"James Morrow - Director's Cut" - читать интересную книгу автора (Morrow James)

MOSES. (displays excised footage) DeMilie shot everything, all six hundred
and twelve laws. First to go were the prescriptions concerning slavery -- the
protocols for selling your daughter and so on. Unfortunately, those cuts reduced the
running time a mere eight minutes.

An excerpt from The Ten Commandments appears on the screen: GodтАЩs
animated forefinger etching the Decalogue onto the face of Sinai, while Charlton
Heston watches with a mixture of awe, fascination, and incredulity. As the last rule is
carved-- THOU SHALT NOT COVET-- the frame suddenly freezes.

GOD. (voice-over) Now for the details. (beat) When you go to war against
your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your power, if you see a
beautiful woman among the prisoners and find her desirable, you may make her your
wife.

INTERVIEWER. I have to admire DeMilie for using something like that.
Deuteronomy 21: 10, right?

MOSES. He was a much gutsier filmmaker than his detractors imagine.

GOD. (voice-over) When two men are fighting together, if the wife of one
intervenes to protect her husband by putting out her hand and seizing the other by
the private parts, you shall cut off her hand and show no pity.

INTERVIEWER. Private parts? DeMilie used that?

MOSES. Deuteronomy 25:11.

GOD. (voice-over) If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, his father and
mother shall bring him out to the elders of the town, and all his fellow citizens shall
stone the son to death.

MOSES. Deuteronomy 21:18-21.

INTERVIEWER. And here IтАЩd always thought DeMilie was afraid of
controversy.

MOSES. One ballsy mogul, Marty.

The screen goes blank.

INTERVIEWER. After the giving of the Law, The Ten Commandments
jumps rather abruptly to the Children of Israel entering the Promised Land.

MOSES. Forty years of wandering in the wilderness, and poor DeMilie had to
edit out thirty-nine of them. The entire Book of Numbers ended up on the cutting
room floor.

INTERVIEWER. He actually filmed those episodes?