A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

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Movie
German title A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Original title A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Christopher Menaul
script Tim Rose Price
production Celia Bannerman ,
Uberto Pasolini
music Michel Sanvoisin
camera Witold Stok
cut David Rees
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia is a British television film. He describes the experiences of TE Lawrence and Emir Faisal at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . In terms of time, it follows David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia , which ends with the conquest of Damascus by the Arabs in 1918.

The film is the debut of Ralph Fiennes , who until then had only played roles in the theater, as a film actor.

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At the beginning of the film, Lawrence speaks a quote from his book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom :

" All men dream.
But not equally.
There is a dream by night in a dusty recess of their mind.
Waking the day to find that it is vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men.
For they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
This I did . "

After the First World War, peace conditions are to be negotiated in Paris. The leader of the Arab delegation is the Hashemite Emir Faisal. TE Lawrence, who as an English officer on Faisal's side was actively involved in the Arab uprising against Ottoman rule, is participating in the conference as Faisal's friend, advisor and interpreter. Lawrence enjoys an almost legendary reputation as a war hero thanks to the war reports by American photo reporter Lowell Thomas. The Arab delegation hopes that the British will keep their promise to accept an independent Arab state. However, the British keep a corresponding written agreement between the Arabs and Great Britain under lock and key. The British, including Winston Churchill, and the Americans, led by American President Woodrow Wilson, show understanding and sympathy for the goal of the negotiations on the Arab side . Conservative British and French, however, pursue the goal of dividing influence on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. They watch with suspicion all the actions and moves of the Arab delegation, especially all of Lawrence's actions. Faisal does not like the fact that Lawrence is in the foreground and enjoys the media hype to the full, and tensions between the friends increase. At the end of the negotiations, Faisal has to realize that he has failed in his goals, while Lawrence does not want to see his defeat and continues to dream of an independent Arab state.

Interspersed in the film are scenes that show Lawrence writing his book .

production

The film was produced in 1990. It was filmed at Sands Studios in Rotherhithe , London, by Enigma TV Prods. for Anglia Films. It was first broadcast on April 18, 1992 on ITV networks .

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Reviews

Chris Willman, the film critic for the Los Angeles Times , writes that the film is less a portrait of a war hero, but rather shows Lawrence in the face of his enemies - diplomats and politicians. The film shows how in smoke-filled rooms in Paris the stage was prepared for the chaos that reigns today in the Middle East . Fiennes gives a more sensitive Lawrence than the heroic figure of Lawrence Peter O'Tooles : smug, sweaty forehead, and with a dwindling realism of his statesmanlike, pro-Arab aspirations.

John O'Connor of the New York Times thinks the film is more authentic than David Lean's, which undoubtedly makes it more difficult for non-experts to understand. Understanding him is almost as complicated as the man himself. Fiennes played Lawrence with remarkable subtlety. Even in the first scene when watching an old film report from the Arab uprising, the ambivalence of his nature becomes apparent and his true soul is revealed in a flash. Both main actors, Fiennes and Siddig, played great and rousing in a torrent of rapidly changing emotions ( riding a torrent of rapidly changing emotions ), often without saying a word. Tim Rose Price's script skilfully mixes world events and the events in the protagonist's life. The more you know about the time and what happened, the more you appreciate this remarkably beautiful film.

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  1. ↑ 'All people dream. But not right away. There is a night dream in a hazy corner of your soul, only to wake up during the day to realize that it was nothing. But those who dream during the day are dangerous men. Because they can carry out their dream with open eyes to make it possible. I did this'.
  2. ↑ Chris William: TV Reviews: 'A Dangerous Man' Downsizes Lawrence. Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1992, accessed May 10, 2016.
  3. ^ John O'Connor: Review / Television; Confused, Complex Lawrence Of Arabia The New York Times. May 6, 1992, accessed May 3, 2016.