Top cast:Pedro Pascal,Vanessa Kirby,Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Director:Rian Johnson
Genre:Sci-Fi
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2011
Storyline:During a round-up of suspects by police gendarmes in he city, the precarious situation of a collection of refugees (those in European clothing in Casablanca) is set up by a few short scenes:The open-air city market, a scene of intrigue, is eeming with black marketeers, smugglers, thieves, spies, double agents and refugees who desperately seek to obtain tickets (exit visas) on the daily plane to neutral Lisbon."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $125 million, and box-office gross receipts of $215.4 million (domestic) and $546.4 million (worldwide).This was the highest grossing film of the series, though not the most profitable (the first brought in $457 million worldwide with an $80 million budget).Forty-One""s stubbornness and hate have kept him alive while other men have perished all around him.Arrius thinks he is foolish to believe in freedom: "You will never escape while we are victorious.If we are not, you will sink with this ship, chained to your oar." Ben Hur refuses the offer unless it means his freedom.In one of the more spectacular scenes in the film, he Romans fight against Macedonian pirate war ships in an exciting sea galley battle.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet.