The Ten Commandments 2022

It's an Easter tradition for me, since I was a boy. Not sure why they advanced it a week. Anyhoo, I have my own fabulous copy. For such a violent movie, I find it very relaxing.

Memnet was such a bitch.

My favorite character was Bithia. I don't know why. She just seemed so sweet.

It drives me crazy that it's shown for Easter when it's a movie about PASSOVER.

I hear Chris Pine is up for the remake 😏

It was overplayed melodrama in 1956.

Now it looks more like an overproduced high school pageant.

Chris Pine would make a great Moses, R4!

I loved when the river water turned to blood.

The special effects were so good, considering it was 1956.

^ They must have used a lot of Cherry Kool-Aid for that scene

I’d bet Yul Brenner threw a mean fuck back in his day.

I'd say, R9.

But I do find it odd that he's an uncircumcised Jewish man.

Yul had a nice dong, and even nicer low hanging balls.

Anne Baxter was picking sawdust out of her teeth for 10 years after we filmed this.

Joshua could pound my mussy 7 ways to Sunday.

Is Joshua the John Derek character? He was hot.

Yul was Jewish?

This is one of my favorite movies EVER!

One of my all time favorite films, I watch it every year on ABC. The movie art sets, costumes, and special effects still amazes me, long dramatic epic Hollywood movie making at its finest, campy as all hell, but I still love it!!

I can never pay attention to a single word Yul Brynner is saying...fap-fap-fap...

The Ten Commandments wouldn't be nearly as great without Anne Baxter chewing up scenery in all her 1956(BC?) garb...

[quote]Is Joshua the John Derek character? He was hot.

Yes, his slavish devotion to Moses and well oiled chest makes him a yearly DL favorite.

Thanks for the heads up when this is on. I can't even remember the last time I watched network TV.

My favorite part is when the dance troupe from Chicago - I mean Ethiopia - comes in and brings Pharaoh his tribute. Lol.

"And such a beauuuutiful enemy."

Memnet should have kept her big mouth shut!

I love Anne Baxter's cone bras; the lass had quite a set of tits on her

Mel Gibson would be better than Chris Pine.

Wow, I needs to say that movie now. This is some wonderfully hammy acting!

^see that movie.

Thou shalt not covet thy FTM pussy.

Brynner, Heston, Baxter, Derek, I have to say one thing, as hackneyed as this film is DeMille got his principal actors when they were at their most beautiful.

They were wearing metal wrist watches, lolol!

My favorite line of the entire film.

[quote] It drives me crazy that it's shown for Easter when it's a movie about PASSOVER.

You do realize, R3, that Passover/Pesach was the foreshadowing Christ’s death on the cross? Jesus is the true paschal lamb whose blood offers salvation to everyone who receives him, not just the Jews held captive in Egypt who marked their doors with the literal blood of lambs.

He looked sooo fine!

[quote]I’d bet Yul Brenner threw a mean fuck back in his day.

This is funny... "Mo-o-o-ses"

Moses supposes

Hackneyed!? This is artful and effective movie making. We are still watching it decades later. Not everything great is "high art".

Brenner should have thrown a fuck to Cappucine when she was depressed in Lausanne.

Wasn’t Capucine a lesbian?

I could never figure out why Brynner wears a bowling pin on his head.

Talk about an anachronism!

I haven't seen this film in YEARS, but doesn't it have this howler of a line, " His God IS God"?

Capucine, my bad. 1 C.

I believe bi. She was fucking William Holden for sure. Somehow they all ended up in Lausanne and environs.

Brynner had Swiss-German, Russian, Buryat (Mongol) and Romani ancestry. He was born in Vladivostok, Russia's leading seaport on its Pacific coast.

Ann Baxter was great in this movie. But not as great as in her "Colombo" episode.

Heston was peak hotness in this movie. And he is shirtless most of the time...

@ R43

It's Anne.

And Columbo.

Oh, Dear, R45, sooooorrryyy

Anne Baxter's acting in TTC is such that it seems as if she has flashing neon signs pointing to her vagina, with signs saying "Moo-ses! Here it is! Come and get it!"

My favorite part is when Lily Munster gives a ain't no mountain high enough type mini speech to Moses. I think it's beautiful.

Wow, I never realized Vincent Price was in there.

And the sado-maso scene with John Derek is very GAY.

I only watch for Yul, he is HAF!

Agreed, R51. Did Yul become an asshole later in his life too, like Heston?

Yul had the sexiest mouth.

[quote]I haven't seen this film in YEARS, but doesn't it have this howler of a line, " His God IS God"?

