Barry Lyndon 50

Adolfo 2022-04-20 09:01:35

Ireland, Raymond Barry (played by Ryan O'Neal) grew up living with his mother at his uncle's house, and later fell in love with his cousin Nora. Nora's father wanted to marry her to John Quin, an English general. So Barry proposed a duel to Quin, in which Barry shot Quin, mistakenly thought he had killed him, and hurriedly fled from his hometown. He was robbed on the way and had no choice but to join the British army. It was in the army that he learned that Quin was not dead. Barry fled from the British Army, but joined the Prussian Army. After the war, he became a confidant of the Prussian officer Potzdorf, and let him monitor an Irish spy in Prussia. But Barry sympathized with the Irish knight, who took him to and from the casino and gained a lot. Barry felt he should find a rich woman, so he set his sights on Lady Lyndon, Sir Lyndon's wife. Sir Lyndon died of a serious illness, and a year later, Barry married Lady Lyndon and became a nobleman, changing his name to Barry Lyndon. But Bullingdon, the son of Sir Lyndon and Lady Lyndon, disliked Barry very much, and Barry also had a premonition that his future would be ruined by Bullingdon...

There is an air of decadent high society throughout the story.

I have only seen them dressed in major galleries in the UK.

What impressed me the most was Lyndon, such a beautiful woman, who didn't talk much, she was always in a very melancholy state, she was disheartened when she saw that she didn't let her servants go, but she had a kind of forbearance in her. , The powerful forbearance, including the signing of those huge debts, did not produce a particularly big inner change.

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  • Clotilde 2022-03-22 09:01:35

    [A+] Probably the least Kubrick-like movie in the Kubrick movie sequence. Changed from the madness and paranoia of the past, and became grand, gentle and with a hint of lament. But there are still traces of Kubrick's: a profusion of narration, a love of classical music against the familiar sound and picture, and an extremely neutral narrative perspective. Photography is a leap for Kubrick, not to mention its classical oil painting-like texture and 0.7 large aperture, the extreme use of natural light in each frame is enough to make people pay homage to Kubrick. The gluttonous feast of audio-visual language and three hours of joys and sorrows are full of infinite artistic tension under Kubrick's lens. Sighing, sentimental and helpless, and in his eyes, the condensation of these lives, whether good or bad, good or bad, rich or poor, seems to be irrelevant, because as the movie said at the end, "all have entered the soil equally." I really have nothing to say about being able to shoot a movie on this scale.

  • Grayson 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    Rewatch. The subject matter seems completely opposite, but the internal structural logic is exactly the same as that of "2001: A Space Odyssey": a narrative organized based on discrete time nodes (a scene, an event, a setting shot and a scene) rather than a non-linear time flow is not close Humanity moves forward; the main melody that varies in repetition winds up every shot, the characters have no moments of respite, so that there is no "drama" in them except for the few moments where the music languishes (although Visually so classical), the entire film is a massive and rigid form, not to mention the neat structure that generates a superhuman rational order. The only difference is the choice to cast an emotional gaze rather than a mechanical scrutiny on the characters. The subtitle card for "Ending", like the ending of "Eyes Wide Shut," leaves the audience room for grief, rather than the sheer mockery of "A Clockwork Orange," even if dark humor and irony remain a constant author trait Accompany always.

Barry Lyndon quotes

  • Narrator: [voice-over] Five years in the English and Prussian army, and some considerable experience of traveling the world, had by now dispelled any of those romantic notions regarding love with which Barry commenced life. And he began to have it in mind, as so many gentlemen had done before him, to marry a woman of great fortune and condition. And, as such things so often happen, these thoughts closely coincided with his setting first sight upon a lady who will henceforth play a considerable part in the drama of his life: the Countess of Lyndon, Viscountess Bullingdon of England, Baroness of Castle Lyndon of the Kingdom of Ireland, a woman of vast wealth and great beauty. She was the wife of The Right Honorable Sir Charles Reginald Lyndon, Knight of the Bath, and Minister to George III at several of the smaller Courts of Europe, a cripple, wheeled about in a chair, worn out by gout and a myriad of other diseases. Her Ladyship's Chaplain, Mr. Runt, acted in the capacity of tutor to her son, the little Viscount Bullingdon, a melancholy little boy, much attached to his mother.

  • Narrator: [voice-over] It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War in which Europe was engaged and in which Barry's regiment was now on its way to take part. Let it suffice to say, that England and Prussia were allies and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians and the Austrians.