Lawrence of Arabia - "Nothing is written" scene

[mashmiles]

one of the best movies in cinema. greatest dialogue ever. i just repeat whatever i hear because i'm too astupid to make up my own mind lololololololololol

[999basille]

ALL IS WRITTEN IN THE KORAN. BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SamusDrake]

One of the great masterpieces in Cinema.

[Escondido123]

One of the best dialogs onscreen between two actors.

[megknsis]

I love this movie so much, it is so rich and there is so much to see. It is real depth and especially in the characters, like Lawrence when he tries so hard to help and starts to get more than he can handle it is heartbreaking, this is one of my favorite movies of all time.anthony Quinn cracks me up every time in his great scene with Lawrence inthe tent, peter o'toole has to be one of the best actors i've ever seen, he and omar sharif were so great in this move.As 4 mamc1986 commet-OOH yeah!!!!

[IGNerBrasil]

Would you upload that great Mirage scene, at the first third of the film? It's amazing! When Lawrence sees what slowly reveals to be a man far distant. The first time he meets with Sheriff.

[mamc1986]

Omar Sharif was sure hot when he was younger! HE HE HE! 

[whitechristian1066]

It makes me sick to see the Arab Terrorists Bomb the Ottoman Railways & slaughter thousands of White Turks!

Remember the Turks were the allies of the Germans & must be respected!

[almanacofsleep]

@whitechristian1066 or not

[delavalmilker]

Hey lqotanqry---as pissed as you obviously are and so certain that this movie is an insult to Islam---you can always strap a bomb to yourself and walk into the Columbia Pictures lobby and detonate yourself in protest.

[Igotangry]

it is so funny that a Turkish Pasha guessed a Turkish Pasha felt himself like he was on a moon because during those times lack of social life and women in streets were same in arabia and anatolia. and during those times people are fighting for muslim lands, in jerusalem Turkish commander and his soldiers even ate grasshoppers to defend the city!I wonder what the fuck was thinking the writer while he was writing these ugly and stupid lies!only a dumb would believe these.

[Igotangry]

what a stupid movie. the Ottoman Turks who brought blonde slav women with coloured eyes to their harem for 600 years would not know what a foreign person is and thought to ask if a person is caucasian because eyes are blue and skin is white!after the stupid scene where liar had so called raped and acclaimed he was about 27-he talked about turning jerusalem captured by allenby. but jerusalem was captured at 1917 and lawrence born in 1888-he even said himself 2 years younger!

[farmerne]

Can you even IMAGINE a movie like this being made today? There once was a time when movies were made that had real characters, intelligent dialogue, a plot that you actually had to pay attention to. Where scenes were longer than 5 seconds. Other movies of 1962: "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Manchurian Candidate", "The Miracle Worker". People stood in line to see these films. Look what was showing Summer 2011: Harry Potter # 8, Scream #4, Kung Fu Panda 3, The Hangover 2, Iron Man 2.....

[vidaliadear]

@farmerne With characters who actually struggle against complex inward AND outward forces. It's so arresting as watching a man who's either been given or taken on too much. I mean, it was good enough for The Odyssey, so obviously this kind of storytelling doesn't have an expiration date. One of the things I love about Lawrence is his desire to be honorable, his slyness, pragmatism, innocence, but most of all fragility caused by trying to hold it all together. Not to mention his surreal features!

[Freeskier475]

One of the best lines in Cinema history

[schattensand]

Ok, no objection to all you write, still the book is dull, boring, overrated in my simple mind, while the movie is not. Its entertaining, exciting, cruel, playing masterfully with upperclass english dialogue, humorous, afaik the only movie renouncing any female roleplay. Its therefor a unique movie, like Bondarchuks epos Vojna i Mir, what is as well remarkable for sticking so close in detail to the novel as no other movie. But there the original is a masterpiece of literature.

