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mystisblomabout ben hur:
Gore Vidal was an uncredited script collaborator. Despite deletions of any direct homosexual refferences the intense relationship between the two virile men says otherwise.
In an interview Gore Vidal said that he proposed to director William Wyler "that the two had been adolecent lovers, now Messala has returned to Rome wanting to revive the love affair but Ben-Hur has not."
After Wyler agreed to disconvert motievational ploy Vidal informed Stephen Boyd (and pointantly not Heston because as Wyler said: "Chuck could never handle it"), resulting in Boyd playing off the role of the spurned lover, especially when he cries "Is there anything so sad as unrequidet love".
Wyler once said "The biggest mistake we made was the love story. If we had out that girl (Haya Harareet) altogether and concentrated on the two guys, everything would have gone better."
Gore Vidal was an uncredited script collaborator. Despite deletions of any direct homosexual refferences the intense relationship between the two virile men says otherwise.
In an interview Gore Vidal said that he proposed to director William Wyler "that the two had been adolecent lovers, now Messala has returned to Rome wanting to revive the love affair but Ben-Hur has not."
After Wyler agreed to disconvert motievational ploy Vidal informed Stephen Boyd (and pointantly not Heston because as Wyler said: "Chuck could never handle it"), resulting in Boyd playing off the role of the spurned lover, especially when he cries "Is there anything so sad as unrequidet love".
Wyler once said "The biggest mistake we made was the love story. If we had out that girl (Haya Harareet) altogether and concentrated on the two guys, everything would have gone better."
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Date: 2003-08-02 05:28 am (UTC)Oh btw, I am halfway through your story. I#m slow but I don#t forget ;).
Knuutsch.
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Date: 2003-08-02 06:06 am (UTC)yeah it would be a hit if they made him gay but in this docu they said that they told the guy ben hur was "in love" with their ideas and so he played it as a love story without charlton hestons known(?).
so its a gaystory just the mainchara dont know it *G*
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Date: 2003-08-02 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-02 05:15 pm (UTC)