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Barry Lyndon
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Barry Lyndon is a 1975 drama, war, and period film directed, produced, and written by Stanley Kubrick. The cast includes Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Krüger, and Steven Berkoff, with Michael Hordern serving as the narrator. John Alcott was the director of photography, and Leonard Rosenman composed the music. The film is based on The Luck of Barry Lyndon and was produced by Hawk Films and Warner Bros. Entertainment. It was filmed in locations including Oxfordshire, Powerscourt Estate, Castle Howard, and Blenheim Palace.
The narrative is set in Dublin, England, the Kingdom of Ireland, and continental Europe, with dialogue in English, German, and French. The film has a runtime of 188 minutes and a budget of 11,000,000, generating 31,500,000 in revenue. It received the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design, as well as a National Board of Review Top Ten Films award. Nominations included Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
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8.0An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Cast
- Ryan O'Neal as Barry Lyndon
- Marisa Berenson as Lady Lyndon
- Patrick Magee as The Chevalier
- Hardy Krüger as Captain Potzdorf
- Steven Berkoff as Lord Ludd
- Gay Hamilton as Nora
Themes
- based on novel or book
- gambling
- desertion
- fencing
- palace
- british army
- opportunist
- wealth
- debt
- duel
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Encyclopedic overview
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Irish rogue and gold digger who marries a rich widow in order to attempt to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.
Kubrick began production on Barry Lyndon after his 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. He had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost his financing because of the commercial failure of the similar 1970 Dino De Laurentiis–produced Waterloo. Kubrick eventually directed Barry Lyndon, set partially during the Seven Years' War, utilising his research from the Napoleon project. Filming began in December 1973 and lasted roughly eight months, taking place in England, Ireland, and Germany.
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