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| Nelson_Mandela 05/20/19 11:29:25 AM #102: | #223. The Ten Commandments https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/10Command56.jpg Dir: Cecil B. DeMille Genre: Adventure, Biblical Epic Year: 1956 3 hours, 40 minutes. 14,000 extras. 15,000 animals. 360,000 gallons of water. Now this is Hollywood Golden Age epic filmmaking. As much as people will call things like Endgame or Star Wars "epic" productions, they do not even come close to matching the scale of The Ten Commandments. I used to watch this entire movie as a kid every time it was on TV for Passover. This was before one could binge watch a season of Game of Thrones or Lost or whatever equivalent we can think of, so for me, it was THE immersive grand adventure that can occupy an entire evening. I will always hold it up with the greatest big-budget motion pictures of all time for the sheer magnitude of it all--yet behind the scale is still an easy-to-digest and complete retelling of one of civilization's greatest legends. We'll never see anything like this ever again. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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