Plot Twist Revealed

tabs · 06-02-2003, 12:53 PM

Yo DD done deal with both WGA East and West...$44.00 total.......The twist on the plot is that our hero is none other than TE Lawerence....aka Lawerence of Arabia.....Lawerence got his degree from Cambridge? Oxford? before WW1 in Medevil Architeciture...and as such was on digs in Turkey and Palestein digging up Crusader sites...so he knew the people and spoke Arabic...thus was asigned to intelligence in Cario in 1915....then on leave he went over to Arabia and the rest is history.... Hows that boss for a story line....

Isabo · 06-02-2003, 01:32 PM

Writing the female lead will be full of opportunities with Lawrence of Arabia as Arabia as hero,

tabs · 06-02-2003, 02:01 PM

Sorry...He was Gay...Isabo...Since I've registered it...set before WW1 an expedition goes out to find Pharo Zosars tomb, they find it and unleash him and the forces of evil, they get wiped out...WW1 begins as a result of the forces of evil being unleashed...Enter our hero LOA.. on a short leave from the Brit army likes to go out ruins exploring he stumbles on the lost expedition, after reading the inscritptions he goes and finds Imhopteps tomb (Good Mummy) they join forces and ultimately triumph over evil....on the road to Damascus.

Isabo · 06-02-2003, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by tabs
Sorry...He was Gay...

That's why I said it would be full of opportunities

BlueSkyJaunte · 06-02-2003, 02:18 PM

You better not crash another Brough when you film this or you'll have to answer to ME!

dd74 · 06-03-2003, 03:07 PM

Looks good. I'm ignorant when it comes to LOA stuff, but it sounds weighty.

I think a small house would do nicely for an idea like that. They're around, and could give it the attention it needs.

If you're serious enough, you can get someone to look at it.

So the question is, are you serious?

tabs · 06-04-2003, 12:57 AM

I have nothing better to do....I got this legal stuff to deal with but once thats in the hands of the atorney...I'm basically outa the loop...

It's just where do I start and who do I contact or see...and I'll start doing the leg work.

I have ideas about how it should be set up and the look...as far as writing the dialog or some of the action stuff ...let them fill in the blanks....for instance the opening sequences of the first expedition should be about 20 minutes of running time with a couple of well known actors that U wouldn't expect to be killed off...stealing a bit from Sergio Leone "Once Upon A Time in the West" where Jack Elam, LQ Jones and Woody Strode get killed by Charles Bronson in the opening scene. Nobody would expect that... I guess the operative words would be subtlity, lowkey nothing over the top....much like the orginal movie was...

Doug Zielke · 06-04-2003, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
You better not crash another Brough when you film this or you'll have to answer to ME!

LOL, Blue!!
I gather there were not too many usable parts left. Splat!

BlueSkyJaunte · 06-04-2003, 09:47 PM

God, every time I see one of those Broughs, or a Vincent, or '46 Chief, or Crocker, I wonder what the hell is wrong with the world today. Those bikes were (are) beautiful yet eminently functional--functional to the point of being "daily drivers" in their day, yet so pretty you want to have at them with a polishing cloth just for the hell of it. Now everything is plastic-covered, or functional to the point of looking like it was welded together by a deranged 8-year-old, or "retro" in all the wrong directions.

dd74 · 06-04-2003, 09:58 PM

How did LOA turn into BOA on this thread?

dd74 · 06-04-2003, 09:59 PM

...anyway, TABS, I sent you a PM...

Milu · 06-04-2003, 11:20 PM

LOA's bike was crashed and apparently rebuilt into lots of others, all sold as the genuine one. At any rate, more than one is around, most of them fitted with the personalisations LOA added. I don't remember any one being the definitive one but it's years since I followed stuff like this. Caveat emptor.

tabs · 07:35 AM

Anyway after the Arabs were so shoddily treated by the big powers (as were the other 3rd world countries...remember old Ho Chi Mihn at the Treaty of Versailles)..Lawerence gave up his Colonel rank and joined the British Army under an assumed name as an Enlisted man..they found him out and allowed him to join the RAF under his own name...he was always an enigmatic figure...finially being killed on his Motorcycle in 1935?

Robert Graves wrote a Biography about him around 1930 and Lawerence wrote 7 Pillars which I could never read although I tried and he also wrote "Revolt in the Desert"

Jared at Pelican Parts · 06-05-2003, 07:38 AM

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Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
God, every time I see one of those Broughs, or a Vincent, or '46 Chief, or Crocker, I wonder what the hell is wrong with the world today. Those bikes were (are) beautiful yet eminently functional--functional to the point of being "daily drivers" in their day, yet so pretty you want to have at them with a polishing cloth just for the hell of it. Now everything is plastic-covered, or functional to the point of looking like it was welded together by a deranged 8-year-old, or "retro" in all the wrong directions.

Hand formed and polished chrome is expensive. Plastic is cheap.

Does that answer your question?

BlueSkyJaunte · 06-05-2003, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Jared at Pelican Parts
Hand formed and polished chrome is expensive. Plastic is cheap.

That's only part of it, Jared.

I've seen photos of the new "retro" Vincent Black Shadow that's coming out. Basically a Honda VTR engine (with a big honkin' radiator) in a frame that "evokes" the plumbing of the original. Stupid.

And what's with the anime-bug-eyed sportbikes coming out of Japan?

Motorcycles just don't have any style anymore. They're mass-produced, focus-group-designed, throw-away vehicles like every other jelly-bean car on the road.

Jared at Pelican Parts · 11:08 AM

however you have to consider these bikes really werent all that great to begin with... Poor electrics, poor suspension, vibration, incredibly bad induction, (my uncle had a Triumph 750, if you went over a bump hard enough, it would knock the carbs out of adjustment) I've ridden old harleys from back in the day, and i honestly have to say i dont see the appeal of something that makes your genitals sore for the next two days after you ride it.

NOW is the golden age of bikes. I mean come on, I can go down to my local Suzuki dealership and buy a Hayabusa that can go nearly 200MPH!

BlueSkyJaunte · 06-05-2003, 01:13 PM

But it's as ugly as the south end of a warthog. And eats drivechains every 5k miles (read some of the readers' letters in MCN). And besides, I wouldn't consider Triumphs of that era either reliable or high-quality. Just fast. Didn't a pair of brothers set the transcontinental motorcycling record on an Indian Chief? That says something for reliability, IMHO.

Doug Zielke · 06-05-2003, 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by Milu
LOA's bike was crashed and apparently rebuilt into lots of others, all sold as the genuine one. At any rate, more than one is around, most of them fitted with the personalisations LOA added. I don't remember any one being the definitive one but it's years since I followed stuff like this. Caveat emptor.

That's what I heard as well (actually, I think I read it in Classic Bike Magazine).

Of course seeing as how there isn't a Brough-Sup on every block, I never have ridden one. But I have had a go on a Vincent Rapide. What a big lump! Very strange handling. Starting it proved your manhood.