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And created a three-hour classic that was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made,

and remains the golden calf standard of biblical epics.

On his protagonist, DeMille said,

Moses is the keystone to skinning.

Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code.

He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law, a separate from the will of a ruler,

to choose whether a man should live by grace of the law or law by grace of man.

Making a movie about the book of Exodus always entails great cost and time.

DeMille's version cost a huge at the time, 13 million,

and the most recent Christian-Bale version cost 140 million.

And while the Prince of Egypt came in at a relatively mid-level 70 million,

the parting water's animation took animators two full years to complete.

Just that alone, worked on by 350 different people.

Not unlike a certain group of people building the pyramids.

And then there's the music.

Composer Hans Zimmer and Broadway veteran Steven Schwartz

act as the peanut butter and jelly holding this Torah-rific musical sandwich together.

Musical theater nerds can geek out on the songs written by Schwartz,

including Deliverus, Thruhevinsize, and the Oscar-winning duet when you believe.

While also playing a drinking gabe called Spot the Singing Double,

Spoilur alert, you'll have alcohol poisoning by the time the credits roll.

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