#ben hur 1959

[velvet4510]

#american film institute #afi #movie polls #epic film #epic movie #titanic 1997 #lawrence of arabia #ben hur #spartacus #gone with the wind #reds #the ten commandments #saving private ryan #all quiet on the western front #schindler's list #old movies #old films #vintage movies #old hollywood #classic film #classic cinema #ben hur 1959 #titanic

[chicafinal]

democracy is a very powerful thing i guess

#you're welcome chuck #ben hur 1959 #i started sketching before the final results were in so i was fully prepared to do voter fraud but also the bible movie won

[andruillus]

messala from the 1959 version of ben-hur, commissioned by the lovely @illegible-scribble , who shares my soft spot for this 3hr+ gay tragedy bible epic 🤭 plus the messala/ben-hur i shared in my main under the cut

#ben hur 1959 #fanart #digital art #commission work #movies

[livehorses]

Easter-Like classics that can never be missed in our Familiar Cinema Club

First, we have all the Hollywood-Sword and Sandal like classics that we watch between Lent, the Holy Week and Easter, being mainly and in a historically accurate chronological order:

Joseph King of Dreams

(Mandatory Prequel watching)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Ben Hur (1959)

The Robe (1953)

Quo Vadis (1951)

Then we watch some other movies that we kinda relate with the celebration, like:

The Fiddler On The Roof (1971)

BBC's The Chronicles of Narnia series

(My mom doesn't like the Disney adaptation)

The Secret Garden (1993)

For a strange relation of ideas, because my oldest brother was transcribing in the middle of the Holy Week one year, the orchestration of the movie for a streaming with live orchestra,

Howl's Moving Castle

We even have for a traditional Easter Sunday breakfast, Sophie's eggs with bacon.

And the main event of Holy Saturday, the most expected movie of the season...

The Prince of Egypt

#Familiar Cinema Club #Easter of Resurrection #Sword and Sandal #The Ten Commandments 1956 #Ben Hur 1959 #The Robe 1953 #Quo Vadis 1951 #The Fiddler On The Roof movie #BBC TCON #BBC The Chronicles of Narnia #Howl's Moving Castle #The Prince of Egypt #Joseph King of Dreams #The Secret Garden 1993

[shank-on-fire]

The inherent homoeroticism of your nemesis, your sworn enemy that was once like your brother, the one you once cherished and admired but now loathe and despise, dying in your big beefy glistening sweaty bloodied arms

#yes this is about Ben hur 1959 #ben hur 1959 #no homo bro but also... mayhaps? #it's the only way to end holy week #watching two of the most scarring movie scenes of my childhood 🙂 #charlton heston #stephen boyd #ben-hur #yearning #messala

[ginnyzero]

Me having a dream where in Hollywood there's a museum for nothing but fabulous movie costumes across film history.

#dream #costumes #hollywood #i wouldn't leave for days #star wars #crimson peak #lord of the rings #ben hur 1959 #anything by adrian #the other boleyn girl

[wanderinginksplot]

Happy Easter

In celebration, look at this super-cursed picture of Jesus from Ben-Hur.

They specifically avoided showing Jesus' face for the whole movie. They showed him from a distance or just showed him from the back. But they couldn't avoid it in this scene and they compensated by darkening the film.

Honestly terrifying. Happy Easter!

#ben hur #charlton heston #ben hur 1959 #jesus christ #jesus

[scribl1ta]

Ben Hur sketches! Scroll for a timelapse and my thoughts

i think Ben Hur has the best armor of any of these movies I’ve seen. The way those ribbons wrap around their hips instead of their waists🥴 Otherwise, it was hard to enjoy this movie past the first fifteen minutes. Brownface aside, the plot drags on and many of the scenes and characters feel like just another box checked on the list of 50s Bible movie tropes. Judah and Messala were apparently written in the script as gay lovers, which I guess would explain why the romance subplot with Esther is so boring to watch. It’s an important film within the genre but mostly interesting only as a case study & cultural phenomenon and not worth its running time in my opinion. I was hoping to write more but I'm super tired and I drafted this post a long time ago. My sketchbook pages are also not quite finished- I especially wanted to find the guy who helps Judah getting his chariot ready before the race because he looks super cute but he wasn't in any of the IMDB photos😢I hope you enjoy them anyway!

