Path: ...!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Doe Newsgroups: free.spam Subject: Re: What makes the Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur so Great? Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:57:15 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <35a1d3a5-8a36-4b9d-8579-2c3227d30cdd@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:57:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="75dc12d498acd91626b0e0e995a2de56"; logging-data="15583"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yLxyotETOMB1N13M3tLvp/duD1vS4GjA=" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.05 Cancel-Lock: sha1:P8OoDNcYdPt9areLraHug+3Pkx4= Bytes: 4171 Google Groups idiot... -- gggg gggg wrote: > X-Received: by 2002:ac8:7d92:0:b0:2fe:931f:c6c7 with SMTP id c18-20020ac87d92000000b002fe931fc6c7mr6196345qtd.638.1654237205675; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:20:05 -0700 (PDT) > X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:2442:b0:6a5:a0ac:ab3a with SMTP id h2-20020a05620a244200b006a5a0acab3amr5802657qkn.32.1654237205505; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:20:05 -0700 (PDT) > Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail > Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 23:20:05 -0700 (PDT) > In-Reply-To: <35a1d3a5-8a36-4b9d-8579-2c3227d30cdd@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> > Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=32.132.12.210; posting-account=VREO7AoAAABGo_TnRXAj3kKbki4Qex7X > NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.132.12.210 > References: <35a1d3a5-8a36-4b9d-8579-2c3227d30cdd@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: > Subject: Re: What makes the Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur so Great? > From: gggg gggg > Injection-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:20:05 +0000 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org rec.arts.movies.past-films:133734 > > On Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 12:33:41 PM UTC-10, TBerk wrote: >> . >> Of course they are from another time. But I'm watching Ben-Hur on TCM >> right now and 'the Ten Commandments' is scheduled for the weekend on >> the big screen at the Stanford Theater. >> I continue to impress myself with the (re)watchability of these two >> great films. >> I watch them again and again, with some time in between viewings >> admittedly, but they are like a film school semester to me. >> They are long, run time wise, but there is time and repose and pauses >> in them that make sense. >> There is reference to historical events all around the principals, >> events that looking back with hindsight stand tall in history. This is >> said without any affiliation to any particular orientation, religion, >> point of worldview. >> In the Ten Commandments events happen from modest beginnings but swell >> up to involve a whole peoples. In Ben-Hur it remains one man's tale >> but his family's fortunes rise and fall with the things hat happen to >> him, and in both the churning of history in the making to which they >> are swept along as well as pivotal catalytic agents. >> An easy comment made many times is that these films could never be >> made today with the same grandeur and beauty, and while this may be >> true what does the future hold?- with HD and a mature use of CGI and >> (from _somewhere_) developed actors to inhabit characters both deep >> and wide. >> Perhaps not in our lifetime, but hopefully one day. Greatness will be >> achieved, achieved and surpassed. >> >> TBerk > > (Youtube upload): > > "The Making of the Movie 'The Ten Commandments' (1956)" > >