Posted on 03/31/2021 4:50:47 PM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
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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