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Peter O'Toole: 'Oh, no--not again!'

posted 13 years ago by Bilwick1
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Seeing O'Toole as the Angel of the Lord getting lasciviously eyed by Sodom's Midnight Cowboys, who then mob him and want to show him what "Sodomize" means, I thought he must have had a feeling of deja vu after the Deraa scene with the Turkish Bey in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

One part they left out: where Lot tells the Sodomite mob he has two virgin daughters, and if they want, he'll send them out and the mob can have its way with his daughters instead of the strangers. Nice dad.

[–] red_rackham_77 13 years ago

Is that why these religious homophoic jerks uses this story as a prejudices insult to homosexuals? Good grief, I now see that the reason why these two cities were destroyed was because there were rapists in both of them.

The stories from the bible confuses me, I will stick to the thought that these two city was full of greed, bad lust, killing, stealing and all the worst sins in the world. The part about Lot giving away his daughters, WTF? I hope that isn't actual fact.

[–] mac007 8 years ago

It was destroyed because there was all manner of sin being committed in them including sodemy or as we call it now homosexual acts.

[–] austendw 13 years ago

...where Lot tells the Sodomite mob he has two virgin daughters, and if they want, he'll send them out and the mob can have its way with his daughters instead of the strangers. Nice dad.

Don't worry. The daughters evidently had no hard feelings. After the catastrophe, they got their father drunk and did unto him what the Sodomites didn't do unto them (approximately), two nights running, so as to repopulate the world. I bet there were a lot of red faces when they found out that it was only the Cities of the Plain that had been destroyed with the fire & brimstone etc.

Anyway, they left that bit out of the movie as well.

Call me Ishmael...

[–] Eric-62-2 11 years ago

The two of you, in your zeal to let your anti-religious bigotry be your guide, weren't paying attention to the film. The dialogue of Lot offering his daughters to the mobs who gave Sodom their name IS in the film. So sorry to disappoint you but I'm always amused to see atheists make fools of themselves.

Lot was never regarded as a noble figure. That he was saved at all was solely because of the love and concern for him from Abraham.

[–] austendw 11 years ago

The two of you, in your zeal to let your anti-religious bigotry be your guide, weren't paying attention to the film. The dialogue of Lot offering his daughters to the mobs who gave Sodom their name IS in the film. So sorry to disappoint you but I'm always amused to see atheists make fools of themselves.

I'm not sure what I said to make you think I am guided by "anti-religious bigotry". I have neither misread nor misrepresented the Biblical story in any way whatsoever.

Call me Ishmael...

[–] packtherac 11 years ago

Peter O'Toole as the 3 angels conversing with Abraham was chilling. Great scene!

[–] morgana-31 11 years ago

The culture of the day dictated that the safety of guests came first.

Further down the line we read of another man who was in danger of being sodomized while staying at someone's house, so he sent his concubine out to be raped to death instead.

Love is never having to say you're sober.

[–] whitelion43 10 years ago

also they left out where Lot's daughters get him drunk and seduce him because they thought the world had ended
Oh GOOD!,my dog found the chainsaw

[–] Zuider_Zee 9 years ago

One part they left out: where Lot tells the Sodomite mob he has two virgin daughters, and if they want, he'll send them out and the mob can have its way with his daughters instead of the strangers. Nice dad.

This part wasn't left out of the version I watched (on the Encore Channel).

[–] NYSiciliana 9 years ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the same thing about Peter O'Toole...seriously between this and Lawrence of Arabia. Why did directors want to see him "sodomized" so much?! Too funny!