Ninety-five years ago, Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille oversaw the construction of a lavish Egyptian set for his high-concept (and high-budget) three-hour silent film The Ten Commandments. As Atlas Obscura reported, the 800-foot-wide set comprised temple gates more than 100 feet high, not to mention 21 massive sphinxes. So extravagant was the whole thing that when the movie was finished shooting it defied all conventional ideas for what exactly to do with it, which is when the story gets very meta very quickly.
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