The Most Famous of Edits

One of the most recognizable and celebrated cuts in the history of cinema. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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  Film & Animation

[Ross Maguire]

Would be really helpful if people weren't so pretentious by not giving the name of the film and just harping on about how historical it is in terms of editing. Especially the uploader.

[icjefferys]

I guess YouTube doesn't display the tags anymore. Fixed.

[herpderpmonkey]

It's just a really creative way to transition the plot to the next scene. It's artistic in a way of editing noone's really tried. It's like that blow commands the audience; it extinguishes the scene like the lit match and is rekindled by the sun in the next scene (a bit menacing undertone is there but still). It also has that jarring effect (you didn't feel a bit of a tinge when the cut is made?) especially with the juxtaposition.

[Ron Richo]

For me this is a perfect film. Every edit is perfect. David Lean's Masterpiece!

[Boom Basha X]

the movie is amazin.. but if its anythin, the cut from the blow to the sun, wasnt really that smooth.. like the whole screen just cut.. and you'd expect the it to transition to a darker scene then gradually build up again in light.. but this cut to a scene that already had color and light.. it was a bit sudden and not so smooth.. like the oranges were were forced in, where you could have slowly and gracfully introduced them from a darker stage.. just my opinion

[Cat. Tang]

Actually Lean was inspired by FNW trend,therefore he wanted to try a different way to cut.. This is how that famous cut came out

[commissarusa]

WOOOOOWWWWWW. I forgot how awesome that sequence was.

[bellephants]

Anne V. Coates did such a phenomenal job when she edited this movie! 

[Lawrence Burchett]

So whom does not think this was great? I was named after this complex man . My Grandma met him ...great scene....

[Tavita Tata]

inspiring. even though I knew what was going to happen, it still surprised me.

[StraightEdgeSal]

Actually, it was tried before.. By the French. The French New Wave influenced a bunch of films during the late 50's and up.

[AMLoyalist1]

Too deep for you