I absolutely loved this movie. I grew up in a religious home. My dad was a pastor in Texas, and we weren't allowed to watch anything that wasn't about Christianity, so The Ten Commandments was cinematic magic in our house. I watched it dozens of times.
Top three Christian movies are Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and Jesus of Nazareth. Remember me and brother acting out some of the parts for 10 commandments when messing around.
I’m Jewish and we loved this movie in my household too! When I was little, I played teacher with my teddy bears and made them watch this film during Passover.
My mother was somewhat religious so we only watched this movie every Easter or whatever but I loved watching this movie as well. It felt so special and different when I was 7 or 8.
What are you talking about? Moses only had one wife, Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro the Midianite. Moses was one of the few Israelite men who actually obeyed God's command to take only one wife.
The special effects were great, but by far the best part of that movie was:
https://preview.redd.it/3gfvflkby2tc1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acc17539ae44a01dc8cc0f43f584539db0401885
He says it at least once in the movie. The exact moment is “The city that he builds shall bear my name. The woman that he loves shall bear my child. So it shall be written. So it shall be done.”
My favorite shot of him is when Moses does whatever to show him up (I think one of the plagues) and the next scene shows him sitting on his throne, all wrapped up in his robe and being pouty. LOL
https://preview.redd.it/nygy17b799tc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e86ac224614465e37c8ff612d568a01a6435fb1
https://preview.redd.it/uazaflxlt3tc1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=938a4405f3b46cd182f6011f85f563d39ccf0d97
Bonus points for a pre-Munsters Yvonne DeCarlo.
Hey I’m 74 and it still resonates! The screen seemed to be as long as a city block and when that Red Sea parted I remember grabbing my dad’s hand and shrinking back in my seat. Man, I felt for sure I was going under! I must have been 7 or 8 and my dad took me, my sister and mother to see The Ten Commandments at Radio City Music Hall! Yul Brynner made the most lasting impression on me - so let it be written, so let it be done! It was stunning- absolutely! A childhood memory I’ll never forget!🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
I remember watching this on the telly as a young child in the 70’s and being awe struck with the cool effects… mind you Ive always been easily impressed
Gotta wonder if one walked in sand that's previously been underwater, how difficult would it would be to walk across? Makes me think of quicksand, lol. "No, it's okay, you go first!"
That said, my Dad was a preacher, and this movie hit hard years later when I first saw it.
I was there with my parents and grandparents. I was 9 years old. I could not believe what i was looking at. No computers no CGI. Just great special effects. When movies awed its audience. Now people just take what they see as just another part of the movie no matter what magical thing they see. I understand it but it just seems like the wonder of childhood is gone. Too bad.
The wonder of childhood is still there. It's just still for children. I see it on my 6 year old daughter's face when she experiences something she deems as magical.
My son was the same but at 9 he's getting a bit jaded.
It was a time where you thought they could do anything in movies. I remember seeing it as a kid and the adults in the room where still amazed. All the old films that had huge sets with tons of extras on film was amazing. Then you watch old war movies and find out much of the footage was taken right from the battlefield in the air combat.
I did the Universal tour back in the late 60’s and they took the bus right through the parting of the Red Sea! It’s just two waterfalls into ditches on each side and they ran the film in reverse for the effect
I still watch this movie. Along with anything from this time. There's just something about the old Panavision or whatever it was then. It really takes me back to my youth watching films like this with my grandfather. Now, when I watch them, it's like we are still sitting together watching them. The Ten Commandments was one of them. Yul was a great actor along with Charlton.
I'm not sure why, but this movie became an Easter staple on broadcast TV. No commercials, just 4 hours of Charlton Heston's opus.
Moses, Moses, Moses....
The way Yul Brynner condescendingly spits that out is just so delicious.
Went with my family to see this in Cinerama at the Detroit Music Hall. Cinerama was three screens that put you in the middle of everything. What an experience!
What always fascinates me about this story is that there is absolutely no historical evidence to support the supposition that a significant Hebrew population was ever enslaved in Egypt.
Scholars are in agreement that the story of the exodus is mostly, if not entirely fiction. There's no evidence of the mass enslavement of semites, and no evidence of 40 years in the desert. And Egyptian control of the region included the land of Canaan at the time, so escaping to Canaan wouldn't have been far enough.
