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a wonderful Christmas Eve re-watch


long but never boring.

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Coincidence or not I usually watch Ben-Hur at this time of the year around Easter

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Me too Overseas. It’s a Good Friday ritual. However many times I watch it, I find something new to take from it. Maybe a line of dialogue or the look on the face of a minor character. Just study the “No water for HIM” soldier on the way to the galleys. He went from impregnable to broken on encountering the Lord Jesus Christ. He was on screen for less than a minute, but what a hugely telling scene.

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for me is somehow a ritual. I am not a very religious person Jerrers,but I like history a lot and, I like this movie.

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It's a "Schinken", but a good one.
https://filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de/index.php?action=lexikon&tag=det&id=5610

Is there a faithful translation available for this term?
Literally, it means "ham".

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Seeing one of the three wise men show up was a surprise.

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