T.E. Lawrence was a smart man. he lost everything to write his novel and rewrote it by memory and what came out was "Revolt in the Desert" or what some call "7 Pillars of Wisdom"
By the movie's ending, you realize that Brighton is actually the only one here to remain on Lawrence's side. He is my favorite minor character in the movie.
@@EmperorMaximus66 15 actors or actresses have won on their first movie among them: Jennifer Hudson "Dream Girls" 2006, Barbara Streisand "Funny Girl" 1968, Haing S Ngor "The Killing Fields" 1984, Harold Russell "The Best Years of Our Lives" 1946. Shall I go on?
@@ericericson3535 Out of how many people nominated in the history of the Oscars? Too small to be considered. I could not care less anyway. Who won that year and what was the movie?
The film was made in 1962 . I myself was 10 years old .same years later. I had the opportunity to travel and live in jeddah and back in the mid-80s the Turkish army trains that the Arab army Had blown up. Was and as far as I know Are still out in the desert..fantastic!!!!
Excellent acting by Alec Guinness as Feisal when he probes deeper into Lawrence's fascination with the desert culture of Arabia and senses a darker side maybe -an empathy with the cruelty of a primitive way of life? Is he seeing that the desert culture holds some kind of perverted attraction for Lawrence?
A tent full of some of my favorite actors....directed by one of my favorite directors.....doing what they do best which is to make powerful film history. In the Real World had Britain and France followed Lawrence's advice.......the entire Middle East would be at peace, instead the Sykes-Picot agreement led the world down a different path eventually producing people like Ruhollah Khomeini and so many others.
I also have a copy of. seven pillars of wisdom . It's a bit of a read!!! And it covers many things. I understand the U S military.use the book for training purposes. T E Lawrence had a house near the tank museum .In Dorset. At Clouds Hill..and if you visit .make a point of going to the last resting place of T E LAWRENCE . IN THE VILLAGE OF MORTON ..
"He is a young man and young men are passionate..." The King returns to the same idea at the end of the movie, when he finally explains that wars require the strengths of young men, but old men make the compromises of peace...
If you read the 7 Pillars, Lawrence mentions them and gives them primary credit for the attacks on the Turkish railroad, which he admits were not his idea, and of which he only perpetrated a few. The movie and a lot of folks critiques make Lawrence out to be some kind of self styled messiah, show him out riding the Bedou and such, but in his actual book he does not style himself in any such fashion. Rather he goes to great lengths to minimize his own contributions and characterize them as a minor sideshow in the overall effort. He mentions the crippling saddle sores and privations and even the failures. The whole thing about him being this Brit gone native and acting like a messiah was invented by the press, who were just looking for some dramatic heroics to distract the British and American people from the horrors of European trench warfare. After the war, Lawrence did his level best to disappear. Even joining the RAF under an assumed name to hide from the celebrity he neither sought nor enjoyed. Though offered lots of money for re-prints of the 7 pillars, he refused. He had only published it originally to settle debts, and sought no further gain from its popularity.
The senior officer was actually right, that Britain become super power because of their discipline. Look where the British now even with guns and dreams they got no where but downward. Discipline. In my opinion of course.
From the Wiki: "Guinness was made up to look as much like the real Faisal as possible; he recorded in his diaries that, while shooting in Jordan, he met several people who had known Faisal who actually mistook him for the late prince." If you look at pictures of the real Faisal, the resemblance is remarkable.
The vanished gardens of Cordoba ‐ the desperation and anguish, tears and despair of every new housing estate, retirement village and lifestyle development ‐ complete with golf course, shopping mall and a chocolate Jesus on Sunday ‐ we need a miracle alright
@@jamesdoe3713 There was no CIA then. The OSS, which was the predecessor to the CIA, didn't exist in any form until 1942. Prince (later King) Faisal died in 1933 and Lawrence in 1935.
Arabia was never great: it is a desert except for a small region around Mecca and Medina. The "Arabs" (mostly conquered peoples who adopted the Arabic language along with the Islamic religion) only became "great" when they lived in civilised places such as Damascus, Baghdad, Jerusalem and others in the Levant and Mesopotamia, where ancient civilisations had flourished long before the Greeks and Romans. But since those times, the desert has encroached on the fields where the Babylonians, Assyrians and others once grew their grain. Without grain imports from places such as Russia and Ukraine, the countries of the Middle East could not sustain their present populations. With global warming, things may get worse, or perhaps they will get better? It is predicted that the Sahara will experience increased rainfall, and much of it may become green again. Until such future times, the Arabic-speaking peoples will remain dependent on the West.
