#judah ben hur

[letthewhumpbegin]

Ben-Hur (2016)

[vildo]

…these dreams are attached to a horse that would never tire

[zanephillips]

JOSEPH MORGAN Ben Hur (2010)

[pedroam-bang]

Ben-Hur (1959)

[krystal280791]

[Ben-Hur] Judah & Messala - Brother

“Though we don't share the same blood You're my brother and I love you that's the truth

We're living different lives Heaven only knows If we'll make it back with all our fingers and our toes Five years, twenty years, come back It will always be the same

I've got you brother I've got you brother...”

[mantecol]

Quo Vadis is that old movie I watch once a week cause TCM only plays that movie and Ben-Hur

[coffeeandcinema]

In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[variousqueerthings]

YES THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT!!!!

watching act two of ben-hur now and I appreciate that it launches right off the intermission with a pan up to this shot:

tell me you were written by a homosexual without telling me you were written by a homosexual

[trinityofone]

Queer cinema buffs, just wanted to point out something that leapt out to me about OFMD 2x02. The scene where Ed and Izzy talk after Izzy has had his leg amputated is framed and shot in a way that I think deliberately echoes Ben-Hur (1959).

We know Davey Jenkins is a classic cinema fan, and Taika and Con have compared Ed and Izzy to Jesus and Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. I swear Con referenced Ben-Hur at one point too, though now I can't find a source. But it's a film with infamous gay undertones: Gore Vidal came on board and queered up the relationship between Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and his boyhood bestie/rival, Messala (Stephen Boyd) -- Boyd played them as former lovers intentionally, while Heston was, uh, not informed. (Vidal is a huge bitch about Heston in his memoir; recommended.)

Pictured: just bro stuff.

Anyway -- uh, spoilers for Ben-Hur -- in the scene in question, Messala, who has betrayed Judah and gotten him sold into slavery (it's a whole thing), then faces his rival in a chariot race, cheats, and is the source of his own downfall, getting trampled by horses. He is told he needs to have both his legs amputated or he will die, but he refuses and instead confronts his former friend (lover?) one last time.

I wish I could find better caps of this, but the way it's shot -- the dark room, the way the light plays across his face, even the angle of his head -- immediately popped into my head when I saw the parallel scene in OFMD 2x02.

(Gif by @hgedits)

Now of course, Izzy is not the cause of his own predicament to the extent that Messala is; he and Ed have both made the bed he now lies in together. Which is why Izzy gets to get up from his death bed and Messala doesn't.

Maybe, unlike Messala, he'll also be able to escape the Celluloid Closet! *manifesting Izzy Hands gay makeout scene in S2*

Anyway, Ben-Hur is a real good movie, you should watch it.

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For all my fellow vintage movie fans out there. Share a couple from a classic film who you think deserve more attention! (Be sure to check out round 2, round 3, round 4, and round 5.) Please reblog for bigger sample size. :)

[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)

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The girls are fighting

[writesaboutdragons]

365 Promises of God

Day 339 – You Are No Longer a Slave but a Son

Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Gal 4:7 NKJV)

Read: Galatians 4:1-7

One of the most gripping and popular books of the 19th century became one of the most popular Christian movies of the last century. The movie is Ben Hur, a tale about a Jew named Judah Ben-Hur who befriends the son of a tax collector named Messala. Messala ends up Judah’s worst enemy, when a passing parade dislodges a tile from Ben Hur’s roof, and the falling tile injures the Roman governor.

Messala accuses Judah of an attempted assassination, and Judah is sentenced to become a galley slave without trial or defense. His property is confiscated, his family imprisoned, and Judah vows revenge, both on Messala and Rome. Judah is led away in shackles, but meets Jesus on the road, where Jesus has compassion on him and offers him water. The chance encounter stays on Judah’s mind and he can’t get it out of his head. The captain of his slave ship, Arrius, learns of his lineage as a Jewish prince, and demands he remain unshackled at the oars. This allows Judah to escape drowning when the ship is destroyed during a battle. Judah could escape alone, but he finds Arrius drowning, and saves him. This pivotal act of compassion causes Arrius to adopt Judah as his son. The change in fortune is breathtaking. From a slave to a son.

The transformation in that scene is a microcosm of the transformation in the entire work, for Judah has been throughout most of the book/movie to be a slave of his desire for revenge. But God intends differently, and In the end he becomes a son of the Living God.

Charleton Heston did a masterful job portraying this character, the character, if you will, of everyone. For we have all been a slave in the past. We may not have looked like it, but it’s true. A slave to greed, or lust, or fashion, or popularity. A slave to power, or gossip. A slave to some addiction or desire. A slave to entertainment or even our jobs and the rat race they embody. Yet, for those of us who, like the fictional character Judah Ben-Hur, have followed the Christ, we are promised that we are NO LONGER slave to the past. To that addiction. To our reputation or our wealth.

We are now sons and daughters of the living God. We may still think we are slaves to those things, but God has declared plainly that through His power we are free. Those shackles may be on your wrists, but they are not locked! That cage you seem to be in has an open door. So, dear Christian, walk in freedom, for you are a child of the King.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank you that I am no longer a slave! May I walk in freedom, today. Amen

[orlaite]

favourite romances in film?

Karl Oskar and Kristina in Jan Troell's Utvandrarna and Nybyggarna

Jack and Rose in Titanic

Marianne and Heloise in Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Laura and Alec in Brief Encounter

Jack and Sally in Blow Out

Bud Baxter and Fran Kubelik in The Apartment

Cathy and Raymond in Far From Heaven

Lara and Yuri in Doctor Zhivago

Apropos although they're not all necessarily my "favourite romances" (which requires both characters each be fully realized and not just a narrative device) I'm a sucker for "lightning strike" first looks in movie romances; some of my favourites being Jack and Rose in Titanic, Michael and Apollonia in The Godfather, Judah and Esther in Ben-Hur, Freder and Maria in Metropolis, and Siegfried and Kriemhild in Die Nibelungen: Siegfried.

