{"id":64,"date":"2016-07-25T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:42:52","slug":"ben-hurs-secret-weapon-forgiveness-a-qa-with-director-timur-bekmambetov-and-star-jack-huston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2016\/07\/ben-hurs-secret-weapon-forgiveness-a-qa-with-director-timur-bekmambetov-and-star-jack-huston.html","title":{"rendered":"Ben-Hur&#8217;s Secret Weapon: Forgiveness\u2014A Q&#038;A with Director Timur Bekmambetov and Star Jack Huston"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Ben-Hur<\/em> opens on August 19, moviegoers will see not only a new version of a beloved classic, but also a unique kind of summer action movie, one with a powerful message of forgiveness and laying down arms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2016\/07\/timurjack-300x158.gif\" alt=\"Photograph by DeWayne Hamby\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by DeWayne Hamby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film, written Keith Clarke and John Ridley based on the classic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, is the most recent update of the story, which includes the well-known 1959 version starring Charlton Heston. During a press event last month, we had a chance to speak with director Timur Bekmambetov (<em>Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em>) and star Jack Huston (<em>Boardwalk Empire<\/em>) about the filming of the epic motion picture and the themes surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur, how did you get involved in the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur Bekmambetov<\/strong>\u2014It was a long time ago. Sean Daniel, producer of the movie, he called me and asked if I wanted to remake the Ben-Hur movie, another adaptation of the book. I said no, and then he said please read the script. He sent me the script written by John Ridley, one of the best writers in this town today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was there any trepidation on taking on the project of such a revered project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2016\/07\/JackHuston-214x300.gif\" alt=\"Courtesy of Paramount Pictures\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Huston image\u00a0courtesy of Paramount Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jack Huston:<\/strong> The way I say it, I say it\u2019s like I take the book almost a reference of like as a landscape, if you\u2019re looking at landscape. If you ask four painters to paint that same landscape, you\u2019ll get four very different paintings. But it\u2019s the same landscape. So the book in a sense is a template, it\u2019s like the landscape and in a sense Timur and William Wyler I guess were the painters constructing something. That\u2019s the greatest thing about art, it\u2019s what\u2019s interpretive. Anyone can take anything they want from it. It\u2019s almost what I put as a piece of theater. It\u2019s like saying if one person does Shakespeare, does that mean that no one else should ever stand up and say those lines? Same thing. It\u2019s beautiful when people go and reinterpret it. Kenneth Branagh\u2019s doing like his seventh production of <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> right now, as we speak, and he\u2019s done it a bunch of times. And you might say, \u201cBut you\u2019ve done it before.\u201d And he might say, \u201cYeah, but I can always be doing more and changing it and figuring out new things.\u201d So that\u2019s the way I looked at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> Yes, for me, the 1959, unbelievable best movie with best action scene ever made, the chariot race. But at the same time, it\u2019s out-dated. Not technically, it\u2019s outdated ideologically, because the idea of forgiveness. What we have in this movie is unique. I don\u2019t know another movie, Hollywood movie, because there\u2019s a lot of European movies about how we can forgive each other. In America, it was not so popular. Because during post-production, I felt it, because at the end of the chariot race, it\u2019s the end of the movie for big wide audiences. Usually, the movie is finished at this point. What\u2019s great about this story is that it\u2019s only really the beginning of the real drama. When you won the race, when you destroy your enemy, you destroy your brother, your family, your life, and your world, he\u2019s absolutely empty. Then there\u2019s a whole process of discovering something real, how to survive and it\u2019s forgiveness. It\u2019s the whole reason to make this movie. It\u2019s not about technicality. One of the ideas we had from the beginning, the whole team, all of us, DOP, director, we\u2019re just trying to stay behind the story and let the story play itself. For very specifically, we shot the style of camera work, it\u2019s very realistic and there\u2019s no perfectly designed shots, because otherwise it would take away from the story and from acting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It felt like an updated take and very modern. It didn\u2019t feel very stylized. Actually our favorite sequence was the slave ship. What was it like working on that scene? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> It\u2019s scary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> Yeah, because you\u2019re in like an enclosed space. That was all Timur. As you know, from Judah\u2019s point of view, it\u2019s like \u201cI don\u2019t want you to think about what\u2019s going on outside.\u201d It\u2019s much more spooky when you\u2019re in a room and there\u2019s things going on around you and you can\u2019t see, you\u2019re just getting little glimpses of things or looking out the crack over here, but you\u2019re immovable, you\u2019re with chains. There\u2019s that great line, \u201cIf the ship sinks, you go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2016\/07\/benhurgallows-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Courtesy of Paramount Pictures\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What about the filming of that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> The trick is we treat it not as an action scene but as a scary movie scene. Because he\u2019s a slave, it\u2019s not about the battle. He doesn\u2019t care about the battle, his character. He just wants to survive so he can go back and kill, revenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk about the chariot and horse riding. