Lawrence of Arabia
Cinema Release Date: March 1963
Film already available on DVD since: August 5, 2009
Directed by David Lean
With Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Jose Ferrer, more
Original Title: Lawrence of Arabia
British feature film. Genre: Adventure
Time: 03h36min Production Year: 1962
Yes, the masterpiece of David Lean's epic recounting of the officer T E Lawrence, the first movie on the mission for the British Army (WWI), to an absolutely dominant territory in which the Arabs against the Turks. What made the film is a masterpiece? This movie includes everything that goes with gigantism: thousands of extras, thousands of horses, the desert (although Spain), the duration of the film (3 ½ hours) and then mounting the work on the plans, all that is absolutely breathtaking ...
Maurice Jarre - Lawrence Of Arabia
But much of the greatness of the film comes from the personality of Lawrence, who comes to creating and building a personality absolutely megalomaniac. Lawrence gradually discovers the screen, which also becomes aware of himself in the film. That is the essence: Lawrence is an aristocrat, but obviously not a social aristocrat: a Nietzschean aristocrat, a nobleman in the strictest sense of the term.
In short, it is far from the viewer's morality. Lawrence, who is not yet uncultivated, or a little gross simpleton - he is literate, knowledge of relevant ... Can not conceive of life like him? So that the dual personality that the viewer can grasp from Lawrence in the movie - first, a humanistic and philanthropic Lawrence (Lawrence of this kind is the beginning, which fetches a man fell off his Frame and sentenced to die in the desert, against the advice of Ali (Omar Sharif), and Lawrence the bloodthirsty and immoral (the later Lawrence, massacring Turks column retreating) - So this split personality is the consequence of the fundamental aristocratic Lawrence. No two disjoint clusters, isolated from each other, but one source who is gradually evolved, although in different ways.
If Lawrence is the man condemned to death in the desert, not by love of the neighbor, then this man is essential to the objective of future military victories of Lawrence. Even interest in the scene or the same man risk to miss the capture of Akaba: Lawrence kills to serve, not its ideals or dreams of grandeur, but it needs to greatness. It's instinctual, vital or whatever you want. It is also necessary for him so that it causes the crisis of the film, when Lawrence wants to resign and leave Saudi. As he tells his English general, by the pleasure taken to kill the man. This confirms the aristocracy of Lawrence, this is a physical pleasure, which reveals the authentic underground forces at work in all its actions.
Theme from Lawrence of Arabia
The end of the movie is not out with the beginning, as one might say foolishly enough that the war was a kind of Lawrence was deformed, sick. That is to say, a Lawrence wicked pleasure rather reveals the aristocracy instinctual Lawrence, who needs domination and greatness. It gives free rein to Lawrence in the second part: a free game of violence, blood and insanity. A little chaos, basically. Another point, like this: how else Lawrence autonomy vis-à-vis the British army, by which it was initially dependent yet? Lawrence feels that his personal fate is played there, and could not care of his country or his army, does not care about any other order. He feels that his life can really live there, in the desert, with background in history absolutely magical image (which the film puts a perfect way, with Peter O'Toole), an Arab Prince blonde.
Lawrence of Arabia Main Theme
Still positive: its music is grand and quasi-legendary. Its key players, including very well interpreted by Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn. But the prize goes to Peter O'Toole, which makes the film so incredible. It is just a perfect film. Are there some drawbacks in this movie? No, I do not want to put negative points. It's great, it's beautiful, it is so excellent.
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