Barry Lyndon (1975) 2 Filmmakers react! 1st Time Watching for MAJOR! KUBRICK-FEST!

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@TheWaynos73 Жыл бұрын

Barry Lyndon is my favourite Kubrick film. He really is the master of zooming out from the perfect frame to land on another perfect frame.

@AzimovTube Жыл бұрын

Captain Quin (Leonard Rossiter) was also the guy on the space station asking about the outbreak on the moon in 2001. He's very recognisable to any British viewers of certain age.

@trolleriffic Жыл бұрын

They should have cast him as the landlord of the space station for a little extra continuity.

@cgbleak Жыл бұрын

And I count at least 4 actors who appeared in A Clockwork Orange. All with meatier roles here.

@champagnerocker Жыл бұрын

Instead of turning up for the first duel I expected him to leave his captains uniform in a pile on a beach and run off into the sea.

@lukebarber9511 Жыл бұрын

@@champagnerocker Reginald Perrin reference FTW!

@bodhisoha 9 ай бұрын

Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin -- brilliant series and he was a genius comedian. Kubrick's casting choices were always utterly unpredictable but always spot on. Leonard Rossiter captures the banality of the British class structure perfectly.

@nigelw7626 Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest films ever made from the greatest Director of all time!

@maxgeorge1463 3 ай бұрын

Debatably

@CameronBrooks 11 ай бұрын

I’ve seriously watched this over 100 times.. Big Lebowski is the only other film that comes close to it in terms of rewatchability 😂

@tonybennett4159 Жыл бұрын

The dry, droll voice over from Michael Hordern is pitch perfect and gives an added dimension. Leon Vitali, who played Lord Bullingdon became Kubrick's devoted assistant for the rest of his life. Vitali died August 2022.

@Mr_Incognito113 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, there is a great documentary about him. The stories of how Kubrick basically took over his life demanding him to work all hours but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

@GordonCaledonia Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Incognito113 I found that sad. It's just movies, it's not like Kubrick was working on the cure for cancer.

@Mr_Incognito113 Жыл бұрын

@@GordonCaledonia I do agree but from what I remember he looked back on it as a privilege

@GordonCaledonia Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Incognito113 He was a very good actor, Leon Vitali and could have made his own films. Kubrick treated him like crap, he treated most people like crap.

@bodhisoha 9 ай бұрын

Kubrick wasn't just a director. He was an enlightened master. There is nothing more worthwhile than devoting your life to such a person.@@Mr_Incognito113

@andreaschmall5560 8 ай бұрын

Saw this for the third time in a renovated classic movie theater in Brooklyn NY with a love orchestra playing the musical soundtrack. It was fabulous.

@lukebarton5075 Жыл бұрын

Definitely quite possibly my favourite Kubrick film. Certainly my favourite narration. Bring on Kurosawa season. Here’s hoping “Ran” will be included.

@cgbleak Жыл бұрын

Also for your consideration: Kurosowa's only Russian language film, Dersu Uzala. Lots of wonderful visual storytelling. So many memorable scenes and incidents. Siberia looks... pretty! And deadly. Best Foreign Film Oscar winner 1975. It's hard, or at least pricey, to find in English, so your best bet may be to find a used copy of the box set "Great Directors: Volume 1" (also includes Tarkovsky's "Mirror" and lesser-known works by Antonioni, Charbol, and Schlondorff). Even with so many masterpieces in Kurosawa's filmography, this is one worth seeking out. I beseech you!

@shanenolan5625 Жыл бұрын

Very famous actor did the narration. Michael Horden. Lots of great movies and TV shows. And theatre ( Shakespeare) King Lear. Or a Christmas Carol ( ebinezer scrooge) play Elisabeth taylors father in ( the taming of the screw with Richard burton. He did narration for the original padding bear tv show and the wind and the willows ( children's television)

@tbone35453 Жыл бұрын

Sir Charles Lyndon, Lord Bullingdon's sickly father, is played by Frank Middlemass, a phenomenal actor. I recently watched a 1979 BBC adaptation of Crime and Punishment, in which Middlemass delivers a superb, gut-wrenching monologue. Well worth checking out.

