{"id":4814,"date":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:45:53","slug":"lawrence-of-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence of Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lawrence-of-arabia.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Watching one of the great films in the history of the art form always fills me both with excitement and trepidation, particularly when the film was made a long time ago. Some films are timeless; others translate very poorly from the past into the present. <i>Gone with the Wind<\/i> bored the teenage me beyond belief because I felt that it was always clear that the actors were acting rather than truly experience the emotions of their characters. I thought the love story that allegedly existed between Scarlett O&#8217;Hara and Rhed Butler was simple fake, destroying the entire film for me.&nbsp; Many years ago I saw segments of <i>Lawrence of Arabia <\/i> but only now have I been able watch this three-and-a-half hour movie marathon in its entirety.&nbsp; One feels that the film was shot a few decades ago but this does not take away from its power. The Middle East is still in a political quagmire.<\/p>\n<p>Only the actors have changed.&nbsp; I enjoyed particularly the first half with its breathtaking scenes in the Arab desert. Watching Peter O&#8217;Toole intense portrayal of Lawrence is a real treat. O\u2019Toole&#8217;s blue eyes constitute a spectacle all on their own against the background of the desert landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching one of the great films in the history of the art form always fills me both with excitement and trepidation, particularly when the film <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4814\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lawrence-of-arabia.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}