Barry Lyndon - The need of a title [Scene 12]

[@ADAPTATION7]

It's not what you know, it's who you blow that will get you somewhere in this world. If this was true back then, then it's certainly true these days.

[@ulfingvar1]

It was always so. Suck the right dick, and your aim is achieved. However, if you are mature and smart enough to KEEP that to which you have blown yourself.. well, that is another matter. Mr Redmond Barry was not.

[@cornerofthemoon]

If Barry did not listen to his mother's advice (and were nicer to Bullington and stayed faithful to his wife) he might have had a happy ending title or not.

[@Peter-733]

I thought if Barry knew how to properly apply the money like she said he might have been successful. I think he was really not clever enough to play that game.

[@sit2go]

Eh not really. This was still the Class system in Europe. No matter if he earned money or not. Everything would still go to his wife or Bullington. His best chance was probably go to America.

[@svenericsson7286]

Alternatively he could have learned to swim in secret , taken Bullington for a boat ride, toppled the boat and been in the clear... "God" works in mysterious ways, after all 😏

[@wolfpax22]

Ah yes, the most esteemed Lord Bendover, a gentleman of his majesty's closet...

[@user-up5ld4pj7w]

Popquiz how many numbers were mentioned in the scenes? Let me tell you I get the train the kids are throwing sweets to their friends even there's a catch and the shwartzes it's like we're brothers in apartheid over here it's upsetting in the world of the gym why do they always level up?

[@Brian-wj7gb]

Lol, he should have just given the money to charity and get in god's good graces rather than these fake friends.

[@RommelsAsparagus]

Surely, but that's not how the game was and is played.

[@AudieHolland]

He should have bought the horse for Bully.

[@Brian-wj7gb]

@@AudieHolland Thats right, he should have simply been a good stepfather, loved his beautiful wife, and he's set for life because people do repay kindness with kindness.

[@AudieHolland]

@@Brian-wj7gb You know what the horse did to its new owner?

[@Brian-wj7gb]

@@AudieHolland It killed the younger son (Barry's), but that was because he was reckless. Not sure Bully would be reckless. I was saying he shouldn't have been so unbalanced in raising the two kids, he was literally asking for what he feared.