@lukebarber9511 Жыл бұрын

21:10 That's Powerscourt House in Ireland, which burned down shortly after Barry Lyndon was filmed.

@Ingens_Scherz Жыл бұрын

Apex Kubrick. He made this because his Napoleon biopic, which would have been a masterpiece, had fallen through. "Waterloo" (1970) with Rod Steiger sort of put the kibosh on it. No room for two epics about the same man, thought Kubrick. If only he'd made it anyway. I've tried to imagine what it would have been like for many years. But, we got Barry Lyndon instead, which is a masterpiece in its own way. Apart from Ryan O'Neil, I'm afraid, who was not bad but not exactly great either - or so I've always felt. Still, 'tis a great achievement to be sure!

@majormoviemadness9927 Жыл бұрын

Ready for some Lyndon?

@JeffreyCantelope 2 ай бұрын

Th score is brilliant. The contributions of The Chieftains is wonderous

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

Nominated for Best Picture

@discoveringcalculus Жыл бұрын

Haha! Not sure if my suggestion for this one had anything to do with it, but thanks! Epic movie!

@mphrdldn Ай бұрын

I saw this film when it was first released. Everyone spoke about how the men wore makeup and candlelight scenes. But it was much more.

@walterlewis1526 Жыл бұрын

The cameras he got for the film were rear screen projection cameras which were extremely precise for the time period. It wasn't just that they fit the lens, they were great cameras. Kubrick knew exactly what he was doing.

@TTM9691 Жыл бұрын

Wow, what a PRIVILEGE to have you guys riff on this one! I learned a lot! Both of you were fantastic on this one. And yeah, even though Major saw "Clockwork" (in high school, that is WILD), I'd LOVE to see you guys react to the film-making in that one I don't care so much about Full Metal Jacket or Eyes Wide Shut, but definitely "Clockwork Orange" somewhere down the line, doesn't matter that you guys have seen it. If he only saw it in high school, he's due for another! This was FANTASTIC, THANK YOU!!!!! Learned a lot!!!!!!!

@corvuslight Жыл бұрын

I'm willing to believe, without basis or proof, that the phrase 'Every frame a portrait' was coined after the viewing of this film. If wrong, I'm not sure I wish to be corrected, nor should I be if justice is to find it's satisfaction. Whatever the case may be, I would bestow well wishes upon you, good sirs, for having reviewed it with such close attention to it's transcendent qualities.

@Mr_Incognito113 Жыл бұрын

Great reaction guys. This is a visual masterpiece. Ryan ONeil is perhaps miscast though I feel, not sure he has the chops for such a film but carries it fine I suppose. The soundtrack is frigging FANTASTIC it has to be said

@6699230 11 ай бұрын

I don't agree at all. I can't imagine another actor playing BL.

@thunderb4stard80 11 ай бұрын

I can't say I fully agree my friend, Ryan O'Neil is perfect for this movie. The accent slips away from him now and then admittedly, but he carries himself so perfectly I don't see the guy from paper moon, I just see barry

@scottjgrant3345 7 ай бұрын

thanks for the upload you guys nailed it. im glad you covered this film and took it seriously and gave me some dope content. this is the first time seeing you guys. and im gunna sub. sooo, thanks! keep up the good work and im looking forward to more of your stuff.

@simonlealbarria6550 Жыл бұрын

My favorite Kubrick movie :)

@84brooksy Жыл бұрын

Best Kubrick , hands down

@mrugod Жыл бұрын

Soundtrack is one of the greatest.

@IsraelShekelberg 8 ай бұрын

The Ks and K-sounds are my favourites -- Kubrick, Kurosawa, and Coen. Looking forward to more. The Marquis of Ballybari -- Barry's gambling buddy -- is difficult to recognise under all the makeup, but he is another great character actor, Patrick Magee, who was the writer that the little droogies put in the wheelchair in 'A Clockwork Orange'. He was also in 'Zulu'.

@yodieyuh 6 ай бұрын

Great ups.

