``Lawrence of Arabia'' The overwhelming visual world that made Spielberg decide to become a director

An amazing bond built by living in a tent in the middle of the desert

If you were to make a movie like "Lawrence" in this day and age, how would you go about doing it? Ideally, any filmmaker would want to start by shooting on location in a real desert. But when you start to make realistic plans, you'll probably conclude that it's not an effective way to do it, from a financial, efficiency, safety, and other standpoints, and end up using CG.

When you think about it that way, the fact that this film was made in 1962, a time when CG was not an option at all, and while resisting all kinds of inconveniences, or rather overcoming them, can only be described as miraculous.

As expected from director Lean, a perfectionist and naturalist, he was able to move on to the next stage because of his achievements in the blockbuster " The Bridge on the River Kwai " (1957), but even so, the nobility of director Lean's attempt to depict nature as it is, without using artificiality to disguise it, is so overwhelming that it takes your breath away even now.

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He is amazing, but the passion of the staff behind him is also incredible. They all lived in tents in the Jordanian desert, and with the unity of a military division that came from living together as a group, they were able to capture this amazing footage on film.

The scorching heat, hot wind, and The Day After sunlight relentlessly assaulted the crew, causing a multitude of problems to arise.

For example, they were troubled by the strange phenomenon of spots appearing on the film during filming, which was also caused by the heat. They managed to avoid any problems by constantly cooling the Panavision 65mm camera they were using with wet towels and storing the film in a refrigerated food truck. Because it was an unprecedented long-term shoot in the desert, every day was a continuous search for answers that had no right answers.

Cast members survived the heat and rode camels