The Ten Commandments 4/4/20

Death cometh to me!

Thanks for the reminder, there is so much to enjoy in this oversized spectacle

Well, Ben Hur has LEPERS! No Lepers in Ten Commandments. But there's a bareback orgy, right?

Moses, Moses!

You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!

Why is it on this weekend? Isn't it usually on the night before Easter? Usually, I watch it while dying eggs.

Dammit! I didn’t know it was on till an hour and fifteen minutes in!

Nobody told me😡

Passover is this Wednesday.

Very impressive wig on Moses.

Mom keeps asking if all the cast is dead 😛

They are, aren’t they?

The plague segments really fcuking ring true right now, yikes.

A summary of Anne Baxter’s performance for those who forgot to tune in.

R10 At least two of the actresses that played Jethro's daughters are still alive Lisa Mitchell(80) and Joanna Merlin(88). And, of course there is Fraser Clarke Heston who played the baby Moses.

R10, Debra Paget (Lilia, the water girl) is 86.

She was 23 when the picture was made.

Fun facts!

Oh, wow, thanks guys, that’s very informative.

I’ll tell mom. ☺️

Moses just turned into Barry Gibb.

.....

Ironically, I’ll be watching it on my Tablet.

I'm watching it now. Dirty slave Moses is a hot slab o' Hebrew himbo. Nefretiri held back presenting hole directly but I would have been on my knees at Moses' filthy feet, cleaning his rank enormous obelisk.

Joshua can cone to my tent anytime! Lord, he was beautiful in this movie.

R12 I am surprised some of Anne’s dresses made it passed the sensors. Apparently there were not bras in ancient Egypt!

R22 That was DeMille's claim to fame, he could get sex and gore pass the censors, as long as it was biblical. What censor was going to complain, when he had a panel of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim clerics giving their approval to the film.

I watched it last night for the first time.

It's like a silent film with sound.

DeMille got Heston, Brynner, DeCarlo and Francis at their most beautiful.

R24 how old are you? Curious how you got through life never having seen this. What about Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind?

I remember growing up in the ‘70s this was considered HIGH ART in my middle class Catholic Italian Family. I could barely follow the back and forth of it.

So mad I missed this!

This movie is quite consistently enjoyable. The worse sequence is the beginning of the exodus. It's like Yiddish vaudeville done on a screen epic scale.

I was 5 when this was showing in a local theatre, and I begged to go see it. My dad took me and throughout the film, he kept asking me if I'd seen enough and if we could leave. I kept telling him no.

[quote]how old are you? Curious how you got through life never having seen this. What about Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind?

I know a woman in her 60s who's never seen "The Sound of Music."

R26 When I was a teen and young man in the late 1960s and 70s, films like "The Ten Commandments" were considered the height of kitschy Hollywood drek. It's not something you wanted to see.

I've spent the last few decades outside of the US and didn't even know it became an Easter TV tradition.

Anyway, my suspicion was validated: it is indeed the height of kitschy Hollywood drek but it's also fabulous and thoroughly enjoyable.

OK. Well it's spelled "dreck" and this movie is not rubbish or trash. Though it's certainly kitsch and enjoyable. It's very high Hollywood camp.

As kids in the 60s, my cousins and I used to watch this together when it came on TV, a big deal. One year we were drinking hot, sugary tea while watching (who knows why) and it gave a few of us gas. To this day, whenever that movie gets mentioned in the family, someone makes fart noises. What a lovely memory!

[quote] dying eggs

"So let it be written ... so let it be done."

[quote]I know a woman in her 60s who's never seen "The Sound of Music."

And yet even without seeing it, Pauline Kael still gave it a terrible review.

On a prior year's thread, someone wrote that in his family The Ten Commandments was known as "Moses, Moses".

You must be drinking honey wine!

We use the old ones for greasing the stones. If they are killed it is no loss.

So steht es geschrieben, so soll es geschehen!

Now this thread comes alive???

A week later?

🙄🙄🙄🙄

Yul Brynner naked:

I wish every day was a threshing festival!!!!

Yul looked liked that and he was a chain smoker. Ah, the olden days. Such glamour.