Did any other audience members notice your Paleo-Hebrew T-shirt? I think that's very cool.
Absolutely nobody noticed! And I thought it was the right crowd, too.
The water Ramses pours turning to blood midstream sounds very cool (and awful).
DeMille was great at effects! The rising city of Goshen is a combination of mattes and composites and model work and it looks terrific. Plagues like the Nile turning to blood and the mingling of fire and hail are convincing in part because they're naturalistic: they don't look like special effects—no strange colors, no swirls of light—just normal impossibilities. The churning stormclouds that signal the presence of the God of Israel are obviously an optically printed effect, but they are real clouds of something. The slight bleeding lines around human figures superimposed onto deserts or city vistas are a sign of the technology, but they actually work in the favor of the parting of the Red Sea: mountainous masses of water constantly pouring upward, haloed with an actinic blue glow like St. Elmo's fire; the signature of God who is cloud and stormwind and shooting stars, thunder and lightning and fire. People, and what they sound like when talking to one another, DeMille needed some work on.
Let's hear it for handsome Yul Brynner!
Okay:
(You really need to see this movie in Technicolor if you're going to see it. Nothing I can find online is as vividly unreal.)
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Absolutely nobody noticed! And I thought it was the right crowd, too.
The water Ramses pours turning to blood midstream sounds very cool (and awful).
DeMille was great at effects! The rising city of Goshen is a combination of mattes and composites and model work and it looks terrific. Plagues like the Nile turning to blood and the mingling of fire and hail are convincing in part because they're naturalistic: they don't look like special effects—no strange colors, no swirls of light—just normal impossibilities. The churning stormclouds that signal the presence of the God of Israel are obviously an optically printed effect, but they are real clouds of something. The slight bleeding lines around human figures superimposed onto deserts or city vistas are a sign of the technology, but they actually work in the favor of the parting of the Red Sea: mountainous masses of water constantly pouring upward, haloed with an actinic blue glow like St. Elmo's fire; the signature of God who is cloud and stormwind and shooting stars, thunder and lightning and fire. People, and what they sound like when talking to one another, DeMille needed some work on.
Let's hear it for handsome Yul Brynner!
Okay:
(You really need to see this movie in Technicolor if you're going to see it. Nothing I can find online is as vividly unreal.)
--I'm very satisfied with what you've given us!
Thank you!