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The first ten minutes of David Lean's movie Lawrence of Arabia (1962) begin with an approximately four-minute musical overture composed by Maurice Jarre over a black screen, followed by the iconic, fatal motorcycle crash of T.E. Lawrence. One can...

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FrugalNoodle · 46-50, M

That's a film I needed to see on a big screen and wasn't available for me at the time. If it's ok to just mention another film I love the beginning of -- Godard's Notre Musique, it's like a abstract music video. ☺

val70 · 56-60

@FrugalNoodle I'll feature some more best 10 minutes of movies later on. Just thinking of The Guns of Navarone right now, or even The Bridge over the River Kwai for a war movie

FrugalNoodle · 46-50, M

@val70 It's not 10 minutes, but Touch of Evil is good, a complicated and seamless tracking shot.

val70 · 56-60

@FrugalNoodle Oh yes, that's a really good one. Orson Welles made a marvel with that one. Likewise in the middle of The Third Man. Plenty of movies with good moments. Just going to take one after the other. Perhaps look at lesser know ones

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fun4us2b · M

It's an epic

I also read Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson...a military history, but also inspired me to watch the movie. Fascinating.

val70 · 56-60

@fun4us2b [media=https://youtu.be/PDGcAUgxwwQ]
A great book on the modern context to his story. However, the best biography on T.E. Lawrence is still Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson (1989). It succeeds in depicting all aspects of Lawrence's strengths and accomplishment but it's indeed massive. A true moment to its subject

fun4us2b · M

@val70 Great find, will have to watch, and add Wilson to the list (maybe someday) I recently read King of Kings by Anderson....timely re Iran.

walabby · M

I remember seeing that movie when it came out. The standout scene for little me was when the boy was swallowed by the dry quicksand... :(

val70 · 56-60

@walabby Oh yes, that was also very emotional. Actually a tipping point towards Lawrence almost losing himself. After arriving back in Cairo next he has General Allenby to content with also. Like Dryden afterwards says: one is insane and the other without scruples

ArtieKat · M

I'd forgotten all of that. I think it was 1964/65 when I saw the film

val70 · 56-60

@ArtieKat I guess that I'd liked the movie the best after the 1989 restoration of it. Cutting away near to 40 minutes made the movie a bit too unbalanced for my own taste

jackson55 · M

Too bad he was killed. Those Brough motorcycles are worth quite a lot now.

val70 · 56-60

@jackson55 Sotheby's figures for the 1936 Brough Superior SS100: €180,000.00 to €250,000.00

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