Him being - well you define that. I reckon I am saying that there could be a pun here - sorry not sorry. Now first things first. Because when you say The Ten Commandments movie most will think of the 1956 version. Done by the same director - but done quite differently. There is also the Ridley Scott movie called Exodus - which I may have to rewatch one of these days.
The Moses story is told quite fast here - and I don't just mean the run time (which is only over half the run time the 50s version had), but the fact that we are done with Moses in less than an hour (ok I didn't stop the time, but more or less). After that we come back to present time - present time being the 1920s when the movie was shot.
So apart from digging the whole religious vibe the movie has (and the morality of it), you have to also cut the movie some slack when it comes to the fact when it was shot. There is music, but no spoken dialog - I hope I do not have to explain why that is. Or rather I am certain you can find out about that yourself.
The set pieces are quite something. And although Cecil B. Demille upstaged himself 3 decades later (with better technology and more money of course), there are scene here that are still to this day (almost a full century later) are really well done and have not lost their touch and magic. Like the ending - I won't go into details, but the way it is edited together - really astonishing and amazing.
The morality is simple but even so, the themes (lepracy at one point, cheating, murder and other sins) are quite wild for the time this was made. I don't know how far the censors were at that time, but it is astonishing it got away with what it did. No explicit showing of anything, but just the fact that you had that evil in there ... anyway, the movie is good but you have to really suspend your disbelief to quite the massive degree.
The Moses story is told quite fast here - and I don't just mean the run time (which is only over half the run time the 50s version had), but the fact that we are done with Moses in less than an hour (ok I didn't stop the time, but more or less). After that we come back to present time - present time being the 1920s when the movie was shot.
So apart from digging the whole religious vibe the movie has (and the morality of it), you have to also cut the movie some slack when it comes to the fact when it was shot. There is music, but no spoken dialog - I hope I do not have to explain why that is. Or rather I am certain you can find out about that yourself.
The set pieces are quite something. And although Cecil B. Demille upstaged himself 3 decades later (with better technology and more money of course), there are scene here that are still to this day (almost a full century later) are really well done and have not lost their touch and magic. Like the ending - I won't go into details, but the way it is edited together - really astonishing and amazing.
The morality is simple but even so, the themes (lepracy at one point, cheating, murder and other sins) are quite wild for the time this was made. I don't know how far the censors were at that time, but it is astonishing it got away with what it did. No explicit showing of anything, but just the fact that you had that evil in there ... anyway, the movie is good but you have to really suspend your disbelief to quite the massive degree.