The best movie of all time
If you read the book it's interesting how the movie is almost totally different despite having almost exactly the same story (except the ending is new).The novel is narrated by Barry, and he's an early-ish example of the unreliable narrator. Everything he tells us about his motivations or even what happened is in doubt, and there are footnotes that straight-up point out that he's trying to bullshit the reader. It's a novel about a scoundrel trying and failing to cover up what a scoundrel he was, though there are still some sympathetic moments like his son's death.In the movie the same scenes are played much more seriously and Barry is a more sympathetic character who seems to be as much a victim as a victimizer.Even the famous last line of the picture is from the book with only one number changed, but totally changed in context. The quote is from the beginning of the book and it's Barry trying to avoid talking about what a scoundrel his late father was, by saying: Look, they're all dead now, what does it matter?
>>216924873Is there ANY movie Kubrick directed that isn't based on a book? What a hack.
>>216924745One of them for sure. Unquestionably the most visually beautiful
>>216924873Even the death of Bryan in the book gives Barry a chance to blame the failure of his marriage on his wife.Kubrick was an ornery guy and did things people would not expect of him. I'd never have predicted that a character would be more sympathetic and moral in a Kubrick film than a Victorian novel.
>>216924903The one he got murdered for
>>216924745It all looked like an oil painting but it wasn't easy to love an Irish protagonist of low moral value.
>>216924972>based on the 1926 novella Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler, and transfers the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.
>>216925028You weren't supposed to love him, the point of the second half is that he's actually the villain
>>216925028>of low moral valueWasn´t Barry courageous?
>>216925152lol no, he literally deserted from the army
>>216924965It was about the society he lived in. That’s why that line from the book is put last. In the film we perceive clear moments of the vanity and vice and cruelty and falseness from the very aristocracy Barry tries to infiltrate.
>>216925198Because his first experience of the army was of a homosexual captain cuckolding him. The army came into his town and fucked his sweetheart and ruined his already miserable life. Why should he feel any loyalty to them?
>>216924745I really do love this film. When I first watched it I couldnt get past the first few minutes and figured it was some boring period drama for old ladies. I tried watching it again a few years later and realized I was so terribly wrong.
>>216925265Right, in the movie. But in the book it means almost the opposite, it's Barry using "they're all dead now" as an excuse not to talk about his father's bad behavior, just like he constantly tries to cover up his own worthlessness.I'm not criticizing Kubrick, just pointing out that he uses things from the book to say very different things.
>>216925316He abandoned his brothers in arms on the field. That's pretty dishonorable
does barry even do anything? its just a movie of things happening to him and his agency doesn't matter, even the duel that sets off his story he doesn't actually do anything, everyone just convinces him he did
>>216925094>transfers the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.Do you thing they stopped?
>>216924745this but Paths of Glory
Not as good as the original. Kubrick mainly added some great backgrounds and stodgy, unconvincing scenes.
boring af
>>216926859Might be my favourite English film.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bI9ZrvABbshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVGCLoEtHwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBw4GAhlL44
>>216925503shameful display
>>216924903>Is there ANY movie Kubrick directed that isn't based on a book?How is that different from a director adapting a screenplay they didn't write. Which happens much more often?
>>216926956Joan Fontaine is only hot with a few extra pounds
>>216927261Hi, Olivia.
>>216924873Based for reading the source material anyway
