Thread by @visakanv

Okay I think I’m gonna watch Lawrence of Arabia today! Just noticed from the poster that Obi Wan (Alec Guinness) is in it. I don’t recognize any of the other names

Alright let’s go!! You might wanna mute this thread

the motorcycle - I wonder if it’s the inspiration for Naughty Dog intro screens?

(the intro screens I’m thinking of - Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us II particularly)

Wait the movie literally starts with him going on a bike ride, swerving, and then he ded 😂 wtf. Then it’s flashbacks I guess

he does have a certain David Bowie sorta energy

Sic parvis magna!

So Lawrence gets pulled out of Cairo, where he’s being a sort of charming weirdo mischievous nuisance, and he’s being sent to find Prince Faisal

the Bedouins here seem to be like the Fremen in Dune

grand and cinematic with rousing music to match

o shit his guide-friend just got pwned

“he was nothing, the well is everything, he knew that”

Oh, Obi-Wan is Prince Faisal 😂 well,,, it was 1962

Make Cordoba Great Again

So Lawrence comes up with this bold plan to cross a hostile desert with Faisal’s men to strike the Turks(?)

And halfway through this treacherous journey when they find some water he stops to soak his feet and read a book lmao

One of the men in the convoy, Gasim, is stranded without his camel. leader Ali says he will be dead by midday. Lawrence decides to go back for him - a questionable decision given the circumstances - but he succeeds! Gasim is saved! Why am I emotional? This music is great

this daring rescue turns him into a hero “for whom nothing is written”. he becomes El Laurence and they even dress him up like a sharif

Pretty similar to Dune’s Paul Atreides becoming Muad’Dib

Lawrence succeeds in brokering an allegiance between his crew of Faisal’s men and a rival tribe - when one of Faisal’s kills one from another. He is forced to execute him to keep the peace - and turns out it’s Gasim, who he saved earlier. Lawrence is troubled, but does it

2 hours in and Lawrence has had a rough ride

3 hours in and he seems to have lost the taste for revolt. There’s still 40 minutes though...?

madness and bloodlust... Shakespearean

And done! I’m glad I watched it. I can see why it’s a classic and beloved film, especially by filmmakers. Peter Toole’s expressiveness is remarkable. The music is iconic. And now I’m curious to learn about the actual history, and to look up this movies’ influences (both ways)