The Ten Commandments movie plot
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Sethi: The man best able to rule Egypt will follow me. I owe that to my fathers, not to my sons.
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Moses: [to Sethi, after Sethi came to see Moses completing the city to be built] Pharoah is pleased?
Sethi: With the obelisk, yes. But not with certain accusations made against you.
Moses: By whom?
Sethi: You raided the temple granaries?
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts first weight on scale. The other scale dish holds a heavier weight, which keeps that dish on the table]
Sethi: You gave the grain to the slaves?
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts second weight on scale, which causes opposite scale dish to bounce, but it still rests on the table]
Rameses: You gave them one day in seven to rest.
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts third weight on scale. It's now heavier than its opposite dish, which is yanked up off the table]
Sethi: Did you do all this to gain their favor?
Moses: [Moses puts a brick on the dish that was yanked off the table. It's now heavier than Rameses' weights and crashes to the table with a bang! Moses has defeated his accusers] A city is built of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many, the starving make few. The dead make none. So much for accusations.