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""Lawrence of Arabia" on DVD"

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Anonymous Mark Seecof said...

Buy the Superbit DVD version (silver box) to see the most correct looking version of the movie. (The original DVD release has a cool looking (khaki) keepcase, but the picture has strange color and very annoying digital artifacts. Those were mostly corrected in the Superbit version.)

9/10/07, 12:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The movie over-romanticizes the Arabs who were not that militarily significant or effective.

A more telling movie would have focused on Kemal Attaturk and his realization at Meggido, watching Allenby's attack with biplanes and artillery and machine guns that the old tribal system would have to go. Because it could not stand up to an unrestricted application of western power.

Now, it would not have been as "dramatic" but would have painted a more compelling message -- that combat effectiveness (minus PC concerns) depends on boring guys with slide rules or calculators as much as nomadic "warriors" -- i.e. the old Roman way of making war. Engineering as much as swordplay.

9/10/07, 2:55 PM

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