Ordinary hero

Trace 2021-10-20 17:23:13

It took me a long time to start writing this article, because on the one hand, too many people have written words for this movie, and the protagonist of the movie has become a legend as early as his time. But on the other hand, I finished watching this movie after spending 3 hours and 45 minutes (God knows, this is the first time I watched a movie with an "intermission" intermission after I was 6 years old!) and checked a lot of information Later, I really want to write something. And the biggest problem that delayed my writing is: there are too many big stories about pets in this huge movie, where do I start? Organizing articles is a hard work, and since there is no contribution fee, I just think about where to talk about it.

Keyword 1: Epic
It is said that in a survey, the best epic film chosen by fans is "Lawrence of Arabia". After watching this movie, I was not surprised at all. In fact, from the opening of the magnificent music, I knew that this would not be a movie that deserves its name. For a movie filmed in the early 1960s, "Lawrence of Arabia" is perfect and amazing. The shots in the desert make people feel the yellow sand from the front to the horizon. When Lawrence returned to find the lagging companions, he waited for his entourage to look into the distance. Under the hot sun, the horizon was heated with heat, and the horizon was full of sand, until a tiny black spot appeared. ...... The photographer's skill can only be described by its superb skills. In addition, in the scenes of several cavalry groups fighting, the film also showed extraordinary courage. Pieces of Arabian knights emerged on the sand dunes, and the yellow sand splashed by horses’ hoofs made me feel the huge Shocking, this style is not comparable to 0 and 1 made by modern computer technology.

Keyword 2: hero
Lawrence has been a hero in his own time. The reporter Bentley in the film is actually the historical American traveler and journalist Lowell Thomas (Lowell Thomas). He wrote about Lawrence's Arab uprising (The Arab Revolt's sensational reportage, as well as Lawrence's autobiographical record "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", are the reasons for his fame. In my opinion, there are two shining points in Lawrence's body. One is the daring to create miracles, and the other is that he is a man who truly advocates freedom. This point of not surrendering to fate has been written by countless people. When Lawrence returned to the desert, looking for lost companions alone, he did not believe Ali said that "fate is doomed". He wanted to prove to the Arabs that he could rewrite fate. He was able to create miracles, he took risks, and he succeeded. The moment he rescued his companions from the desert, he truly became the "Lawrence of Arabia", and Arab talents truly accepted and trusted him. Of course, he later assaulted Aqaba and used guerrilla tactics to attack the railway, which greatly contained the military power of the Ottoman Empire. With his superb diplomatic ability, he mediated between the Arab tribes and brought the Arabs into an unprecedented unity. These magnificent feats , Not only made it truly a hero, but also admired by Hitler.

As for why I said that Lawrence is a true liberal, the reason is that he can help a weak nation resist power and fight for freedom. Yu Guangzhong said, "There are two people who helped the weak and small nations resist the powerful Ottoman Empire. One failed and the other succeeded. They both graduated from famous universities, and they both died young. The first was Byron and the second was Arab. Lawrence." Byron’s spirit of freedom can be understood by looking at the poems in my BLOG profile. Lawrence’s spirit of freedom lies in his fight for freedom for people without any hierarchy and borders. William Wallace fought for the freedom of his own people. It was fearless and honorable. For the freedom of the people of a foreign country, Lawrence bargained with his own government and worked hard. It was selfless, great and outstanding! When the generals in Cairo promised that "Britain does not want to rule Arabia" and "Damascus can be the seat of the Arab Parliament", does Lawrence really believe that they will return freedom to the Arabs? This Oxford graduate really thinks that his homeland and the Allied Congress have allowed the Arabs to unify and establish a nation? I don't think that, that's why he marched in the starry night and wanted his Arab forces to take the lead in Damascus. In fact, he knew in his heart that letting Britain and France abandon their colonies and their spoils, relying on his own strength, although he is already a world-famous hero, it is absolutely impossible to do it. Sure enough, he failed, in the hands of the cunning generals of the motherland, and even more in the hands of the people he was desperately trying to liberate-the disunity of the Arabs destroyed their freedom. Knowing that it cannot be done, challenging anyone, any right, for his own conviction, this is the most shining aspect of Lawrence.

