Also the small little vignettes of the various people in the crowd. Note how uplifting the liberation of the Hebrews is in his film. Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses just don't give you people you can identify with. They made an evenly matched pair of foes and with them scrapping over Anne Baxter the conflict got personal as well as religious. Yul Brynner as Ramses in that version was the arrogant Pharoah enjoying all his princely prerogatives. In DeMille's version the dialog may be arcane, but it is also uplifting and inspiring and delivered by the ultimate DeMille leading man Charlton Heston. In the funny way things work out in life, the adopted Egyptian prince is in fact the promised leader who is going to lead them back from whence they came which is Canaan. What's not so secure is the kingdom itself as the Hebrews who came over as a family of 13 kids several centuries earlier now are in the thousands and are slaves and they ain't happy about it. But when it is discovered that Moses is actually the son of Hebrew slaves that his mother Pharoah's sister drew him out of the Nile the succession of the Pharoah's line is secure. Cousins Moses and Ramses are friends and rivals for the affections of the Pharoah who is Ramses dad. But I have to say that Ridley Scott's version of Exodus while technically proficient will never become the Passover viewing treat that DeMille's film has become. DeMille's The Ten Commandments because of the arcane Victorian era dialog.
It has become somewhat fashionable to dismiss Cecil B.
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