sorry for the lack of posts in the last week. I had scheduling difficulties and was out of commission due to a stomach virus. Yuck. I know. Nonetheless, I wanted to share with you one of my family traditions. Regardless if you're a religious zealot or a die hard atheist, I think we all can appreciate fine cinema. Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, is one of my favorite movies to watch every year. I only watch it on the night before Easter. (ABC has played this movie every Holy Saturday. The one year they didn't broadcast it, they received a ridiculous number of complaints. I told you it's a good movie). It's a grand sweeping epic in the style of the 1950s. The cast includes Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, and Yul Brenner. It was the highest grossing religious epic ever until The Passion of the Christ. I think what I love about the movie so much is the fact that they embrace the Hollywood of legend and do away with naturalism and realism. It's all about the beauty, the art, the aesthetic. Moses is sexy and tan. Even Ramses looks good. They have powerful asides and soap opera quality that totally works. It's also DeMille's final work before he passed in 1959. Just watch it. If you don't like it, at least you can hit on the preacher's daughter, who is a total babe.
Charlton Heston Anne Baxter Yul Brenner
PS. A naughty tid-bit: There's an orgy scene that took three weeks to film and legend has it that one of the extras screamed out during filming "Who do I have to fuck to get out of this movie?" Did that pique your interest? Enjoy.
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