If you look carefully from 1:08 -1:16 Messala (Stephen Boyd) has a satisfying, sadistic smile on his face even though he's going through excruciating pain from his broken body. That by itself could be Oscar nomination worthy.
I think another unspoken reason messala hated Judah so much at this point is the day he learned Judah was adopted by arrius and that Judah believed his other and sister were dead his career in the Roman army also died. Enmity with the arrius family would pretty much ensure he never advances out of judea let alone to a post in rome.
There was absolutely no need for a remake. This film is as good now as it was 50 plus years ago. Hollywood is obsessed with making money which is the opposite of morals of this film
Stephen Boyd certainly was and will be one of the greatest actors in the history of cinematography ... personally , the most convincing villain in history...Rest in Peace Stephen Boyd...
"The race is not over..." Ben Hur might seem like a straightforward action/adventure movie but underneath it, there are some unparalleled poetic moments that cut deep...
A historical performance of acting, a duel between the infinite physical pain of Messala vs the disturbing emotional pain of Judá. Definetly a Masterpiece!!
The third "Where are they?" from Charlton Heston damn, personally could feel his angry in his voice like "Before you die, your not going without telling me, I won't let you".
No worries messala wasn’t going to die until he got to see the heartbreak on Judah’s faces when he heard. He was too much of a coward to tell him earlier knowing the negative impact on his career it would have given Judah is now the son of the leader of the Roman army
This scene alone should have gotten Mr Boyd at least an Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith won it for the part of the Arab sheik IIderim). What an injustice to Mr Boyd for an incredible performance...Still, the 1959 Ben-Hur held the record for most Oscars (11) and still does today (Titanic and maybe 1 other film have 11 now as well)...and no phony computer generated effects make this film even more grand...
Well my friend the final film to win 11 Academy Awards is The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and as of March 2016, Ben Hur (1959), Titanic, and Return Of The King are the only three films to win 11 Academy Awards. But you never know maybe a movie that is made by a director with a unique vision and his or her movie will become the next film to win the honored 11 Academy Awards my dear friend.
He deserved high accolades, oh yeah, but Boyd didn't play the Hollyweird games. He wasn't interested in them at all. He wasn't social. He didn't smoodge anyone. Actors had to campaign very hard for these top awards. I think that game is still played, more or less. He didn't play their games. Because of that, little by little, Hollyweird wrote him off.
THIS is cinema. Why on earth some idiots try to remake this epic film? How they even thought that this masterpiece could be ever be re-created? What's next, the Godfather?
Imagine dying painfully and slowly with crushed legs, ruptured organs and internal bleeding, knowing nobody can help you because no doctors at that time knew anything about how to fix a heavily damaged human body. When i watched that film for the first time, THAT thought alone actually made the whole scene sooo unbearable and hard to watch. The amazing performance by Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston really cannot be re-done any better any other way. It is simply impossible. They nailed it the first time.
I can ONLY imagine the hard applause and the shouted 'bravo's' of the entire crew, behind the camera's...when the director shouted; "cut!". The two actors, wrapping their arms around each other's shoulders, and mouthing the words; "...thank you!".... You can bet that happened!
“If you can recognize them” daaaammmnn. You know how old movies acting is hilarious today? But Stephen in this scene is outstanding especially for today he should’ve won for best supporting actor
This movie is full of great scenes like this. Wonderful acting, great writing, incredible special effects with lots of human elements to tie it all together. A master work in every way.
When I first saw this scene, Stephen Boyd convinced me he was dying! His voice was mangled just like Messala was! Then Boyd turned up in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, shot after BEN-HUR, and he was all whole again, although he had another problem in the later movie--the character he was playing was an alcoholic. The script didn't take that problem very seriously, though, so I wasn't convinced he was doomed. Boyd wouldn't last much longer in the movies, though. So sad that he died young (age 48).
@@hillsane9262 So, perhaps, in a way, his pride killed him. It's for the same reason that Khan and Shinzon in the Star Trek movies also die. Each of these characters lost their true purpose due to revenge - Shinzon might also have been saved if he had undergone "the procedure"...
@@christianealshut1123 yes his pride was off the scale! Like you said it's been the downfall of many characters! His dying breath was also to taunt him about what he did to his family.
