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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM

King and I, 1956 question

Posted by superjoec

I just watched the King and I yesterday with Yul Brenner. I was very impressed by his acting etc, etc, etc. In the movie he had about 10 lines about how he thought Moses was foolish and made fun of Moses. I then looked it up and saw that The 10 Commandments was released 6 months after the King and I. The same movie where he played Moses’s rival and brother, Rameses. So here’s my question. Were these lines in the King and I making fun of Moses a coincidence or a fun easter egg of his next big movie?
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jeremysbrain Mar 30, 2026 +6
I believe this diatribe is in the original novel, the original movie and the original musical. So not at all a reference to the 10 Commandments movie.
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OutsideIndoorTrack Mar 30, 2026 +6
Definitely a coincidence. Moses is one of the most famous literay/religious figures in all of history, and the King in the movie is somewhat like him -- the leader of downtrodden, enslaved peoples
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Opus-the-Penguin Mar 30, 2026 +5
The lines in the movie were taken from the Rodgers & Hammerstein stage musical that came out in 1951, five and a half years prior to *The Ten Commandments*. Those lines were in turn adapted from the novel *Anna and the King of Siam*, published in 1944.
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eminemforehead Mar 30, 2026 +3
wow you've held onto this question for 70 years and I can't give you an answer. Sorry mate..
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combabulated Mar 30, 2026 +2
I got to see Yul Brynner in The King and I on stage in LA when I was 7 years old. Awesome.
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superjoec Mar 30, 2026 +2
It sounds amazing. He is amazing.
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combabulated Mar 30, 2026 +3
I think my jaw was dropped the whole time. 1958 Yul 💙
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Stunning_Scene_7152 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Few movies have the over-the-top scene chewing campy dialogue of The Ten Commandments- Edward G Robinson always cracks me up playing an Egyptian bad guy channeling Little Caesar- "where's yer Moses now eh...Neah, Neah"
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Gryptype_Thynne123 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Complete coincidence. The movie is adapted from a successful Broadway musical, which has the same scene in it. The two roles have nothing to do with each other.
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Calraider7 Mar 30, 2026 +2
The stage musical was written in 1951, so they’d been around a while
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CountJohn12 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I would imagine the line is in the stage musical as well
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