The Ten Commandments (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] (vuoden 2011 painos)

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The Ten Commandments
USA 1956
GENERE: Bibl. DURATA: 220′ VISIONE CONSIGLIATA: T
CRITICA: 2 PUBBLICO: 5
REGIA: Cecil B. De Mille
ATTORI: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Woody Strode, John Carradine

La vita di Mosè (XIII sec. a.C.), nato in Egitto da una donna della tribù di Levi. Come guidò il popolo schiavo d'Israele verso la Terra Promessa, salì al Sinai e ne scese con il decalogo. 70° film di De Mille e rifacimento del suo 45° (muto) del '23. Spese 13 milioni di dollari (del '56!) per nominare il nome di Dio invano e ne incassò 43. Cocktail di grandiosità spettacolare e prudenti audacie erotiche. Oscar degli effetti speciali a John Fulton, specialmente per la sequenza del Mar Rosso.

The life of Moses, skipping most of the stuff in the Bible.

It's an awful movie, but it's a reasonably entertaining sort of awful, with plenty of opportunity for exclaiming "sweet fancy Moses" at the screen. Surprisingly, it took nearly three hours before I started to get bored. I can't figure out what audience it's intended for: it's too preachy for the non-religious, and too grossly inaccurate for the religious.

Concept: C
Story: C
Characters: C
Dialog: F
Pacing: C
Cinematography: D
Special effects/design: D
Acting: F
Music: B

Enjoyment: C

GPA: 1.5/4 ( )

Somehow I liked the animated version of this much better. Seemed more realistic. This was very long, but it is a classic movie. I felt like I was wandering through the desert waiting for it to end. It was four hours long during a time when most movies were only an hour and a half!

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NO OF PAGES: 0 SUB CAT I: Bible Stories SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few pictures can claim t equal the splendor of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his epic The Ten Commandments. Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai wit one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture. Color.NOTES: SUBTITLE: