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Lawrence of Arabia (Patreon)

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Full length/Unedited: https://www.patreon.com/Cinebinge https://www.instagram.com/cinebingechannel/ Merch: https://www.cinebinge.ca BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/cinebinge.bsky.social Simone & George are reacting to Lawrence of Arabia for the first time! Canadians React! 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Lawrence of Arabia 40:15 - Discussion Subscribe | Like | Share | Comment Early Access & Full Reaction available on Patreon! #moviereaction #moviereview #lawrenceofarabia Instagram: @cinebingechannel Instagram: @simone.swan Movie Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakYDfILlxWOp8Rwm60i6s31 The Witcher Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakPpBOOSyThaEu9GBs7h5af Squid Games Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakSIA0kJIJkUmcxmms0m_Q0 Band of Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHanBD7cksu-blgCyxZOJrgT0 Blind Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHan3qPNF7wNbOvo653VjhxOR

Comments

Jeff K

Well now, THIS is an unexpected one

Josh B

Great thumbnail. Best cut ever for me.

Adam Wetstein

this one of those film you need to watch in the full threatre experiance

dudewheresmycar
>>132953571

It's called a match cut where the action of one scene is matched with the action of another completely different scene. A famous example being the spinning bone throw in 2001: A Space Odyssey being matched up with a spinning space station. David Lean the director of Lawrence made his match cut literal.

Byron

These dips into the classics have been great. My personal tastes haven’t been lining up with the Patreon voting the past few weeks, so this is an especially nice treat.

Adam Wetstein
>>132953571

I think you meant to place this comment in the main comment section not as a reaction to mine

Joe Williams

Loving the classics reactions. George nailed it when he mentioned Dune. It shares so much DNA with Lawrence of Arabia. Also, no one shoots a landscape quite like David Lean😍.

Brent Petty

George after posting the yearly reaction to LOTR trilogy: We couldn't find time to do a first reaction to Lawrence of Arabia because it's such a long film.

ShoNuff3000

Hey! That guy is Rick Blain's beautiful friend!

Aaron Stinson

Another great David Lean film would be Doctor Zhivago. Probably my favorite.

Zero Cochrane

“Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts.”

Kinokind

Been to Edmonton. Enough said. It did give us SCTV. Of course Dryden is played by the great Claude Rains, the Chief Inspector in Casablanca. He must also have had an affinity for the desert. Both he and Alec Guiness were among those rare actors who made a film good by being in it. Not that Lean needed help. Remember, where films like the Lord of the Rings and their ilk used massive computer effects - this was real. Almost no effects work was used (there may have been a couple matte paintings). It's hard to imagine that Peter O'Toole didn't win best actor for this (it was his first important film - he was 30. One of his last roles was as the voice of the food critic in Ratatouille). Although David Lean did get the Academy Award that year for Lawrence, Peter O'Toole lost to Gregory Peck, for "To Kill A Mockingbird", a film that has been criminally overlooked by all reaction channels. I would rate Mockingbird as comparable to "12 Angry Men" in importance. Note: If you ever get a chance to see this on the big screen, don't miss it. Drive to Toronto if you have to. I saw it on a huge screen in 70mm with 6-channel sound. It is astonishing. 4K is home movies by comparison.

Ed Stephens

I've read the book it's based on and many characters are composites of people Lawrence met and fought with. He did have Italian mountain guns with him but they weren't under Arab control. Canadian peacekeepers in the Sinai lost a copy of the film but fortunately someone took insurance out so they didn't have to pay tens of thousands for a replacement copy. Lawrence's brother and Ian Fleming's brother were based in Jerusalem in World War 2 working for the SOE.

JBK405

When it comes to the "accuracy" of this film...that's a tricky question. Like Ed Stephens said, many of the characters are composites based on numerous people who were active in the Arab Revolt. Some of them were direct-adaptations of real people, with liberties taken. For example, Auda Abu Tayi's family were furious at his presentation here, despite many people calling him one of the best characters of the film. I only watched this film for the first time myself a few years ago, and I was hesitant starting the film at all because I was half-dreading a LOT of racism and caricatures of the Middle East when portraying this Mighty Whitey tale. Surprisingly that wasn’t a big problem. They directly address that Lawrence isn’t a man to singlehandedly reshape the map, he is a dilettante playing at adventure with the lives of the locals. No matter his accomplishments he can never become one of them, and he never does truly understand their culture or motivation despite his superficial familiarity. He claims that he will grant them freedom and independence, only to realize by the end that their lives are not his to give. Faisal and Ali had him pegged from the very beginning. According to story, Alec Guinness was so accurate in his portrayal of Prince Faisal that people who knew the real Faisal sometimes mistook him for the real thing. I take that story with a grain of salt since Faisal had passed away thirty years previously, but it certainly says something about his performance.

ShoNuff3000

Watch a movie, don't react to it. Zero Effect. It would never win a poll.

Michael

I assume the water skins have opposing spouts for the same reason that many gas cans do- so that air can enter from the opposite side and aid in swift pouring.

Ken Schneyer

A lovely reaction. Thank you! This film is based on T. E. Lawrence's memoir, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Most of the characters are real people or else amalgams of two or more people. Most of the events were similar -- e.g., Lawrence really did execute someone he had saved from the desert, his two young servants (who were probably lovers) really did both die during the war, Lawrence really was captured, beaten, and (yes) probably raped. One significant difference: Prince Faisal and Lawrence were actually the same age, and later collaborated in the negotiations that eventually created the Kingdom of Iraq, so this "young men, old men" thing doesn't really apply to the two of them. However, that line is based on something from Lawrence's book: "We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace." The book is well worth reading.

