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The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The last of the great Cecil B. DeMille epics, and a remake of his own 1923 silent film of the same name, this 1956 film from Paramount tells the biblical story of Moses and the Exodus.Moses (Charlton Heston) and Rameses (Yul Brynner) are in a Love Triangle with Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), whom Moses might have won, had the matter of injustice to Hebrew slaves not come up. Other important characters are, naturally, Pharaoh Sethi (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), father of Rameses and adoptive father of Moses; Aaron (John Carradine), Moses' older brother; Baka (Vincent Price), a brutal slave master; Sephora (Yvonne De Carlo), daughter of Jethro and Moses's eventual wife; Joshua (John Derek); and Liliah (Debra Paget), the woman Joshua loves—who happens to be the sex slave of the overseer Dathan (Edward G. Robinson, see?).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })You know the basic tale — or if you don't, you need either to see this or read the source material. Moses hears the voice of God while out in the wilderness. It ages him about forty years — hey, the film may be long, but to keep the cast of characters constant, the time in which it takes place is compressed. Moses goes to Rameses to tell him that God wants him to let His people go, or else. Rameses says no. "Or else" happens.The Ten Commandments won one Academy Award for its special effects, and was nominated for six others, including Best Picture. The majestic score was written by Elmer Bernstein as his first major film project.The silent film, which served as the basis for this remake, became Public Domain in the United States effective 2019 (it was already PD in most other countries by then).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The dedicated and curious might want to compare this with The Prince of Egypt and Exodus: Gods and Kings. The source material is the same (though this film might've been distilled through an extra novel), but the directions taken with it are very different.
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The Ten Commandments / int_108ad6d8	comment	Spiking the Camera: Sephorah warns Moses of an intruder nearby; Moses tells Sephorah "Your eyes are sharp as they are beautiful". Yvonne De Carlo responds by staring straight into the camera, away from where she's just said the danger was.
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The Ten Commandments / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Ten Commandments / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Lilia. Nearly every character is based on someone from the Bible, extra-biblical ancient sources, or actual historical figures, but Lilia was created for the film as Joshua's love interest.
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The Ten Commandments / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Ten Commandments / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: The sound version. Baka intends to kill Joshua this way after Joshua attacks him to free Lilia, but Moses intervenes and kills Baka before he can finish.
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The Ten Commandments / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Ten Commandments / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: As a horrified Rameses watches his son Prince Amun succumbing to the final plague he comments that the boy is his only son. Historically however, Rameses' thirteenth son and successor Merneptah was nineteen when death claimed Rameses' first Amun-her-khepsef, and this boy hardly looked twelve or thirteen.note Eugene Mazzola, who played the little prince, was ten.
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The Ten Commandments / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
The Ten Commandments / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: When Joshua is captured by Dathan and Baka, they stretch up and strap his arms to the pillars and scourge him with a whip.
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The Ten Commandments / int_14a0fca8	type	Nepharious Pharaoh
The Ten Commandments / int_14a0fca8	comment	Nepharious Pharaoh: Like most works based off the Book of Exodus from The Bible, it has the Pharaoh Ramses as the Big Bad. Also his grandfather Rameses I, when he stages the death of the Hebrew male babies born at the same time as Moses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_153c295a	type	Pyrrhic Villainy
The Ten Commandments / int_153c295a	comment	Pyrrhic Villainy: Rameses ascends the throne after Sethi reluctantly makes him the heir to the throne and marries Nefretiri, who bears him a son. Unfortunately, he resists letting the Hebrews go, eventually doing so after the tenth plague takes his only firstborn son and he afterwards boasts of slaying Moses and the Israelites, taking an army with him to pursue them. His troops and cavalry are drowned in the flood, his only son has died, and he has failed to stop Moses and the Israelites, returning to his snarky wife, bitterly and reluctantly acknowledging that Moses' god is the true God
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The Ten Commandments / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Ten Commandments / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Nefretiri tells Moses that she loves him and will marry him, and nothing will stop that. A few seconds before he finds a piece of Hebrew cloth that was wrapped around him as a baby.
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The Ten Commandments / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: Memnet does this: Nefretiri later does it in a more teasing way to Moses:
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The Ten Commandments / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: Naturally!
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The Ten Commandments / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Ten Commandments / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: Dathan's cult of the Golden Calf, with Korah as its puppet leader.
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The Ten Commandments / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Ten Commandments / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: After defeating Ethiopia in war, Moses presents the Ethiopian king as a new ally to protect the southern border.
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The Ten Commandments / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
The Ten Commandments / int_197b546a	comment	Liliah is blackmailed into this position via Scarpia Ultimatum by Dathan, who promises not to have Joshua executed if she agrees to it and tells anyone who asks that it's consensual. Despite the type of man Dathan has proven to be thus far, he keeps his end of the bargain.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Ten Commandments / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: A motif. People say "Moses, Moses" many times in the movie. There's a reason for that.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
The Ten Commandments / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Rameses I's cruel decree to prevent the Future Deliverer of the Hebrew slave nation from leading his people to freedom by ordering the deaths of all male Hebrew babies born at the time predicted is visited later on his grandson and namesake Rameses II. Not that Rameses II was unwilling to commit his own sin in outdoing his grandfather...
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The Ten Commandments / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and John Derek all provide plenty of it.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1b8cef9c	comment	The High Queen: Nefretiri becomes this to Rameses' High King.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Rameses has it something fierce, since everyone (including his own father) knows how much more awesome Moses is.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Nefretiri to Ramses, once she's decided to become vengeful.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Subverted; while it may take some prodding, Rameses vows to avenge his son's death. It doesn't work out for him.
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The Ten Commandments / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
The Ten Commandments / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Dathan, who is of Hebrew descent but gladly works as an overseer.
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The Ten Commandments / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Pentaur, the Captain of the Pharaoh's Host. He's clearly saddened when Moses is sent into exile, noting that he'd rather be following him into battle, and is heartbroken when his own son dies during the final plague. He also tries to dissuade Rameses from continuing further against the Hebrews.
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The Ten Commandments / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Dathan played a more minor role in the Exodus account, leading a revolt against Moses and getting swallowed up by the ground. Here, he becomes The Quisling, is responsible for the Golden Calf incident, and was responsible for driving Moses out of Egypt to begin with. It's not purely an invention of the film either, as it was inspired by Jewish oral tradition about Dathan dating back hundreds if not thousands of years.
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The Ten Commandments / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Ten Commandments / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: Duh!
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The Ten Commandments / int_218b2ee8	comment	Ancient Egypt: That is the setting of most of the film.
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The Ten Commandments / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Memnet keeps the Levite cloth from Moses' basket, and uses it to prove to Nefretiri where he really came from.
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The Ten Commandments / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The first half of the movie. As the director himself states in his introductory remarks at the start of the film, the Bible skips some 30 years of Moses' life. In Exodus the narrative skips from when Pharoah's daughter retrieves Moses from the water to when Moses kills an Egyptian who is beating one of the Hebrew slaves. DeMille says that the screenwriters had to rely on other writings through history to flesh out this part of the story. Some of the details are in fact based on authentic extra-Biblical Jewish or Christian legends. The fleshed-out relationship, including a Love Triangle, between Moses and the unnamed Pharaoh in the Bible. In the original 1923 film, the story of the Exodus occurs in a fifty-minute prologue that covers Moses' return to Egypt through the Golden Calf incident. The majority of the 1923 version is taken up with a modern-day morality play that seeks to illustrate how the Ten Commandments are still relevant.
