Ok, that’s great!
Shatner’s the man !
Ok, I’m still have music. A more patient audience in the 60’s.
Ok, I got picture now
Yah, I can read, but not that silly script.
“…we were once a colonial people.”
Yeah, Americans are sympathetic to colonial peoples. Sure, sure we are. :rolleyes:
Jackson Bentley (played by Arthur Kennedy), the American journalist. Can’t they keep their nose outta anything?
“We leave no wounded for the Turks.”
I wonder if Lawrence still trust General Appleby since he hasn’t received artillery.
“…that this war is…”
“Enjoyable?”
They really blew that train up. Almost missed it while filming. That woulda sucked, right?
Looks like Lawrence has gotten into the killing.
No reason to arm the people they’ll one day want to conquer themselves…
A mear flesh wound
During the filming of the Aqaba scene, O’Toole was nearly killed when he fell from his camel, but fortunately, it stood over him, preventing the horses of the extras from trampling him. (A very similar mishap befell the real Lawrence at the Battle of Abu El Lissal in 1917.) In another mishap, O’Toole seriously injured his hand during filming by punching through the window of a caravan. A brace or bandage can be seen on his left thumb during the first train attack scene, presumably due to this incident.
Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film’s characters, feeling that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.
No wonder they killed the Turks. Orange blood? Completely inhuman. :eek:
Lawrence doesn’t swagger as much as he prances.
Quoted from Wiki:
The historical accuracy of the film, and particularly its portrayal of Lawrence himself, has been called into question by numerous scholars. Most of the film’s characters are either real or based on real characters to varying degrees. The events depicted in the film are largely based on accepted historical fact and Lawrence’s own writing about events, though they have various degrees of romanticisation.
Some scenes — such as the attack on Aqaba — were heavily fictionalised, while those dealing with the Arab Council were inaccurate, in as much as the council remained more or less in power in Syria until France deposed Feisal in 1920. The theme (in the second half of the film) that Lawrence’s Arab army deserted almost to a man as he moved further north was completely fictional. The film’s timeline of the Arab Revolt and World War I, and the geography of the Hedjaz region, are frequently questionable. For instance, Bentley interviews Feisal in late 1917, after the fall of Aqaba, saying the United States has not yet entered the war; yet America had been in the war for several months by that point in time. Further, Lawrence’s involvement in the Arab Revolt prior to the attack on Aqaba — such as his involvement in the seizures of Yenbo and Wejh — is completely excised. The rescue and execution of Gasim is based on two separate incidents which were conflated together for dramatic reasons.
Wow, interesting !
Thanks 'talos