[lizzybeth1986]

List 10 of your Childhood Ships

Thanks @grapecaseschoices for tagging me in this (and high five on being a fellow Captain von Trapp x Maria fan!)

So I was born in the late 80s and was very much a 90s kid...so these are the pairings I really liked back as a kid and a teen! Quite a bit of Hollywood, a little Disney/animation, and some Hindi and Tamil films!

Georg x Maria from Sound of Music (I'm certain this was the first time I ever shipped a couple)

Judah x Esther from Ben Hur

Corrina x Manny from Corrina Corrina

Henry x Danielle from Ever After: A Cinderella Story

William x Anna from Nottinghill

Major Bala x Meenakshi from Kandukondein Kandukondein

Anya x Dimitri from Anastasia

Anthony x Jenny from Amar Akbar Anthony

Vicky (Ajay) x Priya from Baazigar

Pooja x Raghu from Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin

Tagging @thefirstcourtesan @callmetippytumbles @ohsnapitzlovehacker @angelasscribbles @sazanes @thecapturedafrique @cassiopeiacorvus @ao719 @tessa-liam @noesapphic and anyone else who would like to do this tag game!! (No pressure if you don't feel like playing 🤗)

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Movie Moments: Was Ben Hur gay? 

Leo suggested a classic such as Ben-Hur, The Magnificent Seven or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, for a Movie Moments, hence this selection. One interesting item about Ben-Hur, released in 1959, is its underlying gay aspect. The story: Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is a wealthy merchant of noble blood living in Jerusalem. His childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), a tribune, arrives in Jerusalem to command the Roman garrison. At first happy to be reunited, they argue over Messala’s belief in the glory of Rome and imperial power, and Judah’s commitment to his faith and the Jewish people. They part in anger. When a tile is accidentally dislodged from the roof of Judah’s house, almost killing the newly arrived governor, Messala sentences Judah to the galleys although he knows him to be innocent. Judah’s sister and mother are sent to prison. On the way to the galley, Judah is given water by a then unknown Jesus. A galley slave for 3 years, Judah saves the life of Quintus Arrius, the Roman commander, during a battle. All charges are dropped against Judah and Arrius eventually adopts Judah as his son. Judah returns to Jerusalem and confronts Messala, demanding that his mother and sister be freed. Unbeknownst to Judah, they have become lepers and have been sent to live in the Valley of the Lepers, away from everyone else. Esther, a servant girl in love with Judah, discovers the truth but tells Judah that they are dead. When Judah is offered the chance to race a sheik’s chariot and 4 Arabian stallions in an upcoming race before Pilate, Judah accepts when he learns that Messala will be racing and is considered the finest charioteer in the land. The chariot race: The chariot race is one of the great film moments in history, filmed before the days of computer generated effects. It can be viewed at: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQvpJsTvxU Messala eliminates the other charioteers one by one but in the final confrontation with Judah, Messala’s chariot loses a wheel and he ends up being badly trampled. On his deathbed, he refuses amputation which may save his life, stating that he will not meet Judah with half a body. When he is asked how he knows that Judah will come, he hisses that he will come. We then see Judah’s silhouette against the light in the doorway. The following exchange takes place, one of the most emotionally powerful scenes in the movie: Messala: Triumph complete, Judah. The race won. The enemy destroyed. Ben-Hur: I see no enemy. Messala: What do you think you see? The smashed body of a wretched animal! Is enough of a man still left here for you to hate? Let me help you...You think they're dead. Your mother and sister. Dead. And the race over. It isn't over, Judah. They're not dead. Ben-Hur: Where are they? Where are they? (shouting) Where are they? Messala: (vengefully) Look for them in the Valley of the Lepers, if you can recognise them. (Grabbing Judah's clothing) It goes on. It goes on, Judah. The race, the race is not over. He dies gloating at Judah's horror, More than friends? Hollywood in 1959 was not a place to make statements about being gay, or to portray “the love that dare not speak its name”, as Oscar Wilde referred to homosexuality. There has been conjecture and commentary for many years that the relationship between Judah and Messala was more than friendship. This has been denied by the studio but conjecture persist. In the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, which examined how Hollywood treated gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters, Gore Vidal recounted that he had been brought in to rewrite parts of the script, including the relationship between Judah and Messala. Director William Wyler was not satisfied that two men who had been close friends as youths could end up hating each other after disagreeing on politics. Vidal came up with the idea and subtext that the two had been lovers as teenagers and that Messala’s anger and hate come from Judah’s rejection of him. Wilder agreed provided that there was no direct reference to the sexuality and he discussed it with Stephen Boyd, who played Messala. He was told not to discuss it with Charlton Heston, who would freak out over the subtext. Heston later denied both the gay subtext and that Vidal had had any input into the script, a comment rebutted by Vidal by referring to Heston’s 1978 autobiography in which he stated that Vidal had been the author of much of the final shooting script. A bit of trivia: At about the 5.37 mark on the above Youtube clip, you will see Judah get thrown forward out of the chariot and get back in. The stunt man being thrown out and forward, and getting back in, was unintended but looked good on film so it was kept in. A scene was shot with Heston getting back in to the chariot to link with the above footage. How’s that Leo?

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2010/01/movie-moments-was-ben-hur-gay.html