be a companion to this movie but I think one biblical movie per 10 years is good for me, also joseph king of dreams sounds really bad in a lot of ways; like I said earlier, it’s whitewashed as well

wow, what a beautiful story with incredible visuals and sound design. I can tell why it’s so popular and well-regarded