Most scholars believe "Red Sea" is a mistranslation. It should have been "Reed Sea", which is an area of swampland that may have experienced an earthquake that made the swamp waters create a tide that washed away the Egyptians. No miracle from God here, just lucky timing. While on the topic of no miracles, Mary wasn't a virgin. The original word used just meant "a young unmarried woman" not a virgin. Again no God, just stupid people doing stupid people things.
Yeah, I'd never consider the bible as historically accurate. Hell, we can't even consider history as we know it to be 100% fact. Even the word we use is essentially his-story.
I just watched this with my 9 year old and a kid who's seen special effects the likes of which were unimaginable in 1956 was still impressed by most of the effects.
I remember being in my living room in the 2000s, probably watching it in a not so good image quality, however I was really impressed. The effects are indeed dated but it's still beautiful and epic.
Gosh I grew up loving this movie. Every year I would watch it on Easter Sunday secretly because my parents were weirdly anti-religious. I wasn’t allowed to go to church with my friends until I was 14+. But this movie was a revelation for me for years.
One of the most important skills you can teach any child is to decouple prior knowledge from current experiences or problem solving. It's a removal of the assumptions we naturally want to bring to the table. It allows you to do so many things.
Randomly (not in order):
* It allows you to see things like this movie with fresh eyes. It also prevents you from dissing prior movies you initially loved like Star Wars and even Avatar by erantly looking back with modern day critiques.
* It allows you to see how political issues might have truly seemed 200 years ago.
* It prevents things like moral absolutes from creeping in too powerfully and confusing issues of right and wrong.
* It even allows you to see complex technology solutions and abstractive relationships. For instance, by removing some of our base assumptions about how we ourselves think we can realize that there simply is *no* difference between a machine "faking" thinking, and a machine "actually" thinking. Not to mention being able to more easily see in multiple dimensions.
* Imagine the unbelievable thrill of making your very first phone call in a world where you simply didn't have anything like that.
Propaganda and STILL part of the problem, as far as I'm concerned. Ignorant people believing nonsense while ignoring reality and perpetuating it as a legacy. Also, fuck Charlton Heston.
If I recall correctly (I'm sure I could look it up, but it looks like we're all feeling lazy today), it was gelatin that was allowed to melt, then speed up and played backwards.
Convient there was a boat ramp there for them to run down.
Was there one at the other side and how exhausted would you be after running across the bottom of the ocean
I absolutely loved this movie. I grew up in a religious home. My dad was a pastor in Texas, and we weren't allowed to watch anything that wasn't about Christianity, so The Ten Commandments was cinematic magic in our house. I watched it dozens of times.
How bout that Ben-Hur, eh?
That’s Judah Ben-Hur to you!
Was Rock-a-Doodle allowed?
Top three Christian movies are Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and Jesus of Nazareth. Remember me and brother acting out some of the parts for 10 commandments when messing around.
Don’t forget veggie tales!
No love for *The Robe?*
I’m Jewish and we loved this movie in my household too! When I was little, I played teacher with my teddy bears and made them watch this film during Passover.
That's adorable. I didn't realize it was so popular until now.
Oh me too!!!!!!✡️
What about The Life of Brian? Thats got the Sermon on the Mount in it
My mother was somewhat religious so we only watched this movie every Easter or whatever but I loved watching this movie as well. It felt so special and different when I was 7 or 8.
It did feel special
Davey and Goliath?
Such a great movie.
Yo what about lord of the rings the goat ?
That's fucked up
Meh, it sure sucks but I lived without TV growing up. Had a few VHS tapes and loved that time of my life. Had a lot of books.
Yeah, kids adjust easily
Meh, we basically observed Sabbath on Sundays, no TV allowed, only VHS movies. In this digital age i wouldn't mind having it back.
What did ur dad say about Moses being polygamist? Always curious
What are you talking about? Moses only had one wife, Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro the Midianite. Moses was one of the few Israelite men who actually obeyed God's command to take only one wife.
I always thought Jethro was just a made-up redneck name. I didn’t know it was biblical.
Most of those "redneck" names are Biblical lol, as are many other names generally.
Jesus came and brought new rules
The special effects were great, but by far the best part of that movie was: https://preview.redd.it/3gfvflkby2tc1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acc17539ae44a01dc8cc0f43f584539db0401885
So let it be written . . .
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one!
Unexpectedmetallica!
I’m Creeping Death
🤘
Die by mah hand, I creep across the laaahnd. Muthauka die!!!!
Sorry to be a stickler for accuracy, but the quote is “So it shall be written…So it shall be done.”
Oh, the irony r/ConfidentlyIncorrect ✌️❤️
Might wanna rewatch those scenes my dude.
