Posted on 03/31/2021 4:50:47 PM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
It is an extraordinary thing when a movie becomes so meaningful, timeless, and impactful, that it remains relevant and popular while its audience grows with each new generation. In the case of Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, there are a multitude of reasons for that. The Ten Commandments has two significant components that work in its favor. For one; consider the source. The Biblical book of Exodus explicitly chronicles the sovereignty of God, as well as His intercessory involvement in freeing His chosen people, the Hebrews. It is an integral part of Hebrew history, and plays a vital role in the development and maintenance of western civilization, as well as the concept of liberty. It also introduces the world to God’s laws, and moral code to the world in a direct and straightforward way, which are in turn, set in stone. The second most significant component at work in this film is how the story plays out under the direction of legendary storyteller Cecil B. DeMille.
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Bkmk!
Perfect timing.
My Pleasure. I was happy to be reminded of it by this thread! :-)
I have not made the jump to 4K yet, but I have the special edition Blu-ray with the book, and the discs housed in the replica of the tablets. From what I have read, the difference between the Blu-ray of The Ten Commandments and the 4K version are minor unless you are watching it with a projector.
Definitely gorgeous, and the “Moses, Moses” thing recurs, I love that.
Looks like Demille concocted the Nefretiri Moses Moses thing, I don’t see anything in the Scripture about it. Of course Demille as a extravagant film maker had a license to invent.
Of interest are the comments made previously on Free Republic.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380126/posts
DeMille probably relied on the saddle-on-whatever-sounds-right identification of Ramses II as the pharaoh of the Exodus. He wasn’t. Still a lot of fun, and they really built great sets back at that time, postwar ancient world blockbusters like Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, even when the scripts and length probably sucked a little.
https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
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12. The naos (shrine) of el-Arish, now in the Museum of Ismailia, describes the plague of darkness and the death of the pharaoh in a whirlpool. The place of the last event is at Pi-Kharoti, which is Pi-ha-Kiroth of the Book of Exodus.
13. Tom-Taoui-Toth was the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
14. The Exodus took place at the close of the Middle Kingdom: the natural catastrophe caused the end of this period in the history of Egypt. This was in the middle of the second millennium before the present era.
15. The Israelites left Egypt a few days before the invasion of the Hyksos (Amu).
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