Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

How could one not like The Ten Commandments! ABC plays it every Easter Time at 7 pm! If you have not seen this, whether you believe in Moses or not, take the chance! It's the best epic ever made! It is nearly four hours long but so what? Moses wandered in the desert for 4 decades! It's not 100% bibical but historical documents were used as well. What else can be said, but it's The ten Commandments, an undeniable must see!

This film is about that great event that happened approximately 3000 years ago from today, God has created men independent and self-sufficient, and has advised him to live in rules of God. But some insults enslaved man, this film is about Egypt's that time when Pharaoh of Egypt had made slave the Israelites living there, they used to build their city by oppressing them, Israelites follow Abraham's religion they believe a messiah from God will free them from Pharaoh. One day a little angel is born in the Yoshebel's house and Pharaoh hear the prediction about a child birth in Israelites who will uprising against his empire orders that kill all new born boys of Israelites, for the save his child Yoshebel put his son in a basket and adrift in Nile river. Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah who is widow and childless finds that basket feeling happy and adopt the boy her servant Memnet warn her because of the cloth the child wrap out it's belong to Israelites but Bithiah ignore that and names the baby Moses and Moses growup in Pharoah's palace. Moses becomes young and becomes a very brave and general of the Egypt's army, he wins the battle against Ethiopia, he loves with princess Nefretiri who will be wife of next Pharoah. Pharoah asked Moses to build new city and asked Remeses to find matrix for which Israelites is looking for. Once Moses arrives to the city. He won the heart of Israelites with the way he treated them. He allows to take leave on weekend and provide full food to everyone. Remeses started propaganda about this act as Moses is planning to uprising. Pharoah reached at that city to confirm Moses act but get impressed by the build he made. Once it get published revealed that Pharoah is going to announce Moses as his next pharoah for that nation. Memnat met to Nefretiri and informed her that Moses didn't take birth in this palace. He is the son of Israelites. She also showed the cloth in which Moses was raped in his when they found him. Nefretiri killed Memnat to make it secret but at that time Moses arrives and finds that cloth. On his several asking Nefretiri reveal the truth that he is the son of Youshabel not Bithiah. Bithiah met to Youshabel as she hinted that Moses was going to visit his own house. She asked Youshabel to migrate her family as earliest as she can but Moses reached their while their conversation. On asking to Youshabell he got know the truth. Moses started to live with Israelites to get understand the logic that why a man has to be slave to another. He started working with labor. One day a soldier had killed by him to save another labor Joshuva. Remeses get him arrest as he knew the act of Moses and represent himself as the matrix of Israelites for people are waiting for. Pharoah announced Remeses as a next pharoah and asked him to punish Moses by himself. Remeses leaved Moses in a long desert with one day food as he wanted him to die by own self. Moses gets save himself by the blessing of God and reached a village Midian where he met Jethro's 7 daughters. Moses helped these daughters at a moment on that mark Jethro asked him to marry one of his daughter and he settled there. At that village there was a mountain named Sinai, people rumors about that God is in that mountain but Moses couldn't understand that theory. One day Joshuva reached there and he found Moses and asked him to return back to Egypt, the condition became worst. While the conversation Moses found an unnatural movement at mountain, he saw fire inside a tree but that fire didn't burn. He asked Joshuva to take rest and he went to that mountain. Where he hear the Voice of God. God asked him to leave for Egypt to save people life from Pharoah. Moses cames to pharoah and asked to free his people. Pharoah denied. Moses throws his stick to show the curse of God which transform into the snake. Pharoah laughed and asked Jannes for the same trick. But the Moses's snake eaten all others. Pharoah still denied. After that Egypt went through God cursed. Water became poison for 7 days, Mosquitoes & insects attacked the people of Egypt. Rain felt with thunderstorm. But Remeses denied fulfilling his wishes and he ordered to kill the first born of all Israelites. But that act return to Egypt Peoples. Remeses's child also died. Finally Remeses released all the Israelites. Moses brings them out from Egypt behind Remeses follow them with his army to attack. At the Neel River Moses got the way in river by the Blessing of God. And all of his people reached to other side. Remeses also asked their army to cross that way but River's wall get closer and they all died. Moses reached to Mount Sinai and asked people to stay as he can get the message of God to visit the peak. Moses didn't come for many days. People start constructed a golden calf for pray. When Moses return with Ten Commandments in written by God he found people in that condition. Moses throw stone to golden calf and destroy also people were praying also get died. After 40 years, Aged Moses asked people to go to the Canaan in the leadership of Joshuva. And he walks alone.

Cecil B. DeMille's last film (as a director) is an unparalleled spectacle. The sheer scale of the production and the amount of extras in the crowd scenes are mind-boggling. It also makes expressive, painterly use of color, and boasts groundbreaking special effects which deservedly won the Oscar (the parting of the Red Sea is an iconic sequence). Besides all the spectacle, it has some strong dramatic moments and much of the dialogue is literate, though at other times it can get pompous or campy ("What kingdom are you from?" - "The kingdom of the most High"!). The film can fill you with disgust not only at the inhuman treatment of the slaves (which probably was DeMille's intention), but also at God's unbelievable cruelty of mass-murdering Egypt's firstborns (which probably wasn't DeMille's intention). And the depiction of wickedness and evil as basically a wild party where everybody has fun and nobody is harmed (well, except for a potential sacrifice I guess!) is good for a laugh. Yul Brynner and Vincent Price stand out in the exceptionally large cast. *** out of 4.