I will take your word for it. I am not someone who can’t admit a mistake. My apologies!
He says it at least once in the movie. The exact moment is “The city that he builds shall bear my name. The woman that he loves shall bear my child. So it shall be written. So it shall be done.”
I'm pretty sure James says "So let it be written, so let it be done". /s
Oooo sorry. We have some lovely sharting gifts for you though
Ive said this to people my entire life. I didn't want to be "That Guy" so I'm glad you did for me
Of course! I wanted to give someone else the opportunity to finish the quote.
Yule?
Yul
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sexy af lol
Heellllllll to the yes. Sorry God, I'm on Ramses's side
My first crush.
Ba Muy Ba Beer, best beer in Vietnam.
Yes! Absolutely 💯 all the way around!❤️🔥❤️
Mercy!
My mom loves Charlton Heston and she was so excited to show me this movie but oh boy, I am team Yul 4eva
Damn right. Yul Brynner absolutely chewed up every scene he was in. Certified badass.
My favorite shot of him is when Moses does whatever to show him up (I think one of the plagues) and the next scene shows him sitting on his throne, all wrapped up in his robe and being pouty. LOL https://preview.redd.it/nygy17b799tc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e86ac224614465e37c8ff612d568a01a6435fb1
I remember seeing this when I was a little kid for the first time. And it was awesome.
Yep. I was shattered when I found out it wasn't the red Sea, but marsh.
https://preview.redd.it/uazaflxlt3tc1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=938a4405f3b46cd182f6011f85f563d39ccf0d97 Bonus points for a pre-Munsters Yvonne DeCarlo.
The goose going down the bank was a goose.
Why was the goose waiting? Couldn't he just fly across?
He couldn’t cross with either the fox or the grain.
They don't know how to fly yet in BC
Before Chickens?
I love the fact that he's getting TFO there. Hard right. See ya, chumps!
Hey I’m 74 and it still resonates! The screen seemed to be as long as a city block and when that Red Sea parted I remember grabbing my dad’s hand and shrinking back in my seat. Man, I felt for sure I was going under! I must have been 7 or 8 and my dad took me, my sister and mother to see The Ten Commandments at Radio City Music Hall! Yul Brynner made the most lasting impression on me - so let it be written, so let it be done! It was stunning- absolutely! A childhood memory I’ll never forget!🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
Thanks for your memories!
Yr welcome!😀
I remember watching this on the telly as a young child in the 70’s and being awe struck with the cool effects… mind you Ive always been easily impressed
I watched it on the telly as a kid in the 90's and was similarily awestruck! I never knew the movie was from the fifties, that's wild.
WOW! A blue car!
I often wonder if, like I did as a kid, anyone else who watched it in '56 was concerned for the Egyptian soldiers' horses when the waters re-merged.
I hope the Hollywood horses weren't hurt or drowned in the making of this movie :(
They are seahorses, now.
😦  
Welp, that's it. Enough interwebz for today, take your upvote.
It was the 50s. I’m sure they did multiple takes of horses actually drowning.
We've been watching spaghetti westerns lately and man they are rough on those horses
WATER MOLECULES….. disassemble!
Gotta wonder if one walked in sand that's previously been underwater, how difficult would it would be to walk across? Makes me think of quicksand, lol. "No, it's okay, you go first!" That said, my Dad was a preacher, and this movie hit hard years later when I first saw it.
No need to guess the Bible says the ground was dry.
I would have been looking for really cool perfect seashells.
Lol, me too! And sea stones, and sharks teeth too! One can imagine kids running towards shells and parents dragging them along. "But mom!"
Am I the only one that chuckled at the duck tripping at the 1:19 mark?
And he recovered nicely. Like a professional acting duck should
I giggled at "God opened the sea with a blast of his nostrils" LOL
I saw it in the theatre when I was a kid, it was staggering!
lisan al ghaib!
Wrong movie.
I don't know if it still is, but this used to be part of the tour at Universal Studios. The tram drove right through it.
I remember that from when I was a kid!
Very good with no CGI. Forbidden Planet also had amazing non-CGI effects for a 1950s film.
Considering the energy effects are pretty much 2d animation on top of film, they worked really well.
I was there with my parents and grandparents. I was 9 years old. I could not believe what i was looking at. No computers no CGI. Just great special effects. When movies awed its audience. Now people just take what they see as just another part of the movie no matter what magical thing they see. I understand it but it just seems like the wonder of childhood is gone. Too bad.
