#the seven pillars

[colorhollywood]

How I Shall Play Lawrence

Leslie Howard reveals in this exclusive interview with J. Danvers Williams that he will definitely play Lawrence of Arabia on the screen–and outlines his plans for handling this most discussed rôle of recent years

A photographic impression of Howard as Lawrence of Arabia. The Arab robes are Lawrence’s, the face is Howard’s

“I have played some interesting parts in my time,” said Howard. “Somerset Maugham’s club-footed introvert in Of Human Bondage, the idealistic hero of The Petrified Forest, Romeo (such as it was) and, on the stage, Hamlet–but I think the title role in Lawrence of Arabia is the greatest acting opportunity of my career.”

I had gone to see Leslie Howard in an effort to clear up the Lawrence mystery. Almost weekly one reads conflicting reports in the newspapers, that the Lawrence film is definitely to be made or that it has been postponed; that a unit is shortly to leave for Arabia, or that the unit has been prevented from starting.

“This film has been in the air so long,” said Howard, “that it isn’t surprising newspapers have become sceptical. The truth is, however, that I am already hard at work on the preliminaries of the picture. Everything is signed and sealed. We hope to start the actual shooting in ten or twelve weeks’ time, and have the film edited and ready for presentation by the end of six or eight months.

“I am particularly interested in this picture because I am co-producing it. Korda is at present busy in America, which means that I shall be virtually in control of the whole production.

“For the first time in my life I shall not be the mere puppet of another man’s imagination. I shall be able to place on the screen my own undiluted conception of Lawrence of Arabia, and if the final result does not measure up to expectations I shall, at least, have the satisfaction of knowing that I have only myself to blame.

“At the moment, of course, I think we have a chance of making a first-class picture. Certainly, the story itself has all the aspects of a great drama.

“One of the chief reasons Korda has refrained so long from putting the picture into production is that he found it difficult to produce a scenario, a director and an actor whom he felt would do the subject justice.

“It is not the sort of film that anyone could make. You can rule out most of the ace directors–such as Capra, Lubitsch and Borzage–as types of mentalities who would be quite out of their depth in a picture of this sort. Off-hand, I can think of only two directors whom I would care to employ–John Ford, who made The Informer, and William K. Howard, who has actually been given the assignment.

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[da-pu-ri-to-jo-po-ti-ni-ja]

[fuwbuki]

The sun and son of Arabia

Watched "Lawrence of Arabia" for the first time and i had to make something. I had a vision but dont know if i executed it correctly

[marfa-g]

His wounds are from Deraa

[orlaite]

T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[vulpineknave]

[nerdyhistoryenjoyer]

While reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, I came across a description of Mark Sykes who, I then remembered, made this caricature

But now I'm intrigued; has he made anymore drawings such as this one? I've been trying to find anything, though hopefull I'd find something with TE depicted, he might've also drawn but turned up with nothing. Help needed 🙏

[illustratus]

Lawrence of Arabia 1962

[macabre-discotheque]

originally this started with Sally because of a joke with a friend of mine, but then I drew Eddie, Frank, and Howdy because that same friend Asked me to we've been using these (specifically Eddie and Howdy) as reaction images when we're distressed lmao

[sophia-helix]

started reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom because I finally got around to watching Lawrence of Arabia, and Lawrence sure did just get right to it on page 2

“SOME people were quivering together in the yielding sand with intimate hot limbs in supreme embrace, as you do. Who could say who. War is hell.”

(actually it’s a great book so far; he’s a great writer and I know was a very complex person with a difficult life, but bro this is page 2)

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 9:1 (NKJV) - Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[thefirstshootingstar]

no thoughts? more like all the thoughts, and they're very full of meliodas and aleron

[marfa-g]

I realized that the harsh days of my solitary battling had passed. The lone hand had won against the world’s odds

[orlaite]

T.E Lawrence's SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM (1922 Oxford Edition)

David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

[rubypomegranates]

"We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling."

T.E. Lawrence "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph"