Hollywood is a huge cultural production machine, from the stage of Edison's technological monopoly, to the studio system of the golden age, and then to the post-war era. In the epic era, although the operating mechanism is constantly changing, there is one line that has always been carried out, that is, film production has always been in the vortex of conflicting economics, politics and art. The rise of religious epic films after "World War II" is a vivid portrayal of Hollywood's desire to use the renewal of film technology to get rid of economic difficulties and political encirclement and suppression, and to satisfy the desire of popular culture. A shrewd filmmaker like Demir, at a time when the American public was afraid of communism and eager to uphold Western values, seized the opportunity that wide-screen technology could produce a spectacle of religious imagination, combined religious traditions with Cold War ideology, and created a Hollywood box office. The miracle also shielded himself from congressional investigation. William Wheeler and Preminger's "Ben-Hur" and "Exodus" also use widescreen, stereo technology to quietly combine Zionism with anti-colonialism, highlighting American benevolence hegemonic world position.
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