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The Ten Commandments / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: One deliberate case, which falls under Rule of Funny. In the DVD commentary, they mention that the soldier would have said the Underworld or Hadesnote which is yet another anachronism; Hades is a Greek term, but it wouldn't have worked so well. Dathan actually does go to Hell. The representative from Troy being dressed as a Roman centurion is also wildly inaccurate, although it is a Shout-Out to The Aeneid, in which the Trojans founded Rome. Also according to Egyptian legend, on his way back to Troy after abducting Helen Paris arrived in Egypt during the reign of Seti II, the grandson of Ramses II. They had chosen the wrong pharaoh for a Priam reference. 21st Dynasty mummies have been found with silk ribbons in their hair. This scene is only 200 years off. Could silk have been sent to Egypt in Ramses' (19th Dynasty) time? Not likely, or archaeologists would see more of it from earlier than the 21st. The Egyptians would have been crazy about it. Byssus, the "golden web spun from the beards of shellfish", is also an anachronism. True byssus or sea silk really does come from clams and becomes Fridge Brilliance with this bit of sacred folklore: it is said that Moses covered his first altar to God with this lovely fabric. DeMille would have known this, so included it by clothing Liliah in it. But the Egyptians did not have clam byssus at the time of Moses. They had a cloth with the same name — it's even mentioned on the Rosetta Stone — but it was really super-fine linen. Likewise, the Egyptian soldier's sword at the very beginning of the culling of the Hebrew boys looks more like a Roman sword than anything else. The real-life Egyptians favored the khopesh, a sword whose blade looks kind of like a lower-case b, adapted from the Assyrian sapper. That weapon, also seen at the end of the "Hounds and Jackals" scene as an aide comes in and salutes Seti, is the iron Hittite sword from The Egyptian, one of many props from that film that were reused here. It's not very accurate for them, either. Hittite swords looked more like sickles. Moses is stated to be thirty the year of his exile, which also happens to be the year of Seti's death and the Pharaoh of the Oppression is portrayed as Rameses I. Due to Rameses I's reign only being two years long it would have been his predecessor Horemheb as the Pharaoh of the Oppression. It only gets worse because Ramses II was eleven when his grandfather Ramses I became Pharaoh and was twenty-four when he himself ascended the throne. The term "Pharaoh" was not used contemporaneously for a ruler until 1200 BC, thirteen years after the death of Rameses II. Pharaoh Rameses I is proclaimed by Jannes as "Pharaoh Rameses I." The numbering is a modern invention; it was never done by the Egyptian chroniclers of old. Even if it had been, he would not have been called "Rameses I" in his lifetime, but only after a successor with the same name (Rameses II) took the throne. The Battle of Kadesh is referred to as having been fought by Seti. It was actually been by Ramses II. A major event of the first act is Seti's jubilee. At the time, jubilees were significant dates in cycles of years observed by the Israelites. In modern times the word is also used to mean a celebration of a certain number of years that a monarch has ruled, but the historical Seti only ruled for eleven years and wouldn't have qualified for any of the types in existence today. In the film, he has supposedly been pharaoh thirty years or close to, which still doesn't line up; a silver jubilee is twenty-five years and a ruby jubilee is forty years, Moses' biblical age when he fled Egypt. Nefertiri is portrayed as outliving her firstborn son. Historically, Nefertiri died the year before Amun-her-khepeshef.
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The Ten Commandments / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: Director Cecil B. DeMille reportedly instructed set designers to study the Egypt-themed paintings of Lawrence Alma-Tadema in order to achieve his artistic vision. The lively acrobatic dance◊ in Sethi's Jubilee scene was real, and very much a "golden oldie" by that time. It is taken from a wall painting in the beautiful tomb of Mehu, a high-ranking Sixth Dynasty official — that's 900 years before Sethi and Ramesses' 19th Dynasty.
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The Ten Commandments / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Rameses. Yul Brynner kept the bald look from The King and I and retained it for the rest of his life. According to the DVD commentary one reason why he was cast was that he looked better bald than some of the other actors considered for the role, including (of all people) William Holden.
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The Ten Commandments / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: Dathan in the finale sequence.
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The Ten Commandments / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Lampshaded by the narrator when the Israelites are engaging in idolatry:
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The Ten Commandments / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Sort of, with Sephora. While she isn't out and out hostile, she clearly seems uninterested in having Moses as a husband, unlike her younger sisters. Guess who he ends up choosing?
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The Ten Commandments / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Rameses's smugly stubborn defiance of God brings a variety of misfortunes and tragedies upon him. Nefreteri goes from being smug and a stereotypical rich girl (knowing the two most eligible bachelors in Egypt are vying for her attentions), to being broken after the final plague takes away her son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Though the film ends with Moses coming down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments, the focus of the film is the Exodus and the events leading up to it. The 1923 version used the Exodus story only as a short prologue to a morality play set in (then-) modern times about the necessity of keeping the Ten Commandments today, but this was not adapted to the remake.
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The Ten Commandments / int_2cdee67e	comment	Old Windbag: Jannes, the High Priest of Egypt. This is exactly what Sethi kept referring to him during one of his lengthy court announcements..."the old windbag", and later at his death, with Jannes still pontificating there.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3322e9cd	comment	Hollywood Old: Lilia in the final scene is obviously just 23-year-old rising-star-beauty-queen Debra Paget wrapped in a blanket.
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The Ten Commandments / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The Nubian princess seen early in the film, according to the DVD commentary, is supposed to be Moses' wife, as he apparently married her during his travels, though this is not mentioned on screen. Not only is she never referred to nor seen again, no reference is made when Moses marries again later in the film. However, it is likely that Seti took her away from Moses and forced her into marriage with someone else when Moses got exiled. On the historical side of things, Ramesses' lion Slayer of His Foes, who fought alongside him at Kadesh, is nowhere to be seen. While the early years of Moses' life are expanded upon, his final years between the shattering of the Commandments and the entry into the Promised Land, which do get mentioned in the Bible, are cut out.
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The Ten Commandments / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Nefretiri to Ramses and vice versa. An unusual example — she did it to show how much she loves Moses and hates Rameses. Her voice drips scorn. "Did you think my kiss was a promise of what you will have? No, my pompous one — it was to show you what you will not have... I could never love you."
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The Ten Commandments / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Ten Commandments / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: So many times, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that dog-kicking was the national sport in ancient Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
The Ten Commandments / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: Why did nobody suggest stoning Dathan? Or sending him away?
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The Ten Commandments / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
The Ten Commandments / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love: How Moses and Nefretiri describe themselves to each other, in a Sickeningly Sweethearts kind of way.
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The Ten Commandments / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Ten Commandments / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: Liliah is blackmailed into this position via Scarpia Ultimatum by Dathan, who promises not to have Joshua executed if she agrees to it and tells anyone who asks that it's consensual. Despite the type of man Dathan has proven to be thus far, he keeps his end of the bargain. Nefretiri probably saw her marriage to Rameses as this.
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The Ten Commandments / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Ten Commandments / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Prior to playing the Pharaoh, Yul Brynner was running Siam and wooing the English tutor in both the Broadway musical and later the film. It's good to be the king, indeed. Ironically, in that role, Anna tells the story of Moses, and he responds, "This Moses is a fool." Incidentally, three years later, Brynner would go on to play King Solomon.
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The Ten Commandments / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Ten Commandments / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Nefertiti is completely unphased when Rameses prepares to kill her, asking only to see Moses' blood on his sword. When he can't do that, she disgustedly notes, "You couldn't even kill him."
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The Ten Commandments / int_3a92b459	type	Please, I Will Do Anything!
The Ten Commandments / int_3a92b459	comment	Please, I Will Do Anything!: Lilia does this to save Joshua, the result of which is her marrying Dathan.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
The Ten Commandments / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: Crossed by Moses after being exiled from Egypt. He's given a little bag of food and a little bag of water. He's half-dead by the time he reaches a well, but fortunately not too far gone to fight off a band of marauders.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Ten Commandments / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Baka the Master Builder lusts after Liliah, leading the other Hebrews to comment about how beauty is a curse, with one saying, "Beauty is but a curse to our women."