Winning an Oscar was completely different than now. You must promote yourself with interviews either on television and in magazines. Stephen Boyd didn't do either, he just wanted to work. He embraced his work as an actor and didn't seem to care if he won an Oscar or not.
When I watch this movie I'm glad masala got his come uppence but watching masala die so painfully and so slowly brings sorrow to my heart. So Wonderfully acted by Stephen Boyd.
Stephen Boyd was a great actor from Northern Ireland. Left his home town came to London to make good. He use to do busking outside Cinemas and Theater where someone see potential not only his looks but that beautiful Irish accent. What I cant understand why he didn't get a oscar. I will continue to watch Ben Hur for the rest of my days, this film will never die
Who ever had the drunk maggots in their brains, thinking that remaking THIS movie was remotely necessary, hopefully never gets in touch with any form of movie making what so ever. There is only ONE Ben Hur movie and that is THIS one with Chuck Heston. Period!
What about the 1907 version, which features a grand total of 15 minutes of what was claimed in court to not be a “performance” of Wallace’s story but merely a sequence of photographs and text (this claim did not hold up in court, and this case is the reason why books cannot be made into movies without permission, which is why there aren’t ten million Ben-Hur films)? It’s not that good by today’s standards (nearly all of the chariot race is offscreen, the naval battle is unseen, and there are no scenes involving Jesus because they probably didn’t want to risk messing that up back then) but by 1907 standards (the word “movie” wouldn’t appear in print until 1911) it’s quite remarkable. Also, what about the 1925 film, the most expensive silent film ever made? It basically created MGM as it would be for a generation, set a standard in number-of-extras and size-and-detail-of-sets that wouldn’t be matched until, well, the 1959 movie, and has the naval battle and chariot race sequences so intense and jaw-dropping that they still hold up nearly a century later? I think you’re missing out on two defining moments in film history (both of which are now in the public domain) by only focusing on the 1959 masterpiece.
Has anyone noticed the similarities from this to Starwars? This scene in particular gives off the same sort of burnt aniken scene. And the chariot race compared to the pod race. And how the whole friendship turned to revenge between Ben hue and Marsala or aniken and obiwan. There’s reason to believe this was a movie that was looked up to by George Lucas.
Messala lost the chariot race, and he finally lost the BIG race when Christ healed Judah’s mother and sister. Messala, you pathetic DOUBLE LOSER……burn in hell for eternity.
What a disservice the Oscars did for not rewarding Boyd for this powerful performance. You can sense and feel the pain in which Messala was undergoing as he breathed his last breath.
*Ben Hur (2016) can NEVER out-perform this scene* The act of forgiveness in the (2016) Ben Hur was rushed and cheesy. Life isn't always a Happily Ever After. The Death in this scene is more compelling and meaningful.
This scene answers the question: To what level can intense hate rise?....the answer is Messala, with the chilling words....." let me help you..." How the Sam Hill can brilliance like Boyd ever be remade?
Great Film classic! This was a difficult scene to watch. He hurt him badly by telling him his mother and sister were alive but he sent them to a Leper colony. So he destroyed their lives. Even on his deathbed, he decided to strike at Ben Hur one last time instead of asking for forgiveness. It’s because he was Roman and not a Christian. He didn’t have compassion or know about mercy or forgiveness.
I watched the new movie.....very poor indeed! It has nothing going for it at all, and should have been left unmade. I particularly have a personal interest in this sequence because in my very first Re-Enactment in 1996 I got to carry the Dagger that Charlton Heston wears in his waist belt during this scene and the Chariot Race. My friend purchased it at an auction of Movie Prop's a few years before, and every time I watch this it gives me a real buzz to know that I had the privilege of wearing it myself at Bosworth. My favourite movie of all time.
bar none the best death scene ever put on film. a joke he wasnt nominated for best supporting. there have been other excellent ones: beatty as clyde shot up; caan at the toll booth; newman in cool hand luke; defao in platoon; heston in apes... but again, they just dont elevate to this level. this slows time w/ its level of visceral intensity. the lines are also deep. epic isnt easy to do & so easy to fall into parody, yet this never will. this is on the edge of death w/ the venom of vengence pumping ever last breath of precious air thru his system. best scene in the movie... the race indeed goes on generation to generation. the west has never completely divorced itself from rome's loins.
I loved the brief scene when Judah (Charlton Heston) looked down at the smashed body of Messala (Stephen Boyd) and said "I see no enemy" I don't believe him though.
