Even before it went into limited release in late 1999, Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia," seemed to tease biblical connections with an enigmatic movie poster depicting a rain of frogs. The film contains numerous background references to a line of scripture, Exodus 8:2, in which the prophet Moses, seeking to liberate the Israelite people from slavery in Egypt, tells the Egyptian Pharaoh: "If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs."
"Magnolia" also has a boy named Dixon (Emmanuel Johnson) identify himself as "the prophet" as he raps about "the devil" and "the good Lord." In 2019, when "Magnolia" was...
The post Why Magnolia Has So Many References to the Book of Exodus appeared first on /Film.
"Magnolia" also has a boy named Dixon (Emmanuel Johnson) identify himself as "the prophet" as he raps about "the devil" and "the good Lord." In 2019, when "Magnolia" was...
The post Why Magnolia Has So Many References to the Book of Exodus appeared first on /Film.
- 3/28/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
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