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The Ten Commandments / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Ten Commandments / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Technically averted when Dathan is promoted to governor upon Baka's death — while he is certainly a Bad Boss, he's nowhere near as tyrannical as Baka.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Ten Commandments / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Pentaur the Commander of the Pharoah's chariot host encounters this, after God releases the Red Sea as he and his army pursue the fleeing Hebrew people, drowning them all.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
The Ten Commandments / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: Most modern estimates put the Exodus in the reign of Thutmose III note more specifically, he's the most supported. Scholars agree that if it happened, it must've been somewhere in-between Pharaohs Dudimose and Rameses II, with both extremes being actually the least supported theories. , not Rameses II. Though to be fair, there isn't clear consensus among scholars and reconciling Old Testament timelines with historical dates is tricky at best. Also, Rameses II did lose his first-born son (the tomb was found). It doesn't help however that historical records show that Rameses II was actually one of the most successful pharaohs of Egyptian history, which he couldn't have been had his workforce left overnight. That would've definitely plunged Egypt into chaos for generations. There are also competing archaeological theories that the Hebrews never left Palestine in the time of Joseph in the first place. As of 1994, we know that Ramses was a redhead and that he came from a family of redheads. There is not a single redhead amongst the royal family. The movie ends with the hebrews reaching Canaan and Moses being unable to set foot in it like in the Book of Exodus. Today we know that Canaan was conquered by Seti I and part of Ramesses II's empire during his 66-year-long reign, which would've made the whole Exodus completely moot.
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The Ten Commandments / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Ten Commandments / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The movie is loaded with this; ex: "Moses' serpent swallows up the others!"
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The Ten Commandments / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
The Ten Commandments / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Sephora, when she courageously stands up to the bullying Amalekite shepherds who threaten her and her sisters, but it is Moses who comes to their rescue.
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The Ten Commandments / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Ten Commandments / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Nefretiri becomes this toward the end. She was once betrothed to Moses but now married to Rameses. When Moses returns, Nefretiri puts the moves on him, but is "spurned like a harlot in the street." She decides to get back at him by being the one who hardens Pharaoh's heart. When her son was killed, she wants Moses dead.
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The Ten Commandments / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Ten Commandments / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Hebrews eventually reach Israel... but for his Wrath, Moses cannot enter the Promised Land.
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The Ten Commandments / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
The Ten Commandments / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: "I am Moses, son of Amram and Yochabel."
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The Ten Commandments / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Ten Commandments / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Implied with Rameses I. We skip ahead some thirtysomething years to find that Sethi his son is now ruler, and any reference to Rameses I is in the past tense. (Historically, he only ruled a couple of years anyway.) Also, when Moses is being dumped by Rameses in the desert, he is given a Levite robe spun by his mother who personally brought with her to prison to deliver to her son, only to die afterwards (presumably from a broken heart, although we can see she's pretty frail and sick in her last scene) which Rameses coldly delivers as a parting Take That! to his rival.
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The Ten Commandments / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
The Ten Commandments / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Nefretiri is considered this when she becomes queen.
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The Ten Commandments / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Ten Commandments / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Edward G. Robinson was cast as the villain Dathan, whom he played in his usual New York gangster style. Tommy Duran, the child actor playing Moses' son Gershom, clearly had little acting experience or training, as indicating in his failure to hide his natural American accent. Eugene Mazolla, the child actor who played Rameses' son Prince Amun, didn't hide his American accent either.
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The Ten Commandments / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Ten Commandments / int_443b78cd	comment	Later by a quietly furious Rameses (later Rameses II):
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The Ten Commandments / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
The Ten Commandments / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: After learning that he's actually a Hebrew, Moses goes to work in the mud pits as a common slave, with nobody knowing who he really is (though Lilia finds his voice vaguely familiar).
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The Ten Commandments / int_44bed11d	type	Stubborn Mule
The Ten Commandments / int_44bed11d	comment	Stubborn Mule: One of these appears during the leaving of Egypt. (This can be taken as a symbol of the Hebrew nation's own stubbornness that will cost them 40 years of extra wandering in the desert.)
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The Ten Commandments / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Ten Commandments / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Even after seeing their path blocked with fire and the Red Sea parting, Rameses' general says they should leave. Rameses' response? "Better to die in battle against a god than live in shame."
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The Ten Commandments / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Ten Commandments / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: After Rameses returns from a humiliating defeat, he tells Nefretiri:
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The Ten Commandments / int_46118dc5	type	Adult Fear
The Ten Commandments / int_46118dc5	comment	Adult Fear: The death of one's child. Despite the bastard he's been throughout the film, it's hard not to feel Rameses' fear when he realizes his son might die, nor his and Nefretiri's grief when he does. Likewise Sephora, who is afraid for her son Gershom after she and Moses bring to Egypt, so when tipped off by Nefretiri that Rameses is planning to slaughter the firstborn, she quickly takes her son in the next caravan back to Midian, thus avoiding the Plague of the Firstborn though she was quite unaware of it.
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The Ten Commandments / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Ten Commandments / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Rameses I, if he feels his legacy is being threatened. Rameses II, whose plot to kill the Hebrew firstborn results in the Plague of the Firstborn that kills his son. God, though He clearly doesn't enjoy it, as delayed Divine Justice on Rameses II for the sin of his grandfather in staging the death of Hebrew male babies. Not that Rameses II was planning to outdo his grandfather. The Death Angel, as it is its mission.
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The Ten Commandments / int_48384f95	type	Intermission
The Ten Commandments / int_48384f95	comment	Intermission
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The Ten Commandments / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Ten Commandments / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: After he finds his birth family, Moses still assures Bithia he's her son and will always love her. Aww.
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The Ten Commandments / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
The Ten Commandments / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: The angel of death is depicted as a sinister green mist that descends from the sky and then spreads over Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Ten Commandments / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: When Moses confronts Bithiah about the Levite cloth, she reprimands him for believing "a piece of cloth found by Memnet". His response?
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The Ten Commandments / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
The Ten Commandments / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: An Egyptian soldier tells Dathan where he can go after he loses his position as taskmaster:
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The Ten Commandments / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Ten Commandments / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Bithia, after she joins her adopted son Moses and his people in the Exodus. We see her offering an ailing Hebrew slave her seat on her litter, then agreeing to take a sapling fig tree from him to plant in the Holy Land as he tells her he knows he's dying and will be unable to travel there, and he can at least be assured he can leave a legacy there. We also see her offering to stop her nephew's charging army (which would be futile), and guiding Hebrew children through the Red Sea.
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The Ten Commandments / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Ten Commandments / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Baka and Dathan.
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The Ten Commandments / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Ten Commandments / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Jannes the High Priest of Egypt in later life. His frustration at Moses taking away the hoarded grain from his temple is what turns the High Priest against him and side with Rameses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
The Ten Commandments / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Moses gets grey streaks in his hair after seeing the burning bush, and goes completely grey upon receiving the commandments.
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The Ten Commandments / int_528e8166	type	High Priest
The Ten Commandments / int_528e8166	comment	High Priest: Several examples in various cultures. Jannes the High Priest of Egypt is an obvious example. Aaron becomes unofficially High Priest in this film to his people (he actually becomes such in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 28). Although we mainly see his younger son Eleazar as a boy, we know from the Book of Numbers (Chapter 20) he will eventually succeed his father as High Priest of the Hebrews. Jethro who is the Sheikh of Midian. Korah is named such by Dathan thus ensuring his co-operation in Dathan's takeover bid.
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The Ten Commandments / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Ten Commandments / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: None other than DeMille himself.
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The Ten Commandments / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Ten Commandments / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: At the beginning, a group of beautiful women attends the older princess Bithiah, who takes baby Moses from the water. When Moses is thrown out of Egypt, his name has been erased from their history; by Egyptian standards he is dead. When he gets to Midian, a group of beautiful women repeatedly douse him with water — and so he is reborn, and marries the oldest sister.