I'm not sure to which extent Judah was willing to forgive Messala before ge came to him in this scene. He may have made an effort to forgive, or to get the intention to do so, perhaps what Esther had told him had genuinely begun to take root at this point. Messala is probably aware of it and takes savage delight in smashing it.
@@christianealshut1123 Well said. And so extraordinarily created in this movie. Judah did not have true forgiveness in his heart. He had won, and it's easy to mistake pity for forgiveness. It wasn't until he heard the Lord say "Father forgive them" that he truly understood HOW to forgive.
Masala is right. The cycle of hatred, pain, and death can never be finished with more death and destruction. “It goes on” and on, until we can let go of the way of the world. But it’s almost impossible - can you imagine the pain and hatred, knowing that your only loved ones are suffering because of another? It’s Christ who takes away his hatred and gives Ben-Hur peace
I don't think Messala was feeling sorry for Judah about telling him where his Mother and Sister was because immediately after that saying "If you can recognise them." Sounds more like saying "You may have won the race", "But I taken away the two most important people to you in the World and I make you suffer forever."
Admittedly it is vague. I go back and forth on this, but ultimately I do take it as a final act of spite by Messala. Sorta like Ahab, spitting his last breath. It was out of jealousy, Judah became what Messala wanted despite everything. Judah finds restoration in Christ; Messala remains unredeemed.
I think George Lucas was partly inspired by this when he showed us Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader on the operasting table...Being injured has transformed Messala into a veritable monster, just as Anakin becomes at the end of Revenge of the Sith. (And he can be said to "die" too - from a certain point of view - because he ceases to be Anakin and becomes truly Darth Vader.) The point is that Messala's pure viciousness is by no means warranted by what Judah has allegedly "done to him" - i.e. refused to betray his people and reveal the names of a few people who are against Rome, refused to play by his rules. And moreover, he's betraying the sweet Tirzah here who had so clearly taken a shine to him when he visited the Hur family.
There is a style of acting we associate with 1950s movies... and Stephen Boyd shows none of it here. The raspy voice, the painful convulsions... You could totally splice this into a 21st century movie. A fantastic, timeless performance.
This film is the pinnacle of cinema epics, although El Cid was a close 2nd. This scene, alone, makes the 2016 remake look like a pathetic waste of time, money, and digital data storage.
The best death scene I've ever encountered in the movies.
Bravo Stephen Boyd!
Brandos was good in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Thats why i remember this. Incredible. Great film and this is one of the best scenes
"There is enough of a man still left here for you to hate", I love this line.
But it's a shallow statement; negative. That is sad.
If you look carefully from 1:08 -1:16 Messala (Stephen Boyd) has a satisfying, sadistic smile on his face even though he's going through excruciating pain from his broken body. That by itself could be Oscar nomination worthy.
Amazing piece of acting in an amazing movie.
Stephen Boyd received a Golden Globe for this role.
I think another unspoken reason messala hated Judah so much at this point is the day he learned Judah was adopted by arrius and that Judah believed his other and sister were dead his career in the Roman army also died. Enmity with the arrius family would pretty much ensure he never advances out of judea let alone to a post in rome.
man Stephen Boyd did an excellent acting what a shame he didntget an oscar he was the best
Stephen Boyd était un excellent comédien malheureusement sous-estimé.
Yes. He was nominated, but didn’t win. I always think about that and I can’t over it 😅
There was absolutely no need for a remake. This film is as good now as it was 50 plus years ago. Hollywood is obsessed with making money which is the opposite of morals of this film
Of course. Who runs Hollywood? The ...
Yeah but this was a remake too.
Agreed
Ben-Hur is not just one story.....each film depict a different side of Ben-Hur
So did you watch the remake? Biases aside... how was it?
Stephen Boyd certainly was and will be one of the greatest actors in the history of cinematography ... personally , the most convincing villain in history...Rest in Peace Stephen Boyd...
Ok so the guy had some skills.
You mean cinema? Cinematography has nothing to do with acting.
+BlotRorschach excuse me, maybe i am too much ignorant...can you tell me what is the difference?
+cesar gonzalez Sure! Cinematography is essentially the photography part of moviemaling. Cinema is much more broad.
+BlotRorschach moviemaking*
This movie Ben Hur, must be one of the finest and classic movies ever made !!
