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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Rick Hamlin and his wife, Carol Wallace, visited the movie set of <\/em>Ben-Hur last year in Rome. Wallace is the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, author of the novel published in 1880. She recently published a contemporary version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The chariot race in the new film of Ben-Hur<\/em> is really terrific. And the most amazing thing about it is that the leading actors, Jack Huston, who plays Judah Ben-Hur (formerly the Charlton Heston part) and Toby Kebbell who plays his adversary in the race, Massala, did their own driving.<\/p>\n

Imagine the challenge of standing in a chariot in costume and driving a team of four trained horses at top speed around a dusty track eight times\u2013and many multiples of that to get the shots necessary for a visually arresting and believable horse race set at the time of Christ.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what so impressive about it. It is intensely believable, probably because it was really happening. My wife, Carol, and I visited the set last year in Italy where they shot the race, and I can tell you the track looked to be just as big as the historic Circus Maximus in Rome.<\/p>\n

Read More: How Lew Wallace Found Faith in Epic Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As the producers conceded, one of the challenges of filming the chariot race today is that viewers will easily dismiss the close-calls drama as the work of Computer Generated Imagery or CGI, as it\u2019s called. \u201cThey just faked it,\u201d people will think.<\/p>\n

Quite frankly, I am completely won over by most special effects, but I can tell when actors are faking it, and the excitement of watching the 15-minute long race was feeling the absorption of the actors. By their eye movements, their focus, the turn of their heads, their grip on the reins, you know they\u2019re not on some Hollywood sound stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried doing some shots without the horses,\u201d Jack Huston says, where he was evidently pulled around by a truck with cameras rolling. \u201cThat didn\u2019t work,\u201d he added. He might have been holding the reins but he didn\u2019t have four horses on the other end galloping at 40 miles an hour.<\/p>\n

Both Jack and Toby had worked with horses before, but driving a chariot was something completely new for both of them. One of the challenges is making sure the right horse is in the right position. As Jack pointed out, \u201cOn the curves the horse on the inside is going to go a lot slower the one on the outside.\u201d No spoiler alert here, but this is even a plot point in the film.<\/p>\n

Watch a Trailer of <\/strong><\/em>Ben-Hur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In preparing the shoot, director Timur Bekmambetov watched a lot of YouTube footage of NASCAR races, familiarizing himself with the sort of shots a contemporary audience is used to seeing. I thought of that when in one brief sequence a horse flies off the track and tumbles into the crowd. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s reassuring to know that no horse was injured during the shot. These animals were treated humanely. The one accident that occurred during the shooting was when one of the drivers fell out of his chariot. A team of horses was right behind him and surely could have crushed him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we watched them leap right over him,\u201d said producer Duncan Henderson. \u201cIt was a miracle he wasn\u2019t hurt badly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A miracle. Not a word that anyone in Hollywood tosses around lightly. The story of Ben-Hur<\/em> includes several miracles, but for me one of the greatest pleasures of watching it was observing the craft of artists on both sides of the camera. It made me think it takes a miracle to get any story on film. <\/p>\n

This one is well worth seeing. Especially those nail-biting 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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