You""re always squawking about something.If it isn""t the steak, it""s something else.Fields (muttering): I didn""t squawk about the steak, dear.I merely said I didn""t see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.Waitress (sneering): You""re as funny as a cry for help.(As she approaches the table, he gives her an underhanded compliment.)Fields: You used to be an old Follies girl?Waitress: You know, there""s something awfully big about you.This classic, tragic film was highly-regarded at its ime, honored with eleven Academy Award nominations and the recipient of three Oscars: Best Story and Screenplay (co-authored by Charles Brackett, D.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.It moves closer and zooms into the green field, where it suddenly finds a happy and joyous Maria (Julie Andrews), a novice Salzburg Austrian nun, walking across the wide expanse of land.