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Vidal says his aim was to explain Messala’s extreme reaction to Ben-Hur’s refusal to name fellow Jews.
Ben-Hur « Isegoria 2008
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Doubtless this too may have some point-the fact that Valerius Corvinus was the first to conquer Messana, and was the first of the family of the Valerii to bear the surname Messana because be had transferred the name of the conquered city to himself, and was later called Messala after the gradual corruption of the name in the popular speech.
doggdot.us 2009
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Messala is eventually recalled to Rome, where Ben Cross is playing Tiberius.
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When they next meet – sorry, I mean, When Next They Meet – Messala is dedicated to the glory of Rome and Ben Hur still down with the kidz of Judaea.
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Cue betrayal, corruption, humiliation (Messala's), arrest, three years of galley slavery, adoption by and then gargantuan inheritance from Quintus Arrius and a triumphant return to Judaea (Ben Hur's).
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After that, it's just a matter of shifting actors and plot points around until they have the chariot race, Messala can be mortally wounded and Ben Hur can forgive him on his deathbed because the chap who has kept bobbing up throughout – Jesus something?
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Vidal suggested a motivation to Wyler: Messala and Ben-Hur had been homosexual lovers while growing up, and then separated for a few years while Messala was in Rome.
Ben-Hur « Isegoria 2008
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Surely, Vidal argued, Messala should have been able to understand that Ben-Hur, his close friend since childhood, would not be willing to name the names of his fellow Jews to a Roman officer.
Ben-Hur « Isegoria 2008
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In interviews for the 1986 book The Celluloid Closet, and later the 1995 documentary of the same name, screenwriter Gore Vidal asserts that he persuaded director Wyler to allow a carefully veiled homoerotic subtext between Messala and Ben-Hur.
Ben-Hur « Isegoria 2008
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When Messala returns to Judea, he wants to renew the relationship with Ben-Hur, but Ben-Hur is no longer interested.
Ben-Hur « Isegoria 2008
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