Cheston Dead!

[Sethomas]

And he's probably not coming back anytime soon.

All of a sudden I want one of those "My president is CHARLETON HESTON" bumper stickers. It would make for a fun statistic if we knew how many people took those off their cars in 2001 when Clinton left or 2003 when Cheston's mind left.

Also, I thought I'd bring up that it's extremely funny that he was ever cast as Moses. Yeah, yeah, I've heard it said that it's offensive to cast a blond and blue-eyed man for Moses by the exact people that said the same for Jesus. That wasn't my point, since Exodus never clearly states what he looks like so American culture of the time could look the other way more easily than we.

"The Ten Commandments" was made because they wanted to cash in on people's faith, and so they wanted to attract people to watch bible movies by focusing on the most well-known stories. It's amazing, then, that they totally ignored the fact that Exodus says quite clearly that Moses had a weak voice that he refused to use anyways because he stuttered very badly. In fact, it's such a big detail in the story that from a literary perspective it's one of the strongest arguments for historical veracity of any story in the entire bible. It doesn't make sense for the Exodus author to make Moses stutter if that wasn't actually true, since it made the story more complicated than necessary and painted the hero to be a pansy.

So, considering how uptight America was back then, I'm surprised that "The Ten Commandments" wasn't denounced as communist propaganda.

[El Blanco]

Yes, because if its one thing Hollywood is known for when creating epics, its staying strict to the source material.

But, I'm sad Chuck is dead. He's been in some of my favorite movies.

I guess we can take his gun from him now.

[Sethomas]

Well, my point was that a 1950s bible epic made for people who've memorized the bible should probably be held to different standards than a 1990s Stephen King film adaptation made for people who can't read.

[Ant10708]

If you knew anything about hardcore Christians you'd know that they don't know any facts from the bible.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

[...] I guess we can take his gun from him now.

Originally Posted by Ant10708

If you knew anything about hardcore Christians you'd know that they don't know any facts from the bible.

You must know my mother - she's convinced I'm going to Hell becouse I don't submit to the will of teh Christ.

[Miss Modular]

Wasn't Moses a drug addict too?

I liked Ben-Hur myself.

[mburbank]

Best moment in 1o commandments in my book? Edward G. Robinson saying:

"Where's yaw God now, Moses? Nyahhh,"

I'll tell you what, I loved Chuck so much that no amount of right wing musket hefting could make me not love him. When I was a little kid, he was my hero.

Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape.

Soylent Green is made out of people.

RIP, Chuck.

[Sethomas]

Max, seriously, the fact that you can take those clichés and make them hilarious just by punctuating them with a period shows that you operate on planes of humor incomprehensible to mere mortals.

[mburbank]

Thank you sir.

But while the humor is intended, I am also an unashamed Heston fan. He's like Shatner, but with less self awareness and a better build.

[Miss Modular]

"Get your hands off me, you dirty ape!"

[Sethomas]

No, I'm sorry Mod, but Max did it first and Max did it better. The only reason why this thread should even risk further corruption by staying unlocked is the risk of something worthwhile happening in the General Blabber knockoff.

Wait, now I don't understand the logic I used for that sentence.

[Sethomas]

You know, I thought when I watched That's My Bush! back in 2001 that Cheston's character in an episode was an actual cameo. I was a stupid youngin' at the time.

Here's a Space Ghost consolation prize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ir2LkGwGKg

[executioneer]

there are no knobs there

[Sethomas]

Alright, the thing about that episode:

The line "If you were to ask me if he were my friend, I would say 'NO!' to you" is a good one that will stand the test of time. My problem with watching this at 13 was that I thought it was so funny that I somehow devised a rather inaccurate system to judge humor based on how much an ostensibly funny sentence resembled that one. I will really never know how much that hurt me.