[CaptainVandorian]

Peter o' Toole's acting is so incredibly awesome, it's almost painful to watch! I still know the dialogue by heart, can't watch this in company of others, too annoying as I keep mumbling every word like in a trance.....aaaaawesome! And Peter, a real dish!

[CaptainVandorian]

saw this at the age of 17 and it was a true awakening!!!!Thanks you so much, David Lean!

[MrRiddla420]

I too ,feel that this is the absolute pinnacle ,of film-making excellence. Pure brilliance.

[BeautifulNature11]

I cant believe they were only nominated for Oscars. Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif should have won.

[VonBimoburg]

@Graphicals lol fair enough :)

[VonBimoburg]

O' Toole kind of looks like Bowie in this scene

[Graphicals]

@VonBimoburg Bowie looks like O'Toole in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.. :O)

[waitingformypopcorn]

Omar is sooo sexy.

[CaptainVandorian]

@waitingformypopcorn Peter is so much sexier!!!!;)

[pGFTuv]

never get tired of this movie...

[capelkid704]

@pGFTuv Me too. When I first heard about it, I wasn't so sure. But I do now.

[merossi1]

OMG...I'd forgotten how wonderful this film really was....a masterpiece!!! and how did Peter O'toole and Omar Sharif not get Oscars for their acting in this film....?????

[schattensand]

The only movie I know so far, that is far better than the book. I had to struggle to finish the seven pillars, but the movie has some scenes the book never came close to, in fact it is rather boring.

[CaptainVandorian]

@schattensand how can it be boring? It's one of the best things I've ever read!

[schattensand]

@CaptainVandorian It is boring, because it describes landscapes endlessly, nothing really is going for whole chapters, it has no humour at all, it uses academic language just to show that the author able to use it, It promisses mystic wisdom of a sort, never holding that promiss. It is long long and not even undertaining, like" All quiet on the western front" or "The quiet don". But yes literature is very much a matter of personal liking so be happy with that best thing.

[schattensand]

@schattensand Its entertaining not undertaining, and promise not promiss. Sry, have to admit I am a german and that mixing languages happens still far to often to me.

[CaptainVandorian]

@schattensand reality to him was an ordeal he had to go through in order to find his 'Xanadu', and

in a way, he found it, like so many seekers of the time, in the desert which also reflects the barren

wasteland of his inner world. Did he really find it, I ask myself? The book, which is NOT the book the

film was based on in the usual present day sense of films based on literature (e.g. Da Vinci Code, The English Patient), must disappoint after watching the spectacular images on screen.

[CaptainVandorian]

@schattensand You can't approach it like any other account of WW1. I saw the movie first, then got

so intrigued in Lawrence's ambiguous character that I read everything I could find written by or about him.

what I found drew a surprisingly different picture from what I had encountered on the screen. Peter o' Toole portrays him excellently, albeit with a strong sense of cinematic enigma that deviates quite substantially from

the 'real' Lawrence. He was desperate in so many ways, reality to him

[CaptainVandorian]

@schattensand it's a very personal reflection by a rather torn author of probably the best time of his life,

as well as a piece of academic work (being a scholar was one decicive 'pillars' of Lawrence's multi-layered

identity) which to the reader might sometimes come across as pretentious. But Lawrence was an excellent and passionarte scientist. The fact that he strayed from neutrality into one of the most dangerous territories (both in war and peace), espionage, just adds to his enigma, both

[CaptainVandorian]

@schattensand both on screen and in real life. The essence I got from Seven Pillars was a sense

of profound loneliness. "The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped." So was Lawrence.

[Igotangry]

@ObservedPrey than I will ask you who dahoum is? if you do not believe, look at in wikipedia. he knew that he would not accepted in british army after world war 1, he changed his name to join army. when british army defined hism, they fired him from army. why to fire their national hero(?) from army? he is an absolute faggot!

