During dinner at Springwood""s only Thai restaurant, Nancy told Dr.Gordon that his patients were in "real physical danger from their dreams." She suggested "dream deprivation" by having the doctor prescribe an experimental psychoactive drug, Hypnocil, for the suicidal, surviving teenagers so that their nightmares would disappear, just until things were "under control.He then described he picture""s theme, based upon divine inspiration from 3,000 years earlier - in fact, DeMille was making a semi-political and propagandistic statement referring to the present time""s Cold War Era pitting the Soviets (the Egyptians) against the freedom-loving Americans (the Hebrews):The theme of this picture is whether men are to be ruled by God""s law, or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses.He rhythmically beat on a drum to emphasize each line of a poetic proclamation that he was reciting:"The old can never last.In a hot, reddish, surrealistic boiler room, they discovered Joey suspended and staked (by elongated tongues) over a smoking pit of flames.Jerry: Maybe it""s the way I""m dressed.A sudden thunderburst startles her, sending her into his arms.She is surprised and faintly annoyed at herself and backs off - he fancifully and scientifically explains to her what thunderstorms are all about to reassure her.