(At around 40 minutes) When T.E. Lawrence and Colonel Brighton first sit with King Faisal in Faisal's tent, Brighton stretches out his legs while Lawrence keeps his folded meekly behind. In Arab culture the blatant exposing of the soles of one's shoes is considered a gross insult, and Lawrence (already something of a scholar on Araby) would have certainly avoided the misstep. Brighton, on the other hand--an archetype here of the typical British officer in that theater of war--either doesn't know or doesn't care.
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