Lawrence d'Arabia

Titolo originale: Lawrence of Arabia
Regia: David Lean |
Anno: 1962
Origine: United Kingdom |
Generi: Avventura Storia Guerra
Tag: epic | cairo | world war i | arabian | horse | jerusalem | british army | british empire | damascus | camel | based on true story | historical fiction | quicksand | desert | arab | thoughtful | ottoman empire | provocative |
Cast: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Omar Sharif | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin | Howard Marion-Crawford | Jack Gwillim | Hugh Miller | John Barry | Bruce Beeby | Fred Bennett | John Bennett | Steve Birtles | Robert Bolt | Peter Burton | J.R.M. Chapman | Barbara Cole | Basil Dignam | Peter Dukelow | Mohamed El Habachi | Kenneth Fortescue | Harry Fowler | James Hayter | Jack Hedley | Rafael Hernández | Noel Howlett | Patrick Kavanagh | David Lean | Ian MacNaughton | Clive Morton | Daniel Moynihan | Henry Oscar | George Plimpton | Bryan Pringle | Ernie Rice | Robert Rietti | John Robinson | Norman Rossington | John Ruddock | Fernando Sancho | Stuart Saunders | Cyril Shaps | Jack Sharp | George Spence | Roy Stevens | Graham Tonbridge | Barry Warren |

Nel 1917 l'Inghilterra aveva delle precise mire sull'Arabia e sull'Egitto. I disegni politici erano intralciati dai turchi e dall'incapacità delle tribù arabe di riuscire a far fronte comune. Thomas Edmund Lawrence, ufficiale inglese dal temperamento singolare e poco conforme ai tradizionali codici militari, innamorato dell'Arabia e del deserto, diventa amico di alcuni capi arabi e riesce a metter d'accordo popoli diversissimi fra loro e a conquistare Aqaba, porto strategico sul mar Rosso. È un'impresa enorme, e gli viene riconosciuta, ma al momento opportuno, quando si tratta di mantenere le promesse, i capi si tirano indietro. Lawrence, con la sua fede, il suo coraggio e il suo talento era soltanto servito come strumento per le strategie espansionistiche dell'impero britannico. Liquidato dall'esercito Lawrence muore, ancora giovane, in un banale incidente di moto.