Luis Torrefranca

I forget if you’ve reacted to Prometheus (from the Alien series), but keep that comparison of Peter O’Toole and Michael Fassbender in the pocket when watching that.

JBK405

Oh, and for a (very broad) description of the travels: Lawrence starts in Egypt, first travels east to "central" Arabia where he joins up with Faisal's forces, and then travels west to Aqaba for the Battle of Aqaba. Aqaba is a port city on the Red Sea, which is currently part of Jordan (One of the southernmost cities in the country). After that they have various engagements throughout territory that is today Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. Their final push is north into Damascus, which is today in Syria. Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the world and played a major role in the region throughout all of recorded history, so it was a major unifying symbol. Prince Faisal (Faisal I bin Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashemi) was a member of the Hashemite dynasty, which still rules in Jordan. The King of Jordan that you mentioned at the end is -- if I'm remembering correctly -- actually the grand-nephew of Faisal. The biggest criticism I will make of the historical accuracy of this film is the portrayal of the collapse of the Arab government in Damascus at the end. Unlike the squabbling internal breakdown we see here, in real life the government continued for years, with Faisal as King, until the French invaded and deposed him. He rejected French mandate over Syria, and they forced him out. Afterwards, the British established him as King of Iraq.

Darin Foat

The shot of Ali riding up to the well out of the mirage was shot with a special 450mm telephoto lens called the Panavision Sphero Panatar. It was constructed especially for this film. It was used for 5 shots, and has never been used for another movie.

ShoNuff3000

Does Three Days of the Condor count as classic?

Happy Hanukkah

And as a follow-up, Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Darin Foat
>>132974428

Which you know, because you mention it at the end. :) Guess I should watch the whole thing before I comment.

Happy Hanukkah

0:33 "Why are the industrial amounts of medication I'm on affecting *her*?" :-) 1:14 "Famous for the beer" Which reminds me of the following sequel, in which Lawrence has fallen on hard times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIjtt5V3Es 43:13 "Take some drugs and go to bed." Living the life! :-)

Happy Hanukkah

[Plagiarizing myself.] After this movie and your innumerable viewings of Lord of the Rings, here are some more movies with impressive (non-CGI) cavalry charges: 1. The Lighthorsemen (1987) 2. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) 3. Waterloo (1970) 4. Day of the Siege (2012) Note that I am not *necessarily* recommending the entire movies. The charge scenes themselves can be found on YouTube. They are all based on historical events, as follows: [This list contains possible "spoilers" of a sort for those who don't know history.] 1. Charge of the Australian light horsemen at the WW1 battle of Beersheeba (1917) 2. The (in-) famous charge of the British Light Brigade in the Crimean War (1854) [Note: this could be triggering for horse lovers.] 3. French and British cavalry charges during the battle of Waterloo (1815) 4. Depicts what is usually described as the largest cavalry charge in history at the battle of Vienna in 1683, led by the famed Polish Winged Hussars.

Vonlinchen
>>132991295

Waterloo will never be topped as a battle movie, the scale is just amazing.

Tim Nicolle

The Man Who Would Be King would be a great follow up sort of film

Lola Lirola

A little bit of obscure trivia! So, in 2012, absolute Global Treasure and best man ever Keanu Reeves did a great documentary called Side By Side. In it, he explores the transition between analog film cameras and editing, to digital filming and post-production. The documentary is amazing. He talks to incredible names in the industry: Scorsese, Nolan, Lucas, the Watchowski sisters, Greta Gerwig (when she was still doing indie films), Fincher, Boyle, Peter Jackson, David Lynch, James Cameron... truly the best of the best. Among the people he talks to, there's Anne V. Coates, considered one of the greatesr film editors who ever lived, a true legend of filmmaking. She is responsible for what is considered 'the best film cut of all time', in this movie, where Lawrence blows on a match and it becomes a rising sun, like your thumbnail! You can watch the whole documentary (it's really entertaining and full of info) here, and Anne's part where you can see the cut is at 32:11-34:32. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lly_iRGVB3U

REDR58
>>132971464

The interesting thing is that Anthony Quinn, Mexican by birth (Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca), plays an Arab here. He plays a Greek in the guns of Navarone a year before this film. Omar Sharif, an Egyptian, would later play a Russian in “Doctor Zhivago” and an Argentine in “Che!” playing Guevara.

Magnificent Gojira

The first attempt of Dune adaptation (early 70s) was with David Lean in mind, director of this film by the way.

Lola Lirola
>>133057463

I know! That's like the super extra secret layer of fun to this trivia!! I didn't want to put it explicitly because I didn't want to spoil anything. Cherry on top: That John Wick one is with another Lawrence! (Fishburne)

Hollis Hamilton

This is one of four films Spielberg rewatches before starting a new project. Others are The Searchers (Ford), It's a Wonderful Life (Capra), and Seven Samurai (Kurosawa). The Searchers is John Ford's epic western and David Lean watched it several times to learn how to shoot landscapes. Great directors getting inspiration from other great directors.

Happy Hanukkah
>>133118282

I can't find the quote, so I'll have to go on memory: "Would you consider your latest film an homage?" Woody Allen: "I prefer to think of it as outright theft." :-)

Logan Kerlee
>>132974463

It's 49 years old, so I'd say that it counts as one. Though, I'd like to say anything that's 50+ counts, one year isn't that big of a deal.

Hollis Hamilton
>>133118282

Nice of Woody to admit it. Scorsese loves The Searchers and you can see the parallels in Taxi Driver.