Over many historical adaptions of movies in Hollywood has always twisted the story of historical books and events to serve the purpose of the movie. The 1959 movie Ben-Hur is no exception , based off of the book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ written by Lew Wallace in 1880 tells a biblical story that intertwines thwith faith and the power of forgiveness. With a huge theatrical production like Ben-Hur with its elegent music score and production sets that brings to life the ancient cities, culture, and people of that time period. Even with a fantastic movie such as Ben-Hur suffers from a common problem that all historical block buster movies suffer from: bending historical facts to better suite the movie for a more action or empathic view for