#ben hur #ben hur 1959 #Ancient Rome #charlton heston #stephen boyd #50s movies #sketchdump #artists on tumblr #my sketchbook #my art

[oscarupsets]

The 1959 version of the religious epic Ben-Hur concluded at a whopping 3 hours and 32 minutes (but who's counting?)

The Upset, procedural drama Anatomy of a Murder, ran longer than the average upset but it's nothing we can't handle.

Box office information for high-earning epics is always contradictory. These values fall between those you might see elsewhere, but should best represent the international box office for the initial run.

Comparing religious epics, I preferred Ben-Hur to the previous The Ten Commandments. Charlton Heston successfully led both films, and was met once again by a strong supporting cast.

There is a ton of story to get through, but the pace is quick enough that it doesn't feel like molasses. The film's most famous scene, the chariot race, still holds up today. Overall, it's a very well-done epic, but one can't forget it's 3.5 hours long.

As for Anatomy of a Murder, I'm so excited we're exiting the era of film in which the actors speak so very slowly. Not only was it fast-paced, everyone spoke at a reasonable speed!

Besides Jimmy Stewart cramming a bunch of uncontained fish into his freezer, this film was practically perfect. The dialogue-heavy courtroom scenes are carefully broken up by additional evidence gathering and a smart amount of humor! Who knew panties was such a funny word in the 1950s.

Ben-Hur holds current record for Oscar wins, with only 2 other films reaching 11 awards.

Interestingly enough, it missed out on a typical Oscar for screenplay, which instead went to fellow Best Picture nominee Room at the Top. There's a detailed section of the Wikipedia that describes the dispute over the writing credit for the film, which some believe attributed to this loss.

Sadly, Anatomy of a Murder walked away with zero Oscars from 7 nominations, mostly because Ben-Hur overlapped with them in almost every category. Anatomy of a Murder at least won 3 Grammys for Duke Ellington's work. He also plays a small cameo in the film as Pie Eye! (Note: category names are shortened because they are weirdly wordy)

Anatomy of a Murder holds a perfect 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as high ratings across all sources. Ben-Hur is not far behind, and still commendable.

Unofficial Review: This is personal preference. Ben-Hur is more Oscar-adjacent, but both are great.

#oscars #academy awards #32nd academy awards #ben hur #ben-hur #ben hur 1959 #ben-hur 1959 #anatomy of a murder #anatomy of a murder 1959 #1950s #film #1950s film #oscarupsets

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Ben-Hur (1959)

#ben-hur gif #historical drama #religious drama #william wyler #practical effects #miniature effects #50s movies #roman galleys #roman empire #1950s #1959 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[theglitterdome]

Charlton Heston relaxing on the set of Ben-Hur (1959)

#charlton heston #ben hur #1959 #20th century #hollywood #old hollywood #classic hollywood #classic movies #50s

[mudwerks]

(via PEPLUM TV: Image of the week!)

Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is sent to the galleys of a warship in BEN-HUR (1959)

#Charlton Heston #ben-hur #film #vintage #1959

[misterivy]

Stephen Boyd as Messala in BEN-HUR (1959).

#stephen boyd #messala #ben hur #1959

[chicafinal]

ben-hur 1959 is great because chuck heston is like "i'm the main character a bible epic" and stephen boyd is like "im the antagonist in a lovers-to-enemies gay tragedy"

#gay sex would have canonically avoided the drama in ben-hur 1959 this is known movie history

[pedroam-bang]

Ben-Hur (1959)

#1959 #film #movie #Ben-Hur #Stephen Boyd #Messala #Charlton Heston #Judah Ben-Hur #Jack Hawkins #Quintus Arrius #Hugh Griffith #Sheik Ilderim #Haya Harareet #Esther #Judea #Rome #Roman Empire

[originaljediinjeans]

Underappreciated aspect of Ben-Hur (1959): Charlton Heston being a horse girl

#random #ben-hur 1959 #horses #charlton heston