Can we discuss Barry Lyndon? I feel like this is the most underrated work of Kubrick.
>>62907427
It's rated plenty high among the sources that matter. Just because the shitty 14 year olds whose top 10 is flooded with genreshit sci fi and crime dramas don't love it en masse, doesn't mean it's not adequately rated. It's hardly underrated. You're just paying attention to the wrong people.
>>62907469
maybe you are right, but it still not as well known as Shining, Spartacus or 2001
>>62907427
Barry Lyndon is what you say your favorite Kubrick movie is, if you want to try and impress your friend who went to film school that you're terribly jealous of ever since you dropped out of community college after a semester.
I like this scene. Also the music is great
>>62907469
Actually I'd be angry if people liked this film here, considering the board is mostly inhabited by 15 year old crossboarding /v/edditors.
>>62907427
Can you not be a gay douche and call it work?
>>62907427
Kubrick movies are never underrated. Yes, sure, Barry Lyndon is not present in plebs' top 10 filled with Fight Club, Se7en, 2001 and Clockwork (not meant to shit on 2001, it's just that indeed, this one is popular), but it holds decent ratings everywhere. It is well-known, but not among plebs who don't give a fuck about period drama.
>>62907427
DUDE EVERY SHOOT IS A PAINTING LMAOIt's a 10/10, his most beautiful work
>>62907427
I always thought its about Lyndon B. Johnson's life
It's a fascinating and thrilling example of what Kubrick's Vanity Fair would have been...
Apparently he wanted to direct Vanity Fair, but it was in production at the time? Some people have suggested that he purposely sought out a lesser-known work like Lyndon so that he could improve upon it. I'm not certain which is true.
It's the only film which demonstrates what Napoleon might have looked like as well.
Imagine Kubrick without a 2001, or Barry Lyndon, and you'd essentially have another director like Spielberg, DePalma, or Scorsese... Totally brilliant but with such a dim vision of the world.
I think Barry Lyndon is his best encapsulation of English society, although he views it from a very practical mindset...most of us don't rise to become a Lord, and if we did, we'd probably manage to foul it up overnight.
Simply put, Its all about a man named Barry who becomes a Lyndon and goes back to being a Barry again. Still, I think the Idea of holding a duel in a tithing barn was herald of his genius.
>>62907617
You'd be angry that the younger generation would have good taste in something... because of what, jealousy?
Contemplate suicide you stupid ass hipster.
>>62908044
Put it this way, if /tv/ "liked" barry lyndon, they'd be trying to turn scenes into maymays.
>>62908381
>I'd rather be known as a kekold than a fool
What did he mean by this?
>>62908411
stop
Did anyone get the sense that Reverend Runt wanted to bang Lady Lyndon? Kubrick claimed that this was too obvious for him to underline.
I just read him as a gigantic, closeted homosexual. If they wanted someone who was pining for her, they should have cast someone a little more like a pastor in a Jane Austen novel.
>>62908624
Of course the Reverend Runt is devious enough to manage to poison the Lady's son against her new husband, but that's a plan which took years to effect results.
It doesn't demonstrate the capacity to love Lady Lyndon...
>>62908791
You see that he has no other game other than duplicitousness. He reads to her...
>>62908381
Are you challenging me, master shitposter?
Still another oddity of exposition seems worth pointing out as a particular indication of what makes Kubrick’s approach so distinctive: the fight between Bryan and Bullington which arises during their lesson. Almost any other director would situate such a scene in relation to audience sympathies by establishing whose “fault” the quarrel was, e.g., did Bullington swipe Bryan’s pencil as the latter claims, or not? Kubrick doesn’t say and, indeed, doesn’t appear interested; and the audience is left to choose its own emotional alignments.
It doesn't matter who we are...what matters is our plan!
You're a big guy...
4 U...
Schubert:
https://youtu.be/R7ixGAOwCiQ
Andre Morell.
Magee and Ryan.
Imagine if Robert Redford had played Redmond Barry?
Andre Morell again.
Look into his work. In 'The Caesars' he plays Tiberius.
Sarabande on the organ:
http://youtu.be/rN9AoCL6iJM
On the surface of the water, not a sound is heard...
Barry Lyndon is also a fast-paced, action-packed thrill ride!
http://youtu.be/i90IUSKdznc
>mfw I just realized the only Kubrick I've seen are Clockwork, Dr. Strangelove and FMJ
what should be my first priority?
>Chevalier de Balibari
>"Ballybarry" anglicised Irish for "Barryville"
BRAVO
>>62910204
Killer's Kiss, even though it's in black and white, it's a very great example of what can be done on a small budget. Kubrick has a tremendous sense of pacing and imagination there, it's as though he could have directed a straight-forward action film.
I remember it, perhaps wrongly, as a kind of mix between The Sweet Smell of Success and Who's That Knocking On My Door.
>>62908963
What is this banister or barrier in the church called? It's used as a separation line between the parish and the priest, right?
>>62907580
That's because electrical lighting was avoided whenever possible. And Kubrick studies paintings from that era to emulate the look and atmosphere. Some of those outdoor shots are outstanding.
>>62907427
it's one of his weakest films, unlike his other films there's nothing much beyond the story/plot
although visually and technically and all that shit is amazing
>>62912381
>there's nothing much beyond the story/plot
>although visually and technically and all that shit is amazing
so what else was it missing?
it's fucking glorious, the acting is incredible, bullingdon you and old is 10/10. even Ryan O'Neal's terrible acting is utilised really well.
plus the score is fantastic
>>62908381
/tv/ loves barry lyndon, not as unanimously as something like conan but it's adored and spoke about here a lot
[spoilers]mainly because it's so unknown so people feel like patricians for finding out about it[/spoilers]
>>62912699
what's up with spoilers on this board
>>62910204
My favorite Kubrick film is the lesser known: The Killing.
>>62910204
2001, this, and Paths of Glory.
You've already seen his best anyway (Strangelove)
>>62912381
It occupies a strange position because it is so aware and awed, yet unnostalgic about the past.
There's a high level of dichotomy to the work which can make it look different with each viewing. At times it appears to castigate the protagonist, and at other times it seems to sympathize with the Revolution.
>>62914169 #
There's also a dichotomy between truth and fiction; many of the reveals of Barry or other characters are clearly determined to make the audience laugh at their incongruity... Yet it's hard to say whether Barry is misrepresenting the events, or remembering them in a slightly surreal fashion, or whether the characters really dressed, spoke, and reacted this way. It comes across as very muddied water, politically-speaking... Especially when the narrator glosses over the Seven Years War as a too-complex matter to be concerned with.