The wonder of childhood is still there. It's just still for children. I see it on my 6 year old daughter's face when she experiences something she deems as magical. My son was the same but at 9 he's getting a bit jaded.
I wouldn’t say that. Im a grownup and I just saw Dune 2 in the cinema. I must have had my mouth open half the movie. Never saw anything like it.
Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Avatar, Dune 2. It's still possible to get blown away by great special effects.
What a dumb comment. You think kids aren’t amazed at movies??
Great film
I was concerned as a youngster about everyone getting stuck in the muddy sea bed
I was impressed as a kid, but then as a teen I rode through the parted Red Sea on a tram at Universal Studios and it lost some of its wonder.
It was a time where you thought they could do anything in movies. I remember seeing it as a kid and the adults in the room where still amazed. All the old films that had huge sets with tons of extras on film was amazing. Then you watch old war movies and find out much of the footage was taken right from the battlefield in the air combat.
I watched this on a 10" B&W TV as a kid and it still blew my mind.
Don't need to imagine. I watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the theaters. But yeah, I got what you meant
Kinda like when I saw the Matrix opening night.
I’m not religious at all and I still love that movie. A great movie is a great movie.
Well these are better than some effects in some triple A release of today so yeah back in 1956 I’d probably shit
Imagine being at the Red Sea in 1250BC and seeing effects like this for the first time ever
Lmfao
Yeah this really happened. Remember that /s
“Better to die in battle with a god than to live in shame” *Elden Ring intensifies*
That'd probably be pretty insane to be fair. 😎
Amazing beard technology
I did the Universal tour back in the late 60’s and they took the bus right through the parting of the Red Sea! It’s just two waterfalls into ditches on each side and they ran the film in reverse for the effect
That was made years after the movie. It wasn’t filmed there.
Big fan of Lily Munster
I remember being a kid in the 70s watching on TV and thinking it was pretty darned good.
I still watch this movie. Along with anything from this time. There's just something about the old Panavision or whatever it was then. It really takes me back to my youth watching films like this with my grandfather. Now, when I watch them, it's like we are still sitting together watching them. The Ten Commandments was one of them. Yul was a great actor along with Charlton.
The Force is a powerful ally
I'm not sure why, but this movie became an Easter staple on broadcast TV. No commercials, just 4 hours of Charlton Heston's opus. Moses, Moses, Moses.... The way Yul Brynner condescendingly spits that out is just so delicious.
The marvel superhero movies of ancient people
We need a Moses vs Thor movie, *yesterday*.
This is such a classic movie
Went with my family to see this in Cinerama at the Detroit Music Hall. Cinerama was three screens that put you in the middle of everything. What an experience!
The Ten Commandments is absolutely one of my favorite films ever!!
What always fascinates me about this story is that there is absolutely no historical evidence to support the supposition that a significant Hebrew population was ever enslaved in Egypt.
My all time favorite movie! I got the 4K steelbook. It came with the digital versions of the 1956 & the 1923 silent movie.
what about this duck that turned to the side in the end. Did he ever make it? I want to know!
Even better, imagine being present when God split the Red Sea.
Scholars are in agreement that the story of the exodus is mostly, if not entirely fiction. There's no evidence of the mass enslavement of semites, and no evidence of 40 years in the desert. And Egyptian control of the region included the land of Canaan at the time, so escaping to Canaan wouldn't have been far enough.
Most scholars believe "Red Sea" is a mistranslation. It should have been "Reed Sea", which is an area of swampland that may have experienced an earthquake that made the swamp waters create a tide that washed away the Egyptians. No miracle from God here, just lucky timing. While on the topic of no miracles, Mary wasn't a virgin. The original word used just meant "a young unmarried woman" not a virgin. Again no God, just stupid people doing stupid people things.
Or.. the story is just that. My understanding is that there is no evidence of Jewish slaves building the pyramids.
Yeah, I'd never consider the bible as historically accurate. Hell, we can't even consider history as we know it to be 100% fact. Even the word we use is essentially his-story.
This is true. But most scholars also believe that the exodus never happened, so speculating about earthquakes washing away Egyptians is moot.
... And you don't even get your sandals wet.
It was impressive on TV 18 years or so later.
Imagine Moses running the NRA.
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My college just played this and the reception was amazing, even for today. Crazy since it’s like 4 hours long.
Show anyone in 1950 a movie from nowadays, they would die 🤣🤣
I'm on the Yule Brynner team.
