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Post by Daniel on Aug 13, 2016 8:20:39 GMT -5
Ben-Hur Official Trailer #2 (2016)
BEN-HUR opens in theaters everywhere Aug. 19
Published on Jun 14, 2016
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Post by Daniel on Aug 13, 2016 8:23:33 GMT -5
Studio Asked Him to Direct The New BEN-HUR Film and He Said 'No Way' Without this Change
Grace Hill Media
8/13/2016
Director Timur Bekmambetov says he has honored to be asked by MGM to direct the studio's reinterpretation of the classic novel BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST, filmed for the big screen twice before. But Bekmambetov only took the job after he was certain he could implement his vision for spotlighting a different theme from the 1880 novel than the famous Charlton Heston version of the film did.
"The 1959 movie was about revenge, not about forgiveness," Bekmambetov told the entertainment Web site COLLIDER. "For me that was the main problem; I think that the novel is mainly about forgiveness, about the fact that a human being learned how to forgive."
When Bekmambetov saw the script and talked with producers, including Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, the team behind THE BIBLE miniseries, he felt the other filmmakers had the same thoughts about the movie and the same morals about life. What emerged, then, is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves (Nazanin Boniadi), Judah is forced into slavery. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but an encounter with Jesus (Rodrigo Santoro) leads him to the Crucifixion, where he discovers forgiveness and finds redemption.
That change in heart for Judah fueled by his interaction with Christ, is what gives the new movie it's power and relevance to today's audience, Bekmambetov says.
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 13, 2016 18:54:34 GMT -5
You realize this is third one of Ben Hur being remade right
There is 1923 version with Francis X Bushman and Ramano Navvraro there the 1950s version with Chuck Heston sometime you could see both version on Turner classic movies LOL!
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Post by Leigh on Aug 13, 2016 21:22:51 GMT -5
You realize this is third one of Ben Hur being remade right There is 1923 version with Francis X Bushman and Ramano Navvraro there the 1950s version with Chuck Heston sometime you could see both version on Turner classic movies LOL! Seven is our resident movie and TV expert!  |
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 14, 2016 10:32:52 GMT -5
I just know stuff you learn a lot when you surf TCM website LOL! actually I got both movies on DVD because of ben Hur box set came out couple years ago also 1923 version has two strip technocolor sequence in one part of the movie
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Post by Leigh on Aug 14, 2016 20:46:38 GMT -5
TCM does have a good website! And they put out a little magazine too - my mom gets that in the mail.
You know, I don't think I've ever seen Ben Hur all the way through.
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 15, 2016 11:50:09 GMT -5
When come on again try watch all way through what I do I DVR a long movie there is few movies that I haven't seen all way through that King of Kings can't pass that Capt Pike was Jesus Christ maybe Trekkie in me can't get through that
BTW there anotherrrr movie remake coming to theatre this year is remake of Manficient Seven that remake of Japanese movie Seven Samuari you can see on TCM Import on Sunday night sometimes that is good movie
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Post by Cindy on Sept 14, 2016 10:37:21 GMT -5
Ben-Hur’s Watered-Down Christianity
Who needs Jesus Christ when you’ve got a well-costumed Morgan Freeman?
more:
www.wsj.com/articles/ben-hurs-watered-down-christianity-1472167001
Why the 'Ben-Hur' remake doesn't give me that old-time religion
There are a number of things missing from the new movie “Ben-Hur” — Quintus Arrius, functioning tripods, a discernible point — but nothing perhaps so notable as the words “A Tale of the Christ.”
That subtitle graced Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel and many of the film and television adaptations that have followed, signaling that the story of Judah Ben-Hur is also a stealth account of Jesus’ life and ministry. One Jewish man suffers gallantly but ultimately triumphs over slavery and injustice, and so, in a parallel chain of events, does another — only this time with crucifixion rather than chariot racing as the blood sport of choice, and with a message of divine forgiveness in lieu of mortal revenge.
In the new “Ben-Hur,” by contrast, Jesus is played by a hunky Brazilian actor named Rodrigo Santoro, who receives third billing after his costars Jack Huston (Ben-Hur) and Toby Kebbell (Messala), as though completing some sort of above-the-title trinity. Santoro’s Jesus randomly pops up in scenes like a veritable Christ-in-the-box, at one point even doing some carpentry as he lectures Judah with a mouthful of New Testament platitudes. His declaration of “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” is so sweeping and powerful that (spoiler alert!) Messala not only survives in this retelling but winds up burying the hatchet with Judah, at which point the two ride their white horses into one of the most ludicrous feel-good endings in recent memory.
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www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ben-hur-biblical-epics-20160816-snap-story.html
'Ben-Hur' Couldn't Have Been Worse
The movie entitled Ben-Hur, which is opening this weekend, has so little in common with the sumptuous 1959 Charlton Heston epic of the same name, it barely qualifies as a remake. It barely qualifies as a film.
Case in point: About 15 minutes in, as Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), the Jewish prince of Jerusalem under Roman rule, strolls through the market with his love slave Esther, the camera suddenly goes wide to reveal that Jesus Christ is standing next to them. Putting aside his carpentry for a moment, he looks directly into the camera and intones, apropos of nothing, "Love your neighbor!" with the same studied nonchalance with which you might ask the CVS manager where the condoms are. (Prudish Ben-Hur, for his part, is put off and scoffs, "Well, that's rather progressive!")
more:
www.vice.com/read/ben-hur-christian-terrible-movie
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