@glowingturtle9673 Жыл бұрын

Every shot in this film is like a renaissance painting!

@BobSmith-vo9hv 9 ай бұрын

You mean "like an Enlightenment painting", e.g. Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable. This film is set in the 18th cenrury. The Renaissance was the 15th and 16th centuries.

@RasMix1 5 ай бұрын

I saw this for the first time just a week or so ago, and as i love Kubrick films this is my new favorite. I was told it was his most boring but i don't find it boring at all, its totally engrossing and possibly the most beautifully looking film ever made.

@seansersmylie Жыл бұрын

Great film, strangely underrated. That was a good bargain, filming the moon landing in order to get that lens from NASA🤣

@JC-rb3hj Жыл бұрын

I saw this when it opened at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. It was breathtaking, like art work come to life.

@bugvswindshield Жыл бұрын

I still have to watch this again....for the 5 time at some point. Its so weird. NOTE: Waterloo (70's movie, some find it hard to watch due to age, story telling) The opening scene has to be one of my all time favorites. Scene : Napolean is waiting for his generals to give him news. We only see his back. cut. Generals in lock step. Stern faced. Absolute. They must deliver the news that Napolean has lost and must surrender. As the Generals round the corner into Napolean's room...they see him. And to a man they stutter step, not wanting to be the first. they become frightened CHILDREN. Its all in about 30 seconds but sets up the next scene perfectly, which sets the tone for the entire motion picture. Thanks to all who read this 🙂

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

Renaissance paintings of the 18th-century?

@Atheos1 Жыл бұрын

his greatest film IMO, in my top ten of greatest films ever....see you guys october 21st, MIZ

@shanenolan5625 Жыл бұрын

Apparently very well trained experienced soldiers could fire 3 shots per minute if your life depends on it. And after years of drilling. . Although they say. 90 percent of soldiers in the us civil war missed or never fired ( they didn't want to kill. So pretended to . Even today soldiers miss 80 percent of time ( adrenaline makes the hand shake)

@TheLaFleur Жыл бұрын

I think the reason why they didn't shoot back in the battle scene was because they were a grenadier division and they wanted to close the distance fast to engage in a melee and impede a retreat from the french

@shanenolan5625 Жыл бұрын

Yes its a real place i believe it an old Irish place building. The movie was filmed there . Kubrick was terrified of flying after a bad experience. He landed in England and refused to fly again and he wasn't fond of it to begin with so from then on all his movies were filmed in England and he msde sn exception for Ireland but travelled by sea . Its only a few hourd by ferry. Kubrick invented s new type of camera to allow him to fim using only candel light ( to make the room look like it would ithen ) .win an Oscar for it . ( he obviously didn't attend the ceremony) 😂

@champagnerocker Жыл бұрын

I recently read that John Lennon approached Kubrick with a view to making a _Lord of the Rings_ film starring the Beatles which sounds like it would have been crazy. Kubrick wasn't in the least bit interested.

@JH-lo9ut 8 ай бұрын

Redmond Barry was born into the lower gentry. He was "poor" in the sence that he was fatherless and a ward of his uncle, and later rejected from his family but he would have grown up being schooled in the language, manners and skills of a gentleman (in this context, that word means he's a nobleman, not just well-nannered) Crucially, this is why Barry can fight with a sword, impersonate an officer and be admitted into the salons for the card games. Also, Barry's family tries to dismiss Barry's insults to Quinn, because he is "just a boy", but since they are in fact both "Gentlemen" Quinn can't really let it slip, and the social norms of their shared class requires him to demand satisfaction in order to redeem his dignity. If a peasant had behaved like that towards a gentleman (wich is almost unthinkable), it would have been a matter for law enforcement. Barry's uncle had financial problems but this would have been pretty common even among the "rich". The income of a land owner had to come out of whatever the peasants produced on his land. If that land didn't produce well, the revenue would suffer. Living the life of a gentleman was expensive, and it would be quite normal to be in a state of constant financial distress, while also upholding an image of wealth and splendor. Far from everyone born rich would actually inherit land, so as a younger son you had to take your cash inheritance and make the best of it, or be forever dependant on your older brother as an employer. A man born into the aristocracy, but with no land or personal fortune could earn their living as an officer or as a public official. These commissions however, had to be bought. You couldn't just apply for a job on your own merits. An officer had to pay out of their own pocket for their training, their uniform, weapons and horse. When Barry joins the military, he's broke and has no-one to vouche for him so he has to enlist as a common soldier, but with his gentleman's upbringing, he comes across as a spoiled brat with a chip on his shoulder. This is the reason for the quarrel with the bully Toole (Barry complaining about the greasy cup). Barry's journey takes him from the lower aristocracy in some provincial backwater, through the life of a common soldier, and back up to the high nobility. (And down again) Point is: Barry's journey would not have been possible for someone born as a peasant.

