INTRODUCTION TO THE ARABIAN NIGHTSIntroduction of the Main Character - The Thief:"A street in Bagdad, dream city of the ancient East.Fine resolution.After months of sweatin"" yourself dizzy and growin"" short on provisions and findin"" nothin"", you finally come down to 15,000 and then 10.Gabriel hijacked cable news and broadcast an unauthorized faked video on the 4th of July to induce fear - a ransom note-styled montage of speeches of US presidents: "It is time to strike fear into the hearts of citizenry.Stone), on a mission to Gopal to investigate the Emir, although they claim that they are only journeying for the sport of pig hunting (or pig-sticking).The next tangerine-colored scene - a long-shot view of the burning hot Arabian desert at sunrise - is juxtaposed to the previous scene by an abrupt cut, presenting the idea that Lawrence""s pleasurable masochism will now be displaced into the heated political/military situation in Arabia.