.... watching tonight's movie, I just have shouted five different times that "THERE was a shot that I would love to have hanging on my wall"...... the movie is just epic...... absolutely epic...... and it is no wonder that cinematographers have frothed at the mouth every time they have seen it since it was first displayed on the silver screen.......
..... as for me?..... I remember being ill in 10th grade and bedridden.... and while my mother worked away at the back of the house, I lay awake on the couch - full of fever - and watched "Laurence of Arabia" for the first time.....
.... I suppose the sights of those hardy gentlemen roving the desert kindled my life-long dream - to trek from Casablanca to Alexandria via caravan........ camel caravan.........
...... nowadays, I suspect that I'd need an armed guard....... but, wow..... can you imagine?...... I've been to the arctic..... and I have been to the jungle....... but I have never been to such a desert.......... and I do think that I would love it so.....
.....I mean, just let this little bit soak in for a while..... behold....
...... it reminds me so much of certain scenes in "Jeremiah Johnson"..... another great film that I dearly love......
.... shadows can be such beautiful things!.........
If memory serves me correctly, T.E. Lawrence got the chop in a motorcycle accident.
A man should know his limits. Maybe he should have stuck to camels...the one's you ride not the one's you smoke.
I can well understand the casting of Peter O'Toole as Lawrence. The resemblance between the two is quite remarkable.
Excellent movie.
Bullshitted by zonker on March 21, 2010 06:52 PMI drove from Dallas to Houston just to see 'Lawrence Of Arabia' screened in 70mm. I would have driven twice that distance for the experience. One of the all-time great films!
Bullshitted by El Capitan on March 22, 2010 12:41 PM