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Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Barry Lyndon |
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Redmond Barry, from humble Irish origins, is a gentlemanly rogue determined to make his way into the nobility. As Barry Lyndon, he travels the battlefields, parlors, and bedrooms of 18th century Europe and employs his native wits in seduction, gambling, and duels. He seduces Lady Lyndon, then marries and neglects her after the death of her elderly husband. But as he slowly becomes a better, more devoted man, his stepson Lord Bullingdon plots to bring him down. Stanley Kubrick made this 1975 film between "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining," putting together a script based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian novel, _The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq._. The movie is a technical marvel, with genuine antique clothing, indoors scenes shot with special lenses only by candlelight, and impressive compositional technique. But it's more than 3 hours long, the lead actors are rather languid, and the average moviegoer may find it difficult to care much what happens to them.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Barry Lyndon |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 18th century
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Culture of surrounding area:
- British
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- long lived adults
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- wealthy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Is this movie based on a
- book
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