Very interesting anecdotes by Peter O’Toole about making Lawrence of Arabia. I actually have no time, but I have to take it. Fell over that video while having breakfast this morning. It was a delight.
I was magnetically pulled by both O’Toole and that epic movie back then, when I first watched it on tv as a young teen and a few years later in my early twenties, when a cinema in Passau had a re-run of this old movie in the original english language. Went 3 times into the cinema, and each time I was smitten.
What a dashing, charismatic guy O’Toole was back then. And then this monumental film.
Funny, his camel riding teacher was a relative of that real gold loving tribe leader the real Lawrence conquered Akaba with. And that it needed a young british actor, to introduce rubber sponges to generations old arab camel riders. The imagination, that probably even today, the Jordanian military uses those rubber sponges, given by O’Toole, is ridiculously funny.
Oh my. Loved it. But now I need to prepare for my first meeting at 8 am. Soon, it get’s less stressy. I hope.