Not must be, it is!!!
"there is enough of a man still left here for you to hate"
Epic!
This scene has got to be the best scene ever filmed and ever acted, Heston and Boyd are the best of the best.
It’s incredible
"The race is not over..." Ben Hur might seem like a straightforward action/adventure movie but underneath it, there are some unparalleled poetic moments that cut deep...
A historical performance of acting, a duel between the infinite physical pain of Messala vs the disturbing emotional pain of Judá. Definetly a Masterpiece!!
The third "Where are they?" from Charlton Heston damn, personally could feel his angry in his voice like "Before you die, your not going without telling me, I won't let you".
Yes that is absolutely incredible. And then his wail hits me in my soul every time.
No worries messala wasn’t going to die until he got to see the heartbreak on Judah’s faces when he heard. He was too much of a coward to tell him earlier knowing the negative impact on his career it would have given Judah is now the son of the leader of the Roman army
It's the batman voice
It's the Batman's voice
This scene alone should have gotten Mr Boyd at least an Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith won it for the part of the Arab sheik IIderim). What an injustice to Mr Boyd for an incredible performance...Still, the 1959 Ben-Hur held the record for most Oscars (11) and still does today (Titanic and maybe 1 other film have 11 now as well)...and no phony computer generated effects make this film even more grand...
Lord of the rings is the other movie
"LOTR: Return of the King" to be precise.
Well my friend the final film to win 11 Academy Awards is The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and as of March 2016, Ben Hur (1959), Titanic, and Return Of The King are the only three films to win 11 Academy Awards. But you never know maybe a movie that is made by a director with a unique vision and his or her movie will become the next film to win the honored 11 Academy Awards my dear friend.
He deserved high accolades, oh yeah, but Boyd didn't play the Hollyweird games. He wasn't interested in them at all. He wasn't social. He didn't smoodge anyone. Actors had to campaign very hard for these top awards. I think that game is still played, more or less. He didn't play their games. Because of that, little by little, Hollyweird wrote him off.
IKR!!!!!......just the last breath exhaled before he died alone should've gotten him the Oscar.
THIS is cinema. Why on earth some idiots try to remake this epic film? How they even thought that this masterpiece could be ever be re-created? What's next, the Godfather?
Well, they were just making another version of the novel,.
probably braveheart lol
@@TheDeathknight23 Yeah. Probably with black William Wallace and Asian Edward Longshanks.
@@paulkellerman2603 Yes, it's called political correctness, can also be called rewriting history because real history hurts!!!
Imagine dying painfully and slowly with crushed legs, ruptured organs and internal bleeding, knowing nobody can help you because no doctors at that time knew anything about how to fix a heavily damaged human body. When i watched that film for the first time, THAT thought alone actually made the whole scene sooo unbearable and hard to watch. The amazing performance by Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston really cannot be re-done any better any other way. It is simply impossible. They nailed it the first time.
Yup
You forgot to mention the soul filled of hate. Add that to all the physical pain.
My dude, if you get ran over by horses like this in 2022 you're just as dead.
I can ONLY imagine the hard applause and the shouted 'bravo's' of the entire crew, behind the camera's...when the director shouted; "cut!". The two actors, wrapping their arms around each other's shoulders, and mouthing the words; "...thank you!".... You can bet that happened!
ANd they probably didn't have pain killers.
“If you can recognize them” daaaammmnn. You know how old movies acting is hilarious today? But Stephen in this scene is outstanding especially for today he should’ve won for best supporting actor
I'd rather have old movie acting than mumble acting.
@@salmanedy I agree 👍
This movie is full of great scenes like this. Wonderful acting, great writing, incredible special effects with lots of human elements to tie it all together. A master work in every way.
Stephen Boyd is the most brilliant element of this film. A powerful performance!
One of the greatest actors of all time are combined in one of the greatest movies of all time.....
and perhaps the greatest scene of all times
The best death scene in film history and best reaction by Charlton Heston. His wail hits me in the soul every time.
Amazing acting, and did most of his stunts too. I remember watching for the first time as a child and how scared I was at that death scene.
When I first saw this scene, Stephen Boyd convinced me he was dying! His voice was mangled just like Messala was! Then Boyd turned up in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, shot after BEN-HUR, and he was all whole again, although he had another problem in the later movie--the character he was playing was an alcoholic. The script didn't take that problem very seriously, though, so I wasn't convinced he was doomed. Boyd wouldn't last much longer in the movies, though. So sad that he died young (age 48).
