In 2006 Premiere magazine voted Peter O'Toole's portrayal of T.E Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) the 'No.1 performance of all time' ! The accompanying article pointed out that this role came to dominate and in many ways overshadow the rest of O'Toole's career, much as the Legend of 'El Aurens' haunted the life of T.E Lawrence. I wanted to capture some of that feeling in this picture... but mainly I wanted to have some fun creating storm effects with Painter's distortion brushes, and paint a big mean looking knife.