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** Also, the author. According to the historian Victor Davis Hanson, Wallace may have been so exasperated over accusations of incompetence at the Battle of Shiloh that he wrote this book to distract himself.
* [[Dutch Angle]]: An extremely powerful one that shows Jesus on the cross.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: The stunt coordinator for the 1959 version was the legendary veteran stuntman/director Yakima Canutt; his son Joe was one of the stunt charioteers standing in for Heston. Joe is the one you see driving -- and nearly flipped right out of the chariot -- as the horses jump some wreckage in their path. That was unplanned, and Wyler kept it in, putting in a shot of Heston climbing back into place. Joe was unharmed.
** See the [[Homoerotic Subtext]] described below.
* [[Epic Movie]]: Spars with ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' as the quintessential example. For that matter, the 1925 silent version was the most expensive movie ever made at the time.
* [[The Faceless]] / [[The Voiceless]]: Jesus, in both film versions.
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