Feeling that his career for Arab independence was betrayed by politicians, Lawrence refused to serve as governor and other positions after the war and chose to live in seclusion instead.

Keyword 3: ordinary people
In the movie, Lawrence was captured and tortured and finally returned to Cairo, but his chief wanted him to perform a mission. At this time, Lawrence was close to collapse. He said: Leave me alone! (This sentence actually implies With a deeper hint, I'll talk about it later) Lawrence hopes that he is an ordinary person, he is gay, and, in the present terms, is still a masochist (close your big mouth, we will talk about it later), he Fragile and sensitive, from the point of view of secrets and shortcomings, he is an ordinary person, but from the point of view of ability, he is an excellent person. Living like this is indeed painful.

For Lawrence himself, there are two sentences in the film that are very noteworthy. One sentence is from Prince Feather: With major Lawrence mercy is a passion, with me it's merely good manners. The other sentence is from Lawrence himself, meaning that he killed a person. , But found himself enjoying it. What the director wanted to express and what hints are no longer important here. What’s important is that this movie took the statue of Lawrence from the altar and turned him into a living person, with shortcomings. people.

Of course, by the way, there are also untruths about the shaping of Lawrence in the movie, and it is very unpleasant here. I quote the text on the Wiki:

The real Lawrence actually shunned the limelight, as evidenced by his attempts after the war to hide under various assumed names. Even during the war, Lowell Thomas wrote (in With Lawrence in Arabia) that he could only take pictures of Lawrence by tricking him ( though he did later agree to pose for several pictures for Thomas' stage show). Thomas's famous comment that Lawrence "had a genius for backing into the limelight" referred to the fact that his extraordinary actions prevented him from being as private as he would have liked to have been, not anything to do with self-promotion or egotism at all.

Let me briefly talk about it, to the effect that Lawrence is a person who does not like to "hype" himself very much, but Lawrence in the movie often poses in front of the camera. Being called by the reporter as the "King of Ai Xian", I don't know what the screenwriter thinks.



Keyword 4: hint of homosexuality
Regarding the issue of Lawrence being gay, many historians and biographers have been researching for a long time, but it is still a mystery. To be honest, when I saw this movie, my first impression was: Wow, it's so advanced. The 60s films have already made a fuss about homosexuality! Sure enough, there are many hints of homosexuality in the movie, such as Lawrence’s feminine demeanor and thin body, the gentle blue eyes and sentimentality, not paying attention to military etiquette, etc., especially the two handsome Arab boys around Lawrence. Obviously implying something, the most obvious implying is the sentence "Leave me alone!" You must know that the general said at the time: "This sentence is too weak to say." It is more than weak, a soldier said at this moment In this case, it is extremely delicate and sensitive. (Could it be that Lawrence is still a minor...)
This is what the Wiki says:

some chapters in Lawrence's works, as well as the memories of his colleagues in the military, reflect his tendency to be sexually masochistic, like whipping and flesh. pain of. In December 1917, Lawrence was captured, raped and beaten by Turkish troops in Dera along the Hanzhi Railway. Another controversial topic of Lawrence is his sexual orientation. The book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" has the preface "To SA", which is believed to be a love poem to a 14-year-old Arab boy named Dahoum (Dahoum's full name is Sheikh Ahmed) (See citation). Dahom worked with Lawrence at the archaeological site of Kahmesh in 1914. The two were closely related. Lawrence refused to clarify the rumors that the two had a physical relationship and took Dahom back to live with him when he returned to England. In 1916, Lawrence sent Dahom to northern Arabia under the Ottoman Empire to contact Arab nationalists. In 1917, Dahom died of typhus. Lawrence later stated in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" that his dream-to win political freedom for the Arab people-was meant to be given to Dahom as a gift.