[CaptainVandorian]

@Igotangry lot of arabs were/are gay, that is, when they crossed deserts for weeks on end,

they sought each other's company - normal; wouldn't you think? No need to label them gay

or straight, just human.

[00Billy]

Omar was a true great.

[ChelseyCSD]

Omar Sharif.... georgous!!!

[allie2026]

Omar Sharif!!!! Swoooooooonnnnnnn!!!

[thepixieful]

the funnist film story regarding the making of the picture, and wow to make a picture in that climate.....O'Toole's hair really lightened white from the sun so to keep footage usable and even Lean said color your hair so I can match the close up shots. the joke was "florence of arabia" he was golden..........

[battlefrontforever]

ha ha lol he throws his cloths in the fire lol

[SuperKLC]

there aren't any more blonde actors. Hollywood is now full of jewish male actors

[scubaduba23]

my parents showed me this when I was very young. I still love it and never miss it when it comes on TCM.

[ecojuliase1]

Al Orans wasn't gay, maybe the Turks broke his ass once, but why should we deal here with Oneofthem's hidden homosexuality?

[thepixieful]

@ecojuliase1 the recent pix on BBC implied it, TE was a masocist (known) tough and a great poet and a great leader and great looking. and reclusive, he MAY have been gay. he was a product of british boys school.

[0neofthem]

lawrence was the gay of arabia and should have been executed.

[Romansteel13]

@0neofthem

He was Asexual, neither homosexual or heterosexual. Get your facts straight moron idiot.

[0neofthem]

@Romansteel13 fuck you faggot

[thepixieful]

@Romansteel13 a prof of mine knew him, he was masochistic and reclusive. and great looking and a great poet and a great leader. asexual you might be right but there were hints.....does not detract from him serving bravely.....and being dashing.

[aquagrl63]

@0neofthem He was more likely a masochist and what's wrong with being gay?

[thepixieful]

@aquagrl63 yes he was know to be masochistic the line in the film about "not minding" he was rugged. and a strange duck. the crush is hinted at, and recent film pushes the gay angle. but he was a great leader and may have had a crush. many of alexander the great's men as well served bravely.....I also support pagans in the military.

[SirusShea]

@0neofthem LOL, TROLL.

[0neofthem]

@SirusShea LOL, BITCH.

[Necroman666]

@0neofthem your such a vulgar dumb ass

[0neofthem]

@Necroman666 are you're a little fucking bitch. now go back to sucking my dick you subhuman garbage.

[Necroman666]

@0neofthem haha you are soooo offensive.

[0neofthem]

@Necroman666 shit nuggets like you deserve to be offended

[thejugglenaut91]

How the hell did Peter O'toole not get the oscar for this? Mind blowing performance

[LWOPP]

@thejugglenaut91 Because he was up against Gregory Peck for "To Kill A Mockingbird." It should have been a tie, in my opinion. The other nominees were Burt Lancaster in "Birdman of Alcatraz," Jack Lemmon for "The Days of Wine and Roses" and Marcello Mastroianni in "Divorce Italian Style." All good performances but O'Toole's and Peck's were iconic and career-defining.

Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

best movie evar

bt could ya raise the volume

[Dashingzeb]

Al Lawrence.....

[TheSittingDuck1]

"What happened to my clothing?"

"I burnt it"

(punch)

[EvangelineSky]

@TheSittingDuck1

LOL

[Cottonheartcandy01]

where is the sex scene between those two?? LOLL

[drazulao]

Best film ever made.

Two of the most divinely gorgeous men.

[mohab1234]

omar el sharif is best actor in the world he is an egyptian actor he didnt take his chance

[hector2o2o]

omar el sherif was a jenious but he didnt take hos chance like alpacino and deniro just because he's an arab

[jellybreaks]

@hector2o2o how didn't he take his chances? are you nuts? the man starred in a lot of big budget movies financed by big studios. From 1962 - 1970 he was the sex symbol in hollywood and you are saying he didn't take his chances?

