History YMMV / TheTenCommandments

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The parting of the Red Sea.

** Actually, Moses spurning her causes her to taunt the Pharoh until his heart is hardened and he seeks vengeance for his son.

* JerkassWoobie: Nefretiri becomes bitchier and bitchier as the movie goes on, but it's easy to understand and even sympathize given the conditions, especially when her son dies.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Oh, everyone knows it's an extremely loose adaptation of [[Literature/TheBible the book of Exodus]], but did you know that this movie is also an extremely loose adaptation of three different novels, the writings of Philo and Josephus, and even TheQuran?

* Narm: Any time Nefretiri says Moses. "Moooses, Moooses..."

* CompleteMonster: Baka the Master Builder has no redeeming qualities. It's for good reason that Moses openly refers to him as the "Master [[strike: Builder]] Butcher". Dathan comes pretty close too, but it's still arguable.

* TearJerker: In the scene where Moses decides to live as a Hebrew, you can see a man chopping straw. He looks so hopeless

* CompleteMonster: Baka the Master Builder pretty much has no redeeming qualities. It's for good reason that Moses openly refers to him as the "Master [[strike: Builder]] Butcher". Dathan comes pretty close too, but it's still arguable.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the entire soundtrack, but especially the freeing of the slaves.

* 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]].

* CompleteMonster: Baka the Master Builder pretty much has no redeeming qualities. It's for good reason that Moses openly refers to him as the "Master [[strike: Builder]] Butcher".
** Dathan comes pretty close too, but it's still arguable.

* CompleteMonster: Baka the Master Builder pretty much has no redeeming qualities. Dathan comes pretty close too, but it's still arguable. It's for good reason that Moses openly refers to him as the "Master [[strike: Builder]] Butcher".

* HollywoodHomely: Sephora

* {{Narm}}

* AdaptationDisplacement: Oh, everyone knows it's an extremely loose adaptation of [[TheBible the book of Exodus]], but did you know that this movie is also an extremely loose adaptation of three different novels, the writings of Philo and Josephus, and even TheQuran?

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The movie is about godly people seeking freedom from an atheist dictator. In the introduction (theatrical and DVD/Blu-ray releases only), De Mille discusses the central theme of the film as about whether men are free individuals or the property of the state. Remember [[ColdWar the era this film was produced in]], and consider its possible hidden meanings.

* EvilIsSexy: Yul Brynner.

* EvilIsSexy: Especially when evil is [[PerverseSexualLust Yul Brynner]].

* TheWoobie: Lilia. Almost becomes a sex slave to Baka, separated from Joshua and forced to give in to Dathan to save Joshua, and nearly becomes a human sacrifice. Her {{Leitmotif}} is "Death Cometh to Me".

* TheWoobie: Lilia. Almost becomes a sex slave to Baka, separated from Joshua and forced to give in to Dathan to save Joshua, and nearly becomes a human sacrifice.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The parting of the Red Sea.

* Narm