No religion, no faith, no philosophy. Say details. Say something unimportant.
I remember this week's best film appointment should be "Gosford Manor", how did it become "Ben-Hur"? Remember again?
I missed it last time, but it's not bad to make up for it this time.
The first is the dubbing. CCTV's dubbing is very tasteless every time, and the devastating blow of "Walking in the Clouds" a few years ago is still fresh in my memory. Fortunately, I haven't seen the original soundtrack of "Ben-Hur", so I can't compare it, so I'm less prejudiced. Moreover, this film was made in the 1950s. The stage of the film in that era was very dramatic, and CCTV's pedantic dubbing was quite compatible with it, and it was within the tolerable range.
Messara is very masculine, with white armor and red robe, and a concave chin. At first I thought he was the protagonist, but when he appeared, he was aggressive, but he turned into a vicious villain. His motives for framing Ben-Hur are understandable, but his methods are a bit unreasonable. After all, we've been together since childhood. Is it necessary to throw people's mother and sister in the dungeon and just clap their hands? I feel that the film fails a bit in its handling of Messara, lacks the necessary psychological foreshadowing, and becomes a prop to advance the plot.
Ben-Hur was not very conspicuous at first, and was framed to threaten Messala with a spear, and he fell in love with him all of a sudden. The male protagonist won the Academy Award that year. The time has passed for too long, and I don't think there is any special test for acting. I only prefer Ben-Hur to be exhausted and thirsty on the way to exile and want to drink water. He crouches on the ground in despair.
Ben Hur watched the episode when he was a slave on a warship before, but today he had a very perverted idea: rowing is really a whole-body exercise for efficient weight loss! Look at our brother Ben Xu, who was relatively gentle before, and has developed a strong muscle after three years of training. However, he doesn't look very thin. Do the Romans give slaves a good meal? The naval battle was really spectacular, the hull was smashed into the water, and the slaves struggled to survive in the water, which is one of the two most beautiful scenes in the whole film. The other is the silhouette of Jesus being crucified in the rainstorm at the end.
People on earth know well about the horse racing period, so there is not much nonsense. Think of the fact that there were no computer stunts at that time, and the real people in the audience at the racetrack were spectacular enough. Governor Pilate looks a little weird no matter how I look at it (I always think he wants to go to the toilet :P). The audio-visual effects of watching TV are much worse, but the classics are classics, so I was very excited for him. By the way, I despise CCTV, and the good 11 minutes were cut in half by the advertisement.
With Messala's death, the theme of revenge comes to an end, and then comes the theme of faith. Don't forget that the original book is called The Story of Christ. The film's treatment of Jesus has always been talked about. Not a single front shot, not a single line, just a back in a robe. He appeared for the first time and fed Ben Hur, who fell to the ground, a ladle of water. The soldiers wanted to go up and whip him, but when he saw the face of this man clearly, he suddenly became confused and slowly retreated. Jesus appeared for the second time. On the top of the mountain, people who believed in him walked towards him one after another. He stood above all living beings, but the camera never gave us a clear appearance. The third time Jesus appeared, he was still a shadow standing quietly among all beings. Even if his body was covered in blood, it did not damage his nobility and generosity in the slightest. God cannot be represented by a concrete image, so it is better to just give you a back view and a hint of it, which is very clever.
Alas, the nature of talking and pretending to understand began to look up again. That, according to expert analysis, this film is talking about the conflict between Roman culture and Christian culture, and Ben-Hur is the process of a Roman culture believer returning to Christian culture. In fact, when watching the film, I personally feel the most uncomfortable place is the change of the two themes. The film is three hours long, and some of the paragraphs are very protracted and lengthy. But if you're going to delete it, it's unlikely because they all point to the final redemption theme. After Ben Hur's revenge, the problem he faced was seeing his mother and sister suffering from leprosy, but not knowing how to rescue them. The film expresses Ben-Hur's pain with a composure no less than a Korean drama, and uses chattering dialogue to advance the plot. And so there was the climax of the crucifixion. At the end of the heavy rain, the relatives' illnesses were miraculously healed, and God sacrificed himself to save all beings... Compared with the fullness and realism of the theme of revenge, the bright tail of this scene seems a little untenable.
05-6
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