It's the most important message in the movie.

And I think that's the scene where she looks directly at the camera, R48.

This is one of the best mythologies ever put to screen.

Yul was in the middle of his Broadway run in "The King and I" when he interrupted his Broadway run to go to Hollywood for "The King and I". He then returned to continue his Broadway role.

I like how Cecil B de Mille, on his 4th heart attack, clutches the microphone in the prologue.

I love this movie, but always feel it slows down once Moses is cast into the desert.

^^^ Sorry.

This should read...

Yul was in the middle of his Broadway run in "The King and I" when he interrupted his Broadway run to go to Hollywood for "The Ten ComandmentsI". He then returned to continue his Broadway role.

This movie ranks right up there with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, in terms of holiday classics.

It's a must see.

I don't think Yul aged into an A-hole like Heston

"I love this movie, but always feel it slows down once Moses is cast into the desert. "

40 years of wandering aimlessly doesn't make for an exciting movie

[quote]It was overplayed melodrama in 1956. Now it looks more like an overproduced high school pageant.

R5 Which is why I love it!

The more it ages the more campy it gets. Except for a couple of old Jewish guys it's the waspiest bunch of Jews/Egyptians ever assembled. At least they used black Ethiopians

[quote] It drives me crazy that it's shown for Easter when it's a movie about PASSOVER.

[quote] You do realize, [R3], that Passover/Pesach was the foreshadowing Christ’s death on the cross?

R31 Deplorable thieving Xtian annihilating Jews, their history and culture.

The celebration of the liberation of the Jews from 214 years of slavery in Egypt, Pesach, begins at sundown Friday 15 April.

Only Yul could look dignified with a construction cone on his head; as far as becoming an asshole in later life, I think I remember reading he had to work literally up to his death from cancer due to financial problems, so he may have just been a bitter old man while Heston lived a long life of comfort, pushing guns even after the Columbine shooting. Heston has a lot to answer for in terms of making gun ownership this FREEDUM rallying cry

Vincent Price is hard to notice, because he plays it straight instead of his typical campy, over the top performances of other movies. Maybe for big budget pictures, he decided to reign it in.

John Derek really wasn't a great actor. Just a pretty boy (at least then). And he knew it.

Vincent Price is actually quite menacing as the evil architect.

I had the choice of aunties houses to watch it when I was a kid. Thelma was an aging party girl, chain smoker, and loved peplums, bible epics and gladiator type movies. If the movie was filled with sexy he-man, she was on it. She served me Fresca and ate my Easter Candy with me. Aunt Katharine was devoutly Catholic but sarcastic as hell and willing to offer forgiveness for everyones sins in her family (except her own). She knitted, barely watching it, and discussed the moral dilemmas presented.

Let me guess, R70. You bonded strongly with Aunt Thelma, right? Over sexy he-men that is…

R70 that sounds like a blast, either way.

I assume they both knew your little secret?

Well they never said anything but Thelma could see my intense interest in the same movies that got her panties moist as well. she was my GREAT Aunt. Her handsome son was in the navy so rarely at her home so I would go up to his room and look at all his jock stuff. I ended up much more like Katharine with the snark and sarcasm which ran in that side of the family.

She knew R73. They both knew. They probably had a few giggles about you and your clueless father when they got together. I had a great aunt like that too, a retired operetta soubrette. She was famous for making the moist HIDEOUS gifts to their relatives (think miniature plastic beer steins) .

[quote] She was famous for making the moist HIDEOUS gifts to their relatives (think miniature plastic beer steins) .

Moist hideous?

I'm trying to think of a witty retort, but I got nothing.

Yul is even hotter in a pirate flick called The Buccaneer, with Heston, Claire Bloom, EG Marshall and tragic Inger Stevens. I think it's called the Buccaneer.

Think Huckabee-Sanders, R75

^ Excellent! 👍

[quote] Think Huckabee-Sanders

BLARF!

The smell!

What's a good drink accompaniment to watch the Ten Commandments?

Blood of the lamb red wine, of course. Though you could also make some jazzy cocktail that Anne Bancroft would drink while sitting in her trailer icing her nipples to make them look perky

@r80

This shit...

R81, would Ann Baxter fish the ice cubes out of her drink to ice her nipples with?

[quote] Though you could also make some jazzy cocktail that Anne Bancroft would drink while sitting in her trailer icing her nipples to make them look perky

You're obviously mistaking her for Nomi Malone.

You're all silly, everyone knows Egyptians didn't have ice

Egyptians drank everything straight up?

