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** Rameses certainly qualifies.
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** Rameses certainly qualifies.qualifies, as does Nefretiri after she's been married to him long enough.
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* OldWindbag: Sethi's court announcer is kind of the TropeNamer.
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*CaptainObvious: "Moses' serpent swallows up the others!"
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** DyeingForYourArt: Yul Brynner shaved his head for the part, and liked it so much that it became his signature "look" for the rest of his career.
* TheDragon: Dathan to both Baka and Rameses.
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* HollywoodHomely: the "plain" Sephora, played by [[http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/De%20Carlo,%20Yvonne/Annex/Annex%20-%20De%20Carlo,%20Yvonne_02.jpg Yvonne De Carlo]].
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* TheQuisling: Dathan.
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* TheQuisling: Dathan.Dathan, who is of Hebrew descent but gladly works as an overseer.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Played straight with Rameses suceeding the relatively [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]] Seti. Technically averted when Dathan is promoted to governor upon Baka's death -- while he is certainly a BadBoss, he's nowhere near as tyrannical as Baka.
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->Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: let my people go!
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* HollywoodHomely: the "plain" Sephora, played by [[http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/De%20Carlo,%20Yvonne/Annex/Annex%20-%20De%20Carlo,%20Yvonne_02.jpg Yvonne De Carlo]].
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* BettyAndVeronica: Zepora and Nefretiri. Unfortunately, God is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Zepora Sephora and Nefretiri. Unfortunately, God is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest.
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* RealLifeRelative: Moses as an infant was played by Charlton Heston's real life son, Frasier Heston.
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** Women probably didn't have '50s make-up and hairdos back then either.
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** Women probably didn't have '50s make-up and hairdos back then either. And they wore a lot less clothing back in Ancient Egypt as well.
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* IWantThemAlive: When ordering his men to pursue the fleeing Hebrews, Rameses commands his troops to kill everyone else, but bring Moses to him alive.
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** In addition, YouCantFightFate.
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* YouCantFightFate: Lampshaded by Yochabel, who warns Bythia that, no matter what, if God ahs a purpose, Moses will be unable to resist.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The Isrealites were released from their bondage
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* RaceLift: Arguably the [[AmbiguouslyBrown Ancient Egyptians]] and Tziporrah's tribe. They were Nubians.
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** Also Dathan. In the Bible, he's a minor character, one of several rebels against Moses in a single episode that doesn't even appear in the movie adaptation. In the movie, Dathan has a greatly expanded role as a Hebrew collaborator with the Egyptians, who later leads the construction of the Golden Calf.
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** Also Dathan. In the Bible, he's a minor character, Dathan, who appears in only one of several rebels against Moses in a single episode that doesn't even appear scene in the movie adaptation. In the movie, Dathan has a greatly expanded role as a Hebrew collaborator with the Egyptians, who later leads the construction of the Golden Calf. Bible. (See HistoricalVillainUpgrade below.)
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** Also Dathan. In the Bible, he's a minor character, one of several rebels against Moses in a single episode that doesn't even appear in the movie adaptation. In the movie, Dathan has a greatly expanded role as a Hebrew collaborator with the Egyptians, who later leads the construction of the Golden Calf.
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* BadassBoast: By a [[TranquilFury quietly furious]] Ramesses: "The city he builds will bear my name. The woman he loves will bear my child. So let it be written. So let it be done."
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* BadassBoast: By a [[TranquilFury quietly furious]] Ramesses: Rameses: "The city he builds will bear my name. The woman he loves will bear my child. So let it be written. So let it be done."
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* HistoryMarchesOn: Most modern estimates put the Exodus in the reign of Thutmose III, not Ramesses II. Though to be fair, there isn't clear consensus among scholars and reconciling Old Testament timelines with historical dates is tricky at best.
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* HistoryMarchesOn: Most modern estimates put the Exodus in the reign of Thutmose III, not Ramesses Rameses II. Though to be fair, there isn't clear consensus among scholars and reconciling Old Testament timelines with historical dates is tricky at best.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Dathan played a much more minor role in the Exodus account, leading a revolt against Moses and getting swallowed up by the ground. Here, he becomes TheQuisling, is responsible for the Golden Calf incident, and was responsible for driving Moses out of Exypt to begin with.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Dathan played a much more minor role in the Exodus account, leading a revolt against Moses and getting swallowed up by the ground. Here, he becomes TheQuisling, is responsible for the Golden Calf incident, and was responsible for driving Moses out of Exypt Egypt to begin with.
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** Even better: the {{Metallica}} song "Creeping Death" is about the Exodus (and specifically to this film), and the title refers to the appearance of the Tenth Plague.
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** Plus, the red-white-black pattern of the Tribe of Levi ''is'' actually the pattern associated with the Tribe of Levi.
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* ThereAreNoCoincidences: During production, he man who designed Moses' distinctive rust-white-and-black-striped robe used those colors because they looked impressive--he only later discovered that [[GeniusBonus these are the actual colors of the Tribe of Levi]].
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Isn\'t a trope, and even if it was, this sounds like complaining.
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* BechdelTest: It fails so horrifically, it should have set Women's Rights back a century. At least it's accurate to the time and Source Material...
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Because it struck me how misogynistic the movie is.
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** Except, in RealLife, Ancient Egypt was extremely conservative. The one time a pharoah, Ikhnaten, tried to make significant changes, it didn't end well.
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** Except, in RealLife, Ancient Egypt was extremely conservative.stiff. The one time a pharoah, Ikhnaten, tried to make significant changes, it didn't end well.
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* TopTenList
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BenHur Judah Ben-Hur]] is exiled to the desert by his brother, [[TheKingAndI The King of Siam]]. He also hooks up with [[TheMunsters Lily Munster]].
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Sort of. ABC has shown this on either Easter Sunday or the the day before since 1973, according to TheOtherWiki.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Sort of. ABC has shown this on either Easter Sunday or the the day before every year since 1973, according to TheOtherWiki.
