Lawrence Of Arabia Page #7

-Politics.

You gonna be a democracy in this country?

You gonna have a parliament?

I will tell you that

when I have a country.

Did I answer well?

You answered without saying

anything. That's politics.

You learn quickly.

-I have a good teacher.

-Yeah.

Yeah.

-How's your hurt?

-Fine.

Before I return to the fleshpots,

which I shall be very glad to do,

may I put two questions

to you, straight?

I'd be interested to hear you put

a question straight, Mr. Bentley.

One.

What, in your opinion, do these people

hope to gain from this war?

They hope to

gain their freedom.

Freedom.

"They hope to gain their freedom."

-There's one born every minute.

-They're going to get it, Mr. Bentley.

I'm going to give it to them.

-The second question?

-Well, I was going to ask, um...

What is it, Major Lawrence, that

attracts you personally to the desert?

It's clean.

Well, now...

that's a very illuminating answer.

May I...

take one farewell picture?

I gave Math Budad

two lamps for it.

One clock for two lamps.

ALl:

A fair bargain.

Fair? I robbed him.

Trash.

I must find

something honourable.

Honourable?

Yes. The year is

running out, Brighton.

I must find something honourable.

Now you may

blow up my train.

And what will you do now?

Now I go home.

They will carry my toys.

They will carry my toys too,

do you see?

Major Lawrence will

campaign this winter.

But you got what you wanted,

so you're going home, is that it?

Of course. When Aurens has got

what he wants, he will go home.

When you've got what

you want, you will go home.

Oh, no, I shan't, Auda.

Then you are a fool.

Maybe. But I am not a deserter.

Give thanks to God, Brighton,

that when he made you a fool,

he gave you a fool's face.

You are an impudent rascal.

I must go, Aurens, before I soil

myself with a fool's blood.

Like talking to a brick wall.

So, what will you do now?

What can you do?

I'll go north.

That's what Allenby

wants, isn't it?

Allenby wanted the Arab army

behind Deraa.

Then that's where I'll take it.

Tell Allenby to hurry up, or we'll be

in Deraa before he's in Jerusalem.

Won't we?

Train, Farraj.

Yeah, Aurens.

Hide yourself, my friend.

Detonator.

All right, fetch another.

-Pardon, Aurens. I put...

-There's plenty of time. Fetch another.

Farraj?

Farraj!

-What happened?

-Detonator. A detonator!

He cannot ride,

Aurens. Look.

If they take him alive,

you know what they'll do to him.

Daud will be angry with you.

Salute him for me.

What will you do now?

Go north.

With twenty?

What would you

recommend me to do, Ali?

What would you recommend?

Well, he hasn't one-tenth

so many men, sir.

He's lied, in fact.

Yes and no. He doesn't claim to have

done anything he hasn't done.

Then there is an

Arab north army.

-No, sir, he has lied about that.

-Any idea why?

-It's his army, I suppose.

-It's Prince Feisal's army.

Do you think he's

gone native, Harry?

No.

He would if he

could, I think.

-Not my line of country, this, sir.

-It doesn't matter. I'm just curious.

What matters is

I believed it.

The Turks believe it.

They are offering

Good heavens.

Shouldn't say he had

long to live, would you?

Well, whatever else,

sir, he's a brave man...

Surely, surely. If he's still going

north with 50 men, he doesn't lack guts.

I wonder if they'd

offer that much for me.

What about next year?

Will they still come back?

I wouldn't be surprised.

-They think he's a kind of prophet.

-They do or he does?

-Now may I speak?

-Yes.

Aurens, one more failure

and you will find yourself alone.

-I do not include myself.

-I do not include the others.

So say they love you.

The more reason to

be thrifty with them.

Give them something to do

that can be done. But you, no.

They must move mountains for you,

they must walk on water.

That's right. That's right.

Who are you to know

what can be done?

If we'd done what you thought could be done,

we'd be back in Yenbo now and nowhere.

Whatever I ask them to do can be done.

That's all. They know that if you don't.

Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali?

Do you?

My friends, who will

walk on water with me?

-Who will come with me into Deraa?

-Deraa is garrisoned.

Will you take 20 against 2000?

-I'll go by myself if I have to.

-Why?

Because I told the

English generals

the Arab revolt would be in Deraa

when they'd be in Jerusalem.

Or perhaps you are here...

for the English generals.

Who says this?

Rumour.

That is not an argument.

Oh, argument.

This afternoon I will take

the Arab revolt into Deraa

while the Arabs argue.

Aurens.

Can you pass for an Arab

in an Arab town?

Yes. If one of you would lend

me some dirty clothes.

It's madness.

What are you looking for?

Some way to

announce myself.

Be patient with him, God.

Do you not see how

they look at you? Come.

Peace, Ali, I am invisible.

Halt!

Walk on.

-Halt!

-Walk on.

You and you.

You.

You.

You have blue eyes.

-I say you have blue eyes.

-Yes, effendi.

-Are you Circassian?

-Yes, effendi.

How old are you?

Twenty-seven, effendi.

I think.

You look older. You have

had a lot of experience.

It's an interesting face.

I am surrounded by cattle.

He wouldn't know an interesting

face from a sow's belly.

I have been in Deraa now

for three and a half years.

If they posted me to the dark side

of the moon, I could not be more...

isolated.

You haven't the least idea

what I'm talking about, have you?

No, effendi.

Have you?

No.

That would be too...

lucky.

Where did you get that?

-Oh, it's old, effendi.

-No, no, this is recent.

-You are a deserter.

-No, effendi.

Yes, you are a deserter.

But from which army?

Not that it matters at all.

A man cannot be always in uniform.

Your skin is very fair.

Beat him.

To me!

Sleep.

Sleep.

Eat.

Eat.

You have a body,

like other men.

Good.

Then sleep.

Better?

Much better.

You were right.

Rest, rest.

Can you not learn?

Oh, I've learned all right.

I'm going, Ali.

-Why?

-Why?

Heavens.

Why?

I've come to the end

of myself, I suppose.

And the end of

the Arab revolt?

I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali.

I'm not even Arab.

A man can be whatever

he wants. You said.

I'm sorry.

I thought it was true.

You proved it.

Look, Ali. Look.

That's me. What colour

is it? That's me.

And there's nothing

I can do about it.

A man can do whatever

he wants. You said.

He can...

but he can't want

what he wants.

This is the stuff that

decides what he wants.

You may as well know.

I would've told them anything.

I would've told them who I am.

I would've told them where you were.

-I tried to.

-So would any man.

Well, any man

is what I am.

And I'm going back to Allenby

to ask him for a job

that any man can do.

Allenby's in Jerusalem.

-I'll make easy stages.

-You?

Oh, yes. Easy stages.

Look, Ali, I think I see

a way of being just

ordinarily...

happy.

Can I take this?

It is not clean.

No, but it's warm.

And these...

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