Barry

Angelita 2021-11-13 08:01:24

"Barry Linden" has been honored as an epic work since its release in 1975, and some Kubrick fans even consider the film to be his pinnacle as a director and author. In many places, it can be regarded as Kubrick’s last masterpiece.

"Barry Linden" is not like the kind of movie that can be noticed from the beginning or has always been, more often it needs an audience to discover it. When Kubrick wrote the film’s script, he republished it mainly based on the novel "The Encounter of Barry Linden" by the famous British novelist William Makepis Thackeray.

Brings the story of an eighteenth-century European legend to the screen. Each shot is elegant like a classical oil painting, and the ending has a sense of sadness that has experienced the vicissitudes of life.

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  • Viviane 2022-03-23 09:01:40

    I admire Kubrick's ability to restore and create an atmosphere. The whole movie puts you in that environment, where you can feel a sense of oppression in the subtleties, the aristocratic hierarchy is strict, and it is going through decay and decline. The soundtrack and photography complement each other, with an atmosphere, smoothness, and an epic feel. The most powerful thing is that he does not give praise or criticism, but draws a beautiful picture with his heart. The characters in it have their own destiny. In the end, no matter whether they are poor or rich, they all return to the dust, but the audience will feel the "uneasy feelings" of those characters. To a certain extent, Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Assassin Nie Yinniang" is also the same way, which can be regarded as two models of ancient China and the West. Some people say that the prototype character of Barry Lyndon is Napoleon, I think it is, Kubrick is powerful.

  • Viviane 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    He made several decisions in his life: 1, insist on challenging the fiancé of his first love; 2, join the British army; 3, desert the soldier; 4, save the commander of a friendly army; 5, be honest with the knight; 6, pursue the rich Mrs. Lyndon ;7, shoots the ground while dueling with Brynden. Courage, sincerity, kindness, cunning, vanity, sinking, loss, fatherly love, to surrender to life. The last retreat makes a lot of sense

Barry Lyndon quotes

  • 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.