Moses decides that a quick demonstration of God’s power is in order, so he gives his staff to Aaron (which happens repeatedly before something supernatural happens, and appears to happen so everyone knows it’s a God thing, not a Moses thing), and has him cast it upon the ground. Moses asks “Who are you to make their lives bitter with hard bondage?” The Goddamned Pharaoh? Fortunately he remains a complete asshole. If Rameses were even slightly adjacent to a reasonable human being I think I might end up forgetting, despite myself, that Moses and Aaron are there to end slavery because they come across as really up themselves and aggressive front door evangelists. When Moses speaks, no one is that shocked that he’s alive but Nefritiri basically melts and Rameses is mildly annoyed. They are assumed to be emissaries from Midian. Pharaoh’s security is damn lackluster, as Moses and Aaron saunter up and just get through on attitude alone. Rameses has gone all in on black basalt feature pieces for his sandstone throne room and as one of the gifts we get to see the Egyptians discover silk. He basically takes 30 seconds to say “Yeah, so Moses came back” and then we’re into Rameses throne room on ‘Give Pharaoh Lovely Presents’ day. We get an actual sunrise over the Pyramids, while uncle Cecil narrates us back in. De Mille’s movie, so forward, past the weird stuff…to Egypt! The Old Sticky Snakey Trick, Eh? Heh. If David Lynch were tackling this story we might have got God acting like a Japanese vengeance ghost, but that’s never going to happen in Cecil B. It’s one of those deeply weird turns the Old Testament takes from time to time, and then carries straight along like it ain’t no thing. It also means he gets to skip past a really odd piece of the Bible text- Exodus 4:24 where God experiences Prophet creation regret and meets Moses and his family at an Inn on the way to Egypt, attempts to kill Moses and is only prevented by Moses’ wife throwing a fresh foreskin at the situation. This one is remorselessly up beat and loud because Cecil has divined its purpose for the prestige film: to call patrons back from the pee.
If you feel like listening to it, get it going now because this one is over 2 minutes.Īn Entr’acte is an inter-act piece of music whose purpose started off in Opera, was then used in musicals, and in the 50s and 60s got used in long ass prestige films. Oh, poor provinical you, have you never heard of the Entr’acte? Phyllidis, Tarquin, come here, there’s someone that’s never heard of the Entr’acte! 6) However Many Plagues You Remember, There Shall Be Fewer On Screen Than That Entr’acte
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