Ryan O'Neal later commented that Kubrick "shoots a lot of takes, and you don't get a stand-in. “Oh, no,” Donen had told him. And Warners would only agree to finance his decidedly un-commercial project if he cast a major box-office star. I think Thackeray trades off the advantage of surprise to gain a greater sense of inevitability and a better integration of what might otherwise seem melodramatic or contrived. With respect to Barry Lyndon, after his successful struggle to achieve wealth and social position, Barry proves to be badly unsuited to this role. “I didn’t see the light. An invigorating injection of magic, money and mayhem arrives along with it, all contributing to a wild sense of excitement and anticipation.
He looked right and I was confident that he possessed much greater acting ability than he had been allowed to show in many of the films he had previously done. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. But he prepared several films which he didn't ultimately do. This is easily one of the most impressive transfers that Criterion have ever produced. The visual part of film making has always come easiest to me, and that is why I am careful to subordinate it to the story and the performances. We shot for something like 350 days, and afterwards, they had to carry me away.". All your lighting is outside the window behind tracing paper, and if you shoot towwards the window you get a very beautiful and realistic flare effect. Barry is tender and romantic with the girl but all he really wants is to get her into bed. News, features and opinion on the world of film. Robert Redford and Ryan O'Neal were the two obvious candidates: both were the right age to play Lyndon, and both had strong Irish heritage. John tries his best to bow out gracefully, but Barry refuses to back down. When you rehearse a scene, it is usually best not to think about the camera at all.
There must be some reason that, in a film dealing with a licentious man in a licentious time, the only carnality—indeed, the only strong emotion—is in Barry’s brutally caning his stepson. It didn't matter, because the paintings of the time were also a little bit not sharp. Good research is an absolute necessity and I enjoy doing it. One of the problems which soon became apparent is that there are no tragic love-themes in eighteenth-century music. Credit: With thanks to the SK Film Archives LLC, Warner Bros. and University of the Arts London, Surveilling the scene from on high. Telling this story would require pristine countryside as well as a series of grand 18th-century buildings and interiors: Ireland was quickly settled on as an ideal and convenient location. As she puts it, “when a great director says to you ‘I want you to do a part’, you just say yes. In this regard the only difficulties I have ever had with actors happened when their acting technique wasn’t good enough to do something you asked of them. There is only one way to watch this film now that Criterion have released it with a new pristine 4K digital restoration that causes the film to look the absolute best it could’ve ever looked. ; Dominic Savage was a child actor who spent six months on location as the young Lord Bullingdon; and Leon Vitali played the adult Bullingdon and went on to form a lifelong friendship and working relationship with Kubrick, ultimately serving as the director’s assistant and casting director. Barry Lyndon is detached, cold and to a degree unburdened with the pressure of entertaining an audience.
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