Charlton Heston & Martin Scorsese on BEN HUR

SUBSCRIBE to this channel for exclusive videos from AFI: bit.ly/Subscrib...
Charlton Heston & Martin Scorsese on BEN HUR.
FOLLOW AFI:
/ americanfilminstitute
/ americanfilm
/ americanfilminstitute
www.afi.com
BECOME AN AFI MEMBER: www.afi.com/su...
SIGN UP for the AFI Newsletter: bit.ly/Subscrib...

[@Mannizilla]

Every scene in BEN HUR looks like a beautiful painting.

[@mrs.columbo1803]

So true !!!

[@traffiquest1094]

👍

[@outercyberia9387]

Absolutely❤️🤩❤️🤩

[@zamorano18x92]

especially the painted arab, sheik ilderim

[@apocalypsepow]

Great aspect ratio

[@alicemariner]

Let’s not forget the outstanding performance of Stephen Boyd as Messala. Great villain and his back got pretty banged up in that chariot race because his harness slipped. RIP gentlemen. You’ve entertained a lot of us for many years.

[@mikevanderman2727]

For over half century... And the movie will remain a hidden treasure in history which every time surface will delight the soul of those that behold it.

[@salmanedy]

​@@mikevanderman2727Stephen Boyd is a beyond underrated actor. Wonderful, wonderful actor.

[@karanvirkooner1993]

Ben-Hur is a masterpiece and it holds up fabulously well

[@KAH5371]

BEST. MOVIE. EVER! I love this movie, and Chuck Heston, so much! My favorite film and my favorite actor!

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Thanks Chuck and everyone who made the 1959 film. Well done.

[@roxanapy2095]

Beautiful Charlton Heston I remember every Easter in Peru we watched Ben Hur👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸.

[@ozzyfoster3188]

Mr. Heston mentions himself briefly and then goes on to pay hommage to the unsung heroes. Class act.

[@Omar-wq9dz]

That chariot race was so well done, considering it was in the late 1950s. I don't think filmmakers today or in the future, with the technology and money available, will ever come close to pulling off something like that.

[@spreadeagled5654]

Omar 94, The filmmakers of today would cheat to save money and use CGI ! 😆

[@beatricemaude4426]

The 1925 silent version of Ben Hur is outstanding and still holds up (in my opiniion). The chariot race is a mind boggling, it is well worth viewing. Check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZbZaqCejq6Ihtk

[@elviradonaghy6425]

1950's was a great time to live.

[@hazelanglin5907]

Yes I agree

[@connorpusey5912]

@@spreadeagled5654 That’s exactly what they did with the terrible 2016 remake

[@354Entertainment]

Best monumental movie in history!

[@JohnUSA7]

Best movie ever. A classic of all classics.

[@petrfrizen6078]

The stories to remember. Phenomenal chariot racing scenes!

[@gulmerton2758]

These behind the scenes stories are always very interesting.

[@gleeberger8966]

The spirit of God was on that movie from beginning to end! I was only 6 years old when I saw it on the big screen, and it effected me for life! I believe it had a part in my coming to Christ later in my 30s. I fell in love with this movie from the moment I first saw it at 6 years old!

[@mikevanderman2727]

I looked it up before watching and honestly, honestly, the only images I saw were about chariots... Then I watch the movie last night and the the chariot scene was only about half hour or less... And the span of the movie is 20 minutes away from 4 hours! I really enjoyed every seconds of it... Marvelous work.

[@davidsiebel7549]

Ben-hur: one of the most inspiring movies for me growing up. ✨️ 🙌

[@jefinhoshouokcamara2272]

Melhor ator de todos os tempos e o melhor filme que vi.

[@kalinkastoyneva2917]

Прекрасен е Чарлтън и сега и във филма,, Десетте Божии заповеди ''

[@Raycheetah]

Both Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments are amazing cinema! Some might turn their noses up at the religious elements, but these are great stories, with real, human motivations and emotions, set to lush backdrops of a world long past, yet so believable. Charlton Heston's performances (and those of his fellow actors) are not to be missed. =^[.]^=

[@rainbowrainbow8220]

Totally agreed! I am not religious, but the movie encourages me enormously. I have introduced this movie to my 12 year old boy, he likes it too. Ben Hur is the one and only true prince that has ever graced Hollywood!

[@kalinkastoyneva2917]

Любимият ми филм, който мога да гледам нонстоп. Всички герои са на мястото си и особено Юда Бен Хур.

[@carreteFILMSPro]

Such a handsome man, iconic from golden ages of film. :)

[@alcd6333]

Awesome action scene - one of the all-time best. Yakima Canut staged the sequence: it took over a year to prepare for and film and over 50,000 extras were used.

[@MargueriteFan]

...met Mr Heston 3 times at various events in the 70s and early 80s. He always always mentions Yakima Canut for his outstanding work during the filming of Ben Hur especially during the chariot sequence. It's was unusual in that day and age for stars to credit the stunt people. See the original Stagecoach (John Fords film) for another Yakima Canut Incredible moment in cinema stunt history.

[@ainsleylucky3511]

The question of casting. Up to today when I see *Ben Hur", my heart grieves at the fact that Burt Lancaster turned down the title role. With the utmost respect, I maintain that Lancaster would have been the better "BenHur" . Imagine Lancaster's tortured face when, on the city steps, uttering the immortal words'-" I know this Man" .