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The Ten Commandments / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Ten Commandments / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Pharaoh Rameses I, who appears in his brief scene at the beginning to be reasonable a ruler as his son will be, but turns out to be as ruthless as his grandson will be when he feels his legacy and people are threatened.
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The Ten Commandments / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Ten Commandments / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Dathan to Baka and Rameses, with Baka starting out as the first dragon until he is slain by Moses, followed by Dathan being promoted to Rameses' dragon until his house is marked by lamb's blood and he is forced to join the other Israelites on their journey into the wilderness. Ramses has another dragon (a more classical example), his top general, Pentaur, whose firstborn dies. Pentaur himself later dies when he gets consumed by the Red Sea with the rest of his Pharoah's chariot host. Abiram becomes to Dathan as well when he takes over control of the Hebrews in the wildnerness.
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The Ten Commandments / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
The Ten Commandments / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: The movie's approach to the source material in some areas, especially what happened to the Hebrews after the flight from Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Ten Commandments / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Paramount logo is cued over an image of Mount Sinai, rather than the usual mountain, believed to be modeled after Ben Lomond near Ogden, Utah, the boyhood home of Paramount founder William W. Hodkinson.
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The Ten Commandments / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
The Ten Commandments / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire:
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The Ten Commandments / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Ten Commandments / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: A young guard (Pentaur's son) pleads Rameses II to let Moses' people go as he lies dying.
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The Ten Commandments / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Ten Commandments / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Prince Moses has no problem using the Hebrew slaves to build the treasure city, but he knows that happier and healthier slaves are more productive. So he increases their rations and gives them one day in seven to rest, and construction thus accelerates. While he sees no need to sacrifice a slave nation that has been so useful to him and his people, Rameses I has no qualms about sacrificing their male babies in order to prevent an inconvenient (to him) prophecy from coming to pass.
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The Ten Commandments / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
The Ten Commandments / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Memnet comes to Nefertiri with the story of how Bithia drew Moses from the Nile. Nefertiri quickly asks, "Were you alone with Bithia?" before she kills Memnet.
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The Ten Commandments / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Ten Commandments / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: Baka realizes that the Hebrew slave is actually Moses when he (Moses) refers to him as the "Master Butcher" — which Moses has called him before. A little too late, as he said this while he was strangling Baka to death.
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The Ten Commandments / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Ten Commandments / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Joshua.
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The Ten Commandments / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Ten Commandments / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Egyptians care nothing for the lives of the Hebrew slaves, as there are plenty of others to take their place. When Baka says it's no loss if some old woman gets crushed by the granite blocks, Moses is disgusted and asks "Are you a master builder or a master butcher?"
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The Ten Commandments / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Ten Commandments / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Several, but Nefretiri gives a ferocious one to the Ethiopian princess flirting with Moses. And earlier, Bithia towards Mamnet, whenever the old nurse is about to say something about Moses. And Rameses, after Nefretiri taunts him into pursuing the Hebrews, handing him his own sword demanding to see Moses' blood on it when he returns. His response?
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The Ten Commandments / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Ten Commandments / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dathan does care for his brother Abiram and has him live in the governor's house.
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The Ten Commandments / int_67013b78	type	Aluminum Christmas Trees
The Ten Commandments / int_67013b78	comment	Aluminum Christmas Trees: "Baka" was an actual ancient Egyptian name, with there having even been a prince, possibly a pharaoh, with the appellation.
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The Ten Commandments / int_674acba5	type	I Just Knew
The Ten Commandments / int_674acba5	comment	I Just Knew: Miriam when she warns the women to stock up on water since there will be none for 7 days. It's implied she uses this gift often ("Miriam is always right.") It is mentioned in the Book of Exodus Chapter 15 that she is a prophetess.
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The Ten Commandments / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Ten Commandments / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: God declares "Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image"...which fades into the people putting the finishing touches on the golden calf.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Ten Commandments / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Nefreteri correctly points out to Moses after catching him slumming as a slave in the mudpits that if he goes ahead with revealing his secret and renouncing his status, he will break Bithia's and Sethi's hearts and guarantee that his own people will suffer more with Rameses as their next overlord, whom incidentally she will have to marry. Dathan correctly points out that the recently freed, malnourished Hebrews have no chance of stopping the Egyptian chariots.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
The Ten Commandments / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: Rameses and Nefertiri's story arc ends this way, with the pair alone, defeated, and despondent in the throne room, with no idea what to do next.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6b27162d	type	The Remake
The Ten Commandments / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: This movie is also a remake of the 1923 silent epic of the same name; Cecil B. DeMille directed both.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
The Ten Commandments / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: When ordering his men to pursue the fleeing Hebrews, Rameses commands his troops to kill everyone else, but bring Moses to him alive.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Ten Commandments / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: A likely unintentional one with Baka, which means "idiot"... in Japanese.
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The Ten Commandments / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
The Ten Commandments / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Ramses, after watching the Red Sea part for the Israelites' escape and then close up again to drown his army, can only return to his court and utter to Nefretiri in blank defeat, "His god... is God."
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The Ten Commandments / int_6dd33e15	type	True Beauty Is on the Inside
The Ten Commandments / int_6dd33e15	comment	True Beauty Is on the Inside: During Nefretiri's attempt to win back Moses' love, she argues that Sephora is not as attractive as her, but Moses tells her that she fails to understand that there is a beauty of spirit.
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The Ten Commandments / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Ten Commandments / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The movie names the unnamed Pharaoh of the Book of Exodus as Rameses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
The Ten Commandments / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: After the Israelites secretly smear the doorposts of Dathan's house with lamb's blood, he is stripped of his position and estate, forced to join the other Israelites in leaving Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Ten Commandments / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Lampshaded by Yochabel, who warns Bithia that, no matter what, if God has a purpose, Moses will be unable to resist.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7348f03e	type	Don't Create a Martyr
The Ten Commandments / int_7348f03e	comment	Don't Create a Martyr: Rameses decides to exile Moses because killing him will turn him to a martyr in Nefretiri's eyes.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Ten Commandments / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the Bible and the original film, the Pharaoh/Rameses died when the Red Sea rejoined.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Ten Commandments / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "So let it be written, so let it be done."
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The Ten Commandments / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
The Ten Commandments / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: Defied. Rameses tells Moses to command the conquered Ethiopians to kneel before Pharaoh, but Moses tells him that he's brought the Ethiopians in friendship and tells Ramses to mind his own business.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Ten Commandments / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Rameses sending Moses into the desert to die a long slow agonizing death instead of just killing him quickly and being done with it.
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The Ten Commandments / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
The Ten Commandments / int_77e45bb5	comment	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Sethi demands to know why Moses is forcing him to punish him.
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The Ten Commandments / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Ten Commandments / int_78be795b	comment	Changeling Fantasy: Where Moses does not enjoy learning that he is actually a Hebrew, nor does his love interest. This is altered for drama's sake from the original story, which suggests that Moses knew very well while he was growing up that he was Hebrew.
