Lawrence of Arabia (1962) By Sungjin In

Title/Year: Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: David Lean / England / 1908

Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $70,000,000(Worldwide) (January 2004)

Synopsis: During the war between British and Turkey over Suez Canal, British sends Lawrence (Peter O'Toole),  to Arabia to ask for tactical support from Arabian leaders.

Narrative and Visual Keywords: Imperialism, Epic battle. WWI, Based on true story, War.

Characterization/ Dialogue: Based on true story of T.E. Lawrence. Lawrence goes to Arabia under order from British millitary, to ensure the millitary support from Arabian leaders against Turkish millitary.

Camera/lighting/editing technique: Lots of lontakes in shots from desert. Seems like they only used natural light source in desert. Some desert scenes were poorly under exposed(could been from digital remaster).

 Political/ Social Commentary: Lawrence does not agree with his Governments, but still trys to carry out order in his own way.

Historical Relevance/ Recognition:

List of award winning.
35th Academy Awards(Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)Best Picture-Sam Spiegel
Best Director-David Lean
Best Art Direction- John Box, John Stoll and Dario Simoni
Best Cinematography-Frederick A. Young
Best Substantially Original Score-Maurice Jarre
Best Film Editing-Ann V. Coates
Best Sound-John Cox
Best Actor-Peter O'Toole(nominated)
Best Supporting Actor-Omar Sharif(nominated)
Best Adapted Screenplay-Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson(Nominated)

16th British Academy Film Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts)
Best Film from any Source-Sam Spiegel and David Lean
Best British Film-Sam Spiegel and David Lean
Best British Actor-Peter O'Toole
Best British Screenplay-Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson
Best Foreign Actor-Anthony Quinn

20th Golden Globe Awards(Hollywood Foreign Press Association)
Best Motion Picture and Drama-David Lean and Sam Spiegel
Best Director of a Motion Picture-David Lean
Best Supporting Actor-Omar Sharif
Most Promising Newcomer: Male-Omar Sharif
Best Cinematography, Color-Frederick A. Young
Most Promising Newcomer: Male-Peter O'Toole(Nominated)

Notable Collaboration: Based on True story. This movie was made before special effect was introduced to movie. It has inspired many directors, such as Goeorge Lucas, and Steven Spielburg. Spielburg once said, it will take more than 280 million dollars in modern days to reproduce the movie the way it was done before.

Random fact, Etc : When sony pictures Digitally remastered this film, films were in bad shape. it was due to that the work was done in desert. High temperature had imprinted workers finger prints on the film which made sony pictures job harder than it is.
makeup..... it reaqlly throws me off. Lawrence pratically lives in desert for couple of month and his hair never changes his skin only has single tone. Always looks nice and combed really nice, it wouldnt be messed up by anything. Even when he takes turbon off hair is still.

Source:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/
http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=972236&mobile&categoryId=1391
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)

1. Conflict between two diffrent classes through out the movie is very obvious. Like the British club house scene. But in this movie, ineffective millitary leadership seems to be coming from imperialism not from the conflict of two different class.

2. Post trauma syndrom was illustrated very dramatically from character Lawrence's POV when he comes back from capture.

3. Not so much of melodramatic element was shown in this movie, It is not just ordinary classical story of hero, since we already know he dies at the end realizing nothing was changed.

4. Enemy was portraited as perverted and reuthless in the scene when Lawrence was captured.