The Wiki also says:

In Seven Pillars, Lawrence claims that while reconnoitering Deraa in Arab disguise he was captured and tortured. Many critics have read this account as describing homosexual rape, and have used this to suggest that Lawrence was homosexual.

Reports from a man whom Lawrence hired to give HIM beatings the make IT the Clear that of He HAD Unconventional Tastes, notably masochism.

It Should BE Noted that Those the WHO ATTEST that TE Lawrence WAS Possibly a homosexual are the Primarily biographers and Researchers the WHO HAD Never the even encountered HIM.

saying for a long time equal to not say anything, But for this point, there are indeed a lot of hints in the movie. For example, the Arab youth who Lawrence brought into the British bar should be Dahoum. The two met during an archaeological excavation in southern Turkey around 1913. Lawrence taught him photography, reading and writing, and Dahoum became his assistant. Later the two moved to live together, and Lawrence made a nude figure of him and placed it on the top of their house. Dahoum is also a wrestler. When the war broke out, Lawrence was far away in England, and the two could not meet again. Dahoum died of typhus in 1918 (another famous homosexual Alexander the Great also died of this disease), and finally the world was separated forever.

There is also a famous hint in the movie about what happened when Lawrence was captured. When the Turkish governor pinched Lawrence’s white skin, and when the Turkish soldier was executed, his face was extremely obscene. Expression, and when Lawrence was thrown from the cell into the street, the first action was to turn his face away and bury it deeply in the mud. These all imply that Lawrence was gang-raped, and this is also mentioned in the above information, but I think this unfortunate experience has nothing to do with homosexuality, because modern psychological research shows that sexual orientation is congenital.

Keyword 5: Death

Movie Let Lawrence’s death be placed at the beginning of the movie. The process of death and the funeral are in line with historical facts. The process of Lawrence's death is as follows (Wiki):

He was mortally injured in a Brough Superior motorcycle accident in Dorset, at the age of 46, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill near Wareham (now run by the National Trust and open to the public) . The accident occured because of a dip in the road that obstructed his view of two boys on their pedal cycles; he swerved in an effort to avoid hitting them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars of his motorcycle. He died six days

Later . His bronze statue was placed in St. Paul's Cathedral, together with the greatest people, for future generations to admire.

The picture below shows his favorite motorcycle, Brough Superior. He likes to pursue speed. He once said, "The pursuit of speed is the second animal nature of mankind." He died in pursuit, like all legends.


Finally, let's end with a comment from one of Lawrence's many celebrity friends.

I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time... We shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live in the annals of war... It will live in the legends of Arabia.



Attached by Winston Churchill , a poem written by Lawrence to his homosexual lover, included in the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom":

* The preface of

the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" to SA

I love you, so I shed these tides of people Come into my hand
, write down my wish in the starry sky
to win freedom for you-the house of wisdom with seven pillars,
your eyes will shine for me
when we come,

death seems to be my journey Servants of God, until we approach you and
see that you are waiting.
When you smile, when you are sadly jealous, he catches up with me
and takes you away
into his silent silence.

Love is a tiring journey, for Seek you and take out our meager reward
. All we have right now is
when the soft hands of the earth touch your body, when this blind worm
grows fat, relying on
your flesh and blood,
people beg me to start work and bring this inviolable house.
As a memorial to you
but to build it as a monument, I will destroy it before I finish it
The small huts built up by these little debris are
in
the shadow of your gift destruction.

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  • Freda 2022-03-24 09:01:16

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  • Mallory 2022-03-20 09:01:13

    The cover is inexplicably like a person haha

Lawrence of Arabia quotes

  • T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.

  • Auda abu Tayi: It is Auda of the Howitat who speaks.

    Sherif Ali: It is Ali of the Harith who answers.

    Auda abu Tayi: Harith! Ali, does your father still steal?

    Sherif Ali: No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?

    Auda abu Tayi: No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.

    Sherif Ali: Auda flatters me.

    Auda abu Tayi: You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.

    Sherif Ali: Did you know your own?