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See also the [[Film/BenHur1925 1925]], [[Film/BenHur1959 1959]] and [[Film/BenHur2016 2016]] versions of the story.
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* TheMockbuster: It was actually an unauthorized adaptation that provoked a successful lawsuit by the book's copyright holders. Silent film blogger Fritzi Kramer [[http://moviessilently.com/2016/03/29/silent-movie-myth-the-first-ben-hur-film-was-made-in-1907-and-all-subsequent-versions-are-remakes/ makes the case]] that, as a low-budget production meant to ride on the coattails of a more famous property (in this case, the book and its authorized stage adaptations), that film should be regarded as an early example of mockbuster.
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* TheMockbuster: It This was actually an unauthorized adaptation that provoked a successful lawsuit by the book's copyright holders. Silent film blogger Fritzi Kramer [[http://moviessilently.com/2016/03/29/silent-movie-myth-the-first-ben-hur-film-was-made-in-1907-and-all-subsequent-versions-are-remakes/ makes the case]] that, as a low-budget production meant to ride on the coattails of a more famous property (in this case, the book and its authorized stage adaptations), that film it should be regarded as an early example of mockbuster.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ben-Hur's mother and sister are still arrested, but their fates afterwards are never mentioned.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ben-Hur's mother and sister are still arrested, but their fates afterwards are never mentioned.mentioned.
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''Ben-Hur'' is a thirteen minutes-long silent film, the first ever screen adaptation of [[Literature/BenHur the Lew Wallace novel]]. It features William S. Hart, who would later become a major star of cowboy movies, as Messala.
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''Ben-Hur'' is a thirteen minutes-long silent
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* {{Demythification}}: The film omits all that Jesus stuff, which might be slightly missing the point, seeing how the novel was subtitled, "''A Tale of the Christ''."
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The film runs for only thirteen minutes. How do you cram ''Ben-Hur'' into only thirteen minutes? Well, you omit the backstory with Ben-Hur and Messala entirely, you cover with a single title card the whole section with Ben-Hur as a galley slave who is eventually adopted by Arrius, you omit Ben-Hur's romance with Esther, and you end the movie with the chariot race.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The film runs for only thirteen minutes. How do you cram ''Ben-Hur'' into only thirteen minutes? Well, you omit the backstory with Ben-Hur and Messala entirely, you cover with a single title card the whole section with Ben-Hur as a galley slave who is eventually adopted by Arrius, you omit Ben-Hur's romance with Esther, and you end the movie with the chariot race.race.
* TimeSkip: The film skips over the whole time in which Ben-Hur is in a SlaveGalley, presumably because it would be too expensive to film. Instead, we get intertitles just mentioning that it happened.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ben-Hur's mother and sister are still arrested, but their fates afterwards are never mentioned.
* TimeSkip: The film skips over the whole time in which Ben-Hur is in a SlaveGalley, presumably because it would be too expensive to film. Instead, we get intertitles just mentioning that it happened.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ben-Hur's mother and sister are still arrested, but their fates afterwards are never mentioned.
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''Ben-Hur'' is a thirteen minutes-long silent film, the first ever screen adaptation of [[Literature/BenHur the Lew Wallace novel]]. It features William S. Hart, who would later become a major star of cowboy movies, as Messala.
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!!This film has the examples of:
* TheMockbuster: It was actually an unauthorized adaptation that provoked a successful lawsuit by the book's copyright holders. Silent film blogger Fritzi Kramer [[http://moviessilently.com/2016/03/29/silent-movie-myth-the-first-ben-hur-film-was-made-in-1907-and-all-subsequent-versions-are-remakes/ makes the case]] that, as a low-budget production meant to ride on the coattails of a more famous property (in this case, the book and its authorized stage adaptations), that film should be regarded as an early example of mockbuster.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film runs for only thirteen minutes. How do you cram ''Ben-Hur'' into only thirteen minutes? Well, you omit the backstory with Ben-Hur and Messala entirely, you cover with a single title card the whole section with Ben-Hur as a galley slave who is eventually adopted by Arrius, you omit Ben-Hur's romance with Esther, and you end the movie with the chariot race.
''Ben-Hur'' is a thirteen minutes-long silent film, the first ever screen adaptation of [[Literature/BenHur the Lew Wallace novel]]. It features William S. Hart, who would later become a major star of cowboy movies, as Messala.
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!!This film has the examples of:
* TheMockbuster: It was actually an unauthorized adaptation that provoked a successful lawsuit by the book's copyright holders. Silent film blogger Fritzi Kramer [[http://moviessilently.com/2016/03/29/silent-movie-myth-the-first-ben-hur-film-was-made-in-1907-and-all-subsequent-versions-are-remakes/ makes the case]] that, as a low-budget production meant to ride on the coattails of a more famous property (in this case, the book and its authorized stage adaptations), that film should be regarded as an early example of mockbuster.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film runs for only thirteen minutes. How do you cram ''Ben-Hur'' into only thirteen minutes? Well, you omit the backstory with Ben-Hur and Messala entirely, you cover with a single title card the whole section with Ben-Hur as a galley slave who is eventually adopted by Arrius, you omit Ben-Hur's romance with Esther, and you end the movie with the chariot race.
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