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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   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)"   
      
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