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Harmonia

In Reply to: RE: It just depends - I think of myself as very, very picky... posted by Tom Brennan on February 03, 2009 at 04:10:17

...as I think almost all those are in the works for BD. Zulu is out. I saw that one in theaters.

I saw The Ten Commandments as a very small child, and certain scenes absolutely terrified me. I hated that the Pharoh's horses got drowned along with the soldiers and went screaming up the aisle.

AFter seeing Ben Hur, I had simultaneous crushes on Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston.

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RE: You may be in luck then... - Tom Brennan 22:46:27 02/03/09 (1)
What scared me in The Ten Commandments was the killer green fog.
Scar was scary as Hell in The Searchers and when John Wayne scalped him I freaked. Even then (I was seven) I knew that sometimes Americans scalped Indians but to see it on the screen was shocking.
Seeing the road show version of Ben Hur in 1959 was when I became aware of hi-fi. When I heard the blasts of the overture's opening fanfare, reproduced magnetic multi-track through (presumably) Altec A4s or A2s I was hooked. Hell, I still prefer big Altecs over all other speakers and any system must pass the Ben Hur test to be first rate in my book.

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- Creeping green death for eldest born... - Harmonia 12:48:51 02/04/09 (0)
  It started dripping off the moon and coiling through the streets - I started covering my eyes. I wasn't enchanted with the lamb's blood on the doors either. I didn't like to see blood in those days.
  
  Speaking of blood, turning the water into pools of blood were scary too.
  
  Oddly, one of the things that scared me the most was when the Israelite slave got his loincloth caught in the log rollers.
  
  But it was Yaweh drowning the horses and charioteers that sent me running up the aisle.
  
  I think I was 4-5 years old.
  
  Ben Hur was the first movie that REALLY impressed me.I think live music presentation also had an effect on my enjoyment and desire for good stereo equipment, but certainly road show presentations like Ben Hur, How The West Was Won et al had an effect too.

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