^ I think they invented beer

mead - fermented honey

“Jewel of the Nile” - of course!

It's a good opportunity to repent for any anti-Semitic or anti-Israel statements made in the last year.

R66 - FYI, Jesus was born, lived, died, and resurrected as a Jew. Too bad your ancestors “missed the boat” by not recognizing Him as the Messiah foretold by the Jewish prophets and spat on him instead.

You're welcome

I only watch it until he puts clothes on. I've never seen the rest. Oh the things I would do to Daddy Heston in this movie and "Planet Of The Apes". Dry brittle hair and all. Something about him and Clint Eastwood back then really get me going.

“ I only watch it until he puts clothes on”

Thanks for starting my day, R93!

Only two more days!

Moses parting the Red Sea never gets old.

Also, Ramses is still sexy as hell!

Memnet. The first DLer.

Yes, R96.

Those special effects were surprisingly realistic, considering it was the 1950's.

R44, Heston was even more naked and hotter in Ben Hur a few years later. Another Easter favorite for all the wrong reasons (Jesus who?)

Memnet is the ur-Maiden Aunt.

[quote] Anne Baxter's acting in TTC is such that it seems as if she has flashing neon signs pointing to her vagina, with signs saying "Moo-ses! Here it is! Come and get it!"

She was the fleshpot of Egypt!

[quote]Too bad your ancestors “missed the boat” by not recognizing Him as the Messiah

R91 rationalizes/justifies 1,700 years of discrimination, persecution, pogroms, ghettoization, expulsions and genocide of the Jews. Monsterous thieving Xtians.

R99 I find him hotter in "The Ten Commandments". He seems to wear fewer clothes (at least in the first part).

And the Egyptian side-lock is sexy, both for Heston and Yul.

R103: Heston, doubt it. He was such a choir boy. Yul, lol maybe.

I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid.

The last plague of Egypt, with the eerie green fog, filtering through the streets and eventually into the palace was very scary.

Seeing it now, it's still very effective.

Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!

[quote]The last plague of Egypt, with the eerie green fog, filtering through the streets and eventually into the palace was very scary.

Agreed; I never saw it on the big screen - just TV - but I remember being kind of scared, like it was God's way of occasionally cleaning house of these people who did not regularly go to church (which my family did not)

Do they ever show it in the Castro Theatre? That could be fun. I would love to see a movie like this on the big screen. I would dress up in Old Egyptian.

[quote] Do they ever show it in the Castro Theatre? That could be fun. I would love to see a movie like this on the big screen. I would dress up in Old Egyptian.

That would be great fun.

I'm thinking it could be done like Rocky Horror.

Where the audience interacts with the movie and shouts out questions or witty responses to the campier lines in the film.

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before??

To R13, absolutely agree, Joshua was "fine as Fuck" he could pound me until I converted to Judaism. I would share with his slut wife.

Got to see this on the big screen a few years ago. It's magnificent, and magnificently campy.

My late mother told me she went to see it in 1957 with her best friend and the best friend's mother, who disapproved of movies generally but went to see The Ten Commandments because it was "religious." I wonder if she got the campy aspects of it all.

Are you a master builder or a master butcher??

Or just a mean old queen???

Nefirtiri to miserable bitch (and Datalounge founding member) Memnet:

[quote] Well?

[quote] What croakings of doom, have you today??

Bwahahaha.

That should be the Datalounge motto!

To R63...The best part when hot Moses up the mountain to talk to GOD, and they have the HOT ORGY with the Golden Calf. Edward G Robinson has the best line "Where is your GOD now Moses". Poor Joshua needs comforting& all the hot sweaty mens are partying and all hard, nobody to suck them off, Fuck them hard!!

Look at the hot buff guys carrying the Golden Calf.

Oh yeah, Mr. DeMille knew what he was doing!

This movie is the best. The BEST. On so many levels.

Charlton Heston flashing his rather old ass in Planet of the Apes was still best 😛

Was Heston really such a choir boy? I mean with these looks, surrounded by pussy galore, which he constantly had to touch. He was supposedly rather progressive in the 50s, e.g. with respect to racial integration, and became this NRA asshole only late in life.

^ I always heard he had a thing for effeminate young black men

[quote] ^ I always heard he had a thing for effeminate young black men

Rofl. Get the fuck outta here.

The guy turned hard core right-winger.

By the time he reached old age, he was a big time racist.

^ Yep, just the kind of cover a famous guy would go for to divert attention away from his lust of effeminate young black men

Ever notice how all the Republicans who claim to be anti-pedo are in fact pedos? 🤔

Some of you are still living in 2008.

