Sharif was also a very popular actor at the time, so his actually being arab was just a plus. Also he was like the ONLY arab big time actor at the time. I certainly can't think of another.
And obviously you can think what you want about the overture, but it doesn't bother me and it didn't bother audiences in 1962. I just think our attention spans are shorter now and our expectations are different. It was not that weird for epic films to have overture, entre'act and exit music. Gone With The Wind, and The Ten Commandments are two other examples of the same thing.
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Date: 2010-05-07 04:05 pm (UTC)And obviously you can think what you want about the overture, but it doesn't bother me and it didn't bother audiences in 1962. I just think our attention spans are shorter now and our expectations are different. It was not that weird for epic films to have overture, entre'act and exit music. Gone With The Wind, and The Ten Commandments are two other examples of the same thing.