History YMMV / TheEgyptian

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/JeanSimmons as Merit, even if she did get top billing due to BillingDisplacement. The performance is easily the most memorable in the movie while those of others are somewhat one-note.

* {{Squick}}: The Finnish audio adaptation from the 80's adds in nice chipping sound effects while Phator opens a skull. Fortunately it's only chipping sounds but they still get hard to listen to after a while.

** The film gets a little more {{Anvilicious}} about this. After Akhenaten dies, having given his "One day God himself will speak in words that cannot be misunderstood" speech, we see Sinuhe out in the desert finishing his memoirs and taking a nap (or dying?, it's not clear) as the words "These things happened thirteen centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ" appear on the screen. It plays as a beautiful SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome though.

* StupidGood: Akhenaton, especially in his attitude towards his nations enemies but his economic policies count too.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?: The novel works on several levels and often very deliberately so; the religion of Aton, for instance, stands for both Christianity and Communism. In general, you can tell it was written just after a world war.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jean Simmons as Merit, even if she did get top billing due to BillingDisplacement. The performance is easily the most memorable in the movie while those of others are somewhat one-note.

** Modern readers will probably go through the part about the conflict between Egypt and Syria thinking "hmmm, that sounds familiar...".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jean Simmons as Merit, even if she did get top billing due to BillingDisplacement.

** The film gets a little more {{Anvilicious}} about this. After Akhenaten dies, having given his "One day God himself will speak in words that cannot be misunderstood" speech, we see Sinuhe out in the desert finishing his memoirs and taking a nap (or dying?, it's not clear) as the words "These things happened thirteen centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ" appear on the screen. It plays as a beautiful CrowningMomentOfAwesome though.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?: The novel works on several levels and often very deliberately so; the religion of Aton, for instance, stands for both Christianity and Communism. In general, you can tell it was written just after a world war.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Klingon Commander Kang is the leader of the Hittites and becomes one of Sinuhe's patients.
--> '''Sinuhe.''' Cry out when the pain is greatest.
--> '''Hittite King.''' No Hittite warrior cries out in pain.
** [[Film/RearWindow Miss Lonelyhearts]] is the Queen Mother.
** [[Film/TheGrapesOfWrath Casy]] has become a grave-robber.
** And of course [[Film/{{Spartacus}} Batiatus]] is Sinuhe's servant and friend.

** And of course [[Spartacus Batiatus]] is Sinuhe's servant and friend.

** And of course [[Film/Spartacus Batiatus]] is Sinuhe's servant and friend.

* StupidGood: Ahknaton, especially in his attitude towards his nations enemies but his economic policies count too.