No special effects...no green screen...just go out into the desert and shoot! What a novel idea! Even more amazing is that it is a true story! My favorite movie of all time!
@@onuq3r4y478 they actually only used one matte painting for one shot which was for the sun rising up because if they were to actually film that the film would burn. but everything else is real.
"Only two kinds of creatures get fun in the desert, Bedouins and gods, and you're neither." He left Cairo thinking he was a god, but he returned to Cairo actually being a Bedouin. That's what's known as amazing character development.
And he ended the movie as a lost and confused man who can't identify as anything anymore. Though the way he stood in the car in the last scene to look at the Bedouins suggests he still feels a connection to them. Or he was just looking for Ali. Or both.
@@tiaaaron3278 definitely both. The tragedy of the ending is that he allowed his guilt and self-loathing over everything that went wrong to consume him. He never acknowledged that Ali still cared for him deeply and Auda obviously didn’t want him to leave either. I also believe Faisal just claimed “we both are glad to be rid of Lawrence” in order to stay on the good side of the British; he never truly disliked Lawrence. But Lawrence couldn’t see any of this; he hated and blamed himself for what happened and assumed (wrongly) that the Arabs hated and blamed him, too, so he didn’t stay in Arabia where he belonged. Which is why he said nothing when his driver said “you’re going home.” He was, in fact, leaving home. His last longing look at the Bedouins from the car is confirmation of Auda’s words, “there is only the desert for you,” and also, as you said, a sign that he loved Ali back and wanted to see him one last time. Unlike so many film heroes, Lawrence didn’t follow his heart at the end.
@@12classics39 Interesting comments 212classics39, but I disagree. It was clear through the whole film that Lawrence was no fool. The time for heroes was over, now it was a time from pragmatism and modern politics. Lawrence also knew that the Arabs were being cheated and despite Faisal's acumen he would be outmaneuvered by Dreighton and Allenby. Lawrence had no home to go to because he was half mad and ultimately unwanted, and was still under military orders. Auda and Ali would be happy to accommodate him for the rest of his life, but it would interfere with Faisal's authority and damage the Arab cause, so Lawrence did the only thing he could. Leave. - This is taken from the film as a sole resource, though history didn't play out much different.
Same here; all those years ago when the 're-edited' Lawrence was released I saw it in all it's 70 mm glory. I remember watching the 'old' version on TV with my family but this movie was MARVELOUS.
RIP Anne V. Coates 1925-2018 🎥 One of the greatest film editors in cinema history. This match cut especially is what was one of the many reasons why she won the Academy Award for Best Editing. 0:35-1:13
One of the greatest edits in motion picture history: Lawrence blowing out the match cutting seamlessly to the desert sunrise. David Lean had been a film editor early in his career and it shows in shots like this. What a movie!
You see this Hollywood, with your soulless CGI and cheap effects? THIS is how you make a fucking movie. When those two men come across the dunes on camels and the majesty of the desert is shown through the score, you suddenly realize the only effect being used is the damned camera.
Exactly. Finally watched this for the first time and was constantly blown away by some of the shots. The scale, the composition. And most of all, the fact it was all in camera. Just mindblowing. These days nothing impresses like that. Whether it looks convincing or not my mind is going to think a modern scene has been played with to some extent. Which it usually is. A studio today is not going to have a crew of hundreds of people on camels riding through a desert when they can fake it with trickery.
The magic is in the mystery. It touches you on a level that is not intellectual and so you keep wondering what it is, but never entirely figure it out. That exactly is it's appeal.
Best movie of all time. I too had the privilege of watching this master piece on the silver screen in May 2013 and I was totally blown away. I'm terribly saddened by the news of Peter O'Toole's passing.
A dissolve would not have been better at all in my opinion. The match being blown out suddenly ushers in the next shot instantly. That was the whole point.
According to Frederick Forsyth, the literal meaning of Bedou is "without". You sure have to do without a lot of things to live that life, and that includes drinking your fill.