What happened in 2008 that makes you say such an odd thing?

R123: Heston died in 2008.

^ His history didn't die with him

Memnet's pussy stinks!

^ I know

Memnet could hiss like an asp in a chamber pot.

Climb out of the muck Israelites and don't forget to watch The Ten Commandments tonight.

Let it be so, let it be done!

TOMORROW night, R129.

A message from the Lord told me that the Ten Commandments is on tonight, Saturday at 7:00 PM EST

Your god IS god, R131.

^ Gods were so competitive back in the day

My God says your God is a dickhead

Lol R131/R132.

Silly geese.

Thanks, op, I almost missed it, because God forbid ABC should air this on actual Easter Sunday.

"Where's your Messiah nnneeeoowww, see?"

My God says ABC is not streaming 4 free.

[quote] My God says ABC is not streaming 4 free.

So let it be written.

So let it be done.

You silly geese made me so curious I shelled out $14 to buy the movie on iTunes.

It's on now. Since when does Saturday prime time start at 7pm?

“Your tongue will dig your grave, Memnet.”

Is Anne Baxter's ham-formance (which I love) considered a foundational source and influence on Drag?

And there it is- my favorite color of all of Anne's gowns.

This should have aired next Friday 4/15 which is both Passover and good Friday

"You're a sharp-clawed treacherous little peacock."

Man, I gotta believe the screenwriting crew had a blast.

I’m gonna watch it for the 1st time tonight on ABC in a few minutes!

A drinking game where one imbibes every time Anne Baxter says "Moses" is suicide. A more reasonable drinking game is to imbibe when Yul Brynner says "So it shall be written, so it shall be done."

Enjoy, r145!

Is that Mrs. Danvers?

Yes, R148/Della.

And Ann Treadwell!

thanks, r149,

And T'Lar from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Say my name

AND

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖞 𝕾𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖕𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘

Why is this movie so long???!

Kathy Garver, Family Affair's "Cissy" is the little girl who almost forgets her doll during The Exodus.

This movie is pretty good. My 1st time watching it.

Nefertiri's throne smelled like fish when she sees Moses after he returns from Ethiopia.

The sound effects, or lack of appropriate sound canceling, means Nefertiti rattles and clacks every time she turns her head. It’s oddly appropriate for a princess meant to be covered in gold but distracting for modern audiences too!

I read just now that 8,000 to 14,000 extras were hired for TTC.

Vincent Price always made for an excellent lecherous cryptogay.

Cecil de Mille was one hell of a movie mogul

It’s just one of these movies where can tell that the actors enormous fun making it.

Thank you for this thread, I had no idea it was going to be on today!

“So shall it be written, so shall it be done” must’ve been Cecil B DeMille’s directing style.

Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!

"What is she to you?"

"An old woman."

These bible stories along with other sand and sword epics allowed filmmakers to to show some nudity in films.

Why do the birds go on singing?

Mel Brooks did it better:

Mel also did it cheaper and shorter

Dr. Memnet Oz.

Mel Sharples

Where's your messiah now?

This bitch 🙄🙄

So, did we ever determine who Nefertiri was to the king?

Sephora’s sister are all thirsty as fuck.

I love her makeup, R176!

[quote]Mel Brooks did it better

If you prefer Borscht Belt humor to divine camp.

DLers in caftans:

[quote] Who care's? He's a man!

Cheryl parts the Red Sea with a blast of stank from her pussy!

[quote]So, did we ever determine who Nefertiri was to the king?

His hair dresser?

For anyone who may have missed A part of it, see R92

“Bind him between the columns, then take a break….”

Moses, Moses, there is a man among the sheep!

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Fucking Joshua. Moses kills the Master Builder and rather than try to escape he pulls an Ann Romano and projects to the cheap seats in the back.

Quiz Question: Ten Commandment actors Charlton Heston and Vincent Price had something very important in common. But even more interesting Will Smith (!) had the same thing in common with them. Hint: 'Somewhere In Time'.

And Moses took the rod of god in his hands.

[quote]Quiz Question: Ten Commandment actors Charlton Heston and Vincent Price had something very important in common. But even more interesting Will Smith

They all slapped a black dude?

R186

The Omega Man

The Last Man on Earth

Hancock

Not Hancock. "I Am Legend". Will Smith starrer using the original title of Richard Matheson's book. 'The Last Man On Earth' and Omega Man were the other two films which starred Price and Heston.

Who else can soften pharaoh's heart...

or hardness.

