Murphy's War, 1971...
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Murphy's War, 1971...
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Lawrence of Arabia,1962..
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To film Omar Sharif's entrance through a mirage, Freddie Young used a special 482mm lens from Panavision. Panavision still has this lens, and it is known among cinematographers as the "David Lean lens". It was created specifically for this shot and has not been used since.
This movie took longer to make than it did for the real T.E. Lawrence to go from Lieutenant to Colonel and to see the desert tribes united and thus tip the balance in the Allies' favor against the Turks in World War I.
Sir Alec Guinness was made up to resemble the real Faisal as closely as possible. When they were shooting in Jordan, several people who knew the man mistook him for the real thing.
The first time Peter O'Toole tried riding a camel, blood oozed from his jeans. "This is a very delicate Irish arse", he warned his instructor. He finally mastered his camel-riding technique by adding a layer of sponge rubber under the saddle to ease his bruised backside--a practical innovation quickly adopted by the actual Bedouin tribesmen acting as extras during the desert location filming. O'Toole was nicknamed "ab al-'Isfanjah" ("father of the sponge") by the Bedouin.
Oliver Twist, 1948..
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The film was banned in Israel for antisemitism. It was banned in Egypt for portraying Fagin too sympathetically[catch 22]
After the belated release of the film in the United States, Bosley Crowther praised it in The New York Times, writing:
"...it is safe to proclaim that it is merely a superb piece of motion picture art and, beyond doubt, one of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made."
I might have been younger than Peter O'Toole when he played the part, but I have ridden a camel for several hours when I was in Mauritania and had no trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Probably they used his sponge tweak there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
'A camel is a horse designed by a committee' (attrib. T. R. Quaife)
think the origin was 'A camel looks like something put together by a committee'Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
but its obviously in ref to a horse.. i might add, ive never been near one far less ridden... but have rode horses often in my younger days....give me a jeep any day lol
I tend to steer clear of horses or any other barnyard animal. Unpredictable.
I did go to a gymkhana one time but only dragged their by a girlfriend.
old fav for saturday morning...RED, 2010..
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another fav... LOOPER, 2012
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