It was meant as a dissolve, and back in the day this required an optical printer and a manual transition on the lab. So when they did a rough cut they made a mistake and left it without the dissolve. When they saw it on the screening room they said "Wow ok that's interesting." - they went back and removed some frames from Peter OToole so the cut happened faster (there was some time for the dissolve), but left as it is.
I Truly Doubt that David Lean, and Anne V. Coates made a mistake. Lean was a cutter many moons ago...and along with Oscar winning Anne V. Coates..they were on top of their game.
It's in my list with 2001 and Barry Lyndon. Kubrick and Lean are my two favorite directors. Way above everyone in the years preceeding the New Wave (Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, Kaufman) - these four are the other set. No one really since who delivers consistently at 100%. As far as Mr. Lawrence is concerned, I recommend reading his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It's quite the novel-length poem. Mr. Lawrence is my favorite personage in human history, apart from the movie itself, as well. Apparently he lost the original manuscript for Seven Pillars of Wisdom at a train station and had to rewrite it from scratch. Rough stuff.
1:13 I can't help, but seeing Homer Simpson and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon riding a donkey to Springfield Airport! Other than that I enjoy this movie a lot, it's a shame that Peter O'Toole is not with us anymore. He is dearly missed, but will never be forgotten.
Such a brilliant movie. David Lean is easily one of my favorite filmmakers. Peter O’Toole was fantastic in everything he was in and who could forget Anne V. Costes? That transition is subtle brilliance. That main theme though... So amazing and atmospheric. One of the best soundtracks ever. Can’t wait to finally see this on the big screen soon they way it was meant to be seen.
It's good. It's even great. But I believe it's surpassed in 2001: A Space Odyssey where it jumps from a thrown femur spinning into the sky to an orbiting nuclear weapons platform 3 million years into the future. Apples and oranges - they're both incredible moments.
it's called a match cut because the frame before and after are a match. This is not a match cut. A fantastic example of a match cut is the bone cut in 2001: a space oddissey
Before the movie being restored, the movie was shorter (or less long). For example: in this part of the movie, from this image on 0:35, right before Lawrence start to blow, there was a cut from 0:35 directly to 1:16 (I'm not sure if it was a straight cut or not) And, of course, with the music playing in a properly way.
+ledepi34 i watched a directors cut version on vhs when i was about 12 on a day when I was sick from school, and I'm fairly sure it was about 4 hours long.. there was even an interval!
Memory. Sitting as a 12 year-old in the late, lamented Regent cinema in Brighton, and watching this, spellbound, in all its 70mm glory. It was in the dog-days of the school summer holidays, and I had that opulent old theatre almost to myself. As I watch this, I'm reminded of the faint smell of chewing gum emanating from under the seats, as my accompaniment to discovering the magic of film. I'd watched other blockbusters there before, but nothing quite like this.
This is not a match cut: if the flaming match cut to the image of the flaming sun, then it would be. This is a 'smash cut' ( an abrupt cut caused by sound); in this case, the sound of Lawrence blowing out the candle, to the sound of a silent desert.
Isn't there a version somewhere where it's a dissolve instead of a cut? Or maybe that was an editing clip or article I read somewhere about this film. Crazy awesome classic.
Of all this movie's fantastic qualities, I also love the theme of identity, I think any third culture kid can sympathise with his struggle for identity and I think like many who struggle with it seems like that struggle will never truly disappear.
Nominated 8 times for Best Actor, Peter O'Toole lost every time. But it's not because the Academy disliked him, it's because he had the *WORST* luck!! He made great movies, just in the wrong years!! His nominations would lose to: Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (*!!*) Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady Cliff Robertson in Charly John Wayne in True Grit (*!!*) Marlon Brando in The Godfather (*!!*) Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull (*!!*) Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (*!!*) Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Honestly, My Fair Lady is the one that vexes me. It can't compare to 'The Lion In Winter'. Coincidentally that film also lost Best Picture to another Musical, the film adaptation of Oliver.
