100th Anniversary of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923 version)

MSMB ^ | December 3, 2023 | Rob W. Case

[Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]]

It is nothing short of amazing to see how far movies have evolved since their earliest days to today. Movies at their earliest inception were state of the art, impressive spectacles that people dressed up for and flocked to see, for a fraction of the cost of attending performance-based arts like plays, concerts, and vaudeville acts. When silent movies came on the scene, the art of storytelling entered a new age, an age that, if done right, would have an impact that would be frozen in time, and become immortalized. Very few films from the silent era have high profile notoriety today, and that is because in today’s world, it takes a significant amount of attention, tolerance, patience, and broad-mindedness to sit down and watch a full length, black & white, silent feature film. This is where the power of story (in the subject matter’s portrayal) has to captivate its audience enough to make a lasting impact for it to be sought after later on, or looked at in discovery years later.

Cecil B. DeMille:

Cecil B. DeMille was one of the founding fathers of American cinema. As an offspring of playwrights, DeMille’s love for performance arts grew as he grew up, and he had a knack for creativity and imagination. But when he went into producing plays, his plays were struggling and he was poor, while his older brother William, a playwright himself was successful. Provision came by way of his mother, and connections were made that eventually landed him in the new medium of motion pictures. DeMille was fascinated by the limitless freedoms posed by motion pictures. DeMille said the year of his first silent film production in 1914, “Imagine, the horizon is your stage limit and the sky your gridiron.

[alternatives?]

There was an interesting article a few years ago where they discovered the props in the desert where they made the film.

[Excellence]

I had no idea the movie had a predecessor. Amazing what can happen when one embraces a new technology against all advice.

[SisterK]

the 1950s versions of Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments
(with Charlton Heston in both)
are the best
the absolute best

[DFG]

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Romans 14
Love Fulfills the Law

8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Must be an Seventh Day Adventist. No matter what the Bible discussion they will always bring up the “Well what about the Sabbath!” Turn in to a radio program and it is like two parrots talking to each other.”SABBATH SABBATH SABBATH!”

ROMANS 14 entire chapter as does Galatians spells it out very well.

5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Like I said with the Adventists it is all “SABBATH SABBATH SABBATH!”
No room for Christ’s finished work on the Cross or his overcoming death on the Third Day.

Luke 24:New International Version
but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.

[SunkenCiv]

• Giant sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' film unearthed 91 years later [10/17/2014 ]
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