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Texags classic movie of the week: Lawrence of Arabia

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Brian Earl Spilner
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9:41p, 1/17/23
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We haven't had one of these in a while, and this is one I had suggested, but it was never streaming.

Just got an alert from Google and it's now streaming on HBO Max, so I figured I'd throw up a thread for a movie of the week.

I know there's gotta be a lot of others like me who've never seen it.

Feel free to discuss the movie if you've seen it, but please keep it spoiler free (or use spoiler tags) until next Monday.

Gonna probably get to this on Friday night or Saturday myself. Excited to finally watch it.
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9:43p, 1/17/23
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I may check it out this weekend. I like epics and this one has always been on my watchlist.
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10:04p, 1/17/23
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10:10p, 1/17/23
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Thanks for brining this back. This should be a good one.
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8:06a, 1/18/23
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Be sure to watch this one on the biggest TV and format available.
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8:25a, 1/18/23
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Ok, yes. Welcome to an incredible world of cinematography. Great movie. Watch on a big screen and good sound and resolution. It's long, so make a nice drink and get comfortable, it's worth every single minute.

Great movie. Great actors. Unusual man for sure, and a window into a world now long gone, thiugh certainly through the eyes of the 1960's perspective.

'The trick is, not minding that it hurts'
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3:09p, 1/18/23
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This is one I always watch when it's on TV and I always enjoy, but I don't know if I can accurately express why.

Does anyone have that issue with anything?
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3:48p, 1/18/23
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An absolute classic. It'll make you want to embark on an adventure.
Thanks and gig'em
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to redline248 • 3:57p, 1/18/23
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Movies you enjoy but don't know why?

Devil Wears Prada for me. I have absolutely zero interest in fashion, nor am I a particularly big rom-com watcher, but any time I come across that movie, I have to watch it.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 4:08p, 1/18/23
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That's on my list for sure. I almost hate-watch it.
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4:14p, 1/18/23
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I love this movie. One of my top 5 movies of all time. Beautiful to look at. Omar Sharif coming on screen may be one of the best entrances ever. So many great scenes and lines.
"No prisoners!"
"Jesus wept"
"He was nothing. The well is everything"
"The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me"

When it was rereleased about 30 years ago I drove 7 hours to watch it on the biggest screen I could find.

Yeah, I kinda like this movie.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 4:41p, 1/18/23
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That one is easy

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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to Hogties • 4:53p, 1/18/23
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Impressive.
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In reply to Hogties • 5:12p, 1/18/23
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Hogties said:
I love this movie. One of my top 5 movies of all time. Beautiful to look at. Omar Sharif coming on screen may be one of the best entrances ever. So many great scenes and lines.
"No prisoners!"
"Jesus wept"
"He was nothing. The well is everything"
"The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me"

When it was rereleased about 30 years ago I drove 7 hours to watch it on the biggest screen I could find.

Yeah, I kinda like this movie.
I never new it was re-released. I would have done the same.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
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5:24p, 1/18/23
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Have only seen bits of this one. Excited to check it out
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6:26p, 1/18/23
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i mean, really....this is a badass movie.


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7:07p, 1/18/23
You'll thank me later, but consider timing your restroom breaks for the camel riding scenes and don't bother pausing the movie. I like this movie, I speak Arabic, I've lived in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and even rode camels there with Bedouins.... but some of the camel riding scenes do drag a bit even for me.

Also, take the intermission, particularly because i think it is in the middle of a long camel riding scene.

I'm not telling you not to watch the movie, because it is good, but know that there is probably 45 minutes of camel riding set to dramatic music in a 4 hour long movie.
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7:12p, 1/18/23
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One of the greatest movies ever made. Back in 1989, it was re-released in theaters. I went with my girlfriend to the Manor East Mall theater in Bryan and loved every moment of it. This movie really must be seen on a big screen.

LoA was referenced in a sequence in The Book of Boba Fett, as well as the film the android David was watching and quoting in Prometheus.

I have not watched LoA in years, so I do believe this weekend will rectify that.
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In reply to AggieEP • 8:31p, 1/18/23
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So we can blame this for stupid montages that Taylor Sheridan does in Yellowstone?

My wife and have to fast forward when we think he's about to do a music video set on a ranch the mountains.

Kidding aside, thanks all for the rec, looking forward to watching this now.
Staff - take out the trash.
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In reply to Garrelli 5000 • 8:41p, 1/18/23
I know that the purists will tell me that those scenes are the essence of true epic cinematography, but I'm clearly not cultured enough to understand and enjoy that essence.

I can't help but think that the movie would be better with a 3.5 hour run time with the main cuts being to the camel riding scenes. (I will grant that a major plot point does have to do with his camel riding endurance... but I'm not sure I needed to see the whole ride )
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8:54p, 1/18/23
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In my short list of classics I have never seen

Casablanca
A Streetcar Named Desire
The African Queen
The Philadelphia Story
Roman Holiday
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
It Happened One Night
On the Waterfront


Holy hell though LoA is 227 minutes long. Wow.

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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 9:19p, 1/18/23
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Ben-Hur is great.

It's awesome to hear all the positive reviews. For me the thing I'm definitely most excited for is the cinematography. So many modern directors reference Lawrence of Arabia in their work, it makes me that much more interested in seeing it.

Same reason I love 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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9:29p, 1/18/23
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Thanks for the heads up, I need to watch this one as well
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In reply to AggieEP • 9:49p, 1/18/23
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AggieEP said:
I know that the purists will tell me that those scenes are the essence of true epic cinematography, but I'm clearly not cultured enough to understand and enjoy that essence.

