The main characters drawn together in a misconceived love riangle in the corrupt, pleasure-seeking world outside the cabaret were:Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli in a bravura, career-defining performance), a flamboyant, amoral and effervescent American singer/performerBrian Roberts (Michael York), Sally""s bisexual boarding house tenant - a Britisher and English language teacherMaximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a homosexual German playboy-baron[In the original mid-1960s Broadway production version, he main characters were an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and 19 year-old English cabaret singer Sally Bowles - reversed nationalities in the film.However, as he was about to pull the trigger on the dictator, he couldn""t kill the man who was on the couch with his children (and as a consequence, Bourne was shot twice in the back by bodyguards as he jumped into the ocean).As was the case withThe Jazz Singer (1927)(the first feature-length film with audible dialogue),Bwana Devil (1952)(the first US 3-D film, also in color), andThe Robe (1953)(the first film released in CinemaScope),Anna Christie (1930)achieved mostly-undeserved notoriety for being a classic milestone film when it was mostly a badly-acted, inferior work.Shrek wore a helmet of armor of protection, covering his ugly face.The Donkey was the first to encounter a winged, yellow-eyed, monstrous fire-breathing dragon - and when Shrek came to the rescue, the dragon""s tail tossed the ogre high into the air and he crashed into the Princess"" chambers in the tower.The opening scene of the film is both a prologue and an epilogue, depicting Lieutenant T.E.Lawrence""s (Peter O""Toole) death in mid-May of 1935.After the credits, Lawrence races his motorcycle along an English country road.[The custom-made motorcycle was a ""George VII"" Brough Superior (Model SS100) with a 998cc overhead valve engine - Lawrence nicknamed itBoanergesor ""Son of Thunder"".