No he was 45
Extraordinary performance.
"If you wish us to keep you alive, we have to go to work now, Tribune. Do you understand?"
Stephen Boyd was so great in this scene.
They wanted to operate early and take the legs before Ben Hur arrived, but he refused. He had to see Ben Hur as a whole man!
@@hillsane9262 So, perhaps, in a way, his pride killed him. It's for the same reason that Khan and Shinzon in the Star Trek movies also die. Each of these characters lost their true purpose due to revenge - Shinzon might also have been saved if he had undergone "the procedure"...
@@christianealshut1123 yes his pride was off the scale! Like you said it's been the downfall of many characters! His dying breath was also to taunt him about what he did to his family.
The race always goes on my friends... with or without us....it goes on.
One of the great movie scenes of all time unquestionably!
Winning an Oscar was completely different than now. You must promote yourself with interviews either on television and in magazines.
Stephen Boyd didn't do either, he just wanted to work. He embraced his work as an actor and didn't seem to care if he won an Oscar or not.
I see no enemy
It's wonderful to find this scene again, it's amazing how much I feel when I watch this. Bravo!
He's right, the race isn't over. It still may take hundreds of years until they can find peace, one incarnation at time.
Can anyone achieve it in this life time if it's what they decide it's what they want to do? Like even a 12 year heroin addict lol
One of the greatest if not the greatest movie scene ever.
When I watch this movie I'm glad masala got his come uppence but watching masala die so painfully and so slowly brings sorrow to my heart. So Wonderfully acted by Stephen Boyd.
Now that is acting !!
The best scene of this film and the greatest performance of these two actors
Stephen Boyd was a great actor from Northern Ireland. Left his home town came to London to make good. He use to do busking outside Cinemas and Theater where someone see potential not only his looks but that beautiful Irish accent. What I cant understand why he didn't get a oscar. I will continue to watch Ben Hur for the rest of my days, this film will never die
That evil smile, now that was a villian.
One of the best screen villains
Judah Ben Hur Biggest movie hero of all time. Messala corrupeted Man. Stephen Boyd unequaled voice.
scene stolen by Boyd, RIP, 5 months younger than my dad and died 15 years before him, aged 45 in 1977
On my god! What a acting performance by Stephen Boyd. One of the best in cinema History. Race is still on to match this performance.
Who ever had the drunk maggots in their brains, thinking that remaking THIS movie was remotely necessary, hopefully never gets in touch with any form of movie making what so ever. There is only ONE Ben Hur movie and that is THIS one with Chuck Heston. Period!
What about the 1907 version, which features a grand total of 15 minutes of what was claimed in court to not be a “performance” of Wallace’s story but merely a sequence of photographs and text (this claim did not hold up in court, and this case is the reason why books cannot be made into movies without permission, which is why there aren’t ten million Ben-Hur films)? It’s not that good by today’s standards (nearly all of the chariot race is offscreen, the naval battle is unseen, and there are no scenes involving Jesus because they probably didn’t want to risk messing that up back then) but by 1907 standards (the word “movie” wouldn’t appear in print until 1911) it’s quite remarkable.
Also, what about the 1925 film, the most expensive silent film ever made? It basically created MGM as it would be for a generation, set a standard in number-of-extras and size-and-detail-of-sets that wouldn’t be matched until, well, the 1959 movie, and has the naval battle and chariot race sequences so intense and jaw-dropping that they still hold up nearly a century later? I think you’re missing out on two defining moments in film history (both of which are now in the public domain) by only focusing on the 1959 masterpiece.
The "If you can recognize them" part was sad
Ben Hur and Messala were almost brothers. Shame Messala was under evil and forgot that. Great movie, great actor Heston and Boyd.
Has anyone noticed the similarities from this to Starwars? This scene in particular gives off the same sort of burnt aniken scene. And the chariot race compared to the pod race. And how the whole friendship turned to revenge between Ben hue and Marsala or aniken and obiwan. There’s reason to believe this was a movie that was looked up to by George Lucas.
Grease borrowed the messala spoke spikes for the thunder road race
My favourite all-time film, this scene is so moving with brilliant acting, it goes on Judah, the race goes on....