I can't help but think that the movie would be better with a 3.5 hour run time with the main cuts being to the camel riding scenes. (I will grant that a major plot point does have to do with his camel riding endurance... but I'm not sure I needed to see the whole ride )
I think you're missing the emotional connection with the difficulty of the journey. Most people today are so impatient they cant even comprehend a 2 week camel ride, dry to the verge of death, and what that means.

I think the length of those scenes helps connect.

Of course, not if the viewer is glancing at their phone
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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 9:50p, 1/18/23
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Zombie Jon Snow said:
In my short list of classics I have never seen

Casablanca
A Streetcar Named Desire
The African Queen
The Philadelphia Story
Roman Holiday
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
It Happened One Night
On the Waterfront


Holy hell though LoA is 227 minutes long. Wow.

Dr zhivago?
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9:59p, 1/18/23
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Thanks for the heads up. I haven't seen this since watching it with my dad maybe 40 years ago.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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12:48p, 1/19/23
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This thread got me thinking about the movie again and now I'm certainly going to watch it again soon. So many wonderful things about this epic.

It features the iconic roles for three great actors, Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Anthony Quinn as Auda, Omar Sharif as Ali were probably the pinnacle acting roles for 3 Hollywood greats, all in the same movie and often sharing the screen together. And Jose Ferrer has a small but powerful role that Jose himself said is was the finest acting of his career. Just great acting by great actors all around.

A fantastic jump cut from a burning match head to the sun rising over the desert. A jump cut similar to 2001- A Space Odyssey from the bone thrown in the air to the orbiting missile platform. Both cuts signaling to the viewer we aren't in Kansas anymore and it's about to get real.

"you acted without orders"
"Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times?"
"Not really. It's awfully dangerous"

When you hear people say, "they don't make movies like they used to", this is one of those movies.

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12:55p, 1/19/23
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Quote:
the orbiting missile platform
This thing was a missile platform?



I've seen the movie many times and read the book but don't recall that detail.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 1:48p, 1/19/23
I could be wrong but I never got the impression it was a missile platform. I thought it was an international space station with the chief purpose of being an orbital transfer point to the moon and beyond. As part of the plot Dr. Floyd had a discussion with Russian scientist upon the Station which would be odd if its purpose was primarily military.
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In reply to Hogties • 1:58p, 1/19/23
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Hogties said:
A fantastic jump cut from a burning match head to the sun rising over the desert. A jump cut similar to 2001- A Space Odyssey from the bone thrown in the air to the orbiting missile platform. Both cuts signaling to the viewer we aren't in Kansas anymore and it's about to get real.
It's been a while, but I don't remember learning enough about the spacecraft they cut to to know it is a missile platform. But it is one of the most famous movie match cuts ever. From humanities first tool to its ultimate tool. Thousands of years of science in one cut.
But Wikipedia does have this"The satellite is unidentified in the film, but the novel makes it clear that it is an orbital weapon platform, thus linking with the use of the bone as a weapon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_cut
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In reply to Quad Dog • 2:16p, 1/19/23
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Right, I read the book so that association with the first weapon to the ultimate weapon was there for me as a viewer. But yeah, it's not obvious in the movie what that spacecraft is in the movie.
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In reply to Hogties • 2:22p, 1/19/23
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Hogties said:
Right, I read the book so that association with the first weapon to the ultimate weapon was there for me as a viewer. But yeah, it's not obvious in the movie what that spacecraft is in the movie.
Been a while since I read the book and its sequels I remember liking the books a lot. Sounds like we need to do a 2001 watch/read thread.
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In reply to Quad Dog • 2:22p, 1/19/23
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Quad Dog said:
Hogties said:
Right, I read the book so that association with the first weapon to the ultimate weapon was there for me as a viewer. But yeah, it's not obvious in the movie what that spacecraft is in the movie.
Been a while since I read the book and its sequels I remember liking the books a lot. Sounds like we need to do a 2001 watch/read thread.
Do 2001 then 2010.
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In reply to Quad Dog • 2:23p, 1/19/23
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Quad Dog said:
Hogties said:
Right, I read the book so that association with the first weapon to the ultimate weapon was there for me as a viewer. But yeah, it's not obvious in the movie what that spacecraft is in the movie.
Been a while since I read the book and its sequels I remember liking the books a lot. Sounds like we need to do a 2001 watch/read thread.
2001 is on the watchlist thread for sure.
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In reply to Quad Dog • 2:25p, 1/19/23
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Quad Dog said:
Hogties said:
A fantastic jump cut from a burning match head to the sun rising over the desert. A jump cut similar to 2001- A Space Odyssey from the bone thrown in the air to the orbiting missile platform. Both cuts signaling to the viewer we aren't in Kansas anymore and it's about to get real.
It's been a while, but I don't remember learning enough about the spacecraft they cut to to know it is a missile platform. But it is one of the most famous movie match cuts ever. From humanities first tool to its ultimate tool. Thousands of years of science in one cut.
But Wikipedia does have this"The satellite is unidentified in the film, but the novel makes it clear that it is an orbital weapon platform, thus linking with the use of the bone as a weapon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_cut
That ship doesn't look like what I'd guess a missile platform might look like. Perhaps the missile platform in 1979's steaming pile of crap Meteor? This ship looks like a transport ship, nothing sinister to it.
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