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Sep 9, 2009 · Perhaps Kubrick’s buried theme in “Barry Lyndon” is even similar to his outlook in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Both films are about organisms striving to endure and prevail — and never mind the reason. The earlier film was about the human race itself; this one is about a depraved minor example of it.
- Barry Lyndon Movie Reviews & Film Summaries
Barry Lyndon Movie Reviews & Film Summaries - Technically...
- 2001: a Space Odyssey
This was a crucial decision. North’s score, which is...
- Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern - Technically awesome, emotionally distant,...
- Patrick Magee
Patrick Magee - Technically awesome, emotionally distant,...
- Ryan O'Neal
An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn. Roger Ebert James...
- Barry Lyndon Movie Reviews & Film Summaries
Part I: By what means Redmond Barry acquired the style and title of Barry Lyndon. Part II: Containing an account of the misfortunes and disasters which befell Barry Lyndon. Epilogue: It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now.
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. [3] Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits ...
Social Mobility. Redmond's journey from his home to becoming Barry Lyndon reveals what is one of the major themes in the film, which is that of social mobility. Redmond is rejected of love by Norah for not being a man which means he doesn't have property, money nor social standing. Once rejected by Norah Redmond seeks to be with a woman of such ...
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Barry Lyndonis the 18th century tale of a low-born Irishman who strives – through various misadventures, and ups and downs of fortune – to become a gentleman. The key visual influence of director Stanley Kubrick and DP John Alcott, BSC were the great painters of the story’s era, such as Vermeer. Next week’s post will look at this painterly influenc...
How much light does a candle shed? Conveniently, there is a unit of illumination called the foot-candle.One foot-candle is the amount of light received from a standard candle one foot away. Without going into the detail of what a “standard” candle is, it is enough for our purposes to say that the scene below has a key light of about three foot-cand...
Kubrick obsessively researched the problem. He eventually discovered that Nasa had commissioned Carl Zeiss to build ten Planar 50mm f/0.7 stills lenses in the sixties, which were used to take photos of the dark side of the moon. (I was unable to find out the T-stop of these lenses, but I’ll assume it was close enough to T0.7 for it to make little d...
The colour brown and the trousers of Doug Milsone, Barry Lyndon‘s focus puller, cannot have been strangers to each other. Imagine trying to hold focus on this dolly-back at f/0.7! By my calculations (which were difficult, because most depth of field tables/calculators don’t go to f/0.7!) an MCU on Kubrick’s 50mm Planar with the subject at 2.5m (8.2...
Kubrick, by contrast, has made not a satire, but a virtually abstract contemplation of human suffering and loss: the story of a man who cannot get what he wants or keep what he gets as the ...
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Oct 29, 2013 · Perhaps Kubrick's buried theme in "Barry Lyndon" is even similar to his outlook in "2001: A Space Odyssey." Both films are about organisms striving to endure and prevail -- and never mind the reason. The earlier film was about the human race itself; this one is about a depraved minor example of it.
