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Lawrence of Arabia

jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,277 ******
edited November 2019 in General Discussion
On Turner Classic Movies now.
I can?t believe I?ve never seen it. It would be wonderful on the big silver screen.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've seen it many times on TV, and I have it on Blu-ray, but I've never seen it in a theater. My mother said it, and The Bridge on the River Kwai, were amazing on the big screen.
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,055 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the movies one and done viewing. Yeah I guess the scenery was nice but I didn't get the hype.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great movie and it is fairly accurate historically.

    The break up of the Ottoman Empire and the arbitrary establishment of Arab states by the British and French to be ruled over by them have brought us the problems we have today in the Middle East.
    RLTW

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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is a great movie but I just can't get in to shows about people running around in the desert.

    For his next film, David Lean wanted Peter O'Toole to play the lead again, in Dr. Zhivago. O'Toole said "I just spent 2 damn years running around in the desert and be damned if I would spend 2 years running around in Siberia." He turned down the lead in Dr. Zhivago, to film some comedy in London with Audrey Hepburn.

    So Omar Sharif, supporting actor in Lawrence of Arabia, got the lead in Dr. Zhivago. I saw that movie as a high school kid, with my girlfriend Mary, and that film just blew my socks off! What a great movie. I have watched it a dozen times on tv and I have it on dvd. Julie Christie, yessir!
    I also love Lean's movie from the fifties, Bridge on the River Kwai.
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