Easter, for some reason, means the showing of the DeMille classic The Ten Commandments. This year there is a new mini-series adaptation called, well, The Ten Commandments. Jill Vejnoska gives us a 'Ten Commandments' guide to sort it all out:
VI Thou Shalt Not Kill All the Cornball Dialogue: We're all for reverence, but what's a self-respecting, sand-and-sandals spectacle without the likes of DeMille's Princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter) batting her eyes at Moses and breathing heavily, "When you are Pharaoh, you can free your people, worship whatever gods you please. So long as I can worship you ... ." The miniseries has few laughs, intentional or otherwise. It's mostly heavy on the drama as Moses struggles to unify his people, although the occasional bout of self-help-speak makes him sound like the Dr. Phil of the desert. ("Because a man is born in slavery, that doesn't mean that he is a slave. He has to think of himself as a slave before he is one!")
The whole thing is pretty funny.
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Yes, sometimes theosebes can be slow on the uptake.
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