. . . So let it be done."
Posted on 03/20/2006 2:21:24 PM PST by beaversmom
Movie is commemorated with a DVD edition.
Hollywood’s Past and the Bible’s History haunt us this week as Cecil B. DeMille’s classic renditions of The Ten Commandments are re-released in a collector’s DVD edition. This year is the 50th Anniversary of the second version, the one in which Charlton Heston leads the Exodus. Syndicated radio host and movie critic, Michael Medved says its “it’s amazing how well the movie has held up.” And with a chuckle fondly offers his own opinion.
“The Ten Commandments is one of the most endearing and important bad movies ever made. But the movie works.”
DeMille historian, Katherine Orrison, says it was a labor of love for the famous director.
“We’re talking about five years and we’re talking about the biggest budget movie ever made up until that time.”
And Orrison would not agree that DeMille turned those ancient events into a “bad” movie.
“DeMille took those ideas and those scenes and he embellished them so that they don’t look old and they don’t bore even in 2006.”
But then, Medved says the original “writer” is the best-selling, actuality-reporter for the millennia and a million Hebrews backed His account.
“The fact that there are so many people, who are alleged to have seen this public display of God’s role in history, I think is the strongest argument that something very, very remarkable happened all those 3,000 years ago in the Wilderness of Sinai.”
The Ten Commandments was the centerpiece in a decade of biblical epics that movie-goers loved and Hollywood has abandoned.
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Isn't ABC doing a remake that's going to be aired next month?
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"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille."
I don't know--will have to Google that.
LOL:)
. . . So let it be done."
They'll likely have a gay Moses or one that sleeps around in the oval office. His wife will lead the Exodus and look like Hillary. The Jews will be shown to be killing Arabs in the promised land and displacing them. That is, if I know ABC.
One of my favorite childhood memories is watching this movie at my grandparents' house. They always went to Florida for the winter and we didn't have a color TV. :)
my thoughts too when I read this: 'Book of Daniel' part 2.
bttt
...Let my people go!"
Why does he call it a "bad" movie?
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I have no idea. Let's call in an expert. :)
The water coming from "the Rock" and "the Manna"..
Both seen as "types" of the Christ by many christians..
A movie begging to be made.. generating numbers much like The Passion of Christ..
With a good screenplay..
I must have been in the 6th grade when it came out. In my small W Texas town, all the schoolkids were taken in schoolbuses to the movie theatre to see it during school hours.
Things have changed a little since then, you reckon?
Can't imagine the furor if we took kids out of their gay sensitivity and condom on banana classes now
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