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The Ten Commandments / int_79a6da05	type	Whip It Good
The Ten Commandments / int_79a6da05	comment	Whip It Good: Baka sadistically tells Joshua (who he's about to torture) that he can "flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking its stride." Moses then strangles him with it.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
The Ten Commandments / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: Bithia on letting her maternal instincts take over common sense in taking the Hebrew baby Moses despite the obvious dangers her attendant Mamnet points out.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Ten Commandments / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Invoked and downplayed by Yochabel when she asks the Armor-Piercing Question and Moses embraces his Hebrew heritage afterwards and recognizes Yochabel as his true mother:
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The Ten Commandments / int_7b80226d	type	GoodCounterpart
The Ten Commandments / int_7b80226d	comment	Good Counterpart: Moses' son Gershom is clearly this to his bratty cousin Prince Amun.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Ten Commandments / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Rameses is clearly this to Moses as Sethi heaps praise after praise after praise upon his adopted son while leaving Rameses out in the cold. Granted, he's an evil jerk so he brings it on himself.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Ten Commandments / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Rameses II towards the entire Hebrew nation, after the death of his son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Ten Commandments / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Joshua ziplining from the top of a quarry shows him as the prototypical swashbuckler action hero of the time. And when we first meet him, he's on an upper level just so he can climb down a rope accompanied by a fanfare and let us know what a stud he is. Everyone walks away when Dathan comes sniffing around, accompanied by ominously evil villain music.
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The Ten Commandments / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Ten Commandments / int_80621707	comment	Nefreteri correctly points out to Moses after catching him slumming as a slave in the mudpits that if he goes ahead with revealing his secret and renouncing his status, he will break Bithia's and Sethi's hearts and guarantee that his own people will suffer more with Rameses as their next overlord, whom incidentally she will have to marry.
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The Ten Commandments / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Ten Commandments / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Of the World of Ham variety. It has Moses, Rameses, Nefretiri, Baka, The Narrator, and the biggest of them, God. And Sethi, just for the way he says "stricken" in the above speech. (Well, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.) And Jannes, the Old Windbag...
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The Ten Commandments / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Ten Commandments / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Rameses II's son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Ten Commandments / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: As of 2016, it has been discovered that Rameses II was indeed fair skinned.
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The Ten Commandments / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
The Ten Commandments / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Sephora is this for Moses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_86ad852f	type	BadassBeard
The Ten Commandments / int_86ad852f	comment	Badass Beard: Moses, with the hair to match.
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The Ten Commandments / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Ten Commandments / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Rameses I's commander at the beginning, when he challenges Jannes' claim of attack: Later by a quietly furious Rameses (later Rameses II):
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The Ten Commandments / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Ten Commandments / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Angel of Death. Rather than being a human looking angel (or The Grim Reaper), it's portrayed as a cloud of bluish fog descending from the sky in the shape of a creepy hand. It makes sense for the Angel to take on this kind of form, given the nature of its job but still, it's incredibly creepy....
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The Ten Commandments / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Ten Commandments / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Moses at first.
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The Ten Commandments / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Ten Commandments / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The plagues set upon Egypt because of Rameses' stubbornness could be seen as this.
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The Ten Commandments / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Ten Commandments / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Moses, the Deliverer.
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The Ten Commandments / int_8b3ad439	type	Fog of Doom
The Ten Commandments / int_8b3ad439	comment	Fog of Doom: The tenth plague that kills all the firstborn in Egypt is depicted as this.
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The Ten Commandments / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Ten Commandments / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Several characters, but a great example is the "Blind One", a blind old man explaining aspects of the Exodus to his two grandchildren as they describe them to him, such as the funeral procession of their ancestor Joseph as it being borne by Jewish elders to be buried in the Holy Land as his deathbed request. Likewise he recognizes the golden image of a calf handed to him by a fellow slave as an object of pagan worship, which he rejects in horror, but it ironically will later inspire Dathan to creat a false god for his people to worship. Gershom, whom we see Moses telling the story of how his maternal ancestor Ishmael survives in the desert due to God's mercy, thus establishing that Moses has learned of his people's and Seporah's collective history during his time spent with her family. Eleazar, Aaron's younger son, when he has the more symbolic aspects of the first Passover meal explained to him by his elders, the bitter herbs (representing his people's bitter slavery) and the unleavened bread (the haste at which their Egyptian overlords will be driving them out).
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The Ten Commandments / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Ten Commandments / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Memnet does not want Moses to rule Egypt and has proof that he's really a Hebrew. The first person she chooses to tell is the woman who everyone can see is deeply in love with Moses and will do anything to protect him...
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The Ten Commandments / int_8e9cf84e	type
The Ten Commandments / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: Not quite as harsh, but "Sephora" for Tzipporah and "Yochabel" for Yocheved are very odd translations. Bithiah's real Egyptian name was Renenutet. Bithiah, "Daughter of God," was her Hebrew name.
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The Ten Commandments / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Ten Commandments / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Baka the Master Butcher Builder is definitely this due to his cruelty to the slaves. Dathan, who like Rameses spends much of the film doubting Moses' faith in God, learns the hard way what happens when you decide to worship a false idol. Same goes for those who went with Dathan's scheme.
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The Ten Commandments / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Ten Commandments / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Nefretiri.
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The Ten Commandments / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Ten Commandments / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The various misfortunes and tragedies that Rameses endures are his own fault due to his defiance of God.
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The Ten Commandments / int_91a2039b	type	I Am the Noun
The Ten Commandments / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: Ramses: "I am Egypt."
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The Ten Commandments / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Ten Commandments / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Sephora and Nefretiri. Unfortunately, God is the Third-Option Love Interest.
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The Ten Commandments / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Ten Commandments / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Pentaur sees his firstborn son drop dead in front of him. Followed by his king and queen witnessing the death of their son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_9673d7f0	type	Orphan's Plot Trinket
The Ten Commandments / int_9673d7f0	comment	Orphan's Plot Trinket: The blanket that covered baby Moses as he drifted down the river.
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The Ten Commandments / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Ten Commandments / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: After Nefertiri finds Moses as a slave, she suggest he come back to the palace with her and free the Hebrew slaves after he becomes Pharaoh, instead of staying with his people. Nefertiri points out that after he becomes so he can do and order whatever he pleases without breaking Bithia's and Sethi's hearts, and stay with her. Moses actually agrees to return, but only after he meets with the Master Builder...
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The Ten Commandments / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Ten Commandments / int_970c790a	comment	Nefretari is almost a Big Bad herself, persuading Rameses to keep the Israelites in Egypt purely to keep Moses close to her.
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The Ten Commandments / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Ten Commandments / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Rameses blames Nefretiri for the death of their son because her nasty taunts "hardened his heart" to keep the Hebrews slaves just so Moses would stay in Egypt. Aaron pathetically also tries to use this line when Moses comes down from Mount Sinai to take in his people defiling themselves, and he is called out for it.
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The Ten Commandments / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Seen on the side of those who worshipped the golden calf as Moses pass judgement. Although generally only seen from a far distance, it's pretty obvious that Rameses' army does this when the sea un-parts.
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The Ten Commandments / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Ten Commandments / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Moses to a degree—all of Jethro's daughters, with one exception, are trying to catch his eye. (Guess which one he ends up choosing for his wife?) He also attracts Nefertiri, who has his eye for the first part of the film, and the Nubian princess Moses presents to Seti, who seems quite taken by her conqueror. In the Bible, Tharbis was Moses' Nubian bride. note Naturally, a prince should have several wives, and only Nefretiri could be the Great Royal Wife. De Mille wanted to establish this in the film, but realized it was too radical for audiences of his time.
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The Ten Commandments / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
The Ten Commandments / int_998360a	comment	Joshua, who's promoted to Lancer in the film. In the scriptures, while Joshua did eventually Take Up My Sword, he didn't come into focus until they were in the desert, and was implied to be younger than Moses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Ten Commandments / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Moses told Nefretiri that God will use her to work his will. Her manipulations would later backfire and lead to the plague on the firstborn and help the Israelites go free. In a moment when Moses is disguised and helps a mortally wounded slave, Simon:
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The Ten Commandments / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Ten Commandments / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Sethi does this to Bithia after Rameses brings Moses to his court. Ramses essentially also does this to Moses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Ten Commandments / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Lilia's theme, "Death Cometh To Me".