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> I\u2019ve ridden all my life so I was very comfortable and happy with horses. That was lovely. The riding was all nice. The chariot was a different kind of thing but amazing. When else in life do you get to do these things? Surprisingly, we worked really hard on the film, but I really enjoyed making the film. It wasn\u2019t one of those films that was like \u2018oh, \u2013 I look back on it and think of it as one of the great experiences of my life. You go to work and enjoy every day at work, which was sort of special.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> And it was a very collaborative process. I really appreciate what Jack did because we were together and it was a process of discovering things together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it like working with Morgan Freeman?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2016\/07\/jackmorgan-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Courtesy of Paramount Pictures\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> He\u2019s so professional, so good as a man, as a person. To work with him, you feel different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> Even being surrounded by so many great people. We all had such really good relationships, I feel like, making the film. Like Timur said, it was a beautiful collaboration and it was a very free space to create, if that makes sense. I felt the easiest part was the filming of this movie. When you think about films, I\u2019m making a little movie now and it\u2019s like every day something goes wrong, a little Indian movie, then you think about this movie, it\u2019s surprising because it should have been really hard, I don\u2019t mean that it wasn\u2019t hard, it was incredibly taxing on the body, the mind and the soul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> We were lucky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> We were really lucky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> With the 32 horses on track running at the same time for 40 days and there\u2019s no accidents, somebody helped us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It sounds like you had the blessing of God. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> We feel that everything was organic. It was happening itself. We were not fighting with a lot of\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> It felt like there was amazing energy on set at all times and I really do feel\u2026However anyone wants to look at it is great. That\u2019s the great thing about it, I feel like. It was seamless in that sort of sense and it was a beautiful creative space in that sense. I was consistently surprised about the work and about the writing and when we were doing certain scenes. Emotionally, it was incredibly emotional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> One day was really tough, when we shot crucifixion. It was scary. You cannot imagine being director of the crucifixion, that you should say what to do. It was really uncomfortable feeling\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>A heaviness?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> That was the day. There was something about those days. When I say the emotion, this is why about the film that it\u2019s for everybody, those with faith, those without faith, whatever they do. I really honestly believe that. Because there were people up on that hill. This is a story, no matter who you are, you\u2019ve heard, you know about it, and it was amazing how affected everyone was. Watching those actors as well up there. Rodrigo, I mean it was freezing cold. We have a wind machine with the rain and they were up there. It was that kind of thing where you watch people go above and beyond. They stayed up there and they didn\u2019t want to come down. You worried about them getting hypothermia. They would sit up there and do these lines. That was the most brutal \u2013 I mean when you think about the slave ship, I would say that was the most brutal of all the days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We noticed that Esther has a more prominent role in this movie. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> It\u2019s a part of Judah\u2019s journey, because it was a way how we can bring the religious aspect as a part of his journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bridge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timur:<\/strong> Yes, a bridge. She presents faith for Judah because he loved her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> She (Nazanin Boniadi) did great, so good. I loved it when Jesus says \u201cJudah\u201d at the end. That was a great piece. He didn\u2019t say it initially and then he says \u201cDon\u2019t, Judah.\u201d It\u2019s like suddenly he knows. I thought that was a great bit you put in there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And carrying the rock at the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> That happened on set! That completely happened organically on set! It wasn\u2019t in the script. I held this rock and I said \u201cI don\u2019t want to let go of this rock\u201d and Timur said \u201cDon\u2019t let go of it.\u201d We did a whole scene where I wouldn\u2019t let go and then he goes, \u201cyou should let go of it.\u201d That was Timur when he said, \u201cLet go of the rock there.\u201d That\u2019s what I mean about the movie, that you find certain things. That rock was symbolic of all the things he carries. It\u2019s amazing what he feels when he releases that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a movie to be released right now that says \u201cLay down your rock\u2026\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> And if we\u2019re able to do that, if everyone could get a healthy dose of forgiveness in their hearts, that would be worth something.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 When Ben-Hur opens on August 19, moviegoers will see not only a new version of a beloved classic, but also a unique kind of summer action movie, one with a powerful message of forgiveness and laying down arms. 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