Long postponed, as I often do, watching the very famous film Stanley Kubrick “Barry Lyndon”, shot by him in 1975, primarily because of the timing – the film lasts 3 hours 05 minutes. I watched this movie, which was definitely worth watching.
Kubrick is said to have filmed William Thackeray’s not-so-famous rogue novel, The Luck of
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Long postponed, as I often do, watching the very famous film Stanley Kubrick “Barry Lyndon”, shot by him in 1975, primarily because of the timing – the film lasts 3 hours 05 minutes. I watched this movie, which was definitely worth watching.
Kubrick is said to have filmed William Thackeray’s not-so-famous rogue novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which I met under the title Barry Lyndon’s Career, because “profound novels cannot be transformed into a two- or three-hour film without significant losses.” He treated the film adaptation very scrupulously and tried to preserve the historicity of the background and image, which he, according to experts, perfectly succeeded, although he slightly “edited” the novel.
The young Irish guy Redmond Barry, who grew up after the murder of his father in a duel in an impoverished family, looks at first quite unspoiled, in love with his rather windy cousin, who, although flirting with him, is not going to marry him, since he is poor, and she herself is a privat. And when a potential suitor looms on the horizon, and Barry does not want to back down, he is simply simply deceived by staging the death of an opponent in a duel, after which he is escorted out under the pretext of salvation. This is where his misadventures begin. Having got from the hopelessness of the situation first in one army, and then in another, the army is depicted extremely negatively, and the battles look just like the shooting of soldiers, he eventually escapes from there and from the police, where he was taken to perform a special assignment, and begins to play professionally. Barry tries to cheat in life, but he is not always good at it. He strives all the time to become a real gentleman, in the end he even successfully marries, but in this field he eventually falls into ruin, and to a large extent through his own fault, as well as tragedy - he loses the only person he blindly loves - his own son. In the end, he returns to almost the same state from which he began. At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman -- and that was his tragedy. In the end, Redmond Barry became a gentleman and that was his tragedy.
Starring actor Ryan O’Neill, whom I remember well from Peter Bogdanovich’s great film Paper Moon, where he played a crook, the role of Barry Lyndon is certainly more significant, but in that role, frankly, I even liked him more.
Thackeray, and behind him and Kubrick portray the reality of that time not in complementary tones, but in very unsightly, which deprives the film of all sorts of embellishment and sentimentality, so that it does not look like a lot of tapes on historical themes.
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