Hard to imagine how revolutionary that cut was at the time. They figured it out by accident during the assembly. The plan was to make it a dissolve, but when they looked at the transition while trying to time the optical, they realized that it worked on its own. The French New Wave was the thing at the time and so they felt this unorthodox move would help the film be more "modern." What it was, was simply elegant, simple, and devastatingly, universally, magnificent.
No special effects...no green screen...just go out into the desert and shoot! What a novel idea! Even more amazing is that it is a true story! My favorite movie of all time!
TE Lawrence is the epitome of what a real hero is. " I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time." ------ Winston Churchill
they used plenty of matte paitnings fool
@@onuq3r4y478 they actually only used one matte painting for one shot which was for the sun rising up because if they were to actually film that the film would burn. but everything else is real.
it's called a match cut, it wasn't a novelty.
@@beni8ification but it was cool shot.
"Only two kinds of creatures get fun in the desert, Bedouins and gods, and you're neither."
He left Cairo thinking he was a god, but he returned to Cairo actually being a Bedouin. That's what's known as amazing character development.
And he ended the movie as a lost and confused man who can't identify as anything anymore.
Though the way he stood in the car in the last scene to look at the Bedouins suggests he still feels a connection to them. Or he was just looking for Ali. Or both.
@@tiaaaron3278 definitely both. The tragedy of the ending is that he allowed his guilt and self-loathing over everything that went wrong to consume him. He never acknowledged that Ali still cared for him deeply and Auda obviously didn’t want him to leave either. I also believe Faisal just claimed “we both are glad to be rid of Lawrence” in order to stay on the good side of the British; he never truly disliked Lawrence. But Lawrence couldn’t see any of this; he hated and blamed himself for what happened and assumed (wrongly) that the Arabs hated and blamed him, too, so he didn’t stay in Arabia where he belonged. Which is why he said nothing when his driver said “you’re going home.” He was, in fact, leaving home. His last longing look at the Bedouins from the car is confirmation of Auda’s words, “there is only the desert for you,” and also, as you said, a sign that he loved Ali back and wanted to see him one last time. Unlike so many film heroes, Lawrence didn’t follow his heart at the end.
@@12classics39 - That is the most perceptive and intelligent analysis of the film I've ever seen.
@@jlmurrel wow thank you for your kind words!
@@12classics39 Interesting comments 212classics39, but I disagree. It was clear through the whole film that Lawrence was no fool. The time for heroes was over, now it was a time from pragmatism and modern politics. Lawrence also knew that the Arabs were being cheated and despite Faisal's acumen he would be outmaneuvered by Dreighton and Allenby.
Lawrence had no home to go to because he was half mad and ultimately unwanted, and was still under military orders. Auda and Ali would be happy to accommodate him for the rest of his life, but it would interfere with Faisal's authority and damage the Arab cause, so Lawrence did the only thing he could. Leave.
- This is taken from the film as a sole resource, though history didn't play out much different.
RIP Peter O'Toole, what a great actor of the screen.
The first time I watched this film was in the theater, huge 70mm screen, when that cut happened, it truly was breathtaking.
Same here; all those years ago when the 're-edited' Lawrence was released I saw it in all it's 70 mm glory. I remember watching the 'old' version on TV with my family but this movie was MARVELOUS.
It was in theaters about 15 years ago. One of the greatest moments I’ve ever remember in cinema in a theatre.
The sense of triumph in the music really captures the freedom Lawrence feels in the desert, as if he’s finally found where he truly belongs.
To me the music captures the slow gentle rocking feeling you get when riding a camel in the desert
He is a spy and a hypocrite who broke Ottoman Empire stop fooling around
RIP Anne V. Coates
1925-2018
🎥
One of the greatest film editors in cinema history.
This match cut especially is what was one of the many reasons why she won the Academy Award for Best Editing.
0:35-1:13
Sir lean put it aptly when asked about it "To hell with the photographer, it's the cutter".
Only Anne V. Coates could cut both _Lawrence of Arabia_ and _Fifty Shades of Grey._
@@Wired4Life2 And Masters of the Universe.
RIP
Deserts are so desolate yet so pretty.
