#MOSES TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE MOVIE#

Its running time is 220 minutes, not including De MilleвЂ™s personal introduction and an intermission much of it looks as ridiculous to me now as it did when I first saw it at the age of 13 but not even a moment of it is boring.

#MOSES TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE MOVIE#

De MilleвЂ™s The Ten Commandments (1956), recently rereleased and playing at the Music Box this week, offers an impressive demonstration of this differenceвЂ“as well as the best movie blockbuster around at the moment.

But the emotions and ideas behind many of these special effects may seem less datedвЂ“not because of any ideological sophistication, but because of a fundamental belief in the transparency of sounds and images: an innocent faith in the capacity of special effects to convey emotions and ideas, and not merely effects.Д¬ecil B. The special effects that audiences thrilled to in the 1950s (and earlier) can seem archaic and faintly embarrassing to most audiences today. By trusting new toys more and more, either as precision instruments or as sophisticated armaments, we seem to be trusting ourselves less and less, and itвЂ™s even possible that our growing worship of state-of-the-art sound and image may indirectly point toward a shrinking faith and confidence in what sounds and images are supposed to mean. Technological developments in communications are nearly always regarded as advancements rather than regressions, yet it might be argued that these advancements have little to do with what we actually have to communicate. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, and Vincent Price.

With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G.

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