desert landscape

His epic films like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago use vast desert landscapes as central characters that define human struggle and ambition.

He explored alienation and existential themes through stark, desolate landscapes in films like L'Avventura and The Red Desert, treating environment as psychological reflection.

His Spaghetti Westerns, particularly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, transformed the desert into a mythic space where isolation and moral ambiguity define the human condition.