@brachiator1 Жыл бұрын

For Kurosawa you should consider the modern era films like "Stray Dog" and "High and Low." And the quieter "Red Beard."

@eddhardy1054 Жыл бұрын

7:01...I love how you think this film is set 500 years ago...so American 😉😊🤣

@marioarguello6989 6 ай бұрын

Give or take 250 years. P.S. How European of you to comment on typical American ignorance when yours is even worse.

@misterpinkandyellow74 3 ай бұрын

@marioarguello6989 how is his ignorance worse?

@eddhardy1054 3 ай бұрын

@@misterpinkandyellow74 I'm not even sure what ignorance I displayed. 🤔😉😊

@marioarguello6989 3 ай бұрын

@@eddhardy1054 Of course, that's part of the beauty of ignorance.

@eddhardy1054 3 ай бұрын

@@marioarguello6989 Then please enlighten me.

@GordonCaledonia Жыл бұрын

It's an absurdist black comedy! Took me a number of years to realise that. Almost all of Kubrick's films post-_Spartacus_ are black comedies. Kubrick had a great sense of the absurd.

@jtt6650 Жыл бұрын

IMO BARRY LYNDON and Kurosawa’s RAN (1985) are visually the most beautiful movies ever made. You gotta watch RAN.

@marioarguello6989 6 ай бұрын

I once saw a japanese movie with possibly even more beautiful photography, but unfortunately I don't remember the name.

@NorthernTomato 4 ай бұрын

Have you seen A new World?

@dudermcdudeface3674 Жыл бұрын

Most movies should look like this. At least in the outdoor landscapes, this is what reality looks like. It bugs me that audiences have been brainwashed to think candy-colored videogame CGI as the norm. And younger folk especially have actually complained that completely untouched photographs look "fake" because they're so used to seeing fake they don't know what reality looks like.

@thedon2880 10 ай бұрын

These people you are talking about are a minority, most of don't think untouched pictures look fake. Everyone has a powerful camera in the form of phone.

@marioarguello6989 6 ай бұрын

"because they're so used to seeing fake they don't know what reality looks like.", that is NOT a coincidence.

@JackCraft-tm9hj 2 ай бұрын

Why does cinematography need to be realistic most of the time? Filmmaking is the directors vision and interpretation, how they see the world or how they want you to see the world. We have nature documentaries or our own eyes for realism.

@dudermcdudeface3674 2 ай бұрын

@@JackCraft-tm9hj Movies are rarely driven by a filmmaker's vision. They are overwhelmingly just business projects, and fake cinematography is cheaper.

@Icetubexd 10 ай бұрын

15:04 It's been months since you posted this. You probably don't even remember you ever asked the question, but since this an opportunity for me to nerd out about this I'm gonna answer it. Battles in those days were decided by whom ran away first, not who killed the most enemies. Those 2 things did not always go hand in hand. The British soldiers delaying their volley is accurate to their tactics at the time. Everyones muskets only had an effective range of about 40m and took a loooong time to reload. The British found that they could often shatter their enemies by eating a volley or two at max range, getting really close and delivering a devestating single volley followed up by a bayonett charge. For example, lets say the French shoot 50 Brits with the 2 maximum range volleys on approach, this happens over the span of a a minute. Now the remaining Brits are up close and personal, all while the French are still reloading. The Brits can take their time with aiming and are very close, almost every shot hits. Now since it's only a single volley they might only hit 40 Frenchmen (so 10 less in total), but they shoot them all within the span of a second and can immediately follow that up with lots of sharp knives on sticks. That's enough to get most people to panic and run in a split second. Once the enemy is running, the real killing can start and you unleash your horsemen to cut down the fleeing rabble.