These slaves all sound American.

I remember someone in my Jehovah's Witness congregation implied that the goats were fucking the sheep in the scene where Moses meets Jethro's daughters.

[quote] This movie is pretty good. My 1st time watching it.

How very dare you!

This movie was not "pretty good." It was EPIC!

Must suck for your own dad to say another persons name before he dies.

Suck it Ramses 2.

"Your eyes are sharp as they are beautiful."

*Sephorah stares into camera*

He goes up the mountain as Moses and comes down as Barry Gibb.

I love the section where Moses lived in the desert with Zipporah and her family, beneath Mt. Sinai.

It's strangely comforting to me.

Where did they get those shiny duds whilst wondering in the desert for forty years?

We aren’t there yet, R199.

Is it playing right now in the Central Time Zone?

Sure, it’s in all time zones.

When Cameron was in Egypt's land,

Let my Cameron go.

Even in Hawaii?

No se, R204.

One of the most important lessons of the movie is expressed by the admonition of Seti: "Trust no woman."

This movie is 3 hours and 40 minutes long, but it really doesn't feel like it.

It's incredible.

How the fuck did Edward G Robinson end up in this movie.

Damn, it is like a twilight zone episode, r208. What if a gangster suddenly found himself in ancient Egypt, but as a Hebrew slave?

At least Edward G. Robinson was Jewish as was Yul Brynner.

They’re both very pretty women.

But I give a small edge to DeCarlo.

[quote] How the fuck did Edward G Robinson end up in this movie.

The real question is, who WASN'T in this movie?

Pretty much every actor in Hollywood was in The Ten Commandments.

Every time I see the exodus scene I wonder what it would have been like if this really had occurred 🤔

Plus, I think Nefertiri really lost it when Moses came back, even more so when her son died.

Bitch be crazy 😛

FYI that bowling pin that Yul wears on his head is the historically accurate crown of United Egypt!

Upper (or southern, or downstream) Egypt and Lower (upstream or northern) Egypt were seperate kingdoms for a long time, and the crown of Upper Egypt was the bowling pin, and the crown of Lower Egypt was a red semicircle affair. When the two kingdoms were united, the crown was combined into one, a bowling pin with the red semicircle thing at its base.

And here's Yul wearing the crown of United Egypt!

He also wears a lot of things taken from ancient Egyptian statues and paintings, and someone who knows about what dress belongs to what period would probably say that he's wearing fashions from hundreds or thousands of years off period. Stuffed if I know, but I do know he's wearing fairly authentic ancient Egyptian clothes, unlike any of the ladies.

GodDAMN Brynner had good legs.

"So, did we ever determine who Nefertiri was to the king?"

I think she's HIS SISTER!!!

Seriously, some ancient Egyptian dynasties practiced incestuous marriages, where the pharaoh's children married siblings to "keep the bloodline pure". It wasn't just the latecomer Ptolmies, there were far more ancient dynasties, but the practice of incestuous marriage went in and out of style over time. But DeMille liked to sneak a bit of perversity cloaked in sanctimony into his films (see the early campfest "Sign of the Cross"), so he'd definitely be willing to write a brother-sister marriage between unsympathetic characters.

Seriously, why else would there be one woman promised to the next pharaoh? Why wouldn't every noble princess and aristocrat in the land by vying to become his queen? No, the only reason that one woman would be promised to the next pharoah is if he had as much royal blood as he did! Or as Ramses did, and who can blame her for wanting to marry Moses and not her own brother. Sure her brother is even hotter, but eeeeew it's still her brother.

It just came to me that I haven't seen Sephorah since she left with the camels, is she in any scenes after that?

[quote] Egyptian dynasties practiced incestuous marriages, where the pharaoh's children married siblings to "keep the bloodline pure". It wasn't just the latecomer Ptolmies, there were far more ancient dynasties, but the practice of incestuous marriage went in and out of style over time

That's why so many of their offspring were deformed.

Even Tutankhamen was believed to have physical deformities.

[quote] It just came to me that I haven't seen Sephorah since she left with the camels, is she in any scenes after that?

She isn't mentioned much in the Biblical accounts, either.

It's mostly about Moses and Aaron and Joshua.

Yes, at the end when Moses goes up into the mountains to die, or some such.

Hell, he might still be up on Sinai.

Cecil dances around the reality that Nefertiti and Rameses were more than likely brother and sister, though probably by different mothers. Pharaohs could have several wives in addition to concubines. The bigger mystery is why no one bats an eye when Bithia (more than likely Seti's sister) pops up with a kid when her husband is supposedly dead.

