*snores*

*snores*

*gets TURKED*

Best movie ever.

Filmed on location.

"Lawrence launches a guerrilla war, blowing up trains and harassing the Turks at every turn. American war correspondent Jackson Bentley publicises Lawrence's exploits, making him famous. On one raid, Farraj is badly injured. Unwilling to leave him to be tortured by the enemy, Lawrence shoots him dead before fleeing.

When Lawrence scouts the enemy-held city of Deraa with Ali, he is taken, along with several Arab residents, to the Turkish Bey. Lawrence is stripped, ogled, and prodded. Then, for striking out at the Bey, he is severely flogged and possibly raped (off-camera) before being thrown into the street. The experience leaves Lawrence shaken. He returns to British headquarters in Cairo but does not fit in.

A short time later in Jerusalem, General Allenby urges him to support the "big push" on Damascus. Lawrence hesitates to return but finally relents.

Lawrence recruits an army that is motivated more by money rather than by the Arab cause. They sight a column of retreating Turkish soldiers who have just massacred the residents of Tafas. One of Lawrence's men is from Tafas; he demands, "No prisoners!" When Lawrence hesitates, the man charges the Turks alone and is killed. Lawrence takes up the dead man's battle cry; the result is a slaughter in which Lawrence himself participates. Afterwards, he regrets his actions.

Lawrence's men take Damascus ahead of Allenby's forces. The Arabs set up a council to administer the city but the desert tribesmen prove ill-suited for such a task. Despite Lawrence's efforts, they bicker constantly. Unable to maintain the public utilities, the Arabs soon abandon most of the city to the British.

Lawrence is promoted to colonel and immediately ordered back to Britain, as his usefulness to both Faisal and the British is at an end. Lawrence leaves Damascus in a British staff car. As he leaves the city, his automobile is passed by a motorcycle, which leaves a trail of dust in its wake."

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Gay does nothing on the desert: the movie

They did plenty of things.

The Weizmann-Feisal meeting brokered by Lawrence

In the course of his work with the Hashemites, T. E. Lawrence introduced Feisal to Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann in December 1918 and served as their interpreter. According to historian Martin Gilbert, Weizmann recorded in his notes: "Feisal explained that 'it was curious there should be friction between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.'" [Weizmann would later become Israel's first president.]

Gilbert continued: "On January 3, 1919, Feisal and Weizmann met again in London, to sign an 'Agreement between the King of the Hedjaz and the Zionists.' Lawrence, who was once again the guiding hand in this agreement, hoped that it would ensure what he, Lawrence, termed 'the lines of Arab and Zionist policy converging in the not distant future.'"

"On March 1, 1919 Lawrence, while in Paris as the senior British representative with the Hedjaz Delegation, drafted and then wrote out in his own hand a letter from Feisal to the American Zionist Felix Frankfurter. In this letter, Feisal declared, 'We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.'”

Walked out of the kinoplex immediately when I saw this back in 62

The new British High Commissioner to Palestine,
Herbert Samuel, flanked by Lawrence and
Abdullah (hand-colored, 1921)

Lawrence was a key player in the meeting.

One of the photographers at the Amman meeting was John Whiting, a member of the original "American Colony" family and member of the Colony's photographic department. He was also a member of British intelligence and almost certainly had contact with Lawrence.

In 1922, the British split off Transjordan from the Mandate of Palestine. In 1946, the Mandate of Transjordan became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In the 1948 war with Israel, Jordan occupied the "West Bank" of the Jordan River (until then known as Judea and Samaria), and annexed it in 1950. The annexation was not recognized by the vast majority of the world's countries, including the members of the Arab League.

>Lean was a relentless womaniser. He was married six times and had many mistresses. His approach to marriage was certainly erratic; on the one hand, thanks to his Quaker upbringing, he took it seriously. On the other, he didn't want anything to get in the way of his career – and he couldn't escape his own nature. As his former cinematographer and producer Ronald Neame told Kevin Brownlow, the author of the definitive Lean biography, his old producer Anthony Havelock-Allan had said of Lean: "David always had to have a girl on any film he worked on."

Is there any director more based?

WOOOOO
Who dare disturbs my slumber?

What girl would he have had on Lawrence? Wasn't that all men?

Peter was the girl :3

It's weird how this and Ben Hur are like 9 hours long but there's no trouble whatsoever watching them in one sitting, whereas I needed several pauses during Hobbit films.

This doesn't surprise me. On a related note I actually thought Julie Christie looked like a genderbent O'Toole while watching Dr Zhivago.

That's because the Hobbit films are mostly garbage filer. Lawrence and Ben-Hur are more deliberate films not stretched out unnecessarily for stupid reasons.

Only if you consider panoramics shots to be useful plot advancing information.

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The he really liked killing? was he a madman? also I got nothing from this movie, am I too pleb or too advanced to be impressed by high budget epics?

>that 120GB 4K Restoration floating around on torrent sites

Orens!

Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia both have intermissions, but the pacing is perfect because there's a clearly defined first and second half whereas The Hobbit is just a constant slog that never seems like it's going to end.

>comparing Ben Hur and LoA with the complete bastardization of the Hobbit novels

yeah I wonder why.

trash movie.
>muh homosexual war hero that in the end accomplished nothing

snooze fest only pretentious tryhards enjoy

I've never been sure about this, for two reasons. 1. It was claimed Lean fucked "a thousand women", which is the kind of boast that always makes one dubious. 2. His central male characters are usually impotent or de-masculinized in some way. Maybe Havelock-Allan should have said "David always had to fail to get it up for a girl on any film he worked on."

Cinema is a visual medium, you foul bitch. It's not just a way to tell illiterates stories.

was he really gay ?

Yes.

I wonder how much LoA would be criticized by critics, if this film was released today.
>where are the females???

My dad said he drove an hour each way to see this in the theaters 6 times when it came out. Pretty patrician stuff.

I got to see it once on a big screen, and it was easily the best theater-going experience of my life. Seeing original Blade Runner on the big screen is a moderately distant second.

No, he was asexual. Maybe slightly masochistic. Also, you're an idiot if you can't see that LoA is a top 5 A E S T H E T I C film. The ride on Aqaba in particular is the greatest shot in all of Sup Forums.

It wouldn't. Why can't you grow up, ever?

No, he was a gay masochist. The film makes this clear repeatedly.