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Ben Hur Comparison

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The tales of family betrayal, revenge, and reunited in one movie called Ben Hur. There are many versions of this movie, but this revue will be on the 1959 version directed by William Wyler and the cinematography Robert Surtees, and the 2016 version directed by Timur Bekmambetov and the cinematography Oliver Wood. In both movies a higher class Jewish family called Ben Hur from the biblical time. Got arrested by their adopted son Messala who is in the Roman army. Base in an attack on the Roman emperor Caesar. That Judah Ben Hur took the blame for in both movie to spare someone else, and his revenge against his brother Messala for condemning him to the galley and his own family to something much worse than death. I'll be taking and comparing both the 1959 and 2016 Ben Hur movies on it's special effects and the setting that they used in both movies. The reason for analysing both sittings and special effects in the two different versions is because they mainly work hand to hand with each other in movies. The sitting in a movie is really important, it's what makes a movie seems realistic. For the 1959 version they actually went to Egypt and built over 300 sets to have the whole movie cast on. On the other hand, the 2016 version didn't make their …show more content…

Special effects are something the 1959 version did not use as much as the 2016 did. Like the background characters in the 1959 had to get a real person, while the 2016 had digital people for some of the background character. One big special effect that the 2016 version did was the whole chariot race every racer and chariot was digitally designed and put in. While the 1959 had to have real horses and human risking their life. That's why special effects are so important in today's movies because they can have a digital object to do dangerous things instead of real people, and do cool

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