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The Ten Commandments / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Ten Commandments / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Or rather what they failed to do. Aaron and Miriam over their shared guilt and remorse at being unable to prevent their people from corrupting themselves in Moses' absence is painfully obvious.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Ten Commandments / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Jethro to his daughters.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Ten Commandments / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Jannes the High Priest can count as such, for while he is loyal to Pharoahs he serves, he definitely has his own agenda, and his evil advice to Rameses I at the beginning that leads to the death of innocent Hebrew children and threatens Moses as a baby.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Ten Commandments / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Near the end, the divine majesty of God giving His law to Moses is contrasted with the debauchery of the Hebrews worshipping their golden idol.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Ten Commandments / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Averted generally, since it is about freeing the Hebrew slaves, but Dathan (who is Hebrew) and Memnet (who is not) play this trope very straight.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Ten Commandments / int_a60e3252	comment	One deliberate case, which falls under Rule of Funny. In the DVD commentary, they mention that the soldier would have said the Underworld or Hadesnote which is yet another anachronism; Hades is a Greek term, but it wouldn't have worked so well. Dathan actually does go to Hell.
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The Ten Commandments / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Ten Commandments / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Joshua, who's promoted to Lancer in the film. In the scriptures, while Joshua did eventually Take Up My Sword, he didn't come into focus until they were in the desert, and was implied to be younger than Moses. Dathan, who appears in only one scene in the Bible, becomes a major villainous character in the film, and to a lesser extent his brother Abiram and Moses' treacherous cousin and Dathan's conspirator Korah. Baka the Master Butcher Builder is based on a nameless mook in the Bible. Here, he's promoted to Vincent Price. Jannes, the High Priest of Egypt and Court Mage, who in the Book of Exodus is an unnamed court magician among others who oppose Moses when he confronts Pharoah. He is referred to Jannes in outside sources, including one of the Pauline letters (2nd Timothy, 3:5).
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The Ten Commandments / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Ten Commandments / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: After his encounter with God, Moses is always either very dignified or very subdued, but when he learns what the Pharaoh has planned for the slaves, and realizes what's going to happen, he is horrified and his bearing slips all the way to pleading with God for mercy.
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The Ten Commandments / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Ten Commandments / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Nefretiri. Moses tells her himself that she'll be part of God's plan to free the slaves.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Ten Commandments / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Moses' birth mother, when she is about to be crushed by the granite she is greasing. When Nefretiri realizes too late after silencing Mamnet she forgot about the Levite wrapping cloth the old nurse brought with her to prove her claims about Moses, until Moses himself discovers it, and starts asking awkward questions... The look on Baka's face when he sees the slave who is about to strangle him is actually Moses. Moses himself, when Nefeteri tells him that Rameses has ordered the murder of the Hebrew children, meaning that the Egyptian firstborn, not the children of Goshen, will perish. Dathan and Korah when they realize too late that he has gone over his head with the One True God...
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The Ten Commandments / int_ad3d8092	type	Heartbroken Badass
The Ten Commandments / int_ad3d8092	comment	Heartbroken Badass: Rameses is genuinely devastated by the death of his son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Ten Commandments / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: "If there is one more plague on Egypt, it is by your word that God will bring it." Shoulda kept your mouth shut, Rameses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Ten Commandments / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Seti. The soldier who evicts Dathan. Nefretiri: Moses has his moments: Later, when Moses allows the Hebrews to eat the temple grain:
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The Ten Commandments / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Ten Commandments / int_aed65980	comment	The movie ends with the hebrews reaching Canaan and Moses being unable to set foot in it like in the Book of Exodus. Today we know that Canaan was conquered by Seti I and part of Ramesses II's empire during his 66-year-long reign, which would've made the whole Exodus completely moot.
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The Ten Commandments / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Ten Commandments / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: A minor example. Rabbinical Judaism tells us that Moses' lifespan corresponds to 1391-1271 BC, telling us the Exodus happened in 1311 BC and thus that the Pharaoh of the Exodus would have been Horemheb, the predecessor of Ramesses I whom we see early in this film. Jerome, on the other hand, gives Moses' year of birth as 1592 meaning the Exodus would have been in 1512 with Thutmose I as the Pharaoh and Ussher gives Moses' year of birth as 1571 meaning the Exodus would have been in 1491 with the Pharaoh being Thutmose II. Most curent scholars think that if the Exodus did happen, the Pharaoh was Thutmose III, not II.
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The Ten Commandments / int_af739531	type	Inept Mage
The Ten Commandments / int_af739531	comment	Inept Mage: Jannes, as he is repeatedly being humiliated in front of Rameses II and the Royal Court by Moses and God, first by Moses' rod turned serpent swallowing his and another priest's, then repeatedly discrediting him and the gods he serves through the plagues he is clearly unable to prevent.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Ten Commandments / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "So let it be written. So let it be done." by Rameses (both I and II). It even gets a reprise at the end of the film (as a literal example of Word of God).
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The Ten Commandments / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Ten Commandments / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Anne Baxter's virtually see-through outfits are surprisingly risque for 1956. Hell, in the "Hounds and Jackals" scene, Baxter is wearing a dress so transparent one can actually see her nipples. Again, by Ancient Egyptian standards, she is way overdressed.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Ten Commandments / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: How Joshua describes working in the copper mines. For Lilia, it is being Dathan's sex toy.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Ten Commandments / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Moses's justification for for betraying Sethi. Sethi turns this right back on Moses in ordering his punishment.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Ten Commandments / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Pentaur the commander of the Egyptian army, as he protests in vain at seeing the former prince Moses he once served under in war and whom he respected being forced to cross the desert with only one day's ration of food and water. As he is made to put on Moses' Levite robe, a parting gift from his dying birth mother, Pentaur says, "I would rather this was your armor." He's also visibly stunned at how callously Rameses informs Moses that his birth mother is dead.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b51a2dd8	type	Demythification
The Ten Commandments / int_b51a2dd8	comment	Demythification: There is a scene where Ramses tries to explain away the Plagues as natural phenomena. To paraphrase, he tells Moses that red mud seeped into the Nile River, causing the frogs to leave and the cattle drinking from it to sicken and die, whose carcasses rotted, attracting rats and bugs that spread disease. Then there's the matter of burning hail from the sky...
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The Ten Commandments / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Ten Commandments / int_b53077b3	comment	Also, when Moses is being dumped by Rameses in the desert, he is given a Levite robe spun by his mother who personally brought with her to prison to deliver to her son, only to die afterwards (presumably from a broken heart, although we can see she's pretty frail and sick in her last scene) which Rameses coldly delivers as a parting Take That! to his rival.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Ten Commandments / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Egyptian army following the fleeing Israelites into the parted sea. Did NOBODY realize that God could (and would) solve that little problem simply by letting things return to normal? (Even if they were all raging atheists, one would not want to tempt fate in jumping into what was clearly a strange phenomena that could have ended at any moment.) After seeing with their own eyes God part the waters of the sea, the Hebrews are quick to question the existence of Him while waiting for Moses to return from Mount Sinai. So they decided to forge a golden idol to worship instead. Bithiah even points this out: "Would a God who's shown you such wonders let Moses die before his work was done?"
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The Ten Commandments / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Ten Commandments / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Moses is a peerless warrior, a wise diplomat and a brilliant architect. As a shepherd he prospers and becomes known for his honest dealings. Then there's his divine destiny.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Ten Commandments / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: When Bithia adopts Moses, she says, "Because I drew you from the water, you shall be called 'Moses.'" This makes no sense in English. In Hebrew, she calls him Moshe (the Hebrew equivalent of Moses), because she mishituhu (which translates to, "I drew him out") from the water. (There's some interesting etymology speculations here.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Ten Commandments / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle
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The Ten Commandments / int_b8ba9b1f	type	Crossing the Desert
The Ten Commandments / int_b8ba9b1f	comment	Crossing the Desert: Moses does this after he's thrown out of Egypt. Ramses only gives him one day's rations, figuring he'll die that way, but he manages to make it to Midian.
