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BARRY LYNDON (1975) - Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-20 14:24:46
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2026-03-24 11:49:00
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we'll be skipping over The Shining since we watched that a few months back - but here's the links in case you missed the full-length reaction or edits!

full-length - https://www.patreon.com/posts/140216642

edited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3Y6S-MbaM&t=2083s

now it's on to Barry Lyndon! have any of you read the book? I'm curious if the book has the same tone as the movie, or if it's more serious!

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Darklite

One of the most beautifully photographed films of all time.

Henry Graham

You weren't wrong when you said "So many of these shots look like paintings" as you watched the scene of Bullingdon challenging Barry to a duel. The composition of that particular shot was inspired by a painting by William Hogarth (The Tête à Tête, from his Marriage A-la-Mode series), and in fact Kubrick drew heavily on numerous artists for the film's visual style. You can see the work of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Constable and others throughout the film. John Alcott shot the film with natural light, often using ultra-fast Zeiss lenses (originally developed by NASA to photograph the moon landings) to accentuate the impact of the candles, and these lenses had a kind of flattening effect on Kubrick's compositions, adding to the sense of Barry Lyndon as a moving painting. It's also a masterclass of pacing; a steady, inexorable march towards despair. I think the truly great period films encourage viewers to adjust their own rhythms to that of a completely different time and place, and few films achieve that as well as Barry Lyndon. I think this is Kubrick's most moving and human film. Barry is a painfully misguided character, a striving social climber incapable of stepping outside of his blinkered perspective and seeing the dire consequences ahead. He can display great tenderness and even heroism, but his fatal character flaws will always bring him down. Kubrick's true masterstroke in adapting Thackeray was to switch the first-person narration to a third-person one, allowing us to view this character from an ironic distance, which is where so much of the comedy derives from; I always laugh when Michael Horden says, "To cut a long story short" in this of all movies! Anyway, I think this is a perfect film. It's Kubrick's greatest achievement in my view, and one I will never tire of revisiting. "They are all equal now..."

Camilla's Corner

glad we've gotten to watch one of your favorites! I'll have to check out some of those artists, that's fascinating how intentional modeling shots after those paintings were

John

Interesting that there is a character named Lord Bullingdon. There is a very powerful male club in England named the Bullingdon Club, where a few Prime Ministers have come from. The time period of the film coincides with the establishment of this club. Not sure if Kubrick dabbles in coincidences.

Danny Rodriguez

I bought the Kubrick collection from you in anticipation of the Complete Kubrick coming from Criterion. Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest modern artists of our time. For me, no one can compare to him in film. He plays 4d chess. He made me a cinephile and I will continue to support you and everyone else that loves great movies.