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One of the greatest movie scenes ever. When I watch this scene I think about all of the soulless CGI poo poo they use in almost every movie nowadays (especially every single comic book movie, they are pretty much all trash) and I am completely floored that they were able to film it without anyone being killed. 100% live action. The entire scene took FIVE WEEKS to film, mainly due to the heat in Rome. It took forty-two cameras to film it, a staggering number in 1959. The only movie from the last two decades that even comes close to this kind of excellence is Mad Max: Fury Road. The movie was remade in 2016 but was predictably terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TUgccyzNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QM0b3MqqQ quote:The chariot race required 15,000 extras on a set constructed on 18 acres of backlot at Cinecitta Studios outside Rome. Tour buses visited the set every hour. Eighteen chariots were built, with half being used for practice. The race took five weeks to film. quote:The chariot race has a 263-to-1 cutting ratio (263 feet of film for every one foot used), probably the highest for any 65mm sequence ever filmed. quote:The chariot race segment was co-directed by legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt (with veteran second-unit director Andrew Marton). Joe Canutt (Yak's son) doubled for Charlton Heston. During one of the crashes, in which Judah Ben-Hur's horses jump over a wrecked chariot, the younger Canutt was thrown from his chariot onto its tongue because he failed to heed Yak's instructions as to how to grip the railing as the chariot hit the top of the hidden ramp leading up to the debris. He managed to climb back into his chariot and bring it back under control. The sequence looked so good that it was included in the film, with a close-up of Heston climbing back into the chariot. Canutt got a slight cut on his chin, but it was the only injury in the incredibly dangerous sequence. Stuntman Nosher Powell, who worked on the film, states in his biography that Yak went pale as a ghost when the chariot crashed. The crash was not planned, and everybody, including Yak, believed that Joe had died. quote:During the 18-day auction of MGM props, costumes and memorabilia that took place in May 1970 when new studio owner Kirk Kerkorian was liquidating the studio's assets, a Sacramento restaurateur paid $4,000 for a chariot used in the film. Three years later, during the energy crisis, he was arrested for driving the chariot on the highway. https://ascmag.com/articles/ben-hur-chariot-race-1925 https://www.pololine.com/articles/the-horses-of-ben-hur-and-the-most-epic-scene-in-movie-history/ haljordan fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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if you think mad max fury road is terrible you're a fool and a jackass
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Doctor Dogballs posted:if you think mad max fury road is terrible you're a fool and a jackass Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. I meant that Fury Road is loving incredible because it used practical effects almost exclusively.
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That Chariot Race was incredible. The movie is great too.
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Aug 28, 2022 17:23
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Gatts posted:That Chariot Race was incredible. The movie is great too. I can only imagine how many safety laws would be violated if you tried to film something like that today lol
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haljordan posted:Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. I meant that Fury Road is loving incredible because it used practical effects almost exclusively. oh I also misread your post I guess lol whoops. anyway
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Doctor Dogballs posted:oh I also misread your post I guess lol whoops. anyway No worries, Fury Road really is awesome
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This really seemed like the most insanely dangerous thing to film ever and nobody died. You can't even film a simple scene nowadays without Alec Baldwin murdering someone nowadays.
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Caesar Saladin posted:This really seemed like the most insanely dangerous thing to film ever and nobody died. You can't even film a simple scene nowadays without Alec Baldwin murdering someone nowadays. The thing I notice most is that the actors are actually dirty and sweaty. In so many films nowadays, there is dust and dirt and poo poo flying around and yet somehow none of it winds up on the actors.
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Just because it's practical effects doesn't mean it's not soulless Op
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Mooey Cow posted:Just because it's practical effects doesn't mean it's not soulless Op yeah my bad, Ben-Hur is definitely way less embarrassing than Iron Man 2 i mean even Terminator 2 was mostly practical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRK5jPCDNYI haljordan fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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Aug 28, 2022 18:45
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Been Had Hur
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Benjamin Hur
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Jan Hus, another absolute beast with wagons
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I don't think Hus ever actually used his wagons though zizka def did
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ben-hurtz, donut?
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The silent movie's race is pretty bad rear end too, so much so the opening scenes are shot-for-shot retakes in the 50's one
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Yeah movies were way better when you could maim and murder people for real in them, gently caress CGI!?
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Colonel Cancer posted:Yeah movies were way better when you could maim and murder people for real in them, gently caress CGI!? SUPER HOT TAKE BRO
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Colonel Cancer posted:Yeah movies were way better when you could maim and murder people for real in them, gently caress CGI!? the forums were way better when you couldn't post haljordan fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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An age when Hollywood occasionally made films instead of content.
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Cool OP, but what that chariot scene really needed was Spiderman doing backflips from chariot to chariot while cracking jokes about John Jonah Jamison who is dressed like Caesar to a band of purple goo aliens playing the hell out of vuvuzelas instead of those boring roman trumpets.
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I miss actual swordfighting and fist fights instead of cgi and cool stuff with cgi over it.
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I somehow got this movie mixed up with Gladiator because in that movie, you can see a compressed air tank on one of the chariots. Ben-Hur’s race is just perfect.
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The movie lied to me! I thought it happened for real and they were just there to film it!!!
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satanic splash-back posted:I miss actual swordfighting and fist fights instead of cgi and cool stuff with cgi over it. Oh hell yeah this is the dopest sword fight on film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8tiSMCwRE
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I can hear the music in my head. Oh, and also on my computer speakers. Thanks internet.
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You Are A Elf posted:Oh hell yeah this is the dopest sword fight on film: Yeah this is incredible, love it. Miss when movies had tension and payoff in a fight
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i miss when action scenes sent 4 guys to the hospital and still looked like poo poo
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What kinda dumb idiot names their kid Hur.
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You Are A Elf posted:I somehow got this movie mixed up with Gladiator because in that movie, you can see a compressed air tank on one of the chariots. the romans invented a compressed air tank, they just didn't know what to do with it
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i sure am in a ben hurry to finish this race
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Colonel Cancer posted:What kinda dumb idiot names their kid Hur. I like the way you do it right Hur
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You Are A Elf posted:Oh hell yeah this is the dopest sword fight on film: Basil Rathbone was an master fencer and always played the villain, he was so good he made the other guy look better. See also Robin Hood as another fantastic sword fight.
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This also deserves its own thread because goddamn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQOfyR75vY haljordan fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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I heard one of the horses ate a man. That’s fine though
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gently caress Ben-Hur! Real motherfuckers know it’s all about the oysters and snails scene in Spartacus. https://youtu.be/2yzY-HUvavU
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:gently caress Ben-Hur! Spartacus is also an incredible movie, I cannot deny this. Also, fun fact: quote:Kirk Douglas was offered the role of Messala but turned it down, because he didn't want to play a "second-rate baddie". Douglas wanted to play Judah Ben-Hur, whose Jewishness appealed to him, but he was too old and Charlton Heston had already been cast. The experience motivated Douglas to develop his own epic, Spartacus (1960), which was partially designed to compete against Ben-Hur (1959).
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loving idiots why don't they just use a car. Horses?
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Colonel Cancer posted:What kinda dumb idiot names their kid Hur. Presumably Ben-Hur’s grandpa. Hur named his kid Judah.
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