☺
"There's nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing" -david
It's... clean.
No coincidence.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
At 0:37 , best match cut in the history of cinema
is the one from 2001 considered a cut or a jump?
+Dritan Brati both
Neither. It's a smash cut.
My GOD I love that cut from match to sun!!!!!!! Lean, Kubrick, and I run out of directors to put in that realm.
smarterthananyone without this movie there would not be 2001: space Odyssey, Kubrick said he was one of the greatests.
+smarterthananyone I would add Kurosawa to that list.
Kubrick admired Lean very much, he said in the 60s that he was the best american director.
Visually, I found this better than 2001. 2001 because of the nature of the topic, the movie feels a bit impersonal.
That music... THAT MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the greatest edits in motion picture history: Lawrence blowing out the match cutting seamlessly to the desert sunrise. David Lean had been a film editor early in his career and it shows in shots like this. What a movie!
You see this Hollywood, with your soulless CGI and cheap effects? THIS is how you make a fucking movie. When those two men come across the dunes on camels and the majesty of the desert is shown through the score, you suddenly realize the only effect being used is the damned camera.
so true.
and the music?
Hollywood has zero class.
Coming 2018: Lawrence of Arabia 2 starring Adam Sandler directed by Michael Bay
Exactly. Finally watched this for the first time and was constantly blown away by some of the shots. The scale, the composition. And most of all, the fact it was all in camera. Just mindblowing.
These days nothing impresses like that. Whether it looks convincing or not my mind is going to think a modern scene has been played with to some extent. Which it usually is. A studio today is not going to have a crew of hundreds of people on camels riding through a desert when they can fake it with trickery.
RIP Peter O'Toole. One of cinema's best actors.
You can't imagine the feeling of seeing that in the movie theatre, with just the opening music and a black screen...
The magic is in the mystery. It touches you on a level that is not intellectual and so you keep wondering what it is, but never entirely figure it out. That exactly is it's appeal.
Adventure and sheer beauty, I guess! ☺
Gorgeous, the desert and O’Toole!
Best movie of all time. I too had the privilege of watching this master piece on the silver screen in May 2013 and I was totally blown away. I'm terribly saddened by the news of Peter O'Toole's passing.
Saw it in theater in 2023
A dissolve would not have been better at all in my opinion. The match being blown out suddenly ushers in the next shot instantly. That was the whole point.
Steven Spielberg was in awed in this scene
That score is so amazing
The single greatest smash cut in the history of cinema
*‘smatch kut
Once again, my spine is shivered
It's indefinable. like a dream. This is genius filmmaking.
"Here you may drink. One cup."
"You do not drink? I'll drink when you do."
"I am Bedou."
That's such great dialogue. So sparse but so important.
According to Frederick Forsyth, the literal meaning of Bedou is "without". You sure have to do without a lot of things to live that life, and that includes drinking your fill.
Composer John Williams has said in the past, Of all the films he would of loved to have scored...Lawrence of Arabia would be that Film.
Fucking magnificent, staggering scene. I am truly in awe at the power of this one small snippet of an unparalled movie.
That, is how you begin an adventure
I always come back to this scene.
Its just so grand....
Imagine filming that sunrise with a modern camera that has 8k resolution...
top 5 of the best movies ever made...
Best cut in movies history, the flame!
God Bless Peter O'Toole.
This famous match cut was actually a mistake in the editing but the editor and David Lean like it so much they decided to keep it as it is now
A perfect accident
So many great moments in cinema are happy accidents, the ending of The Graduate comes to mind.
It was meant as a dissolve, and back in the day this required an optical printer and a manual transition on the lab. So when they did a rough cut they made a mistake and left it without the dissolve. When they saw it on the screening room they said "Wow ok that's interesting." - they went back and removed some frames from Peter OToole so the cut happened faster (there was some time for the dissolve), but left as it is.
@@ricarleite Cool, thanks for the info.
I Truly Doubt that David Lean, and Anne V. Coates made a mistake. Lean was a cutter many moons ago...and along with Oscar winning Anne V. Coates..they were on top of their game.
