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Originally posted by Geezer:
Watched it on TCM tonight.

No CGI. No Blue Screen. Any effects were matte painting and miniatures, but all done filming with the camera. Twenty minutes of chariot race, all live action. Massive parades in Rome and Jerusalem, all done with actual sets and thousands of extras. Fabulous score by Miklos Rosa. Eleven Academy Awards. Fifty years ago.

I enjoy the new stuff that's mostly done on a computer; Harry Potter, Transformers, Up, 9, etc. But there's just something really magical about films that were actually made on film, not in a CPU.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Originally posted by Raycheetah:

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Watched it on TCM tonight.

No CGI. No Blue Screen. Any effects were matte painting and miniatures, but all done filming with the camera. Twenty minutes of chariot race, all live action. Massive parades in Rome and Jerusalem, all done with actual sets and thousands of extras. Fabulous score by Miklos Rosa. Eleven Academy Awards. Fifty years ago.

I enjoy the new stuff that's mostly done on a computer; Harry Potter, Transformers, Up, 9, etc. But there's just something really magical about films that were actually made on film, not in a CPU.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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When I was about 6 or 7, Ben Hur came on tv (you know, one of the 3 existing network channels), and it was a BIG deal. I remember watching that, and my movies snack was an entire head of raw cabbage sprinkled occasionally with salt. Great flick!

Another Chuck Heston fave was The 10 Commandments! Whether you cleave to scripture or not, it was the closest in those days you got to an epic fantasy movie, with magic and heroes and such.

Yeah, nowadays, movies are beginning to all blend together into a bland sameness. It's pretty bad if, a week after, you can't remember much about the movie you just saw.

-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
The enjoyment of any good thing is only enhanced by sharing it with others.

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Big Chuck Heston fan here too. I agree, it wouldn't be Easter/Passover without The 10 Commandments on TV. I guess I come by it genetically though, C.B. DeMille was a distant cousin.

Just think about all the people involved as extras, stunt people etc on both movies. It boggles the mind.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Watched it on TCM tonight.

No CGI. No Blue Screen. Any effects were matte painting and miniatures, but all done filming with the camera. Twenty minutes of chariot race, all live action. Massive parades in Rome and Jerusalem, all done with actual sets and thousands of extras. Fabulous score by Miklos Rosa. Eleven Academy Awards. Fifty years ago.

I enjoy the new stuff that's mostly done on a computer; Harry Potter, Transformers, Up, 9, etc. But there's just something really magical about films that were actually made on film, not in a CPU.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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