This is technically one of the most awe inspiring acts of camera work in movie history. Kubrick wanted to film these candlelit scenes by real candlelight alone, which at the time was technically impossible due to camera and film limitations. So Kubrick bought a unique low light camera lens from NASA that was specially designed for use by Apollo astronauts on the Moon. He then had a movie camera engineer completely rebuild a huge movie camera just to use this lens. Then to get max candle light, he had special candles made from highly volatile wax, and had the candles made with three wicks in each. That's why the candle flames are so large, and the candles are all so short. Each candle only lasted a few minutes, but the special camera and super bright candles got Kubrick his candlelit scenes. This is characteristic of the almost insane level of detail Kubrick made all his films. And THAT is genius..
Is there any possibility that anyone born in the 1980's and afterwards could watch this movie without their peers thinking they're weird or a kid that rode the short bus to school? If you have the patience, watching this movie is a visual feast and you'd wish you were living a life as a spoiled aristocrat in the 1700's! Dangerous Liasons was unpleasant and had unpleasant leads! And Ryan O'Neal did seem like a strange choice, though. That opponent of his was Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop
Misesian - We will never be perfect in this life. We will sin and fall short until we breath our last breath. The Flesh is always there to bring us down. That is why Salvation is not based on works but Faith.
7:59 Can anyone transcribe that part of the speech to me, please? I'm producing the *dubbed version* in Brazilian Portuguese of this series, and I must complete some parts. Thank you in advance.
It was an interesting movie, where there did not seem to be a protagonist when I first saw it. But a rivalry between two, (Little, with something to prove, and Ben Cross's character, what's his name?), yet simultaneously, it was about a team effort (team England) to succeed. It was a movie about winning, but in an honest way. It is noteable because it was maybe the first movie to demonstrate to an audience how powerful, and integral to a movie, a soundtrack can be. A verse : Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. - 1 Cor 9 : 24, kjv.
Kelly KitKat ah. kelly kit kat. it was a team effort . but it was team great Britain and not team England . eric liddell had been and still remains a scot . just a minor point .
No wonder this movie won soo many Oscars back when. Because back then, to Liberal Hollywood, a movie about "running on a Sunday", was about pushing the envelope and upsetting the status quo.
Watching this film i feel as though i am sitting in some hidden space looking back in time on the eighteenth century itself.Everything from the late evenings in candlelight to the gorgeous dress to every single spoken word...this film is an absolute masterpiece.
I am not quite sure why, but most of these "auteurs du cinema" seem unable to creat any connection whatsoever between the audience and the characters of the film. Instead of people acting to be other people they look more like aliens dressed as human beings. The Duelists although similar externally, and Scott claimed to wanting to immitate Barry Lyndon, is much more effective in instilling genuine interest for the heroes.
A movie about honor, love of God and country, the pursuit of excellence, and unwavering faith in one's principles-----I don't think a movie like this could be made today.....
RE: Narration - Barry Lyndon doesn't NEED a narrator but it creates a mind-fuck within the movie. A great deal of what the narrator says is a) what a shallow viewer might think and b) directly contradicted by the action. Read "Kubrick's anti-reading of Thackeray" by Michael Ciment.
About as accurate account as you can get of the times that it portrays, and beautifully filmed, yet it tells a depressing story about a loathsome bunch of people.
Saper bramate, bella il mio nome Ecco ascoltate, ve lo dirò! Io son Lindoro, di basso stato nè alcun tesoro darvi potrò! Ma sempre fido ogni mattina a voi mie pene, cara Rosina, col cuor su' labbri vi canterò!
When it first came out, I was a teenager. I loved it so much that I watched it 7 times in the movies. Of course I own it in VHS.. Surely among my top 5 favorite movies ever!
I own the blu-ray of this film. Should you upgrade the film will appear as not only a new experience but one of breathtaking beauty. DVD and particularly VHS simply cannot do this film full justice in my opinion.
Yeah, I too began to realize I probably misinterpreted the Gospels. I listen to the audio-Bible all the time, and I somehow believed that Jesus was talking to me when answering his apostles questions regarding the destruction of the temple and the end of the world. As if he ignores them, and starts prophesying to future generations.
THIS video clip DESCRIBES PERFECTLY what is happening in all the "political races" and elections in America and the rest of the world. *HOW GOD SEES IT ALL.* *CHRIST, HIS SON & THE MESSIAH, is THE ONLY Answer.*
That low shot at the begining of the castle lighted from within at dusk as the music begins is gorgeous. similar to images in 'The Shining' and Herzog's 'Nosferatu' to come a couple years later.
How did they ever get this filmed with ZERO artificial lighting on the set? Just scores of candles---exactly as it would have been in the late 18th century. Especially for the film speeds and lenses available in the 1970's. Even today, interior nighttime scenes require at least some supplementary lighting.
+delavalmilker You'll be surprised to find out that the lens for this shot (Carl Zeiss 50mm Planar f/0.7) costs about... 23 mil. $, lol! It was made especially for Nasa in the 60s, to shoot the dark side of the moon... More info here: petapixel.com/2013/08/05/zeiss-f0-7-you-can-now-rent-two-of-the-largest-aperture-lenses-ever-made/ and www.premiumbeat.com/blog/10-incredible-camera-lenses/
He is reading is the awesome and inspiring Word of God/Bible, and the Word says there IS only one way...If there were MANY ways, then the Bible and God wouldn't be saying otherwise.....
