Joe""s treatment of the screenplay is criticized by clean-cut, Paramount script reader Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) - she denounces it in "a two page synopsis" as being written "from hunger," "a rehash of something that wasn""t very good to begin with," and "flat and trite.To his relief, it then retreated into the jungle with huge thumping footsteps - it was about 4 miles from "the nearest attraction.Throughout the film, director DeMille also served as he film""s voice-over narrator.The film""s title was mostly a misnomer, since the central subject was not The Ten Commandments, which appeared only in the film""s concluding 20 minutes.She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.Let two more summers wither in their pride, ""ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.Although Paris argues: "Younger than she, are happy mothers made." Capulet suggests that if Paris can win Juliet""s consent and heart, Capulet will not oppose their marriage: "The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.