The Prince of Egypt's 7-minute opening doesn't just introduce Moses — it immediately puts baby Moses on a miniature hero's journey he doesn't even know he's on. He's carried by forces outside his control, protected through impossible circumstances, and survives things that should destroy him. That microcosm echoes and foreshadows the entire film to come. Introduce your hero not with exposition, but by dropping them into their own compressed version of the journey they'll spend the rest of the story living.
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