@majormoviemadness9927 10 ай бұрын

I think it’s a modern conceit, that anyone would stand and take fire when they could seek cover, just different tactics and times to fit the style of war

@Icetubexd 10 ай бұрын

@@majormoviemadness9927 Yeah for sure. People fail to consider just how bad their guns were. At the effective engagement distance of muskets there is constantly the looming threat of your enemy being upon you with swords and bayonetts in no more than 20 seconds, quicker than you can reload. Now add massed formations of cavalry to the mix and you have a situation where you and your buddies want to stick real close together on the battlefield.

@alexcarter2461 Жыл бұрын

Reason for the british not returning fire is because their against a rear guard, meaning they have a numbers advantage and are trying to route the French, hence having fixed bayonets and muskets leveled and not carried at the shoulder. You can gear scattered shooting off screen but unless the French ran it turned into a CQC situation quickly.

@JH-lo9ut 8 ай бұрын

If you think of the battle as a snowball fight, it makes more sence. Imagine every guy on each team starts off with one snowball in each hand. What would be the best time to throw them? At distance, you are not going to make more than a chance hit at best, but if you can steel yourself and walk through the incoming barrage, then your team will be up close, each guy with a snowball in each hand, while the enemy is out of theirs and has to roll new ones. But they enemy is not going to stay on their knees and take what's coming, more likely they are going to run away.

@JackCraft-tm9hj 2 ай бұрын

Not the reason. Their muskets were so inaccurate at distance that they had to get close to have any real effect on the enemy line. They also had to fire in tight formation in a volley because of poor accuracy. To remain in that tight formation when advancing they had to walk and not run. Obviously the enemies guns are also inaccurate so casualties taken whilst closing the distance were minimal. This was a proven, effective tactic that was used for around 200 years until fast-loading accurate rifles and machine guns made it obsolete.

@Waterford1992 Жыл бұрын

27:36 There is only 1 T is Scotland so remember that as a lot of Jocks will be offended by it.

@majormoviemadness9927 Жыл бұрын

I’m afraid that mistake is burned in, perhaps we can change the spelling officially?

@TimmyPJano Жыл бұрын

Hey there fellas. Another great reaction. I know you two are fond of your sporting films and with the rugby union world cup happening in France at the moment, I was wondering if you would like to react to the Clint Eastwood directed, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman movie, 'Invictus'? Have a good one and all the best.

@arturocostantino623 Жыл бұрын

If you bought the same Leica size lens separately it costs around 6000 by itself.

@majormoviemadness9927 Жыл бұрын

Yes that was a consideration

@deckofcards87 Жыл бұрын

At a certain point you just know that Redmund's flown too high and is doomed to fail... I like that you guys were chuckling throughout at the irony, BTW. It's a funny film and I hear that the Thackery source material is as well.

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

They keep calling Redmond a boy but Ryan O'Neal was 34 years old at the time and looks it.

@bartholomewesperanza3442 11 ай бұрын

500 years ago? More like 200

@isakvirkthamsdorf Жыл бұрын

Big request. Please watch the movie In Bruges.

@majormoviemadness9927 Жыл бұрын

We did it got blocked a few months back

@arthurd6495 Жыл бұрын

34:40 mo money, mo problems

@hbuhgdcufcufc3493 Жыл бұрын

Hot take, Barry Lyndon is the Wolf of Wall Street, before the Wolf of Wall Street 😂

@robertshows5100 10 ай бұрын

He wanted to make Tom Jones in the early sixties but Richardson beat him to it. So Barry Lyndon was chosen for his period piece. His Tom Jones is almost like his Napoleon. It would have been great.