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The Ten Commandments / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Ten Commandments / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Sort of with Miriam and Aaron, though both get their moments, especially Aaron, played by John Carradine. Miriam's moments include assisting newly appointed Lancer Joshua in organizing the Exodus.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
The Ten Commandments / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image". The scene fades to the golden calf.
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The Ten Commandments / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Ten Commandments / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Averted with Sethi, who is a much more reasonable figure than his father Rameses I. Rameses succeeding the relatively reasonable Sethi. Technically averted when Dathan is promoted to governor upon Baka's death — while he is certainly a Bad Boss, he's nowhere near as tyrannical as Baka.
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The Ten Commandments / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Ten Commandments / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Never interrupt Jannes in the middle of one of his lengthy proclamations, or the pompous Old Windbag will threaten you with a point of a sword snatched from the nearest guard! Also never disobey God or flout His will, as Rameses II and Dathan learn to their cost.
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The Ten Commandments / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
The Ten Commandments / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: Sethi on his deathbed breaks his own decree by saying Moses's name.
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The Ten Commandments / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Ten Commandments / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Moses with Sephora - until he finds his God...
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The Ten Commandments / int_c12d6db6	type	Earthquakes Cause Fissures
The Ten Commandments / int_c12d6db6	comment	Earthquakes Cause Fissures: When Moses throws the eponymous tablets at the Golden Calf, the Calf explodes and a massive earthquake ensues which opens up massive rifts in the Earth, consuming the mooks and The Starscream of the piece. Justified by the fact it's the work of God.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
The Ten Commandments / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Invoked by Sethi when he learns that Moses is the deliverer, and he decrees: Subverted when Sethi is on his deathbed: Invoked and downplayed by Yochabel when she asks the Armor-Piercing Question and Moses embraces his Hebrew heritage afterwards and recognizes Yochabel as his true mother:
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The Ten Commandments / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Ten Commandments / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!"
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The Ten Commandments / int_c3308d09	type	Blood for Mortar
The Ten Commandments / int_c3308d09	comment	Blood for Mortar: Discussed and Defied; when Moses' fellow Egyptians ask why he will not let a Hebrew woman die during the construction of a temple, he states that "blood makes poor mortar" and frees her.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Ten Commandments / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The following quote: The old slave with Moses who dies regretting that he never saw the Deliverer, not knowing that said Deliverer is cradling his body as he dies.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
The Ten Commandments / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Unless you really believe Charlton Heston is slow of speech and thick of tongue... (He tried but couldn't do a realistic stammer. He settled for speaking very slowly.) Nefretiri being more attractive than Sephora. Well, Anne Baxter wasn't a bad looking woman by any means, but Yvonne De Carlo as a supposedly "plain" sheep herder is a little hard to swallow.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c578f42	type	The Last Thing You Ever See
The Ten Commandments / int_c578f42	comment	The Last Thing You Ever See: Bithiah says to Memnet, when making her swear to keep quiet about Moses, that "The day you break that oath will be the last your eyes will ever see." And her proclamation comes true. Even though it's Bithiah threatening to kill Memnet should she open her mouth, it's Nefretiri who does so when Memnet spills the beans to her.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Ten Commandments / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Lilia nearly becomes one of these during the Golden Calf incident.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Ten Commandments / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Moses's hair and beard are patterned after Michelangelo's sculpture in Rome. (Heston later played Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy)
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The Ten Commandments / int_c7e5d37	comment	Little Girls Kick Shins: A variation. Rameses II's son kicks Moses' rod after he just demonstrates God's power through having the rod miraculously turn into a cobra and back again, but it is still an insulting and defiant gesture to both Moses and God, thereby we still don't feel too bad over what happens to the princely brat.
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The Ten Commandments / int_c871cf6d	type	Playing Gertrude
The Ten Commandments / int_c871cf6d	comment	Playing Gertrude: Both Martha Scott (eleven years older than Charlton Heston) and Nina Foch (one year younger).
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The Ten Commandments / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
The Ten Commandments / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: Bithia, particularly with Mamnet whenever the old nurse seems about to spill the beans about Moses.
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The Ten Commandments / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Discussed by Rameses with his ministers, concerning the first few plagues.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d1fc4a16	type	Please Spare Him, My Liege!
The Ten Commandments / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Lilia does this twice in order to save Joshua's life. The first time, it was to Prince Moses. The second time, it was to Dathan. But there was a catch in Dathan's case...
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The Ten Commandments / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Ten Commandments / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Both Bithia and Yochebel in later life.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d41485b9	comment	Mook Depletion: Rameses sends his army after Moses and the departing Israelites only to be told that they were all killed when the Red Sea parted, and then un-parted. The final shot of him is on his throne, silently contemplating how he can rule his country with no army to back him up. In this case it happens because the opponent's might (God's) is such that it wipes the whole army out in one swift strike.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
The Ten Commandments / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: God's constant assurance to Moses, whenever he has a setback.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
The Ten Commandments / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Walking Shirtless Scene: Rameses, Moses and Joshua all have extended shirtless scenes.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d507ecfc	comment	Does Not Like Shoes: Moses is instructed by God from the Burning Bush to remove his sandals as he now standing on hallowed ground.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Sethi proclaims that Moses' name be erased from every carving, and never be spoken again, after learning that he is the one destined to free the Israelites. So let it be written, so let it be done! Subverted when Sethi, on his deathbed, breaks his own decree and utters Moses' name just before he dies. In ancient Egypt, this was done to ensure that a person would not only disappear from everyday life, but would have no life after death. De Mille biographer Katherine Orrison says that was the very reason Moses' name was spoken so often in the film. It was De Mille's symbolic attempt to ensure the real Moses could enter heaven.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d60d12e4	type	Harbinger of Impending Doom
The Ten Commandments / int_d60d12e4	comment	Harbinger of Impending Doom: Jannes, when he informs Pharaoh Rameses I of the prophecy of a Hebrew Deliver being born. His Pharaoh's attempt to prevent the prophecy results ironically in the baby Moses being discretely adopted by Rameses' daughter Bithia and growing up to actually make the prophecy come true.
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The Ten Commandments / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Ten Commandments / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: When the Hebrews leave Egypt after being freed, some Egyptian guards in the background join them. It's Exodus 12:38. The "mixed multitude" also includes a lot of Nubians who must have been guests. There would have been Egyptians like Bithiah, who followed her faith in her son; others just getting away from the devastated land, others ready to believe "his God is God," or possible converts who were aware something about this was real; others could have been enslaved foreigners, etc.
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The Ten Commandments / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Rameses. He knows that the Egyptian gods were created by men to justify the pharaoh’s rule, and as such believes he can do whatever he wants. Presumably he disbelieves in the Hebrews’ God for the same reason. Possibly, Dathan as well, since it’s unlikely that he’d betray Moses if he knew Moses had God on his side.
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The Ten Commandments / int_db148980	type	Mook Promotion
The Ten Commandments / int_db148980	comment	Baka the Master Butcher Builder is based on a nameless mook in the Bible. Here, he's promoted to Vincent Price.
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The Ten Commandments / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Ten Commandments / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: As Pharaoh of Egypt, Rameses II becomes this, hence his resistance to the True God's demands.
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The Ten Commandments / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Ten Commandments / int_dca70c44	comment	Rameses succeeding the relatively reasonable Sethi.
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The Ten Commandments / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
The Ten Commandments / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Seems to be Rameses' default expression, especially whenever Moses is receiving kudos for being awesome.
