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To: LexBaird

In present dollars, "Lawrence of Arabia" cost a mere $60 million.

The taking of Aqaba. One panning shot as the camera sweeps from the Arabs overrunning the Turkish pickets to them surging through the streets of the town to the final image of the Turkish naval gun pointing futilely out to sea.


32 posted on 11/27/2004 7:29:36 PM PST by Sam the Sham
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To: Sam the Sham
The taking of Aqaba. One panning shot as the camera sweeps from the Arabs overrunning the Turkish pickets to them surging through the streets of the town to the final image of the Turkish naval gun pointing futilely out to sea.

Ever see it on a big screen, full cinemascope? It just doesn't have the impact on TV. The most important character in the whole movie is the desert, against which every man is a speck.

39 posted on 11/27/2004 7:38:41 PM PST by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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