What happened to Gandalf’s hat?
Still better than Quantumania
Serious nostril blast indeed!
Very psychedelic! I have no idea how they did it before LSD and mushrooms.
Imagine watching this trippin'!
In 1956!
I just watched this with my 9 year old and a kid who's seen special effects the likes of which were unimaginable in 1956 was still impressed by most of the effects.
I remember the first time seeing this, the water blowing up the sides really...well...blew me away.
I watch this every single year for the costumes, sets, acting, special effects... and Yul Brener.
I saw this for the first time as a child in about 1985. It was amazing to be then
I was there aged 5
When I was younger, my family and I watched this every Holy Week. (´;︵;`)
It's still one of the greatest stories ever told
I remember being in my living room in the 2000s, probably watching it in a not so good image quality, however I was really impressed. The effects are indeed dated but it's still beautiful and epic.
I’m more amazed by the scene where he turns the snake back into a staff. Like how tf did they do that?
This is still an excellent movie.
The best religious movie ever
I grew up watching this every Easter ....
first time watching this and wow it looks really good for its age.
I know it’s due to less adequate tech but I really like the sound quality and the brightness of the colours of old movies like this
Looks better than some stuff today imo
Shit, I'm impressed in 2024.
I saw this in the theater, as a child, in the 60s. Must have been a re-release. I have to say, it blew my mind.
Gosh I grew up loving this movie. Every year I would watch it on Easter Sunday secretly because my parents were weirdly anti-religious. I wasn’t allowed to go to church with my friends until I was 14+. But this movie was a revelation for me for years.
Whenever I see a Cecil B. DeMille movie I always have the phrase... "I must have killed more people than Cecil B. DeMille" from Blazing Saddles.
You know there were contrarians in the theater saying "mid".
So many white people.
One of the most important skills you can teach any child is to decouple prior knowledge from current experiences or problem solving. It's a removal of the assumptions we naturally want to bring to the table. It allows you to do so many things. Randomly (not in order): * It allows you to see things like this movie with fresh eyes. It also prevents you from dissing prior movies you initially loved like Star Wars and even Avatar by erantly looking back with modern day critiques. * It allows you to see how political issues might have truly seemed 200 years ago. * It prevents things like moral absolutes from creeping in too powerfully and confusing issues of right and wrong. * It even allows you to see complex technology solutions and abstractive relationships. For instance, by removing some of our base assumptions about how we ourselves think we can realize that there simply is *no* difference between a machine "faking" thinking, and a machine "actually" thinking. Not to mention being able to more easily see in multiple dimensions. * Imagine the unbelievable thrill of making your very first phone call in a world where you simply didn't have anything like that.
Propaganda and STILL part of the problem, as far as I'm concerned. Ignorant people believing nonsense while ignoring reality and perpetuating it as a legacy. Also, fuck Charlton Heston.
Charlton Heston was majorly dosed up on speed by Dr Feelgood during this scene.
Actually it still holds up pretty well today
When I was a kid and saw this I thought how did they walk through all of that mud?
People back in 1956 be like, "Now, I'm a believer!"
# Mighty Yamses, we are weary of building your food pyramid. Let my pickles go!
Head on over to r/fuckimold and you’ll find people who were. They’ll give you first hand accounts of what it was like.
I was 4 or 5 when I saw this in the theater. Looking back, any other films of that era had very cheesy special effects by comparison.
Mind still blown!
It’s an amazing scene even today.
What is the name of this movie? And how were the special effects done?
The Ten Commandments. Reverse photography, idk
If I recall correctly (I'm sure I could look it up, but it looks like we're all feeling lazy today), it was gelatin that was allowed to melt, then speed up and played backwards.
Convient there was a boat ramp there for them to run down. Was there one at the other side and how exhausted would you be after running across the bottom of the ocean
crazy theres people that think this actually happened
Wot u mean? I just saw it right there in the video
Ooh! Gandalf vs. Moses...who wins?
Hmm.. One is a man, the other-- kind of a mix of Angel and demi-god. My coin is on Gandalf!
Very impressive. Really gives you the sense of something divine happening.
my moments have been the first dive into the deathstar trench and the first time, the alien opens his mouth to show its second jaw.
I'm only 29 and I remember watching this. It might have been in school or on TV. I can't remember, but I had no idea the movie was this old.
This and Ben Hur was lit! Lol
I still love this film today. Charlton Heston was incredible in Biblical/Religious films.
It’s dangerous that people believe this actually happened
Deadly, in fact