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Cecil DeMille, director of The Ten Commandments movie, wanted Moses to be portrayed masculine. That’s a main reason why he supported Arnold Friberg as the artists to work on the movie. He believed Arnold Friberg’s art to be masculine claiming: “Everything this man does is strong.”
Friberg held similar masculine views saying: “I believe that a tremendous
religious leader like Moses or Jesus should be presented as commanding and strong,
not a weakling or a victim”
DeMille’s desire for powerful presences also explains why Prince-cum-Pharaoh Rameses (Yul Brynner) was a strongly drawn character. He needed to be a worthy adversary of God-the-Almighty (voiced by Charlton Heston, DeMille and indistinct others), Moses-the-Godsupported-leader (Charlton Heston), Nefretiri-the-wilful (Anne Baxter) and also be a
worthy successor of the commanding Pharaoh Sethi (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) after his
death and journey into the afterlife.