Yeah, since they don’t mention mothers that’s probably the case, R219 and R221.

I think I ask the same question every year but I forget the explanation.

I question that as well, R221. How did Bithia get a kid?? The Immaculate Conception was hundreds (thousands?) of years away. 😛

Ah, there's Sephorah.

[quote] The bigger mystery is why no one bats an eye when Bithia (more than likely Seti's sister) pops up with a kid when her husband is supposedly dead.

So the DeMille isn't following the Biblical account exactly.

If I'm not mistaken, everyone knew that Bithia found Moses in a basket and adopted him as her son, including the Pharaoh.

Apparently, everyone knew that Moses was a Hebrew.

It's only when he rejected his Egyptian upbringing, that he was cast out of Egypt.

I thought it was Sephora?

[quote] I thought it was Sephora?

It was Barzini all along

On Bithiah and Moses:

[quote] The biblical account of Moses's birth provides him with a folk etymology to explain the ostensible meaning of his name. He is said to have received it from the Pharaoh's daughter: "he became her son. She named him Moses (מֹשֶׁה Mōše), saying, 'I drew him out (מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ mǝšīṯīhū) of the water'." This explanation links it to the Semitic root משׁה m-š-h, meaning "to draw out".

[quote] The eleventh-century Tosafist Isaac b. Asher haLevi noted that the princess names him the active participle Drawer-out (מֹשֶׁה mōše), not the passive participle Drawn-out (נִמְשֶׁה nīmše), in effect prophesying that Moses would draw others out (of Egypt); this has been accepted by some scholars.

[quote] The Hebrew etymology in the Biblical story may reflect an attempt to cancel out traces of Moses's Egyptian origins. The Egyptian character of his name was recognized as such by ancient Jewish writers like Philo and Josephus. Philo linked Moses's name (Ancient Greek: Μωϋσῆς, romanized: Mōysēs, lit. 'Mōusḗs') to the Egyptian (Coptic) word for 'water' (möu, μῶυ), in reference to his finding in the Nile and the biblical folk etymology. Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, claims that the second element, -esês, meant 'those who are saved'.

[quote] The problem of how an Egyptian princess, known to Josephus as Thermutis (identified as Tharmuth) and to 1 Chronicles 4:18 as Bithiah, could have known Hebrew puzzled medieval Jewish commentators like Abraham ibn Ezra and Hezekiah ben Manoah. Hezekiah suggested she either converted or took a tip from Jochebed.

[quote] I thought it was Sephora?

It's actually Zipporah.

Well, that was fun.

Let’s get together next year to ponder the ridiculous and the over-acting of this great film.

It was either this movie or Ben Hur when the Monsignor said that if we saw it we could skip mass that Sunday.

R221 I always assumed Bithia’s husband died recently enough for a child to be conceived, but, yea that was a bit odd.

It was as close as my family ever got to going to church. We were never sure why we were forced to watch it. Seriously zero church influence growing up.

Amazing that this happened over 4000 years ago.

And we're still talking about it today.

Run! Run for your lives!!

The Ethiopian king was hot too.

His name is Woody Strode (Woodrow Wilson Strode), and he was a football player.

Strode posed for a nude portrait, part of Hubert Stowitts's acclaimed exhibition of athletic portraits shown at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (although the inclusion of black and Jewish athletes caused the Nazis to close the exhibit).

[quote]Well, that was fun. Let’s get together next year to ponder the ridiculous and the over-acting of this great film.

Not so fast, Von Ryan! West coasters are just getting to the Red Sea parting.

🎵🎶 "Death cometh to meeeeeeee!"🎶

I think that Edward G. Robinson was perfect casting for Dathan.

He was so sleazy, so slimy, and so wicked.

And his physical features just added to his persona.

Dathan is one of the most memorable characters in the movie.

Woody Strode made a bazillion other films, including my favorite mid-century epic, "Spartacus".

He plays the gladiator who tries to kill the masters instead of his opponent in the first act, and is nearly nekkid. My gawd, what a build!

[quote]Cecil dances around the reality that Nefertiti and Rameses were more than likely brother and sister, though probably by different mothers.

Ha, you know I've watched this movie I don't know how many times until last night & it occurred to that at the very least, they were half/brother & sister. Who says you don't learn anything from DL?

I'm so pissed that I dozed off right when Moses returns to Egypt after marrying Sephora.

I missed the 10 plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, dammit!!!

I woke up at the very end with Moses and the huge fake beard.

They should show it again next weekend.

