Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Response to Richard's Analysis of "Ben-Hur"
I disagree with Richard on his point that the 1926 "Ben-Hur" more accurately portrays the novel than the 1959 "Ben-Hur" because very few movies ever do accurately re-make the novel in a motion picture. Several scenes in the movie where not in the novel like the opening scene where Ben-Hur and Esther meet, and some scenes from the novel are not in the movie. They both do the story justice but to say one film is more like the novel than another is inaccurate. I agree with Richard's views on the character change, and how it was a better representation for the novels characters. Richard did not mention the fails on set during the filming that made the movie more realistic, such as the real boats catching on fire and the chariot race crash, and I feel he should have mentioned that.
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I agree, it would have made sense to haer more about the problems that the production was fraught with (after all, they explain the cost overruns that seem to interest Richards) and the snafus like the burning ship or the chariot crash that make the movie even more realistic and spectacular. You yourself, in fact, could have said more about it. ;-)
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