Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?

This is for our love for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Expect lots of spoilers from that movie~ GIFs from a mildlookingsky

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

So it has been a while, so for my Japanese homework- I am working on telling someone about an interesting name and I thought of T.E Lawrence as my assignment, so my issue is to keep it very simple as I am not so fast in translating his life in Japanese, so I have to include the film 🤣🤣🤣

It requires a lot of brain work that I forget to do my kanji homework

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Ok I just finished watching Lawrence of arabia in the big screen and I swear this is very europhic and yet I tremble in awe.

When we play the overture in the blackened room, I nearly wept. I dunno if it is out of my selfishness or it is out of joy, it feels like I am sucked back into the hot deserts.

Then my eyes cannot stop looking at the small details like the movement of the sand storms or the smallness of the riders.

Peter O’Toole (oh hail the king) acting trembles me to the core especially how he shakes when he is vulnerable, and his expressive blue eyes on the screen burnt me to the core.

How the sense of identity hits me like a truck, like I saw myself to be like T.E Lawrence balancing myself to be ordinary and extraordinary, and I have moments which I have burnt out which is beautifully acted. The question, what is that identity- and like the people in the funeral, it is never clean but a mirage of perspectives.

Is he is extraordinary? Perhaps? A man hungering for normalcy? Maybe?

It feels like a full circle for me as a whole- that yes the desert is the ocean cannot be dipped, but we will find the puddles.

I will forever burn this moment of self-care into my heart forever and ever. That some moments of ordinary, I can make it extraordinary.

Thank you Sir David Lean, and my king Peter O’toole for always being the north stars in my life though I stray from the paths of film that I found myself nerding again.

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Guyyyyysss I know it has been a while which I am going to see Lawrence of arabia in the big screen!

So have a pin made by me on that film

I will tell you my thoughts on that…

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Ok I watched the Take Video of “White Saviour” trope in film and me getting salty over why it is not.

Please do your goddamn research.

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Ok I have never updated my blog for so long, if you are in home office (like me) and needs something to distract yourself- I found this amazing podcast on Spotify to listen while cleaning up some stuff.

[georgiansuggestion]

be the first in your field to be called scientist, for as a woman you certainly cannot be known as a “man of science”.

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole on the set of Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Well I received a lovely surprise from @nerdypipsqueak with the postcard. That makes my day!

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Kenneth More and Richard Attenborough at the party after the London Premiere of Lawrence of Arabia in 1962

[dearmrlawrence]

What’s a better way to start the new year?

[bluedesertbruja]

for you @cinemaocd

happy birthday!

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Killing off a lazy aftemoon with some shrink pins I made

[storja-historja]

God, I’m sorry.

[leofromthedark]

“Certainly [our] Lawrence was very if not entirely homosexual. We thought we were being very daring at the time: Lawrence and [Ali]…” - (director David Lean)

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

Felt like making a “write your own biography of T.E. Lawrence” set of random number tables.  Because there are a lot of angles people take when they discuss the guy, but it does seem to fall into certain patterns.

Roll 1d6 up to three times, to choose his Driving Internal Motivators:

Illegitimacy angst

Sarah Lawrence’s A+ parenting

Knight-errant complex

Short man syndrome

Sublimated conflicted sexuality

Adrenaline junkie

Role 1d6 to select his sexuality:

Gay

Asexual

Asexual, but preferred men to the extent he was into anyone (homoromantic?)

Too repressed to tell

Masochist NOS

Straight or bi

Roll 1d8 up to three times to determine why he was so messed up after the war:

Combined guilt and frustration re: Sykes-Picot agreement

Guilt and/or moral injury from other war or politics-related reasons

Post-Deraa trauma

Just getting shot at a lot trauma

Death of Dahoum

Death of other comrades/friends/family members

Exhaustion

Low blood sugar 

And so on.  Just roll on the tables to create your thesis, consult any good encyclopedia for basic biographical details, and flesh out your skeleton with selections from any of the primary sources the good people at telstudies.org have put up.  

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

Hey guys! Yes I am still alive, anyway I am working on some shrink art pins for Lawrence of Arabia fandom. Is there anything you wanted it to be done?

[hopebsimple]

-Omar Sharif-

[ohyeahlawrenceofarabia]

FYI guys if you are on 10 April you will notice that Omar Sharif is in the Google doodle today