P.S., don't drink in the early part of the movie. It's just too damned long, and you'll pass out before the end of the movie.

Interesting fun fact about Moses.

He had a speech impediment:

[quote] Moses, the great lawgiver, '... the chief of the prophets' according to Maimonides, probably had a speech defect. 'I am not a man of words ... for I am of slow speech, and of a slow tongue', Moses states, and later he pleads '... I am of uncircumsized lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me'.

Of course, this would have made for a terrible story line.

Another fun fact: Moses crossed the Red Sea with over 3,000,000 people freed from Egyptian bondage.

[quote] In the account of the exodus from Egypt we read, "Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds-a great deal of livestock" (Exodus 12:37-38). Hence, there was approximately 600,000 adult male Israelites.

[quote] Assuming that the Israelite population follows modern trends, we should find an equal number of adult females. However, the female population could have been higher because of the Egyptian policy to kill off the males. "So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive"" (Exodus 1:22).

[quote] Notice, though, that these numbers do not include Israelite children or any non-Israelite who chose to join the exodus. A population needs about 2.5 children per couple in order to sustain the population, but we also know that the population rate among the Israelites of this time was increasing rapidly. "But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them" (Exodus 1:7). For argument sake, let us assume there was an average of 4 children per adult couple. We then have:

[quote] Adult Males 600,000

[quote] Adult Females 600,000

[quote] Children 2,400,000

[quote] Non-Israelites ?

[quote] Total over 3,600,000 people

[quote] The most common estimates by commentators are between 4 million and 6 million people.

Just imagine how long it took to make that crossing!

Speaking of which R237, why the fuck was Lilia still hanging around Dathan after they left Egypt? She’s with him in his caravan and in nearly every scene afterward.

[quote] Speaking of which R237, why the fuck was Lilia still hanging around Dathan after they left Egypt? She’s with him in his caravan and in nearly every scene afterward.

She made a deal with Dathan that if she agreed to be his whore, then he wouldn't go after Joshua.

That was before they left Egypt.

After they left Egypt, she was a tainted/kept woman. Basically, a prostitute.

She had already been ruined by Dathan, so she couldn't return to her people. She had no choice but to stick with him.

Fraser Heston IS baby Moses!

Interesting that the Hebrews would still feel that way R244 given what they did when they built the false idol after they left Egypt.

I thought whores and slaves and bonded servants were all classes of people recognized by Hebrews of the time.

She is his slave and his whore, not a free woman. It's not like any women were truly free anyway, belonging to their male family members.

I'm shocked they had movies 4000 years ago. And in color.

Sorry, R236. I changed the channel to watch the Formula 1 race.

Fraser Heston is, unfortunately, not hawt. Acceptable for a bear party , yes, but not hawt.

[quote] Fraser Heston IS baby Moses!

[quote] Fraser Heston is, unfortunately, not hawt. Acceptable for a bear party , yes, but not hawt.

Well he did age out. Far past peak ripeness.

There were no actual "Hebrews of the time." There were no centuries of bondage in Egypt. There was no Exodus. There was no Moses.

Cool story though, and does make for a great, very fun movie.

Would any of you bitches have fucked a young Cecil B. DeMille?

No but an old Cecil B DeMille. For roles as extras.

R254 = Norma Desmond

Look hete, Moses. You're gonna raise that staff and part that red sea, see?

2k years between Moses and Yeshua.

That movie is too damned long!

Heston was a nozzle...but, he looked damn fine in those "epic" movies.

It is funny how casual the bible is about baby Moses just showing up, and yes, whoever mentioned it upthread, it seems to be a given that he knew he was Hebrew. Which is fine, except Pharaoh (never named, and presumably the same Pharaoh throughout the story, is just fine with the one that got away. Oh well, I tried, no fuss, no muss. Hello Nephew! Now if you can just avoid killing any Egyptians ... dammit, Moses!!!

As Winston's Churchill's son exclaimed to his fellow soldiers when someone gave him the Bible to read:

"GOD! Wasn't God an absolute CUNT!"

This was before Vatican II. So the theatres were clogged with nuns in full goth nun habits, with those scary big wooden crosses on chains that went down almost to their bony ankles

FAAAABULOUS!

I thought “American Gigolo” was our annual Easter movie?

You can still watch American Gigolo on Easter R262 4/17 is easter 4/10 is Palm Sunday when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey colt looking absolutely fabulous saying to everyone, " check me out bitches, check me out."

Did Lilia fall in the pit with Dathan when Moses zapped the idol with the tablets?

