Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia  is an English biographical adventure film from 1962 film directed by David Lean. The story is about the British Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence and is based on his own book. Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars, including best picture and best director. The film meant the international break-through for lead actors Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif.

Other roles were for Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle and Claude Rains. During the 217 minutes (3.5 hours) long movie comes no woman apparent in image.

The film was largely shot in Wadi Rum, a desert region in the current Jordan North of Aqaba where indeed a part of history took place.

The film paints a picture of the complex personality of Lawrence, interspersed with desert images and action scenes. The movie is generally regarded as a high point in film history. The historical facts are essentially correct, but, as usual, romanticized in movies showing. Because Lawrence was an enigmatic personality, it is very difficult to find out what his true motives and emotions have been.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film begins on a day in 1935, day when Lawrence, who has withdrawn since his life as Colonel, fatally damaged in an accident with the motorcycle. A memorial service for him on one tries to understand his striking personality, but without much success.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 historical accuracy
 * 3.3 Music
 * 3.4 Follow-up
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 4.1 Film Awards
 * 4.2 Other recognitions
 * 5 external link

The film is told as a flashback, which begins in Cairo at the time of the first world war. Lawrence is a Lieutenant in the British army, and is known for his insolence and his knowledge of the Bedouin. Against protests from the sceptical General Murray in, Lawrence by Mr. Dryden of the Arab bureau sent to the camp of Prince Feisal to discuss his planned rebellion against the Turks.

On the way to the camp is Lawrences guide killed by Sherif Ali because he drinks from a source without permission. Near Feisals camp meet Lawrence its commander Colonel Brighton. These orders him to his visit to Feisal as short as possible. Lawrence ignores this command and during the visit attracts the attention of the Prince.

After a crushing defeat of Feisals troops, gives him the advice to retreat to Brighton Yanbu. Lawrence, however, with another plan: a bold attack on Aqaba. If the city is taken, the British have a port from which the rebels of stocks they might have foreseen. The city is well defended from the sea, but Lawrence proposes a surprise attack on the less heavily defended land side. With a group of 50 men, led by Sheriff Ali, Lawrence leaves toward Aqaba. Two teenagers, Daud and Fabio, travel secretly with it. The group crossed the Nefudwoestijn, and travels by day and night. A man, Gasim, initially in the desert remains behind because he cannot travel, but Lawrence will risk his life to get him back. He won everyone's respect this.

Auda Abu Tayi, Lawrence met the leader of a powerful local Howeitatstam. He also persuades him to return against the Turks by claiming that gold would lie in Aqaba. Lawrences plan failed almost because one of Ali's men kills one of Auda's men because of a feud. To keep the peace between the two groups, to personally execute the murderer Lawrence decision. To his shock turns out to be this Gasim. He loves Word and shoot the man down. The next day Ali's army and army joint Aqaba to Auda's fall and conquer the city. Auda is disappointed that there is no gold in the city, but Lawrence promises that the British will give him gold.

Lawrence leaves for Cairo to Dryden and his new General, General Allenby, to notify of his victory. He is promoted to major and given arms and money to support the Arabs. Initially he refuses because he is shocked by his own pleasure to to execute, but the General Gasim convinces him that he is cut out for this work. He asks for leave, Lawrence the General still or the fear of the Arabs that the British will take over power if the Turks once driven out are well founded. According to the General, this is not the case.