@@DieFlabbergast I wonder if these beduin tribes are the last remnants of a civilisation that lived a better life in greater rainfall of the past. And as the world warms they are gone to settled modern lives in the towns and cities of the modern world.
@@syedputra5955 But the Central Asian republics retained communist, totalitarian features and are not firmly Islamic, e.g. Kazakhstan promotes traditions like shamanism. To align with them would be at odds with winning over strongly Muslim Arabs
@@Hellston20a the Turks can create their own economic bloc minus the Arabs. Aligned to Russia and china. It makes more sense that way. One big bloc from baltics and Mediterranean to Pacific
No CGI, no explosions, no hackneyed one-liners, and yet, I'm enthralled.
Um- there were definitely explosions.
@@christopherpardell4418 flatulence doesn't count. 🤣
Remember when movies had dialog? The audience was respected enough to follow.
Dialog, Great comment. The U.S. is involved in the Middle East now. But The Brits and French had their hands there much earlier.
Audiences are a lot dumber now, and the writers even dumber.
Guinness was unbelievable in Lawrence of Arabia!
T.E. Lawrence was a smart man. he lost
everything to write his novel and rewrote it
by memory and what came out was
"Revolt in the Desert" or what some call
"7 Pillars of Wisdom"
By the movie's ending, you realize that Brighton is actually the only one here to remain on Lawrence's side. He is my favorite minor character in the movie.
Yes. He's a good man.
@@charliewatts6895 Anthony Kennedy thought his character was an idiot.
Me as well.
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Brighton is just a soldier, oblivious to both British and Arab politics.
O'Toole should have won the Best Actor Oscar.
Never for someone's first movie!!
@@EmperorMaximus66 15 actors or actresses have won on their first movie among them: Jennifer Hudson "Dream Girls" 2006, Barbara Streisand "Funny Girl" 1968, Haing S Ngor "The Killing Fields" 1984, Harold Russell "The Best Years of Our Lives" 1946. Shall I go on?
@@EmperorMaximus66 15 actors and actresses earned an Oscar from their first film.
@@ericericson3535 Out of how many people nominated in the history of the Oscars? Too small to be considered. I could not care less anyway. Who won that year and what was the movie?
@@EmperorMaximus66 You said, "Not on the first film!" Do we want to keep this up?"
The film was made in 1962 .
I myself was 10 years old .same years later. I had the opportunity to travel and live in jeddah and back in the mid-80s the Turkish army trains that the Arab army
Had blown up. Was and as far as I know
Are still out in the desert..fantastic!!!!
Film. Film of another world. Masterpiece.
I wrote an essay on this movie in university but really it was an excuse to watch it over and over again
One of the greatest movies ever made filled with triumph, horror and disappointment....the usual human stuff but on an immense scale
Omar is looking fierce!! He too was great in this movie.
the dialogue is amazing in this movie
Fisal was absolutely correct when he said "Because you have a Navy."
what a great movie. 😊
Anthony Quayle and Anthony Quinn are both in this film.
Really????
@@tommymorrison6478
Yes
Excellent acting by Alec Guinness as Feisal when he probes deeper into Lawrence's fascination with the desert culture of Arabia and senses a darker side maybe -an empathy with the cruelty of a primitive way of life? Is he seeing that the desert culture holds some kind of perverted attraction for Lawrence?
It is indeed well thought with some eveidence that Lawrence was a masochist
A tent full of some of my favorite actors....directed by one of my favorite directors.....doing what they do best which is to make powerful film history. In the Real World had Britain and France followed Lawrence's advice.......the entire Middle East would be at peace, instead the Sykes-Picot agreement led the world down a different path eventually producing people like Ruhollah Khomeini and so many others.
May be peace was not the intention of the Brits and French! May be it was though that a chaotic Middle East was easier to manage?
I also have a copy of. seven pillars of wisdom .
It's a bit of a read!!!
And it covers many things.
I understand the
U S military.use the book for training purposes.
T E Lawrence had a house near the tank museum .In Dorset. At Clouds Hill..and if you visit .make a point of going to the last resting place of
T E LAWRENCE .
IN THE VILLAGE OF
MORTON ..
T.E. Lawrence: Ok ✅
"He is a young man and young men are passionate..." The King returns to the same idea at the end of the movie, when he finally explains that wars require the strengths of young men, but old men make the compromises of peace...
Amazing to watch this scene. Sir Alex learned his accent from Omar Sharif.
So many heavyweights in this scene.
