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And Took You Apart Into His Quietness--Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence/Ali

Jun 12, 2007 20:52

Title: And Took You Apart Into His Quietness
Fandom: Lawrence of Arabia (1962 film)
Characters/Pairing: Lawrence/Ali
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Sort of technically RPS, though based on a fictional representation of historical figures, references to canonical torture and canonical implied rape, non-explicit male/male sex, and a fairly simplified ( Read more... )

fandom: lawrence of arabia, fanfiction, pairing: lawrence/ali

Comments 23

silveraspen June 13 2007, 05:36:38 UTC

... singlehandedly, with this one fic, you have now ensured that I will see this film.

*goes to add to Netflix queue, full of wail and wibble*

jezrana June 13 2007, 05:43:26 UTC

MWA HA HA.

(It's wonderful and everyone needs to see it at least once. More than once is negotiable, given how EPIC it is.)

Glad you liked. :D

cionaudha June 14 2007, 17:20:24 UTC

Oh, yes, SilverAspen, you MUST see it! Bring tissues!

Jezrana, wow. That was so sad. But the drawing away, the silence, that's so real. And it never ended, for him. :-( But he did keep Ali's portrait. :-)

jezrana June 15 2007, 00:38:48 UTC

Thanks a lot--glad you enjoyed.

delphinapterus June 13 2007, 05:46:46 UTC

That was wonderful and very bitter sweet. I liked that you didn't magically heal Lawrence but instead showed a gradual fading away until they were no longer as they had been with Ali not quite sure how to deal with it but doing so as best he could anyway because that's what had to be done. The part where Lawrence leaves Damascus and how Ali stays was very elegantly executed.

jezrana June 13 2007, 06:48:54 UTC

Thanks a lot. :D

And, yeah, from the film and what I know of the real T.E. Lawrence, I don't think he ever did recover fully, and one of the things I find so compelling about this pairing is that I don't think there's any plausible way to give them a happy ending.

mercuriazs June 13 2007, 06:09:09 UTC

...... This is so beautiful. *hugs them both tight* I am so tired, but I love it so much.

jezrana June 13 2007, 06:49:34 UTC

*beams* Thank you.

fred_god_of June 14 2007, 15:36:23 UTC

Finally a fic I haven't read twelve times already, and one that's excellent as well. I love the ending section, while all the while hating the fact that they never get a happy ending. but hateing in the same admiring way I hate the movie people:-)

jezrana June 15 2007, 00:43:10 UTC

Thanks. :D I've got a giant weak spot for heroes who don't get happy endings. *hugs them*

swear_jar June 17 2007, 14:58:24 UTC

Oh, that's beautiful! I only watched the movie recently, and this really hit on the movie's tone perfectly. That actually brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.

As to the movie's creators being aware of the S.A. thing when they named Ali, I found this online not long ago and it certainly convinced me they knew exactly what they were doing. I thought you might be interested: "Lean dismissed these criticisms airily. He contended - with some justification - that the movie was historically accurate so far as the truly important questions were concerned. As to the suggestion that the film was pervasively homoerotic, he said: 'Yes. Of course it is. Throughout. Lawrence was very, if not entirely, homosexual. We thought we were being very daring at the time: Lawrence and Omar, Lawrence and the Arab boys.'"
-from David Lean's obituary in The Guardian, April 17, 1991 (full text, byline Jonathan Yardley).

jezrana June 17 2007, 22:30:09 UTC

Thanks a lot!

And that is very interesting, and makes me go >:D!, so thanks for sharing.