One of the great movies of all time
Lawrence of Arabia was written by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson loosely based upon T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom about his time in the Middle East fighting the Ottomans in World War I. Like any screenplay they took artistic license with the source material and made it their own to make a movie. At the same time, a lot of what Lawrence wrote in his own book was also made up such as the Arab army taking Damascus on its own, which is featured in the film. What that all means is that the movie should be not taken as historical other than there was a T.E. Lawrence who fought in the Middle East during the Great War.<br /><br />That being said Lawrence of Arabia is an epic movie with great characters and some of the most beautiful scenery, mostly from Jordan and Spain, put to film.<br /><br />The story begins at the end with T.E. Lawrence’s (Peter O’Toole) death in 1935 and then flashes back to Lawrence working in Egypt when the call went out by the Foreign Office for an Arab expert to help in the war in Arabia. Mr. Dryden (Claude Rains) of the Arab Bureau wants Lawrence to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) who attacked the Ottomans and assess his intentions and capabilities.<br /><br />Major characteristics of Lawrence are immediately revealed, being an iconoclast who doesn’t follow military rules and regulations, an intellect with a high education, and someone with a deep interest in Arabs.<br /><br />Lawrence then makes his trip into Arabia to find Faisal. The amazing scenery is first revealed here. There’s a shot of the son coming up out of the desert and then the magnificent expanses of the desert with hills. It makes you fall in love with Arabia, even though it was filmed in Jordan.<br /><br />Lawrence eventually finds Faisal and becomes an adviser and military leader even though he’s supposed to be a British officer. He comes across several important sheikhs such as Auda abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn) and Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif) that will accompany him throughout the film. Tayi is the warrior while Ali is the aspiring politician. That leads to some of the most memorable scenes in the film, such as going to Tayi’s camp with hundreds of men with more great location shots, the attack upon Aqaba, Lawrence’s crossing the desert to return to Egypt, etc.<br /><br />There’s also a note about British imperialism as the they are willing to help Prince Faisal, but only so much because they don’t want him to become independent. That plays out in the amount of military equipment they’re willing to give him and when they don’t help the prince’s forces after they take Damascus. The Great War was all about empire, and the British wanted to take large parts of the Middle East afterward as their spoils. The racism that came with it is also included, such as when Lawrence and his servant Faraj (Michel de Carvalho) enter the British HQ in Cairo and they tell Daud to get out because he’s Arab, and call him racist names. Similarly, when Lawrence is mistaken for an Arab in Damascus he is insulted by a British officer as well.<br /><br />Lawrence of Arabia is a really remarkable film. Peter O’Toole had a memorable performance, and Quinn and Sharif were great as well. The cinematography has to be seen to be appreciated. It’s simply beautiful what they were able to capture. All together it is a classic, and one of my favorites of all time.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in a battle against the Ottoman Turks during World War I..