Some fine acting,
Great players all,
The did not need a Miracle only they did need the Man he would do the Miracle. He was there Sir T. E. LAWRENCE.
A lot of things happened behind the scenes during the production. Track all those interviews over the years then you would know. 🙂
What a stellar cast=brilliant directing.
There is nothing in the desert,except for the largest oil fields in the world.
BTW, there were actually several, British military observers there at this time.
Not just the one (and Lawrence).
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If you read the 7 Pillars, Lawrence mentions them and gives them primary credit for the attacks on the Turkish railroad, which he admits were not his idea, and of which he only perpetrated a few. The movie and a lot of folks critiques make Lawrence out to be some kind of self styled messiah, show him out riding the Bedou and such, but in his actual book he does not style himself in any such fashion. Rather he goes to great lengths to minimize his own contributions and characterize them as a minor sideshow in the overall effort. He mentions the crippling saddle sores and privations and even the failures. The whole thing about him being this Brit gone native and acting like a messiah was invented by the press, who were just looking for some dramatic heroics to distract the British and American people from the horrors of European trench warfare.
After the war, Lawrence did his level best to disappear. Even joining the RAF under an assumed name to hide from the celebrity he neither sought nor enjoyed. Though offered lots of money for re-prints of the 7 pillars, he refused. He had only published it originally to settle debts, and sought no further gain from its popularity.
The senior officer was actually right, that Britain become super power because of their discipline. Look where the British now even with guns and dreams they got no where but downward. Discipline. In my opinion of course.
And the bayonet - with a bit of guts behind it.
This movie needs more quips
I hate them. The real world has far too much hardnosed shortness ..never mind the screen.
I want to know what Arabs think of Sir Alec Guiness as Faisal.
They highly appreciate his performance from what I've heard.
From the Wiki: "Guinness was made up to look as much like the real Faisal as possible; he recorded in his diaries that, while shooting in Jordan, he met several people who had known Faisal who actually mistook him for the late prince."
If you look at pictures of the real Faisal, the resemblance is remarkable.
The vanished gardens of Cordoba ‐ the desperation and anguish, tears and despair of every new housing estate, retirement village and lifestyle development ‐ complete with golf course, shopping mall and a chocolate Jesus on Sunday ‐ we need a miracle alright
Also he was murdered by the CIA, a nightmare for him :(
@@jamesdoe3713 please elaborate.
@@Sapp440 I'm not allowed to say here due to censorship, just research his death and why.
@@jamesdoe3713 ok
@@jamesdoe3713 There was no CIA then. The OSS, which was the predecessor to the CIA, didn't exist in any form until 1942. Prince (later King) Faisal died in 1933 and Lawrence in 1935.
Make Arabia Great Again
Arabia was never great: it is a desert except for a small region around Mecca and Medina. The "Arabs" (mostly conquered peoples who adopted the Arabic language along with the Islamic religion) only became "great" when they lived in civilised places such as Damascus, Baghdad, Jerusalem and others in the Levant and Mesopotamia, where ancient civilisations had flourished long before the Greeks and Romans. But since those times, the desert has encroached on the fields where the Babylonians, Assyrians and others once grew their grain. Without grain imports from places such as Russia and Ukraine, the countries of the Middle East could not sustain their present populations. With global warming, things may get worse, or perhaps they will get better? It is predicted that the Sahara will experience increased rainfall, and much of it may become green again. Until such future times, the Arabic-speaking peoples will remain dependent on the West.
You can't. It's full of Arabs.
Oh no you didnt!
@@DieFlabbergast I wonder if these beduin tribes are the last remnants of a civilisation that lived a better life in greater rainfall of the past. And as the world warms they are gone to settled modern lives in the towns and cities of the modern world.
Current trouble in Middle east due to collapse of ottoman empire. Perhaps the Turks should consider taking it all Back.
However Erdogan plans to expand eastwards, to link up with the Central Asian republics that are, unfortunately, more Mongol than Turkic in nature.
@@Hellston20a I think central Asians speak mostly Turkic language all the way to Xinjiang in China. Mongols and turks were allies hence intermingled.
@@syedputra5955 But the Central Asian republics retained communist, totalitarian features and are not firmly Islamic, e.g. Kazakhstan promotes traditions like shamanism. To align with them would be at odds with winning over strongly Muslim Arabs
@@Hellston20a the Turks can create their own economic bloc minus the Arabs. Aligned to Russia and china. It makes more sense that way. One big bloc from baltics and Mediterranean to Pacific
@@syedputra5955 It does make more sense, as oil will eventually be replaced by new energy sources so Arab oil states will lose their influence.