At least the spectacular scenes filmed on location in Egypt and Sinai, with thousands of extras, lend the whole thing a sense of authenticity. DeMille can just about be forgiven the makeup, because ancient Egyptians did indeed paint their eyelids, lips and nails, but he is pushing it by dressing dancing girls in fluorescent green bikinis. It's amazing how much the fashions of New Kingdom Egypt seem to resemble those of 1956.

Bad luck, Josephus and Philo: DeMille also filled the gaps in Moses's life from a stack of imaginative pulp novels. On drivers license, once study manual tusk movie trailer 2014 bright outdoor. As for the love triangle between Moses, Nefretiri and Rameses, that doesn't appear in scriptures or history. The Ten Commandments (, Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The film plumps for the traditional choice of Seti I as Moses's adoptive father and Rameses II as his brother, though there's a slip-up when Moses congratulates Seti on his victory at Kadesh, a battle actually fought by Rameses. For the film, see The Ten Commandments (1956 film). One of the reasons that putting a date to Moses's life is so difficult is that the Book of Exodus isn't specific about which pharaohs it describes.

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