DeMille then chose Edward G. Robinson, who was blacklisted in Hollywood. In his autobiography, Robinson remembered, "Mr. DeMille ... felt I had been done an injustice, and told his people to offer me the part. Cecil B. DeMille returned me to films. Cecil B. DeMille restored my self-respect."[32]

Why was Robinson black listed, R265?

^ Communist

I always thought that the Moses and Dathan dynamic was identical to that between Jerry and Newman on Seinfeld.

Can't we just drag out the comments from the last five years and call it a day?

Who could ever forget that hit song 'Death Cometh to Me'.

Search for Yul Brynner's nudes. He was an artists' model before he was a Broadway and film star.

One of the funniest, hammiest movies ever made.

Even funnier, the reviews on IMDB that cricitize it because it's not faithful to the "Good Book".

[quote]Who could ever forget that hit song 'Death Cometh to Me'.

It's my favorite song about relationships.

Baxter is pretty hammy in All About Eve but the material is so much better (sorry God) and she’s surrounded by such great actors that it’s not distracting.

I agree R274. I think the fact that the character was an up and coming actress -- i.e., not so great -- also helped her in that role.

Although I would leave Gary Merrill and Huge Marlowe out of the 'great actors' category. Even Baxter was better than either of them...

DeMille bought up all the costumes from the 1954 20th Century Fox flop, “The Egyptian,” to use in TTC.

Originally, the “Plague of Frogs” was also going to be included among the other ones, but test footage of Anne Baxter dealing with rubber frogs all over her looked so ridiculous that the sequence was junked.

The final sequence of Moses bidding farewell, then walking up a mountain ledge in what looks like the setting sun was also supposed to include the reappearance of the Pillar of Fire enveloping him, but deadlines, as well as a limited budget, kept this from happening, with the result that his farewell looks so stagey.

Loved Yul Brynner's Rameses.. Let's hear it one time for Edward G. Robinson as Dathan. He was OTT. But the lines of dialogue they gave Yul were brilliant! No matter who he spoke to.

Charlton Heston was hot until he found God. Man, when he comes down from the mountain with all that grey hair he looks like shit. Now, Yul Brynner was totally hot through out all 4 hours of this fucking movie.

"Moses! Moses!! There is a man among the sheep!" That line cracks me up every time...

First thing his wife says when he comes back after he sees the burning bush: Moses! Your hair!"

By George Platt Lynes, R271!

Yul was quite dongfull. Did old Georgie-boy get a piece of that?

I wouldn't be at all shocked if Yul traded on sex with men when he was young.

Yul SEEMED like a dongful. But that was because he was about 5 feet tall, soaking wet.

R3, religion should unify us, not divide us!

Sorry about putting link in the wrong place!

[quote]A shepherd girl. What can she be to you? Unless the desert sun has dulled your senses... are her lips chafed and dry as the desert sand, or are they moist and red like a pomegranate? Is it the fragrance of myrrh that scents her hair or is it the odour of sheep?

I just saw a half hour version of Moses’ story, on a Jewish tv channel! 😳

Didn’t even know I had this channel. Now I’m watching the Passover Seder.

It’s interesting.

The Greatest Story Ever Told is going to be on TCM in about six hours.

Also, King of Kings.

If anyone is interested.

I watched "The Greatest Story Ever Told" earlier, and Charlton Heston played John the Baptist.

By the time this movie was made, Heston really seems to have developed a "god complex." And he wasn't nearly as effective in this role, as he was as Moses.

This movie wasn't much fun either.

I guess it goes to show that it was more than just the content that made Ten Commandments such a good movie.

DeMille really incorporated drama, and costumes, and story, and special effects, to bring the story to life.

I think that people really underestimate what an accomplishment this movie was.

[quote] DeMille really incorporated drama, and costumes, and story, and special effects, to bring the story to life.

And camp. I’m not referring to Hebrew camps in the Sinai desert.

I think the campiness of the movie, was purely an accident R291.

Thanks in large part to Ann Baxter, EG Robinson, Vincent Price, and John Derek's nipples.

It's Anne with an E!!!

As a kid watching this, I used to think Moses was romantically attracted to his adoptive mother. I blame casting for hiring Nina Foch and her almost twin Anne Baxter in the same film.

R294. Thank you. I was so confused when I watched as a kid because at first I thought Baxter and Foch were the same character.

Ann Baxter had bigger breastes....

[quote]Ann Baxter had bigger breastes....

Please take the spurious E between the T and the S in "breastes" and put it at the end of Ann.

Yul Brynner had the biggest breasts in the movie.