Easter is over...
I watched part of The Ten Commandments the other night. Two things struck me as I watched this Oscar winning film:
1. We have come a LONG way in the 40+ years since that movie was made. Sure it looked epic, but the performances were so incredibly stiff! The acting was on the level of what I would do if I were to portray someone badly acting. I hadn't seen the film since I was a kid, so I was watching it with a very different eye.
2. I was watching the scene where Moses was warning the Pharaoh about the last plague - the death of the firstborn of Egypt - when I was struck by the notion that I'm not sure I would worship a God whose sense of justice is to kill children, regardless of who threatened who first. Now before I receive the onslaught of emails and comments deriding me, I am fully aware this is the "Old Testament" God. I was raised in an Christian household and am fully aware of the Doctrine and what it says. I just don't happen to have the same perspective on Christianity and Religion that I had when I was a teenager and before. I will spare you my fully realized perspective for now.
To completely change the subject, enjoy this comic ditty.
posted by Roger C. @ 4/09/2007 09:17:00 PM
1 Comments:
For me, the oddest thing with "The Ten Commandments" has to be the accents. Pharoah has a British accent, Moses and most of the others have variations of American accents, Ramses has whatever the hell kind of accent Yul Brynner has... (Billy Crystal does a brief but wonderful bit on this very topic.)
Can't they be consistent like in "Spartacus" (and a surprisingly large number of other films), namely that the Romans have British accents and everyone else has American accents?
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