what makes it so kino?
>>217430058>217430058no women, for one
>>217430058The White Man's Burden.
>>217430058More like Snorence of Arabia. I could barely keep my eyes open through this shit.
>>217430264I made it up to the trek through the desert with the two zestlings.
Nothing, it's overrated.
>>217430214The burden being giving that region over to jews and plunging it into chaos?
>>217430058>white guy goes on an adventure and everyone thinks he's the coolest kino plot plus great dialogue and shots, that's all it takes
I don't like the name Lawrence, only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence.
>>217430058The fact that it's Patton, but for gays.
>>217430058Capeshit for boomers.
>>217430058the favstian drive for adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfG6FZ3WBjgits crazy that Dune ripped this off in high fantasy setting and is somehow less kino than the actual thing
>>217430058It's an early self-insert wish-fulfillment story. The viewer can imagine he is an educated westerner who travels to a savage land and teaches the savage locals western knowledge and wisdom.
>look up the real life guy>he was a massive degenerate faggot who would pay older men to beat him while he called them daddy
>>217431273based
>>217430264I forced myself to watch it three times because everyone talks about it being the greatest film ever, but I still have no idea what the fucking story was.
>>217431220>teaches the savage locals western knowledge and wisdomthis doesn't happen in the movie
>>217430058https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSGsVqRU4KgThe trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.Based Big Fassy's impressions were great
>>217431296I could never get past the first 10-15min. Might give it another try someday
>>217430058did he get raped in the book?
>>217430058Great story.Great characters.Great performances.Great cinematography.Shot on location.>>217431220Did you even watch it? The opposite happens. The arabs teach the white man not the other way around.
Back when movies had color and light
>>217430058big things
>>217431969pleb
>>217430058People like to see stories about people that refuse to compromise. In the real world they're usually a pain in the ass to be around.
>>217431296He was English
>>217432416yes but in real life it was probably consensual and he invented some KWAB fantasy to cover his tracks
Because Alec Guinness was great as Faisal
Besides being beautifully shot with great acting, the story of a competent and brave man being gradually consumed by his environment is extremely compelling.
>>217432439>The opposite happens. The arabs teach the white man not the other way around.oh, I thought I saw a movie where the tribal savages who killed each other for drinking from the wrong well were convinced by the white man to stick together against a common enemyonly to fall back into savagery at the end after the white man gave them independence hah hah my mistake
>>217435044Nta, but I think the movie portrays a lot of the Arabs savagery as a natural product of their harsh environment. They have to be protective of things like their wells because there is so little water. Beyond that, Lawrence gradually becomes more Arab as the movie goes on, even making an illogical decision to attack a fleeing convoy at the end in the name of revenge. That being said, the Arabs do have issues and are clearly unable to organize into a proper government, hence their failure to hold Damascus
>>217435122>product of muh environmentarab savages are no different than native american savages who would scalp each other over petty bullshit despite being in a lush environmentthe difference is white people took over the land here and turned it into a prosperous countrywhile arabs were left to their savagery and developed a whole region that breeds terrorism and enacts backwards ass policies like literal slaveryand you can't blame their environment anymore when they have access to practically unlimited oil money which has only been siphoned into pure degeneracyor look south of the border where the savages were given a language and religion by the Spanish then left alone, only to breed drug cartels who literally rip each other's faces off and film it for enjoymentsavages all over the world can't simply be taught to stop savaging, it's in their blood
>>217430058>>217430155>>217430214>>217430535no matter what he did he couldn't get arabs to stop attacking one another over stupid bullshit making it easier for jews to own their ass for all time
>>217435368I’m not interested in discussing real-life Arab politics. I’m saying that the movie portrayed the Arabs savagery as largely environmental, and several Arabs like the Prince were clearly very intelligent. I admit that the movie shows how inter-tribal conflicts drag the Arabs down and stop them from properly unifying, but I don’t think the moral is meant to be white-supremacist in nature. If anything, the fact that Lawrence, a British man, becomes as Arab as anyone else, goes against that argument.
>>217435529>I’m saying that the movie portrayed the Arabs savagery as largely environmentalfair enough> I don’t think the moral is meant to be white-supremacist in natureI wouldn't say it's a movie that's meant to promote racismbut in telling a decently accurate turn of events it's hard to ignore the reality>Lawrence, a British man, becomes as Arab as anyone elseI wouldn't say the movies really portrays that, it always made it seem like deep down Lawrence felt out of place there, especially after the Turkish prison or his furstration when the Arabs couldn't come to the table and develop a proper society at the endultimately he found himself back in Britain joyriding his motorcycle through the countryside
>>217430058a white male protagonist faces challenges in a harsh environment with unfamiliar people
>>217432439>Did you even watch it? The opposite happens. The arabs teach the white man not the other way around.They don't watch the movies.They just have stock criticisms to levie at a movie that meets certain criteria White man in a foreign land? Must be white savior.
>>217435368Slavery is definition of civilization.
>>217434817Based on what?
>>217430058Everything.
>>217430625>only faggots and sailors are called LawrenceYou should be able to appreciate the foreshadowing in his name then.
>>217432711cinematography
>>217432711They also understood depth of field. A modern film would have done this scene at f2.8 or more and focused only on the people at the forefront. Modern cinematographers are like students that just got their first f1.4 lens and decide every scene needs extreme DoF, it pisses me off.
