Posted on 02/19/2015 1:12:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A nice little fixer-upper.
The villa has Ben-His and Ben-Hur towels.
>> While Ben-Hur was a fictional villain ... <<
Uh, Judah Ben Hur was the good guy.
Maybe by “villain” the author meant, “one who lives in a villa”? I mean, it’s close.
Obviously the author has an anti-semitic bias.
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He was lying about that roof tile incident. Figures.
Pretty sad when the writer hasn’t even seen the movie (or read the book).
nowadays people think “Ben-Hur” is a transexual character
She’d be ‘Corvina’.
The article is screwed up a little, perhaps it’s an ESL problem. I cut for length and generally when I do that I cut out quotes (they’re usually superfluous) unless they’re really informative or unintentionally funny or dopey.
> ...believed to have been owned by Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, portrayed as Ben-Hur in the Hollywood blockbuster...
See, that’s a confused mess, right there, and I thought it was a little amusing.
The real guy was Ben-Daerdundat.
Now renamed Ben There.
The early screenwriter was the unreconstructed old queen, Gore Vidal, who (by his own account) wanted to be replaced on the picture, after having pointed out that it wasn’t ‘a tale of the Christ’, but a tale about a Jewish boy. He tried to gay it up (limited to an allusion to a childhood proposition by Messalla); later, I think he was also involved in gaying up “Spartacus”.
I could go for a Roman villa, or really a modest but spacious apartment overlooking the sea, or the scenery. Those rich Romans really knew how to live high on everyone else’s hog.
“The vases showed they were made by a Messalla’s slave. Indeed they were stamped with the Latin inscription “Hermia Va(leri) (M)arci s(ervus) fecit,” meaning “Made by Hermias, slave of Marcus Valerius.” [Laura Pagliantini]”
Messalla = Body Mortgager, Exempt One
Hermia = Mortgage Exchange, Stamped and Registered.
Human Trafficking trading.
Note: today on the Worldwide EXCHANGE, it was noted that because the Euro yields so low that the pension funds will have to move out of Europe and go globally elsewhere for sufficient returns.....Guess where, and how the U.S. is using for securing.......Body Mortgage EXCHANGE.
No, Ben-Hur’s rival was Ben-Thur.
He has a wife, you know...
There is nothing to indicate any connection between this Messalla, a Roman family name, and the fictional friend of the equally fictional "Prince of Hur."
General Wallace's 1880 book is on my shortlist of books from the era I look forward to reading soon, though I'm hip deep in the prose of Henry James at the moment. I happened on this information after watching the 1959 remake, earlier this week on TCM.
Very reluctantly, I have to agree the chariot race in the Frances X. Bushman-starring silent was better staged (on the same set).
I know everyone will be happy as a clam to learn that yet another remake is being filmed as we think over these things, to be released in 2016. Morgan Freeman has been cast to play Sheik Ilderim.
More encouraging, I have to think, is that the big-budget big production team includes Mark Burnett and Roma Downey (who also made the recent miniseries The Bible). Hopefully they will not include a silent, faceless Christ, more in line with General Wallace's Tale.
Starring as Ben Hur will be John Huston's grandson Jack.
Down Eros, Up Mars!
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