1 posted on
06/27/2020 12:09:19 PM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
You knew this was coming....
Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish....(BEEP BEEP!)
2 posted on
06/27/2020 12:10:20 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Borges
He didn't mention what would really make modern Wokes scream...Alec Guinness playing Faisal of Iraq...
3 posted on
06/27/2020 12:12:50 PM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
Lawrence repeatedly casts its title character as vainglorious, dancing around admiring himself when he gets his splendid white sherif’s robes and twice comparing himself to Moses before he grants himself a promotion: “My friends, who will walk on water with me?” Yeah, Moses? I don't think so.
Lawrence of Arabia is a tale of how an amazingly doughty and resourceful British soldier becomes a hero for the ages while accomplishing, by his lights, nothing.
He created a bunch of terrorist states. Not exactly nothing but a realist would not judge that accomplishment as "heroic".
I am sure he would be very proud though.
7 posted on
06/27/2020 12:16:12 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: Borges
He was a boy raping adrenaline junky bisexual, like his Arab pals. And he’s given credit for a lot of stuff actually done by Gertrude Bell.
8 posted on
06/27/2020 12:18:59 PM PDT by
jjotto
(“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
To: Borges
The best scene is when the ferals gather to split up the spoils causing Lawrence to have his breakdown and leave Araby.
Proof that you could confiscate every trillion and distribute it evenly, and in a year or two everything would be right back where it was. Ferals are just no damn good.
10 posted on
06/27/2020 12:27:37 PM PDT by
StAnDeliver
(I don't owe you my freedom.)
To: Borges
I saw the film in 1963 at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles, which was where many Hollywood blockbusters were first shown. Sadly, the theater was razed in 1969.
To: Borges
The motorcycle crash scene was very well done. I have been in a few myself, and the loss of control and the “shimmy” are very true to life.
Luckily, I was wearing my helmet! Unlike some people I could mention.
12 posted on
06/27/2020 12:33:42 PM PDT by
left that other site
(If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
To: Borges
The scene at Ali’s well is legendary and very well done. Best on the big screen, of course.
14 posted on
06/27/2020 12:34:28 PM PDT by
dainbramaged
(That information is classified. Request denied.)
To: Borges
Why 'Lawrence of Arabia' holds up so well.
Great soundtrack and cinematography.
To: Borges
25 posted on
06/27/2020 1:44:30 PM PDT by
Bratch
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Borges
“Introducing Peter O’Toole as T. E. Lawrence.”....having had a major part in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England in 1960.
And with Antony Quinn in SAVAGE INNOCENTS(1960). His voice was dubbed over making him sound different.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053244/
To: Borges
I like blackened chicken
Does that make me racists or woke?
29 posted on
06/27/2020 3:14:57 PM PDT by
Pollard
(whatever)
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