“It goes on... it goes on, Judah... the race... the race is not over...”
There’s something very deep about that line.
This is very true 🤣 It is go on
it is go on , the time is coming for the end
Messala lost the chariot race, and he finally lost the BIG race when Christ healed Judah’s mother and sister. Messala, you pathetic DOUBLE LOSER……burn in hell for eternity.
@@beniahchristopher2868When his mom and sis were healed by Christ, then the race was truly over.
That’s some good acting by Boyd!! Boy he made that pain he was going through believable
What a disservice the Oscars did for not rewarding Boyd for this powerful performance. You can sense and feel the pain in which Messala was undergoing as he breathed his last breath.
The HD is amazing
Seriously the BGM is ahead of its times... kudos mikolos rozsa
Amazing scene watched it time and time again such power and presence in every word.
*Ben Hur (2016) can NEVER out-perform this scene*
The act of forgiveness in the (2016) Ben Hur was rushed and cheesy.
Life isn't always a Happily Ever After.
The Death in this scene is more compelling and meaningful.
Xyon Well, I'm still a sucker for happy endings. I'm easy though, so come at me! 👆 *clicks tongue* 😀👉 Or hold your peace.
For fans of classic British sitcoms _ the doctor in this scene is John Le Mesurier (Sgt Wilson from Dad's Army)
1:44 Gets me every time LOL!
Josh Tsu, I fully agree with you, he was a very great actor, he deserved Oscar...
This scene answers the question: To what level can intense hate rise?....the answer is Messala, with the chilling words....." let me help you..." How the Sam Hill can brilliance like Boyd ever be remade?
Great Film classic! This was a difficult scene to watch. He hurt him badly by telling him his mother and sister were alive but he sent them to a Leper colony. So he destroyed their lives.
Even on his deathbed, he decided to strike at Ben Hur one last time instead of asking for forgiveness. It’s because he was Roman and not a Christian. He didn’t have compassion or know about mercy or forgiveness.
Even though this was Charlton Heston's movie, I always had a big crush on Stephen Boyd. He was very intense and hot.
But he was a Roman arsehead
He played an even bigger arsehead in The Bravados. Although I must say he gave a great performance
Me too. And I’m a straight guy.
There’s one scene where Boyd is shirtless and glistening with sweat … 🥵😳🥰
RIP Stephen Boyd You're One Of My Favourite Actors
I watched the new movie.....very poor indeed! It has nothing going for it at all, and should have been left unmade.
I particularly have a personal interest in this sequence because in my very first Re-Enactment in 1996 I got to carry the Dagger that Charlton Heston wears in his waist belt during this scene and the Chariot Race. My friend purchased it at an auction of Movie Prop's a few years before, and every time I watch this it gives me a real buzz to know that I had the privilege of wearing it myself at Bosworth. My favourite movie of all time.
This has to be on the top 10 best movie scenes
I agree. Ben-Hur with Heston and Boyd is unbeatable
Superb acting from both Heston and boyd
bar none the best death scene ever put on film. a joke he wasnt nominated for best supporting. there have been other excellent ones: beatty as clyde shot up; caan at the toll booth; newman in cool hand luke; defao in platoon; heston in apes... but again, they just dont elevate to this level. this slows time w/ its level of visceral intensity. the lines are also deep. epic isnt easy to do & so easy to fall into parody, yet this never will. this is on the edge of death w/ the venom of vengence pumping ever last breath of precious air thru his system. best scene in the movie... the race indeed goes on generation to generation. the west has never completely divorced itself from rome's loins.
A thought also for Nano Campeggi, the Florentine artist who designed the beautiful advertising posters of the film.
The new version in NO way will top this..NOPE..
Yep! Just watched the "new" Ben Hur. The same scene is just laughtable in the new one.
RitaAnne just like Exodus
THANK you.
Never!
It was completely unwatchable. I tried, it stunk.
No wonder the new version was a total flop.
In the book, this encounter does not happen. One of Simonides' servants tells Judah that Tirzah and Miriam have leprosy.
I loved the brief scene when Judah (Charlton Heston) looked down at the smashed body of Messala (Stephen Boyd) and said "I see no enemy" I don't believe him though.
I'm not sure to which extent Judah was willing to forgive Messala before ge came to him in this scene. He may have made an effort to forgive, or to get the intention to do so, perhaps what Esther had told him had genuinely begun to take root at this point. Messala is probably aware of it and takes savage delight in smashing it.