[@nybuffymeister8328]

Fascinating switch if Lancaster had played Ben Hur. Heston was superb in the role, and looked more Jewish imo. Additionally Heston was perhaps appeared in a state of wonder at the revelation you noted. Lancaster might have appeared less so. What ifs are Always interesting non the less. Loved both as actors. Heston a little bigger helped.

[@brandonb3174]

Wasn’t Kirk Douglas also in consideration?

[@loupasternak]

Im a big Lancaster fan, but think Heston was just fine.

[@Thespeedrap]

Same thing with Paul Newman Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson😅

[@alvaropelayo8084]

The only possible replacement of Charlton Heston in the role of Ben Hur would have been ONLY Burt Lancaster, indeed. God bless them both.

[@deathnotelight7963]

Straordinario Heston!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@Sarasdad91]

Ben-Hur one of the greatest movies ever made

[@jameskim3301]

The entire movie was beautifully done. If you take any scene from Ben Hur and compare, today’s movies are all shallow, silly, and trash looking.

[@gulmerton2758]

Well said. Today’s Hollywood and it’s actors are shallow silly obscene and trash looking. Who wants to go to the movies anymore? Not me. Nobody on that screen is worth the ticket’s price.

[@xhagast]

@@gulmerton2758 And yet they keep REMAKING them. Alamo, Ben Hur, True Grit, others. Using CGI to replace what they did for real. So WHAT if Charlton Heston overacted a bit, it was only in a few scenes, the rest were great.

[@kristinemorley4337]

Ben Hur was the hallmark of excellence ,films & actors these days are no match.

[@jameskim3301]

@@xhagast Heston did not overact. William Wyler would not accept anything less than excellence and the best from actors including Stephen Boyd. The craft of acting was long gone after 60s. Today these overpaid jokers don’t even know how to emulate Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Widmark, Bill Holden, Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, and James Stewart. Although few who never got an Oscar says how inbred Academy is. Kirk Douglas, Peter O’Toole, Tony Curtis, Deborah Kerr, Barbara Stanwyck, Marilyn Monroe, Amy Adams, Michelle Pfeiffer, William DeFoe, and Jim Carrey.

[@donaldbeard6231]

I have the Ben Hur movie recorded and I love 😍 both the Ramon Navaro and Charlton Heston version. It is very inspiring and spiritual to me. I can watch the 1925 Ben Hur on my phone 📱. They are equally awesome movies.

[@christopherhoran2041]

Love him and the movie

[@luisalbertonietoduarte6589]

4 de octubre de 2023. Se cumple un Centenario. Un Siglo del Nacimiento del Gran Charlton Heston. Mi Actor Favorito. Por Siempre.

[@USAR8888]

To this day that chariot race scene in Ben Hur is the only movie scene I've ever watched that's made me wonder if what I'm watching is real or fake. It all looks so real, especially the crashing the trampling parts. Just incredible filmmaking that far surpasses all of the endless, mindless "superhero" drivel to come out of Hollywood these days.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I really love a great film like that.

[@irish89055]

He got thrown out? I don't guess I don't remember that

[@robertocarranza1984]

I believe it has been the best movie ever realized not only because of its superior actors (performance) but also because of its content.

[@shineperishingrepublic]

I was amazed at how brutal and real it looked when the racers were trampled. I mean it looked authentic. It was unsettling

[@Simone-op9ij]

Ben Hur ist das größte Meisterwerk der Kinogeschichte! Brilliant und unerreicht!!!

[@mikevanderman2727]

I watch that almost 4 hours movie last night and want to watch it again tonight... Mmmm please recommend me other movies like it... Thanks

[@ANONYMOUS-tg2tq]

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 1956

[@salmanedy]

​@@ANONYMOUS-tg2tqCecil B DeMille's Cleopatra as well. Not that stupid disaster that is the Netflix bullshit.

[@mikevanderman2727]

@@salmanedy So a Cleopatra, but not the one on Netflix?

[@salmanedy]

@@mikevanderman2727 Yup.

[@carlosbecker449]

Por favor gente, Vamos, estamos no Brasil. Aqui nosso idioma é PORTUGUÊS DO BRASIL ou BRASILEIRO mesmo!

[@Lance2023]

Ben Hur was the messiah. Like Moses a prince of both worlds he could have delivered the Jews. But revenge only begets revenge.

[@nybuffymeister8328]

Ben Hur might of had a messiah like transition, but Jesus alone was Messiah. Don’t confuse the 2.

[@Lance2023]

@@nybuffymeister8328 Hur was the one Balthazar was looking for in the fiction. Jews would revolt but the Romans would return.

[@grazianairno5941]

The first benhur is always betterr

[@jackprescott9652]

The first Ben Hur was Fred Niblo`s version in the 1920's. I think 1959 version, Charlton Heston version is better.

[@maddalenaalesse8091]

Ma attori così non c'è ne sono più.....

[@crimsonstreams]

No Martin, the ending of Ben hur is not about the chariot race but about Christ and the cross. The chariot race just revealed Ben hurs emptiness after thinking he got what he wanted.

[@xhagast]

In those times to record a chariot race they HAD to have a chariot race.

[@angloaust1575]

Genesis3v5 ye shall be as God's Images projected on screen Larger than life People Worshipped by millions!