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Dec 24, 2016 - 6:03 PM
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pp312
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My review of BEN-HUR, for anyone who's interested:
https://moviemusicuk.us/2016/08/26/ben-hur-marco-beltrami/
Jon
Great review. Erudite but accessible. I haven't heard the score and won't be hearing it, but I can pretty well imagine it from this reading.
Just one nitpick: "The 1959 Ben-Hur ushered in an era of magnificent sword-and-sandals epics that lasted a decade". The '59 B-H didn't usher in an era but came tolward the end of one, which (more-or-less) started with DeMille's Samson & Delilah ('49) and ended somewhere in the mid-60s with a number of expensive flops (The Bible, Fall of the Roman Empire, Greatest Story etc). B-H could only have been made when it was, learning as it did from a decade of mistakes.
Incidentally, is there really a track on the soundtrack album called 'Ben and Esther?" Is no one associated with this production aware that 'Ben' in this context is a title (Son of...), or designation, not a name? Is there any end to the incompetence of the people associated with this production? (Answer: No).
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Dec 25, 2016 - 4:01 AM
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pp312
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Incidentally, is there really a track on the soundtrack album called 'Ben and Esther?" Is no one associated with this production aware that 'Ben' in this context is a title (Son of...), or designation, not a name? Is there any end to the incompetence of the people associated with this production? (Answer: No).
Before you get all bent out of shape, you should know that it's meant in jest. Beltrami's track titles are often puns/non-sequiturs/re-spellings/jokes/playful/flights of whimsy. Is there any reason to jump so quickly to judgment and automatically assume the composer is incompetent? (Answer: No).
If Beltrami didn't know the distinction, why would he have titled other tracks "Carrying Judah" and "Judah Ashore"?
Thanks, Deputy, but I'm not at all bent out of shape; perhaps in my rush to correct I was recalling a reference to "Ben's girlfriend" in the program guide when the film first aired on TV. As for these jocular titles, are they really appropriate to a film with this subject matter, other than the fact that the whole project appears to have been one bad joke? I thought Morgan Freeman's dreadlocks were hilarious enough, but it appears Beltrami wants to get in on the joke as well.
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