Monday, December 7, 2009

benhur (1959)




benhur is the first movie won the 11 academy awards till titanic win.the impressive scenes are navy wars and horse races scenes.I read history books ,I took history lessons and read history novels.while reading your imagination forces to create the scenes you read.most amazing part is the oar prisoners scene.how they operate and are instructed.in that scene after admiral realizes juda's anger and desire of revenge,admiral tests oars,there isnot dialogue except instructions of admiral.director makes you feel the tense between juda and admiral.someone instead of heston probably wouldnot make the same influence.no words only passings between juda and admiral.how much effort was done or how movie was captured I would like to see it.in the horse races scene you can see the man holding the string of horses is not exactly charlton heston.it may look very amateurish.however today I cannot imagine people to recapture this movie without any computer aid and technology.movie's duration is about 3 hours.I read heston's words in article,he says he really drives horses' warcar and tells the difficulty of the captured scenes.
movie also includes religious content beyond its artistic part.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/

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