@@christianealshut1123 Well said. And so extraordinarily created in this movie. Judah did not have true forgiveness in his heart. He had won, and it's easy to mistake pity for forgiveness. It wasn't until he heard the Lord say "Father forgive them" that he truly understood HOW to forgive.
love this movie
Masala is right. The cycle of hatred, pain, and death can never be finished with more death and destruction. “It goes on” and on, until we can let go of the way of the world. But it’s almost impossible - can you imagine the pain and hatred, knowing that your only loved ones are suffering because of another? It’s Christ who takes away his hatred and gives Ben-Hur peace
Que escena tan épica señor!
Wow, this is the most brutal depiction of death I've seen in a film.
The 2016 remake stinks. 1959 tops the silent.
I don't even acknowledge it exists.
Stunning actors...very fantastic scene....
Phenomenol acting. Most incredible death scene ever.
One of the actors playing one of the surgeons in this scene is John Le Mesurier . From dad's army . From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .
Greatest screen death ever
I'd say the greatest scene ever by a good margin
This movie still ranks as one of the finest films ever made.
Well, at least masala told him where they were before he died. I guess that goes to show he was sorry for everything he did to Ben-Hur.
I can't tell if you're being serious... Messala was kind of a jerk throughout the movie, and became a real jerk as he died.
Far from sorry, he was gloating. Long after his death the mother and sister's suffering would keep Ben Hur angry and miserable.
Perhaps it was his last act of spite. Leprosy, a fate worse than death.
I don't think Messala was feeling sorry for Judah about telling him where his Mother and Sister was because immediately after that saying "If you can recognise them." Sounds more like saying "You may have won the race", "But I taken away the two most important people to you in the World and I make you suffer forever."
Admittedly it is vague. I go back and forth on this, but ultimately I do take it as a final act of spite by Messala. Sorta like Ahab, spitting his last breath. It was out of jealousy, Judah became what Messala wanted despite everything. Judah finds restoration in Christ; Messala remains unredeemed.
Every scene in this film looks like a painting. The artistry of old Hollywood epics is so completely lost.
STEPHEN❤️, YOU MAY HAVE NOT WON THE OSCAR, BUT YOU HAVE WON OUR HEARTS FOR GOOD.
MINE FOR SURE..
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I think George Lucas was partly inspired by this when he showed us Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader on the operasting table...Being injured has transformed Messala into a veritable monster, just as Anakin becomes at the end of Revenge of the Sith. (And he can be said to "die" too - from a certain point of view - because he ceases to be Anakin and becomes truly Darth Vader.)
The point is that Messala's pure viciousness is by no means warranted by what Judah has allegedly "done to him" - i.e. refused to betray his people and reveal the names of a few people who are against Rome, refused to play by his rules. And moreover, he's betraying the sweet Tirzah here who had so clearly taken a shine to him when he visited the Hur family.
Stephen byod did not get Oscar what a shame on oscars
There is a style of acting we associate with 1950s movies... and Stephen Boyd shows none of it here. The raspy voice, the painful convulsions... You could totally splice this into a 21st century movie. A fantastic, timeless performance.
The best vilan in history of cinema, yes, bether than heath ledger in dark knight
@Ekaterina Heridis oww, i forgot! 😁 yes, emperor is amazing!!!
The best epic film of all time.
Just shows how Cruel the world is,when Two Friends becomes enemies 😢
"The race is not over".i like the line..
Masterpiece ever. Great
I love this movie 🎬
This is how good triumphs over evil
Masala got what he had coming.
I saw this movie when I was a wee small lad. A Jew and a Roman, Jacob and Esau.
I guess he got pretty fed up with Messalas cold dead hand there
All this sweat, dirt and blood. Love it! :)
Wow what an acting
damn right it ain't never over! !!!
This film is the pinnacle of cinema epics, although El Cid was a close 2nd. This scene, alone, makes the 2016 remake look like a pathetic waste of time, money, and digital data storage.
So much pride even death is near folks
Absolutely one of the best the new one is just ridiculous
only fool me? anyone else feel sorry for Messala as by this point he is very much the doomed underdog?
I saw the new version.. it's like changing meal from an Angus Ribeye Steak with salad and potatoes to a bowl of rotten garbage.