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David leans 1963 film Lawrence of Arabia, I seen to be one of the best films ever made my many film critics and ordinary people alike. ...
The feature film Lawrence of Arabia, is based on a true story and traces the life of army officer T.E Lawrence, during the period of the fist world war. Lawrence is seen to have potential by his superiors and sent into Arabia, to find the Arab Prince Fiesel. However Lawrence is able to unite the Arab tribes and fight off the Turkish army, and capture Turkish strongholds, and disrupt Turkish communications, during his time in Arabia Lawrence is also fighting a battle with himself. ...
In this essay I will be applying some of the conventions of Hollywood narrative, and seeing if the Epic Lawrence of Arabia conform to some of these narrative conventions. ... Todorov said that the structure of narrative stories mainly follow the same sequence of events; firstly at the start of the story a state of equilibrium is in place, and then there should be a disruption of equilibrium, by an event, then there should be a recognition that a disruption has taken place, an attempt to repair the damage caused by the disruption, and then a return to some sort of equilibrium. Vladimir Propp a Russian critic believed that all characters in narrative stories on film, were similar to the same ‘stock’ characters in the Russian fairytale and each characters functions was also the same in narrative. ... Levi Strauss argued that an abiding structure of all ‘meaning’ being present in films, was dependent on ‘binary – oppositions’, or a conflict between two qualities or terms.
Approximate Word count = 1324
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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