squatting master

Alyce 2022-03-20 09:01:34

Another 3-hour feature film, but Kubrick.
This time, the master showed more of his talent as a photographer than his talent as a director. Probably in order to have the ability to reach the likes of the market and the audience, the master can only squat himself this time. It is said that all the costumes are actually lent from the museum, so perfect.
It can only be said that an ordinary novel has been enhanced by the master, and the original author, Comrade Thackeray, although he made a name for himself by virtue of Vanity Fair, to be honest, Vanity Fair, which has tortured me for half a month, seems to me to be British. The common problem of literature is both long-winded and dull. Compared with the power and change of Russian literature, the vividness and romance of France, and the depressing and heavy like the weather in English literature, it is always hard to like it. Of course, it is just a personal opinion.
What I like more is the lightness and smoothness of the first part, and the heavy turns that continue into the back are less and less Kubrick. Of course, the most Kubrick plot is what the priest read when the hero married the earl's widow. Funny narration.

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  • Narrator: [voice-over] It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair at home, but it is a very different thing to see it first hand. And after the death of his friend, Barry's thoughts turned from those of military glory to those of finding a way to escape the service to which he was now tied for another six years. Gentlemen may talk of the age of chivalry, but remember the ploughmen, poachers and pickpockets whom they lead. It is with these sad instruments that your great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world.

  • Redmond Barry: Sir, I... I have a confession to make to you. I'm an Irishman. And my name is Redmond Barry. I was abducted into the Prussian army two years ago, and now have been put into your service by my Captain Potzdorf, and his uncle, the Minister of Police... to serve as a watch upon your... actions... and to give information to the same quarter.

    Narrator: [voice-over] The Chevalier was as much affected as Barry at thus finding one of his countrymen. For he too was an exile from home, and a friendly voice, a look, brought the old country back to his memory again.