The soundtrack is so intimidating.
Lawrence's match flame should have become the rising sun.
What a wonderful musical theme. Begins at 1:13
Love the dramatic C# leading-tone at 1:26 .
Literally a MATCH cut
Best sunrise.
This is the greatest movie! Beautiful match cut.
It's in my list with 2001 and Barry Lyndon. Kubrick and Lean are my two favorite directors. Way above everyone in the years preceeding the New Wave (Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, Kaufman) - these four are the other set. No one really since who delivers consistently at 100%. As far as Mr. Lawrence is concerned, I recommend reading his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It's quite the novel-length poem. Mr. Lawrence is my favorite personage in human history, apart from the movie itself, as well. Apparently he lost the original manuscript for Seven Pillars of Wisdom at a train station and had to rewrite it from scratch. Rough stuff.
1:13 I can't help, but seeing Homer Simpson and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon riding a donkey to Springfield Airport! Other than that I enjoy this movie a lot, it's a shame that Peter O'Toole is not with us anymore. He is dearly missed, but will never be forgotten.
What a great actor and character in real life, a great film for so many reasons..
The Amazing match cut scene.
Sad news the famous film editor of Lawrence of Arabia Anne V. Coates has passed away.
Best film ever made ......
Such a brilliant movie. David Lean is easily one of my favorite filmmakers. Peter O’Toole was fantastic in everything he was in and who could forget Anne V. Costes? That transition is subtle brilliance. That main theme though... So amazing and atmospheric. One of the best soundtracks ever. Can’t wait to finally see this on the big screen soon they way it was meant to be seen.
Greatest jump shot of all time.
It's good. It's even great. But I believe it's surpassed in 2001: A Space Odyssey where it jumps from a thrown femur spinning into the sky to an orbiting nuclear weapons platform 3 million years into the future. Apples and oranges - they're both incredible moments.
The films of yesteryear had a cast of big stars, in this film with Peter Ottole, Omar Shariff, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness among others ...
Goodness me, was O'Toole ever beautiful in that match shot.
He’s beautiful in every shot in this film! Lol. Definitely one of the sexiest men ever put in front of a camera.
Lawrence was actually a really small person
マッチを吹き消し、朝焼けのシーンから砂漠へと切り替わる辺り。とてもわくわくする。
Jarre is amazing.
...is that why it's called a "match cut"?
IoST I think so.
You guys clearly know nothing.
MasterBerry you clearly know everything, yet cease to say anything of any real value. Matter of fact you depreciate it with a squandered opportunity
it's called a match cut because the frame before and after are a match. This is not a match cut. A fantastic example of a match cut is the bone cut in 2001: a space oddissey
@degree7 this is more of a jump cut than a match cut imo
I wish I could have seen this in 70mm! Must be an otherworldly experience
It was!
Before the movie being restored, the movie was shorter (or less long). For example: in this part of the movie, from this image on 0:35, right before Lawrence start to blow, there was a cut from 0:35 directly to 1:16 (I'm not sure if it was a straight cut or not) And, of course, with the music playing in a properly way.
+ledepi34 i watched a directors cut version on vhs when i was about 12 on a day when I was sick from school, and I'm fairly sure it was about 4 hours long.. there was even an interval!
shinra corp intermission
Grandiosa película "Lawrence de Arabia",con Peter O'Toole,Anthony Quinn,Omar Sharif,Alec Guinness y otros,maravillosa música!!👍🎵📽️💖
THIS IS A PURE CINEMA......................................................MAGIC !!!
that music...
Großartige Überleitung. :)
just watched this film for the first time ever yesterday, on the big screen, in 70mm. Absolutely unforgettable.
David Lean turned the planet Earth into a special effect in this movie.
This film is listed in the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Films--as number 5!
As it so deserves because it's truly a remarkable experience
The desert is clean
But with no water to spare for washing, the inhabitants .... well, you can guess.
