"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" COMES ON TV TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I was little, the family would turn on this 1956 movie every night before Easter. It started at 7pm and went off at midnight, so I was never allowed to see the whole thing. I usually had to go to bed around 9 o'clock, but here's the thing: if you sat on the stairs just right, you could see the reflection of the TV in a picture on the wall. So my little sister Sarah and I would just go halfway down the stairs, pop a squat and watch until we couldn't keep our eyes open.
Which would be around 10 o'clock, so I hadn't actually seen the whole movie until a few years ago.
There were a few years, like between 11 and 14, that I didn't care enough to watch "The Ten Commandments" even though I could have. Two years ago when I was 15, I pushed everything aside for that night and stayed up through the whole thing. BIG DEAL :D
The last year I was lame or something and, like, didn't watch it. What a loser.
This year, I've been looking forward to the movie since about January. I'm not kidding. Every once in a while during the day, I'll get a craving for the movie. It just hits me--*BAM* "Oh mannnn, I can't wait until 'The Ten Commandments' comes on!!!"
I think it's more the principle of the thing than the actual movie. But the actual movie is pretty awesome too.
{Secretly I think 50% of the reason I love it is because Yul Brynner is Rameses/Pharaoh ;)
And about 45% is because of Joshua, who pulls off "Hebrew slave" pretty dang well.
}So, while there are also a lot of good spiritual reasons to watch the movie {even though it's not really accurate, so that bothers me}, you can also watch it for Yul Brynner and John Derek.
And Charlton Heston is in it too. Whatever.
;)
~Stephanie
