movie that really made me want to be a movie maker. it s sweeping vistas of tremendous production value, sand dunes and perfect lighting conditions, and these amazing intimate close-ups. it s a story about a man who gets himself involved in these affairs between all the tribes of the middle east. the english gopher, they strike where they please and this makes them great. mr. lawrence, that will do. it s not your military advice. i would like to hear his opinion. damn you, lawrence. who do you take orders from? t.e. lawrence was british, but on the other hand, he becomes a kind of convert to the independence movement in the middle east. lawrence goes on this enormous journey and adventure in trying to help the bed ou win against the turks and wants to defend their rights.
ranch. you got trouble right here, bub. in hud, he was supposed to be kind of a shallow damaged character and he was playing that to the hilt and particularly dealing with the darkside of things. you don t look out for yourself, the only helping hand you ll ever get is when they lower the box. hud is a kind of commentary on where you end up if you buy into the myth of the western hero. you end up with a guy who drinks too much, has no respect for women,s who s masculine in the divorce sense of the term yet hud is attractive to us because he s played bid paul new man. in cool hand luke, new man clearly is a figure of the counter culture movement. rebelling against authority. lay down, luke. he s just going to knock you down again, buddy. circumstance hasn t made luke a criminal. stay down. it s almost his choice. you re going to have to kill
but the audience reception really proved that connery could pull off bond. one thing i read about you said you weren t living up to your image. they pay the fines if i live up to the image. sean connery was so handsome, there s a kind of naughty fun just to his smile and you felt as though you didn t need to know him. you weren t asking for an internal performance from him. he was somebody you could project a fantasy on. my friends call me tanya. mine call me james bond. james bond is created during the cold war by ian fleming and in cold war terms, james bond is everything that the russians are not. and that becomes a kind of subliminal appeal. take it easy, 007. fire escape only for one. in from russia with love, there s a fight inside a train car that connery has with robert shaw. and it is in a tiny confined
one, two, three, go. it s a relationship movie and best defined in that movie where they re being chased. there s nowhere to go. they re on the edge of a cliff and there s a raging river below. it s so clear that the odds of them surviving are pretty much none. i ll jump first. no. you jump first. no, i said. what s the matter with you? i can t swim. it s a great dynamic. are you crazy? the fall will probably kill you. the movie just works. and westerns will stay around despite lean times because they re so central to our idea of what the country is. in one western after another, these human figures are placed on this vast canvas. and in that genre, you can tell any kind of story you want.
that s specific to the time they re in. when you re a jet you re a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dieing day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. it has a code that was both old and completely new. with west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discord ant aspect. you can feel it. it s like sparking in the air. and the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. west side story was a big broadway hit created by arthur lawrence and stephen sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. they actually enlisted jerome