Barry Lyndon
Posted: 2007-01-17 03:27am
I watched Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon today. Agonizingly sloooooooow, but interesting story of the rise and fall of a man. Great use of lighting for the more cinema-minded.
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No kidding?!Frank Hipper wrote:This was considered Kubrick's biggest failure until Eyes Wide Shut, but I like it.
Nailhead, meet hammer!Tale of an idiotic mama's boy without an ethical bone in his body, and in an 18th century wrapper. Visually rich, great soundtrack, and you cringe at his ineptness and bull-headed cruelty.
Like you implied, it's not for those of limited attention spans(hey, it's Stanley Kubrick), but it's fun eye-candy for those who don't need loud noises and shiny things to be entertained.
Apparently, Kubrick tried to emulate the style of lighting in contemporary paintings of the era, as well as pictoral composition with camera angles etc.one of Lyndon's alleged selling points was the fact that all of the lighting in the movie was natural. The scenes which appeared to be only candle-lit were, indeed, candle-lit (and so on).
I ask myself similar things when I read about Flyboys on the intardnet.Stofsk wrote:Eyes Wide Shut was considered a failure? How can a movie that has lots of naked women get fucked be considered a failure?