489: He Likes Your Lemonade

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Old Movie Club finally takes on the big one, David Lean’s 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia.” Sand! Endurance! Men! Camels! Violence! Anticolonialism mixed with racism! Omar Sharif redefines thirst in the desert! The real romance in the movie without romance! This is a movie that builds myths with one hand and undermines them with the other. This episode has no overture, but there will be a brief intermission.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 489, November 2019.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I am your host, Jason Snell, and this is another edition of what we like to call Old Movie Club. We're going to go back to 1962, but we're
0:23.8	really going to go back to the First World War because we're going to be talking about the
0:29.1	David Lean's epic, so much sand. Oh, so much sand. It's Lawrence of Arabia. Now,
0:37.3	joining me to talk about this, considered one of the
0:40.1	great films of all time. Yeah, that's right. I said it. But other people considered it. I just
0:45.2	repeat it what they thought. Are these four following wonderful people? Dan Moran is here. Hello.
0:50.1	Hi, Jason. I apparently picked this, I think, for the film festival episode in 2012.
0:57.9	Wow.
0:58.8	That was a long time ago.
0:59.7	There was a lengthy intermission.
1:01.0	There was a lengthy intermission.
1:02.5	There was a lot of time.
1:03.4	Erica Ensign is also here.
1:04.6	Hello.
1:05.1	Hey, Jason.
1:05.8	My name is for my friends.
1:07.2	And that's you guys.
1:08.3	By the way, Erica, having now spoken, that is one more female
1:11.6	speaking part in this episode than is in Lons of Arabia. That is true. I am here to represent
1:16.6	that woman's hand that you see, sticking out of a tent and the pan across the few women that we
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