The Ten Commandments (1956)
John Derek: Joshua
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Quotes
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Joshua : Here! Water lily!
Lilia : My name is Lilia.
Joshua : To me you are a lily, and I want water.
Lilia : Joshua. Joshua, I thought you'd never come down.
Joshua : Water before love, my girl.
Lilia : Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst?
Joshua : No, just your lips.
Lilia : Be careful, my love. Dathan's eyes can see through stone.
Joshua : Dathan is a vulture, feeding on the flesh of his own people.
Lilia : When he looks at me, I am afraid.
Joshua : If he touches you, I'll strangle him with his own whip!
Lilia : And bring death to a thousand of us?
Joshua : Is life in bondage better than death?
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Joshua : Praise God, I have found you.
Moses : Joshua? We thought you dead.
Joshua : In the copper mines of Geber, the living are dead.
Moses : Sephora! Bring water! How did you find me?
Joshua : A merchant buying copper saw you in the tent of Jethro.
Moses : [Moses softly tapped Josha's back] Here you, too, will find peace.
Joshua : [a stunned look came over Joshua's face, as he almost crossed his eyes] Peace? How can you find peace or want it when Rameses builds cities mortared with the blood of our people?
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Joshua : God of Abraham, four hundred years we have waited.
Moses : Pharaoh's soldiers won't wait so long.
Joshua : The Almighty has heard our cries from bondage. You are the Chosen One!
Moses : I know nothing of your god.
Joshua : He knows you, Moses. He has brought you to us. You cannot turn your back upon us. You will deliver us!
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Lilia : Joshua!
Joshua : Run, Lilia, run! The way is clear. The master builder will not follow.
Baka : Neither will you, stonecutter.
[Joshua tried to escape, running backwards, but was captured by Baka's guards]
Baka : Bind him between the columns! See that his arms are tightly stretched!
Egyptian guard : He'll cut him to pieces.
Baka : Now go after the girl. Don't come back without her.
Egyptian guard : We'll find her.
Baka : You foolish, stupid man. I would have kept her only a short while. She would have returned to you, shall we say, more worthy. Now to whom shall I return Lilia? You will not be there, Joshua.
[saying this, Baka starts to lash Joshua]
Baka : You've seen me drive my chariot. I can flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. You've seen me use my whip.
[Baka lashed Joshua again]
Baka : You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will. You will cry for the mercy of death.
Joshua : One day you will listen to the cry of slaves.
Baka : This is not that day, Joshua.
[Baka lashed another stripe on Joshua]
Baka : You hold your tongue almost as well as I hold my temper. It's a pity to kill so strong a stonecutter.
Moses : [Moses caught Baka's whip, pulled it, and turned Baka around] Death will bring death, Baka!
Baka : Who are you?
Moses : One who asks what right you have to kill a slave.
Baka : The right of a master to kill you or any slave.
Moses : Then kill me, master butcher!
[Moses then caught and used Baka's whip, choking Baka to death]
Baka : Moses!
[Baka's last line]
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Moses : You know it is death to strike an Egyptian?
Joshua : I know it.
Moses : Yet you struck him. Why?
Joshua : To save the old woman.
Moses : What is she to you?
Joshua : An old woman.
[Joshua was defending his Hebrew race]
Egyptian guard : Lord Prince, send him to his death!
Moses : The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave.
Joshua : God made men. Men made slaves.
Moses : Which god?
Joshua : The God of Abraham. The Almighty God!
Moses : If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?
Joshua : He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us!
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Baka : They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss.
Moses : Are you a master builder or a master butcher?
Baka : If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city would never rise.
Overseer : If the slaves are not driven, they will not work.
Joshua : If their work lags, it is because they are not fed.
Moses : You look strong enough.
Joshua : I am a stonecutter. The Pharaohs likes their images cut deep.
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Lilia : [singing] Death cometh to me, to set me free, death cometh to me.
Joshua : No, Lilia. Death will not come to you.
Lilia : Joshua! Joshua, you risk your life in coming here. You are firstborn.
Joshua : So are you. I bring lamb's blood to mark the door posts and lintel... that the Angel of Death may pass you by.
Lilia : Joshua, it is enough that you have come to me. I am outcast among our people. Do not save me from death, Joshua. Save me from life!
Joshua : Tomorrow will bring a new world for us, Lilia!
