In every stage of our continually changing lives, we observe every scenarios that take place around us so to find an influence on our own behaviors. Media technology has improved since the 1950s as a visual medium in which different scenarios, both fictional and reality, are depicted in different forms. The growing viewership of visual medium such as internet video, television and cinema has long since influenced human behaviors in one way or another.
A striking example of media influence on my own behaviors happened in the summer of 2012, when I first watched the 1962 British Epic Film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. I was vastly influenced by character T. E. Lawrence played by Peter O’Toole. In an article on Smithsonian Web Magazine, Scott Anderson states that the character was based upon an English officer by the same name who served in the British Army during the First World War. His heroic deeds against the Turkish army helped Britain secure a victory for her Arabian allies.
Among the many ways in which the film influenced me, the most noticeable one was my increased endurance under the heat of the Sun. In the film, T. E. Lawrence, wearing his British Army Uniform, enters to the desert on a camel aided by a native Arab. The manner in which Lawrence bears the heat of the Sun during his passage through vast desert land surprises his Arabian escort who wants to know if England, where Lawrence comes from, is a desert country.
Works Cited
Anderson, Scott. "The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia." Smithsonian. N.p., July 2014. Web. 23 June 2016.
