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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
* [[Widescreen Shot]]: So many, it showed Lean was a master of them.
* [[Word of Gay]]: David Lean on the film's homoerotic subtext: "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."
** Except a lot of people wouldn't notice until they were told, which kind of takes away the "daring". After all, just from watching Lawrence and Omar could be just [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and Lawrence and the Arab boys could be [[Parental Substitute]].
*** Or unless they watch the scene where Lawrence is alone after he first puts on his white Arab clothes.
*** Still: "You love him!" "No, I fear him." "Then why do you weep?" "I love him, but fear him." Not to mention the fact that its 1962 and this film had to be [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|approved by the censors]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Turkish officer at the train.
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