Kubrick’s lens language is unique. If Zhang Yimou’s "Hero" is "Ah", then Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is "Fuck!", the installation of contrasting scenes is exaggerated. Character performances, etc., are also varied, but his other movie "Bailey Linden" is not easy to describe in one word. The pictures of "Bailey Linden" are beautiful, like Like oil paintings, Kubrick didn’t use any auxiliary light in the whole movie. Except daylight, it’s candlelight. The movement and distance of the lens are also slow and controlled. The composition is well-proportioned, and each frame in the middle is frozen. If you take it out and hang it on the wall, it can be counted as a good, vulgar oil painting of the 18th century. This is how I feel.
A movie is too formal, like a person wearing expensive clothes. Everyone’s focus on him has changed, and the person’s self has shrunk. I was not interested in seeing that the mountains and rivers of Ireland are indeed beautiful. This residence of the Celtic god has a sacred landform. However, the green grass and the towering trees have robbed me of the fate of the characters. Concerned, what’s worse is that many viewers like the "epic scene" inside, talking about the big scene of thousands of people on both sides of the war. In fact, the whole story is about destiny, a person’s destiny, and mountains and rivers. The war is only slightly related, our protagonist lives in it, and he should be the protagonist we pay attention to.
What can a 17th-century Irish youth do? He can fall in love with his cousin, and of course his cousin can also leave him and be engaged to the captain of the British cavalry. They can all eat and wear clean and tidy clothes, which shows that the society has been civilized to the extent that they can fall in love. The social system has reached the point where it can fight rivals in love. Bailey’s father died in a duel, Bailey himself was deceived into a duel and went away from home, and the duel between Bailey and his adopted son was even more exaggerated by the director and became a Hamlet style. Revenge drama, but the protagonist has become Claudius. Before I watched this movie, I watched the synopsis. It said that Bailey became a nobleman through speculative drilling. This is obviously a very regrettable misunderstanding of the story. On the contrary, Bailey was born after a lot of hard work and speculative drilling. Being mixed into the upper class and wanting to become a nobleman, he fell short, and was finally driven back to his hometown by his adopted son for a meager salary. This is exactly the tragedy of personal fate that the director used to illustrate.
What can a 17th-century Irish youth do? He can leave his hometown, he can run away as a soldier and then be captured by a strong man, he can act as a spy after the war is over, he can also run from time to time and follow the false earl to make a fortune, and he blends into the upper class. He hooks up with the magistrate’s wife, and The chief was mad at himself, so that the magpie’s nest was occupied, and he was in charge of a splendid palace like a castle. He abused his adopted son and he loved his little son, but he just couldn’t get the title he dreamed of. When he and the noble lady’s little son After falling from a horse and dying, he also lost his position in the family. As his old mother predicted, he had nothing in an instant, and he could only live in the old country and live by memory.
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by William Thackeray. This great writer who is famous for his novel "Vanity Fair" of course has strict rules, which provides a possible basis for the film’s epic dream. Kubrick is a famous and demanding director. His photographers often complained that he interfered too much and robbed his job. The same is true in this movie. I guess all those refined compositions come out like this. A lot of candles are used at night, the castle is so deep and the characters are so bitter. Probably even the actor's powder is from a few centuries ago, making the picture a complete reprint of the oil painting. In 1971, his "fuck" movie attracted scolding. After a while, his "Ah" movie in 75 years was finally happy and won many Oscars.
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