Post #3594477
2026-07-05 01:17 UTC
There's a 12-shot sequence where Daud, who'd be well-advised to get off the Nefud before it kills him, looks up and peers at the far horizon when he sees...something.
There are 11 shots from his point of view between the moment of "Wait...what?" and the confirmation that it is, in fact, Lawrence, who's got the missing Gasim clinging to him, riding his camel toward salvation.
In the script, what he sees is described as an "elongated pinhead of black elevated into the blue above the horizon."
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@SidFudd@4bear.com 2026-07-05 01:21
This movie has been released on home video in dozens of countries in at least 6 formats since the 1980s, and I can tell you without fear of contradiction that the 4K release (based on a 2012 restoration in 8K) is the FIRST TIME that we've ever seen what Daud sees, the eight-pixel-high "elongated pinhead of black" that confirms that, yes, something's coming, Lawrence and Gasim aren't dead, and "for some men nothing is written unless they write it".