Lawrence Of Arabia
1 9 6 2 (UK)
When
my dad took me to see this film at the cinema in Mexborough my tiny
schoolboy mind was much puzzled that nobody else noticed the glaring
continuity error. Within seconds of the curtain going up, Lawrence
dies on his motorbike at the beginning of the film! And yet,
unperturbed by his own death he goes off to fight in World War I in
the desert . . .
Throughout the war, Lawrence keeps returning to Cairo
and complaining that he won't go back to the desert because he's not
fit. Then someone gives him a drink or a cigarette and off he tears
again into the sand to kill more Turks.
He
does this three or four times until everyone gets so pissed off with
him that they send him back to England so he can ride motorcycles
around all the time (even though he actually killed himself doing this
very thing at the beginning of the film).
There are also several thousand camels, miles and
miles of sand and loads of really big explosions. Add a bombastic
Maurice Jarre score, pumped-up Technicolor™ and a few dignified
thespians to brown-up as Arabs (Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn) and
you have a package designed for Oscars to be flung at! The end. |