[oriskany]

make that, choose.

[oriskany]

and it seems to me you are free to chose your own name, then.

[imadsamara2]

Inshallah Will re build the khilafah back .. Hizb ut tahrir is going fast to Make History : khilafah rashidah and dish the Brits and Rule Italy Rome and London soon Ameen

[panserulv]

You sad, sad bastard.

[oriskany]

Most of the planet is made up of bastards, wouldn't you agree?

[drazulao]

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, in my humble opinion,THE most wonderful master piece in world cinema.

[thepixieful]

@drazulao it is in the top ten on most lists, David Lean's pictures are almost flawless, this script, the true story but also making a film in the %^&* desert would be expensive and sort of crazy and they did it.

[warriorprince1010]

@drazulao It is a beautiful film. Captures a humanity and a wonder.

[zthetha]

good film.

[RedeemingLight]

I hope that I'm not the only one who is spellbound by O'Toole's performance. No other performance has sucked me in so much as this one. Greatest film debut for an actor ever. Period.

[kellymcnulty123]

The quote about "truly for some men, nothing is written unless they write it" would have been PERFECT for the ending of Slumdog Millionaire. Great movie, but I hate that destiny crap. The main character worked so hard to obtain the things he valued and then it's summed up to destiny. Ugh.

[edgefire125]

I have been thinking that the whole time since I've seen Slumdog, to me it's like a mirror to this but missing the point. When the D answer said It is written I wanted to shout out loud, NOTHING IS WRITTEN! Would have been highly embarassing. ;)

[kellymcnulty123]

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks this way. :-)

[egern22]

i put my money on destiny. divine intervention is my last chance

[kellymcnulty123]

This world has so much to offer and the moral person can work for his/her values and live happily in it. It's truly sad when humans turn to mysticism rather than make the most of their reality. I feel sincere pity for you, egern22. I hope you find it within yourself to do for yourself before it's too late.

[OsamaBeenFartin]

I miss the British Empire.

[hrithik7777]

fuck arab

fuck english terorrist laurence

long life turkish empire

[AlpineJay]

Similar words have been said before but not for the Turkish empire.

[fuckgordon]

why haven't they released it on blu-ray?

[wearefreedom]

one of the best movies ever made.

[VOSIM1]

yes, for me it´s definitiv one of the best...loved it since i was a child

[slav777sacrament]

I love this movie...the dynamic between this two men is one of the most beautiful i've ever seen...especially in the scene on the coast of the gulf, and Ali tosses the flowers into the ocean in Lawrence's honor

[theatchico]

obviously David or sam did a very good job on this. I wonder how come people in the 60's didn't say anything against this. Maybe they were not as aware of it as we are today...

[slav777sacrament]

i think they were aware, but society was less bold back in the day--more subtle. david lean had even said that he wanted ti portray lawrences lifestyle, but had to do it more tastefully. one of my fave documentaries on early glbt films is called the celluloid closet. you should check it out. :D

[X33vince]

''It seems to me, that you are free to choose your own name then .''

Thanks ^^

I'm not making fun . That sentence means a lot to me .

[priapus56]

Don't forget ~Green lantern~ the guy O'Toole saved was later shot and Quinn taunted him with .."Perhaps it was written after all!" The film leans to the depressing I'm afraid rather than the optimistic..watch it again and see the quarrelling arabs at the end ruin Lawrence's hopes of giving them freedom..

[GreenLanternofEarth6]

My favorite film, one of my favorite scenes. Personally, I think the "nothing is written." that O'toole tells Sharif after he comes out of the Nefu Desert with Gassim, and Sharif offers him the waterskin should have been in AFI's top 100 film quotes, because of the power and sense of paving your own destiny associated with it. Great scene, thanks for posting =)

[IronButterfly34]

Thank you for posting this! This is one of my favourite scenes from the film as well. Peter O'Toole is an amazing actor. :)