Ben-Hur: Reflections of Culture

We watched a film about Ben-Hur, it's about a tale of Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur. It's also a traditional film of the birth of Jesus Christ. A new governor arrived, and that governor was Ben-Hur's childhood friend Messala, he's a tribune. At the beginning, they were really happy to see each other at a long time. But Ben-Hur think that Messala is using him to get benefits, and Ben-hur want to protect Jewish people, so they are separated, and they were against each other. Messala is not really a good friend, and he made Ben-Hur to be a slave. On the way with the salves(Ben-Hur was one of them), Ben-Hur met Jesus Christ. I think this is what we watched so far. In the film I saw some cool culture of them. Roman soldiers wears helmet(and they have those weird red feather stuff on their helmet), shoulder plates, woollen tunic, red toga, body armour, and dagger on the top. They wear groin protection, and sandals at the bottom. They also have some accessories, like sword, javelin, shield, and they wear those metal bracelet. For some reason that not important soldiers can't wear red togas, because togas are for important tribunes or tribune's friend or helper. At the scene when Messala was happy to see Ben-Hur, they played a game, and they just throw the javelins on a wood thing under the roof.

The Romans are like Greeks, they have their own slaves too(if he/she) is rich. Ben-Hur has two slaves for trading, and they trade goods for Ben-Hur. The slave-Simonides(I don't know whether I spelled it right) and his beautiful daughter. He doesn't treat his slaves like other rich people and tribunes, he doesn't punish slaves or treat them like low-class people. Simonides is a nice slave, he traveled around places and trade things for Ben-Hur. I found out that different people treated their slaves differently.

There is a scene when Ben-Hur's sister accidentally touched a broken roof brick, and it fall and injured a soldier. Ben-Hur, his sister, and his mother were very fast arrested by the Messala's soldiers and catch into Messala's dungeon. Ben-Hur tried to ran out of the dungeon to find Messala to release him or at least his mother and sister. Messala didn't listen to him, and even made Ben-Hur a slave.

The slaves walk in desserts, and dry path with pain and tiredness. If they fell, then they get leave in desserts until they die. There is one scene when the soldiers doesn't let Ben-Hur drink water, but Jesus brought him water and he saw him. Soldiers and tribunes keep the slaves alive, because they need them to work the big boat, and when they get back into one place, then they might get kill or something. There are a bunch of slaves rowing beneath the boat. They also have some special name for some actions. They also have rhythm when the slaves are rowing the boat, and there is one person who needs to sit in the front and play rhythm on drum for the slaves. Messala and his soldier treat his slaves like this, not like Ben-Hur.