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The Ten Commandments / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Ten Commandments / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Rameses and Nefretiri. (it was an Arranged Marriage after all) The only thing keeping them going is their son. After their only son is taken by the plague on the firstborn sons, she mocks Rameses and the gods of Egypt, and Rameses boasts to add her blood to that of Moses and the Israelites, only to return in shameful defeat, and reluctantly acknowledge that the god of the Israelites is the true God.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Ten Commandments / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Bithiah, although not Moses's birth mother, certainly is the trope. She cautions Memnet that if she ever speaks of Moses's true heritage, she will die. And Bithiah is more than willing to follow through on this threat, Nefritiri just beats her to the punch.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: After becoming Pharaoh, Rameses chooses to banish Moses to the desert rather than have him killed.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Whatever their faults, Rameses II and Nefreteri really loved their son, and are devastated when he is claimed by the Plague of the Death of the Firstborn.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e3b14ec9	type	Badass Baritone
The Ten Commandments / int_e3b14ec9	comment	Badass Baritone: Both Moses and Rameses, and God. Joshua can lower his voice to very heroic levels when necessary. Likewise Vincent Price as Baka. Also Aaron, although it's more of a bass courtesy of John Carradine.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
The Ten Commandments / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: The women might seem to have obviously 1950s hair and makeup.... but the hair styles are all taken from period wall paintings, except that in Egypt those would all be wigs (most women as well as men shaved their heads). And Egyptian men and women wore elaborate cosmetics, especially eyeliner and shadow (which kept flies away and looked downright snazzy besides) which they skipped for the film (they managed to work in a reference to it in the well scene with Jethro's daughters). One detail DeMille hoped to get in but couldn't was the fact that palace servants wore lit candles on their heads at night. He actually put one on Bithiah's maid in the scene where Bithiah asks for her chariot so she can ride to Goshen, but he just couldn't get the continuity between takes matched up, and so they abandoned it.note This is also why there aren't any cats in the Egyptian scenes, though DeMille was well aware of the exalted regard in which cats were held.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e7887f8a	type	Emissary from the Divine
The Ten Commandments / int_e7887f8a	comment	Emissary from the Divine: Moses acts as an emissary from God to free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
The Ten Commandments / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: Thousands of extras, grand set pieces and environments, and a running time of 220 minutes.
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The Ten Commandments / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
The Ten Commandments / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Nefretiri.
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The Ten Commandments / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
The Ten Commandments / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: It's a toss up among Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter. Brynner is arguably the least hammy though; he's actually quite subtle in some scenes. And in universe, the "old windbag" High Priest Jannes (Douglas Dumbrille). Honorable mention goes to Vincent Price.
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The Ten Commandments / int_eb584221	type	Why Are You Not My Son?
The Ten Commandments / int_eb584221	comment	Why Are You Not My Son?: Sethi clearly considers Moses a more worthy successor than his actual son.
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The Ten Commandments / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Ten Commandments / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Moses, naturally. (Charlton Heston tended to play a lot of these during his career)
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The Ten Commandments / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Ten Commandments / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Dathan. Dathan. Dathan. From having Lilia as his Sex Slave to being the one who made the infamous Golden Calf to many Kick the Dog incidents in between, you'd think he was competing in some contest to crown the biggest cinematic dog-kicker. Rameses certainly qualifies, going from just plain stubborness to this as the plages pile up and he doesn't yield on keeping the Hebrews as slaves, as does Nefretiri after she's been married to him long enough. Baka the Master Builder, both for letting Yochebel be nearly crushed to death and trying to make Lilia his Sex Slave.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ebd01bc5	type	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
The Ten Commandments / int_ebd01bc5	comment	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Vincent Price as Baka the Master Builder never actually utters the words. What he says (in that inimitable Price baritone) is: And with a "Bring the girl" to his underlings, he's off.
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The Ten Commandments / int_eee57253	type	Befriending the Enemy
The Ten Commandments / int_eee57253	comment	Befriending the Enemy: Despite his initial suspicion of her being from the Royal Family that oppressed his people, Moses' Hebrew slave friend Mered quickly becomes a loyal friend to Moses' adopted mother Bithia, to the point that he prevents her from her risking her life by attempting to halt her nephew's charging army. According to Jewish legend, Mered and Bithia actually become a couple, and even had kids!
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The Ten Commandments / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
The Ten Commandments / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: The opening sequences include the infant Moses being rescued from the water by Bithiah.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
The Ten Commandments / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Dathan, to Rameses:
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The Ten Commandments / int_ef85d7e5	type	Repeat to Confirm
The Ten Commandments / int_ef85d7e5	comment	Repeat to Confirm: A non-verbal version — the overseers at the construction site signal each other thusly with colored pennants.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ef878d58	type	Court Mage
The Ten Commandments / int_ef878d58	comment	Court Mage: Jannes, in addition to being High Priest of Egypt and one of the Pharoah's top advisors.
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The Ten Commandments / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire:
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The Ten Commandments / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
The Ten Commandments / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod!: Rameses I ordering the murder of all Hebrew newborns to thwart the prophecy of the deliverer.
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The Ten Commandments / int_f89e8ce5	type	The High King
The Ten Commandments / int_f89e8ce5	comment	The High King: Rameses becomes this as Pharaoh, despite the stacks against him because of his adopted brother Moses' accomplishments. And before him his father Sethi and grandfather Rameses I.
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The Ten Commandments / int_f914cae5	type	Post-Rape Taunt
The Ten Commandments / int_f914cae5	comment	Post-Rape Taunt: Baka to Joshua regarding Lilia, telling him he "would have only kept her a short while. She would have returned to you. . .shall we say. . .more worthy."
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The Ten Commandments / int_f99c9332	type	Winds Are Ghosts
The Ten Commandments / int_f99c9332	comment	Winds Are Ghosts: The film depicts the final plague of taking the firstborn sons of the Egyptians as being represented as wind taking the children's souls.
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The Ten Commandments / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Ten Commandments / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The Israelites were released from their — bondage.
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The Ten Commandments / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
The Ten Commandments / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: Seti, Moses's adopted uncle, is visibly distraught as Moses keeps digging himself a deeper and deeper hole in regards to his murder of a slave master. Seti must hold his adopted nephew accountable in the law, but does not want to sentence his own nephew to death — he eventually settles on exile and striking Moses's existence from all Egyptian records.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Ten Commandments / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Rameses has his moments, so much so that it's very hard to dislike him. It's not like it's his fault Moses is more competent and his own father clearly favors Moses over him. He's polite and soft-spoken to other Egyptians, shows genuine sympathy to one of his men when the 10th Plague kills the man's son, is devastated when his own son dies, is ready to kill Dathan for accusing Moses, and deals fairly with Dathan by keeping his word to him instead of just killing him and using his information about Moses anyway. Brynner wanted the character to be complex and multi-faceted, and he succeeded. Take him out of the film and it's a lot less interesting. And it can't be denied that Rameses could have easily had Moses killed instead of exiling him. Sure, he gave an excuse, but you can't watch the scene and the movie without thinking that Moses and Rameses probably grew up together and have a history that's more than being rivals. Like Seti refusing to kill Moses, it's not that much of a stretch to think that Rameses probably just could not bring himself to do it either.
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The Ten Commandments / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Ten Commandments / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: According to Katherine Orrison, De Mille's biographer and protégé of De Mille's friend Henry Wilcoxon, De Mille did a HUGE amount of research, using not only the Bible, but the Qur'an and various Hebrew traditional texts including the Midrash. Rameses II lays his dead son in the arms of an idol he addresses as "Dread Lord of Darkness". The lighting, background music and Brynner's attitude suggest he's praying to some evil guy. Actually, this is Sokar, better known as Seker, the guide of the dead, a kindly disposed deity who is also a form of the risen Osiris note i.e., an Ancient Egyptian equivalent of Jesus Christ and patron of craftspeople, builders and agriculture. De Mille did the research on this too. Both Seti I and Rameses II had art depicting Seker in their private chambers. He is one of the oldest Egyptian deities.
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