Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner
While perhaps best known as The King in The King and I both on
screen and on Broadway and for which he won an Oscar and a Tony
respectively, Yul Brynner did a damn fine job during his turns as a
Hot Bad Guy. In 1973, he played a Rogue Robot Gunslinger in the
movie Westworld, but
his Villainous Star shown even brighter as Rameses in the 1956 film
The Ten Commandments.
Rameses, through jealousy of Moses, most likely, made the Jewish
slaves of Egypt's lives even more lousy than they were originally.
I mean, have you ever tried to make bricks with just mud and no
straw? Of course, G-d looked down on that kind of thing,
authorizing Moses to deliver the plagues. (My particular favorite?
The rain of fire. It has a certain je ne sais quois.) But could
Rameses bring himself to free the slaves before the final and most
devastating plague, the death of the firstborns? Um, no. He even
let his own son die. That's pretty evil.
However, the most impressive part of all this villainy is that Yul managed to do it while wearing a series of the most ridiculous outfits ever to grace the Silver Screen. Sure, you've got your big shiny collars and your slightly dodgy headpieces, not to mention the Enormous Blue Helmet, but they all pale in comparison to the numerous skirts he sports over the course of nearly four hours. And I know the Bible (or Torah, whatever) says "pharoh's heart was hardened," but let me tell you, that wasn't the only hard thing about him. (I meant his pecs. What were you thinking?) It takes a Manly Man to walk around in a pleated white skirt, but Rameses did the job and did it with panache. Well done, Mr. Brynner.
So let it be written. So let it be done.
even in a skirt
Nefertiri was the real Bad Girl here, but Ramses was no slouch
yeah, even in the skirt
Princess
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