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The Ten Commandments (Special Collector's Edition)Rating:
Release Date: 09 March, 2004 Retail Price: $19.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (13 total) |
The Ten Commandments (Special Collector's Edition) Reviews
Hollywood 'wow' with a religious twist
The first reviewer, Mr. Burgraff, said it best: It's DeMille,
either you'll love it or hate it. I was first exposed to this classic when very young, and every year there after, looked forward to the annual TV showing around Easter. This is the film that was nominated for 7 Academy Awards. Now, we have garbage like "Brokeback Mountain" getting rave reviews...my, how things have changed, and for the worse.
A bit cheesy and over-the-top at times, but still an excellent movie that has stood the test of time. The wonderful musical score just sweeps you up and carries you away. And the stars of this cinema epic had real staying power. Unlike the stars of today, who seem to be here today and gone tomorrow, nearly forgotten and quickly replaced by someone else. I always had a thing for brown-eyed beauty Debra Paget, in the role of Joshua's love interest. Along with Heston, I believe these two may be the only stars of this film still surviving.
Without a doubt, the greatest religious epic ever filmed. And done in a delightful and awe-inspiring way that, unfortunately, will not come again.
Katherine Orrison's DVD Commentary on the silent Ten Commandments
I wanted to just put this in for those who might be interested. In the DVD commentary on the silent Ten Commandments by Katherine Orrison, she says that the poem on which the female character (in the present day section)has written her "Goodbye" suicide note is probably important but she hasn't time to look it up. I did. It was relatively easy with a quick computer search. The poem that the note is written on is Helas by Oscar Wilde. She was quite correct that it had direct meaning for what was happening in the film at that moment. At this moment of greatest dispair and just before her return to religious belief, this is the poem used.
Helas
To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mare the secret of the whole.
Surely there was a time I might have trod
The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God:
Is that time dead? Lo, with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance--
and must I lose a soul's inheritance?
For those who watch the silent film, the reason for this poem being seen at that exact moment is all too clear. What impresses me is how quickly it passes from the screen, but the care that was made in the choice of this poem. I just wanted to share this small bit of research with anyone who would be interested.
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