Sat down and watched the 10 Commandments on cable in it's entirety the other night (yea from 7-11:45). First let me say, so that I'm not risking being smoten on the spot here, that this is an absolute classic film, and now that it's been digitally remastered the colors have never looked so vibrant.
That said, each and every time I see this movie I really get thrown trying to decide between which is the odder sequence of events; Moses chatting it up with a burning bush that isn't really on fire, that is purportedly the voice of God. Or, Moses just straight up parting a gigantic ocean sized sea with a wave of his magic staff, with all his 1000's of followers racing across the presumably miles long sea bed in a matter of a few minutes.
Now don't get me wrong, there are plenty of odd happenings in this film, without even touching upon the fact that these people just blindly followed him for 40 years while the dude was lost in the desert, just kept taking wrong turn after wrong turn and apparently no one had the balls to step up and suggest they may be traveling in circles.
But without a doubt, I've decided that the whole burning bush phenomenon is the weirdest event in film history. For a pretty simple reason, no one else but Moses was witness to this. When he parted the sea there were 1000's of witnesses, that seems like a reliable sample size to say he somehow got that job done. But the whole burning bush thing, really? No one questioned him when he came down from the mountain side? No one felt like climbing up there to take a peak themselves? It just seems odd that so many people would be willing to take the advice of a crazy bearded man who spends his time trapsing through the desert with nothing but sandals and a walking stick, preaching about burning shrubberies communicating the word of God.