Frasi

T.E. Lawrence: [Trying to convince skeptical Briti [...] D
Prince Feisal: With Major Lawrence, mercy is a pas [...] D
Prince Feisal: What I owe you is beyond evaluation [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: It is the servant who takes money. D
Sherif Ali: I do not understand this. Your father' [...] D
General Murray: [on the Arab Revolt] It's a storm [...] D
Sherif Ali: [Ali shoots Tafas dead while riding hi [...] D
Sherif Ali: Truly, for some men nothing is written [...] D
Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that [...] D
Sherif Ali: Does it surprise you, Mr Bentley? Sure [...] D
Sherif Ali: What are you looking for? T.E. Lawren [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: [to Sherif Ali, after rescuing Gasi [...] D
Sherif Ali: What is your name? T.E. Lawrence: My [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: Where are they now? Mr. Dryden: An [...] D
Mr. Dryden: [to Bentley, on a meeting between Lawr [...] D
Farraj: Lord, can we not rest? [riding on the cam [...] D
Jackson Bentley: [on his interest in Lawrence and [...] D
Prince Feisal: And I must do it because the Turks [...] D
Prince Feisal: You, I suspect, are chief architect [...] D
Prince Feisal: But you know, Lieutenant, in the Ar [...] D
Prince Feisal: No Arab loves the desert. We love w [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: What ails the Englishman? Sherif A [...] D
[asked by reporter if he knew Lawrence] Jackson B [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: A thousand Arabs means a thousand k [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [as Lawrence sets out across the de [...] D
General Allenby: You acted without orders, you kno [...] D
Colonel Brighton: Damn it, Lawrence! Who do you ta [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] There is only the des [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: Michael George Hartley, this is a n [...] D
Colonel Brighton: Are you badly hurt? T.E. Lawren [...] D
[Lawrence has just extinguished a match between hi [...] D
Jackson Bentley: Never saw a man killed with a swo [...] D
Prince Feisal: Well, General, I will leave you. Ma [...] D
General Allenby: I fight like Clausewitz, then you [...] D
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! [...] D
[first lines] Colonel Brighton: He was the most e [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If [...] D
Prince Feisal: My friend Lawrence, if I may call h [...] D
Sherif Ali: Have you no fear, English? T.E. Lawre [...] D
General Allenby: What about your Arab friends? Wha [...] D
[last lines] Driver: Well, sir, going home! T.E. [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: The truth is: I'm an ordinary man. [...] D
Prince Feisal: Do you know General Allenby? Jacks [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: There may be honor among thieves, b [...] D
General Allenby: I believe your name will be a hou [...] D
Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman. Are you not [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: [after Auda has just left Damascus [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [Auda starts the attack on Aqaba wi [...] D
Colonel Brighton: They think he's a kind of prophe [...] D
Prince Feisal: To be great again, it seems that we [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe ag [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali!. So long as the Arabs f [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: My friends, we have been foolish. A [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: Thy mother mated with a scorpion. D
Jackson Bentley: Oh, you rotten man... here, let m [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: I killed two people. One was... yes [...] D
General Allenby: I've got orders to obey, thank Go [...] D
Majid: Aurens! Can you pass for an Arab in an Arab [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for mon [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: I'm to "assess the situation". Col [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [Grabs Ali's arm] He is your friend [...] D
Tafas: Here you may drink... [Lawrence nods and t [...] D
General Murray: I can't make out whether you're bl [...] D
Prince Feisal: Gasim's time has come, Lawrence. It [...] D
Sherif Ali: [to Lawrence] You gave life and you to [...] D
Bartender: [Lawrence enters the British officers' [...] D
[Lawrence and Ali watch as British cannons fire in [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? [...] D
General Allenby: I thought I was a hard man, sir. [...] D
Jackson Bentley: You answered without saying anyth [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [his last words, to Ali] Being an A [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: It's my manner, sir. General Murra [...] D
Prince Feisal: Illusions can be very powerful. D
[Arabs are looting a train after blowing it up] S [...] D
Prince Feisal: There's nothing further here for a [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: We do not work this thing for Feisa [...] D
Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do noth [...] D
General Allenby: [leafing through Lawrence's dossi [...] D
Sherif Ali: There is the railway. And that is the [...] D
Colonel Brighton: I've been waiting for you. T.E. [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin a [...] D
Turkish Bey: I have been stationed in Dara for thr [...] D
Colonel Brighton: Major Lawrence will campaign thi [...] D
General Allenby: I'm promoting you Major. T.E. La [...] D
Mr. Dryden: If we've been telling lies, you've bee [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: My lord, I think... I think your bo [...] D
Prince Feisal: Which is why my father made this wa [...] D
Prince Feisal: Ah yes, then Lawrence is a sword wi [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] You are using up your [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: I cannot fiddle but I can make a gr [...] D
Sherif Ali: A man can do whatever he wants. You sa [...] D
General Murray: I may as well tell you, it's my co [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: It is Auda of the Howitat who speak [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: [Lawrence has been asked about the [...] D
General Allenby: Not many people have a destiny La [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: When Lawrence finds what he's looki [...] D
Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature g [...] D
Jackson Bentley: Is Major Lawrence in there? Is he [...] D
Sherif Ali: [Lawrence has been recuperating from h [...] D
Tafas: [talking of Britain] Is that a desert count [...] D
Prince Feisal: The English have a great hunger for [...] D
General Allenby: [the British army staff is having [...] D
Mr. Dryden: Well. It seems we're to have a British [...] D
[regarding the bullet wound on Lawrence's arm] Tu [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: No prisoners! No prisoners! D
Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve [...] D
Auda abu Tayi: The desert has dried up more blood [...] D
T.E. Lawrence: I pray that I may never see the des [...] D