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  • True enough
      • Vince (Login MoxiFox)
      Sufi
      Posted Oct 26, 2010 4:20 PM

      But I think there ARE movies which were more balanced. Lawrence of Arabia, for example, portrays Peter O'toole as an eccentric weirdo (which Lawrence himself, apparently WAS) ... and so, by association, his Arab friends might seem to have been equally crazy but .. it also portrays these same Arabs as people with plans and brains and a sense of fairness who helped the allies overthrow the Ottoman Empire ... but who were then blatantly double-crossed by the British and French governments whom they'd helped.

      It's a bit of an odd experience to watch Lawrence of Arabia BECAUSE of the stereotype that's been drilled into us by Hollywood.

      -Vince
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