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* Michelangelo would go on to complete ''The Last Judgment'' - the fresco on the wall behind the chapel's altar about twenty-five years after completing the ceiling.
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* GayPanic: Creator/CharltonHeston refused to allow scenes from the movie to be shown in the documentary ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' because he believed Michelangelo was straight and played him as such. Then again, if the screenwriter felt otherwise, it wouldn't be the [[Film/BenHur1959 first time]] Heston played a crypto-gay character [[EnforcedMethodActing without realizing it]].
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* WordOfGay: disproved by Heston, who refused to allow scenes from the movie to be shown in the documentary ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' because he believed Michelangelo was straight and played him as such. Then again, if the screenwriter felt otherwise, it wouldn't be the [[Film/BenHur first time]] Heston played a crypto-gay character [[EnforcedMethodActing without realizing it]].
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* WordOfGay: {{Jossed}} disproved by Heston, who refused to allow scenes from the movie to be shown in the documentary ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' because he believed Michelangelo was straight and played him as such. Then again, if the screenwriter felt otherwise, it wouldn't be the [[Film/BenHur first time]] Heston played a crypto-gay character [[EnforcedMethodActing without realizing it]].
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* FakeNationality: Creator/CharltonHeston plays Italian renaissance painter Michelangelo. Some of the other Italians are played by Creator/RexHarrison & Harry Andrews (both English), Diane Cilento & John Stacy (both Australian), and Creator/TomasMilian (Cuban-American); though Cilento did have Italian ancestry.
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** Creator/LaurenceOlivier was the studio's first choice to play Pope Julius, but was unavailable. Creator/SpencerTracy was also offered the role.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Michelangelo; payment for him is important, but not critical.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Michelangelo; payment HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RexHarrison did not get along with Creator/CharltonHeston at all during filming, though not necessarily a bad thing for him is important, two actors playing antagonists. Twelve years later, while filming Richard Lester's adaptation of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', he avoided Heston completely.
* ScullyBox: In his autobiography Creator/RexHarrison admitted wearing lifts in the film so he would look more in line with Creator/CharltonHeston.
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** The movie was originally supposed to have been filmed in 1961, starring Creator/BurtLancaster, butnot critical.production was delayed for three years.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier was the studio's first choice to play Pope Julius, but was unavailable. Creator/SpencerTracy was also offered the role.
* ScullyBox: In his autobiography Creator/RexHarrison admitted wearing lifts in the film so he would look more in line with Creator/CharltonHeston.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The movie was originally supposed to have been filmed in 1961, starring Creator/BurtLancaster, but
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier was the studio's first choice to play Pope Julius, but was unavailable. Creator/SpencerTracy was also offered the role.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Michelangelo; payment for him is important, but not critical.