With his new rank and open tools Lawrence a Guerrilla-war against the Turks. So he blows the Hidjazspoorweg trains on. the American war correspondent Jackson Bentley helps Lawrence to make world famous by writing about his actions. However, the winter is approaching and many tribesmen times home, allowing Lawrence to the soldiers with less and less. Fabio is messy to with a dynamite detonator and discovered if the thing goes off on his body, and Lawrence is forced to shoot him so he does not will fall into Turkish hands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With only 20 man in his army, to explore the city of Daraa decision Lawrence as a possible next target. He gets caught and along with some Arab inhabitants brought to the Turkish bei . He is brutally beaten, raped and then tossed up the street.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lawrence reached Jerusalem, where Allenby urges him to go back and by fighting to get to Damascus . Lawrence is not changed by all experiences and want to first return. In the end, he reluctantly another army, consisting of mainly murderers and robbers who mainly get involved for the money. With this group overtakes Lawrence among other things a platoon Turkish soldiers who just caused a massacre among the villagers of Tafas. It is a massacre in which Lawrence single-handedly kills many men. Next, draw them further to Damascus, and take in this city.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Arabs after the victory a Council to control the city, but they almost all nomads are they have little experience with such a task. They soon leave and Damascus in British hands. Lawrence gets promoted to Colonel and is immediately sent back home from his Office and authority. He is no longer needed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After his departure, the French and British the Sykes-Picot Treaty, and divide the Middle East to their own insights which they are nothing to the old structures that in hundreds of years between the tribes had come into being. To this day, sees the map of the Middle East there largely as when determined. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Movies about the life of t. e. Lawrence were already longer time on the schedule. In the 1940s, wanted to make a movie already Alexander Korda with Laurence Olivier as Lawrence, but financial problems forced him to give up this plan.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When Lawrence of Arabia was first announced, Lowell Thomas gave mirror and the screenwriters Bolt and Wilson a large number of works he had written on Lawrence during and after meeting with him. Mirror, however, this offer.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Michael Wilson wrote the original screenplay for the film. David Lean was not satisfied with this scenario, especially since it mainly turned to the historical and political aspects of the Arab revolt, and hired Robert Bolt to write the scenario again so that Lawrence would come more to the forefront. David Lean ordered the recordings inspired by John Ford's 1956 film The Searchers .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Filming began on May 15, 1961, and lasted until 20 October 1962. The desert scenes were shot in Moroccoand Jordan, as well as Spain. The film was originally going to be recorded entirely in Jordan. The Government of Hussein of Jordan was even very helpful in supporting the recordings. During the shooting met and married Hussein with Toni Gardiner. Only there were tensions when local officials discovered that actor Henry Oscar, who spoke no Arabic, would quote from the Koran. Here was only given permission for when the producers promised to involve an imam when shooting to prevent mispronunciations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Jordan wanted Lean among other filming in the real Aqaba and the archaeological excavation place in Petra. The attack on Aqaba was filmed in a dry riverbed in the South of Spain. The set for the scene consisted of 300 buildings.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The production of the film was delayed a few times, mostly because the scenario was not yet completed when filming began. When Wilson there early with it stopped, took the production work from him about Bolt.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The camels that were used were also arranged for problems on the set. O'Toole could not on a camel riding, and found the saddle as unpleasant. He solved this problem by a piece of foam rubber to the saddle to add;something a lot of other actors took over later. The idea was even taken over by Bedouin. ===Historical accuracy<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The historical accuracy of the film, especially the way Lawrence is put down, disputed by scholars. Most of the characters in the film are real people, and the events are largely based on accepted historical facts and Lawrence's own report. Though the filmmakers have their own twist to certain situations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Certain scenes, such as the attack on Aqaba, have been greatly exaggerated for the film. The scenes on the Arab Council are largely false, since most Council members stayed in Syria, and remained in power until the French power in 1920. The timeline of the movie, especially where the events surrounding the Arab revolt and the first world war, is often called into question. Bentley says in the film that the Americans are not yet in the war have mixed, while the scene set in 1917; a time when America fought for several months.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most complaints about the accuracy of the film went on Lawrence itself. So is Lawrence in the film portrayed as selfish. Also on some other characters came criticism, such as the fact that General Allenby was portrayed as a cynical Commander. Allenby and Lawrence had in reality respect for each other.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  the fact that Auda abu Tayi was put down as a man who only on money is out, is also historically inaccurate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the people who had the most critical on the film, was professor A.W. Lawrence; the younger brother of T. E. Lawrence. He told not to recognize his own brother in the film.

<p lang="en" len="124" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Allenby family sent an official complaint to Columbia for the way their ancestor was put down in the film. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film music was composed by Maurice Jarre, who at the time was still relatively unknown. He was chosen after first William Walton and Malcolm Arnold were approached, but both were not available. Jarre had six weeks to two hours to compose music for Lawrence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ===Sequel<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1990 the made-for-TV movie A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, intended as a sequel to the film. The lead role is played by Ralph Fiennes.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film revolves mainly around the attempts of Lawrence and Feisal to independence for Arabia during the Conference for the Treaty of Versailles. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Film Awards<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other recognitions<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="248" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1991 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">American Film Institute recognition


 * 1998 AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies # 5
 * 2001 AFI's 100 Years ...100 Thrills # 23
 * 2003 AFI's 100 years ... 100 heroes and villains:
 * T.E. Lawrence, hero # 10
 * 2005 AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores # 3
 * 2006 AFI's 100 Years ...100 Cheers # 30
 * 2007 AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies (10th anniversary) # 7
 * 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 — # 1 Epic film