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Table of Contents

• Stanley Kubrick
• 2. Barry Lyndon
• 3. Scenes shot in Bath

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Stanley Kubrick

• Director, screenplay writer and producer of Barry
  Lyndon

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1. Stanley Kubrick

• Born 26 July 1928 in New York
• Died 7 March 1999 in Hertfordshire, England
• Started photography at age of 13
• Worked as photographer at age of 17
• Made his first film with friend, Alexander
  Singer, Day of the Fight in 1951
• Directed 16 films and contributed to many more

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• Most famous films
• 1960 Spartacus
• 1968 2001 A Space
• Odyssey
• 1971 A Clockwork Orange
• 1975 Barry Lyndon
• 1980 The Shining
• 1987 Full Metal Jacket
• 1999 Eyes Wide Shut

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• All in all Kubrick won
• 1 Oscar for visual
• effects for 2001 A Space Odyssey
• Won 31 other prizes and was nominated for further
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Barry Lyndon

• 1. Actors
• 2. Awards
• 3. Critics
• 4. Plot

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1. Actors

• Ryan ONeal plays protagonist Barry Lyndon
• Marisa Berenson plays Lady Lyndon

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• Hardy Krüger played role of Capt. Potzdorf (a
  supporting role)
• Leon Vitali played role of hated son-in-law Lord
  Bullingdon

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2. Awards

• Won Oscar for
• Best Art Direction-Set
• Best Decoration
• Best Cinematography Costume Design
• Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or
  Adaptation

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• Oscar nomination
• Best Director
• Best Picture
• Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other
  Material
• Further 11 wins and 11 nominations

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3. Critics

• Film released in December in 1975
• Time Magazine wrote
• Kubrick demonstrates singularity of vision,
  mature mastery of his medium, near-reckless
  courage in asserting through this work a claim to
  greatness that time alone canand probably
  willconfirm.

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• Christopher Null, national filmcritic wrote
• Stanley Kubrick's minor masterpiece is often
  overlooked -- even scorned -- by those who claim
  it to be pretentious and slow. Well, it is
  pretentious and slow, but it's still an
  exceptional film.

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4. Plot

• Film set around time of 1760
• Father of irish boy, Redmund Barry, was killed in
  duel over some horses
• Film starts with Redmund at the age of 17 and in
  love with his cousin
• Challenges adversary to a duel and must flee
  after winning
• He joins the army and is reunited with his friend
  Captain Potzdorf

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• Fights in Germany and deserts his company after
  Captain Potzdorf is killed
• Travels through Germany disguised as a messenger
• Is unmasked and must serve in the Prussian army
• Receives assignment from police to expose the
  Chevalier de Balibari
• ? Irish double agent

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• Develops liking for Chevalier and starts working
  for him
• Spend several years travelling from one
  aristocrat to another doing fraudulent gambling
• Meets Lady Lyndon, falls for her, and marries her
  after her husbands death

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• Leads an exlusive life-style
• Has a son with Lady Lyndon
• Mistreats stepson, Lord Bullingdon (beatings,
  spends family fortune..)
• Stepson mocks stepfather, Barry Lyndon, ? is
  beaten up in front of aristocracy stepson leaves
  for his home
• Son, at age of 8, dies after falling off his
  horse

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• Lord Bullingdon returns and challenges Barry
  Lyndon to a duel
• Lyndon is shot in the leg and it must be
  amputated
• Dies alone and poor in Ireland

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4. Scenes shot in Bath

• Barry meets Lady Lyndon for the first time in the
  Pump Room

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• Lord Bullingdon confronts his mother and Barry.
  Shot at Longleat House, near Bath