One of the highest grossing films ever, it features Charlton Heston, Academy Award winning Special Effects, and an all-star supporting cast that includes: Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora. Debra Paget at Lilia, John Derek as Joshua, Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Vincent Price as Baka, John Carradine as Aaron, and more.After hearing rumors about the birth of the deliverer who would free their Jewish slaves, Egyptian Pharaoh Sethi decrees that the first born sons of Israel must die. But Yochabel, determined to save her newborn, places him in a basket, floating it on the Nile. Her daughter Miriam sees it is retrieved by Princess Bithiah of Egypt, Sethi's sister who, having just lost a child, claims the infant as her own.She names him Moses and the boy is raised as a Prince of Egypt that rivals Sethi's own son Rameses to become the next Pharaoh. Moses is favored by Nefretiri, the beautiful princess that's been promised by Sethi to whomever he chooses to succeed him. Unlike Rameses who exhibits a cruel streak, Moses shows compassion for the oppressed even though he doesn't yet know that he's a Jew. After building a great city for Sethi with master builder Baka, Moses appears to be the next in line until Bithiah's servant Memnet reveals the truth.When the Princess tells Moses, he seeks Bithiah and then Yochabel, meets his brother Aaron and sister Miriam, before disappearing among the slaves to learn about their hardships. When Baka decides to detain a Jewish girl for carnal purposes, her boyfriend Joshua tries to save her, but then must be rescued by Moses, who kills Baka. When Moses reveals to Joshua that he too is Jewish, it is overheard by Dathan, a Jew charged by the Egyptians to oversee his own people and to identify the promised Jewish deliverer if found. Dathan uses the knowledge to bargain with Rameses, who grants him his freedom and a position of prominence. Moses is forced to confess his crime in front of Sethi but Rameses decides not to make him a martyr. Instead, he spares Moses' life, and banishes him to cross the desert.After surviving the journey, Moses happens upon an oasis where he helps seven sheepherder's daughters and eventually becomes a shepherd working for their father, marrying his eldest daughter Sephora. Years later when Moses and his wife have a son, Sephora spots a man trapped on a hillside; it's Joshua, escaped from the copper mines where he'd been spared death by Dathan. At Joshua's urging, Moses climbs Mount Sinai to meet his maker; he's beckoned by a burning bush. God speaks to Moses and tells him to take up the fight, free and lead His people out of Egypt. When the shepherd asks how, He tells Moses that His power will be revealed through the staff. An older and wiser looking Moses descends Mt. Sinai.Moses is received by Pharaoh Rameses; Queen Nefretiri is at his side. Speaking God's word, Moses tells Rameses to "Let my people go". But Rameses is not impressed, so Moses has his brother Aaron lay down the staff, which turns into a cobra. Rameses claims that it is merely a magician's trick, and has his high priests lay two of their staffs beside it. After these also turn into cobras, Moses's cobra devours them. Rameses is still unimpressed, and remains so even after the staff is used to turn the Nile red with blood, and Moses causes burning hail to fall from the sky, and darkens the sun for 3 days.When Rameses mocks God by condemning the first born of Israel to death, Moses realizes that the Pharaoh's words will kill all first born Egyptians. By nightfall, death descends upon Egypt but passes over those (Jewish) houses whose doorways had been painted with lamb's blood. Finally, because his own son is dying, Rameses summons Moses to tell him to take his people and go, and the great exodus from Egypt begins. However, Nefretiri goads Rameses into pursuing and killing them all. So Pharaoh and his men in chariots rush across the desert to find Moses and the others (trapped) along the banks of the Red Sea.The people still doubt God's power until Moses summons it with his staff, causing a column of fire to stop the rush of Rameses's troops, and parts the Red Sea for their escape. Once they are safely on the other side, Moses raises his staff to close the sea upon their pursuers, killing them all. Pharaoh returns to Nefretiri but, before he kills her with his sword, she insists on seeing Moses's blood on it first, saving her life by confirming his complete failure.At the foot of Mount Sinai, the people are restless; they haven't seen Moses in 40 days and some fear that he may even be dead. Dathan uses the moment to decry that Moses hasn't led them to the promised land, and that they should make their own idol – a golden calf – to worship. Aaron is bullied into making one and an orgy begins, ironically, at around the same time that God appears to Moses as a tower of fire and speaks while flames carve 'ten commandments' into two stone tablets.Moses descends from the mountain, catching the people committing unspeakable acts, in direct violation of God's new laws. He proclaims them unworthy and casts the tablets at the golden calf, which bursts into flames and sinks into a crevasse that envelopes the non- believers.DeMille narrates that the people had to roam the desert for 40 years before they were allowed to cross the river Jordan into the Promised Land, and Moses passes his staff to Joshua.