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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 19, 2020 8:51:04 GMT
Wouldn't that help explain why Messala turns on his former friend so ruthlessly...because his love was unrequited? I think that was the idea--if Heston had known that was the idea he would have been really uncomfortable with the "Down Eros, Up Mars!" spear scene!
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Apr 19, 2020 21:13:29 GMT
It seems impossible, but I like it more each time I watch it. I been meaning to get back to you on this all week! No not impossible, in fact it has become one of my default arguments about true classic cinema. If you watch one of the classics from the past, and have seen them countless times, do you sit there knowing what is coming up in a certain scene and think ah well that's a good scene, seen it so many times, it's ace. Or do you get excited by knowing what is about to be shown, little film loving tingles in anticipation of watching class unfurl once again? The answer is obvious, we can't wait to see the chariot race in Ben-Hur, to see Dorothy singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Sherif Ali come towards us slowly from the burning sun in Lawrence, I'm Spartacus!, or for me to lean forward with an increasing heart beat as the defenders of Rorke's Drift sing Men of Harlech. These are not sequences that classic film fans just accept as a scene we have seen hundreds of times, these are joyous experiences that thrill and awe every single time we watch them.
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