Probably the greatest scene transition in cinematic history asides from the bone throwing scene in 2001.
can you explain please
@@binghamguevara6814 i think he refers to Kubrick's Odissey..
The greatest cut shot
That goddamn match cut though
It is a magnificent scene
Memory. Sitting as a 12 year-old in the late, lamented Regent cinema in Brighton, and watching this, spellbound, in all its 70mm glory.
It was in the dog-days of the school summer holidays, and I had that opulent old theatre almost to myself. As I watch this, I'm reminded of the faint smell of chewing gum emanating from under the seats, as my accompaniment to discovering the magic of film. I'd watched other blockbusters there before, but nothing quite like this.
Mark Thompson you make me feel nostalgia for a place I have never been to, a time I never lived and sympathy for someone I don't even know.
@@billyrj973 Thank you for your very kind words.
Well let’s just say this the greatest bit of film…ever produced.
RIP Anne V. Coates
Such a cool cut from the match.
The actor who played the character Dryden is a genius.
Claude Rains. A real talent.
@@12classics39 His breakout role was playing the lead in the 1933 version of The Invisible Man.
And not just in that shot.
John Wick 4 pays homage to Lawrence of Arabia (matchstick scene)
WHY IS IT SO GOOD?
Stunning
00:18 no it's going to be fun.
Little did Dryden know what a God was
And little did he know that Lawrence was basically an Arab soul trapped in an Englishman’s body.
This is not a match cut: if the flaming match cut to the image of the flaming sun, then it would be. This is a 'smash cut' ( an abrupt cut caused by sound); in this case, the sound of Lawrence blowing out the candle, to the sound of a silent desert.
Isn't there a version somewhere where it's a dissolve instead of a cut? Or maybe that was an editing clip or article I read somewhere about this film. Crazy awesome classic.
I always seen it as him realizing his own divine fire that Promethean gift which lies within us.
Epic!!
Peter O'toole is gorgeous
Really want to see this movie hope they bring it to netflix or something
Of all this movie's fantastic qualities, I also love the theme of identity, I think any third culture kid can sympathise with his struggle for identity and I think like many who struggle with it seems like that struggle will never truly disappear.
Nominated 8 times for Best Actor, Peter O'Toole lost every time. But it's not because the Academy disliked him, it's because he had the *WORST* luck!! He made great movies, just in the wrong years!! His nominations would lose to:
Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird (*!!*)
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Cliff Robertson in Charly
John Wayne in True Grit (*!!*)
Marlon Brando in The Godfather (*!!*)
Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull (*!!*)
Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (*!!*)
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Charley was yet another example of the Academy awarding the performance of a disabled character in stead of the BEST performance.
Honestly, My Fair Lady is the one that vexes me. It can't compare to 'The Lion In Winter'. Coincidentally that film also lost Best Picture to another Musical, the film adaptation of Oliver.
So what? I think he would have deserved to win next to most of the others...
No-one but The Dook was ever gonna win that particular year. Couldn't have him ridin' off into the sunset with a mere "honorary".
Peter O’toole should have won the Oscar for this role.
Best scene
RIP Peter O'Toole !
The sun coming out is much like Stanley Kubrick
He is what? How do you cut a clip in mid sentence?
you're right. :) maybe I was thinking the same about the dissolve.
They should re upload this in 4K
Had to come here after the very direct reference from John Wick 4.
John Wick Chapter 4 bring me here😂😂😂
I couldn't help it lydia and parrish told me to look it, teen wolf really brought me here
Hard to imagine how revolutionary that cut was at the time. They figured it out by accident during the assembly. The plan was to make it a dissolve, but when they looked at the transition while trying to time the optical, they realized that it worked on its own. The French New Wave was the thing at the time and so they felt this unorthodox move would help the film be more "modern." What it was, was simply elegant, simple, and devastatingly, universally, magnificent.
It's clean
Created by Lean''s genius
RIP
Gaveta me mandou aqui e ele nem deve saber hahaha
He was...is...a legend. RIP.
Nice.
Every living soul has get taste of death .
Then you punishment is just waiting for yours evil actions .