Barry Lyndon
Jul. 12th, 2006 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porphyryFrom, Eco, History of Beauty:
238-39:
The eighteenth century is normally represented as a rational century, coherent, a little cold and detached, but this image, bound up with the way in which modern tastes perceive the painting and music of the epoch, is decidedly misleading. In his film Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick shrewdly showed how, beneath the frigid and aloof veneer of the Age of Enlightenment, there ran a tumultuous undercurrent of unbridled, violent passions in a world were men and women were as refined as they were cruel. Kubrick sets the unheard of violence of a duel between father and son in a barn with the architectonic structure of a classic Palladian edifice: this is how, more realistically we should try to think of and show the eighteenth century, the century of Rousseau, Kant, and de Sade, of douceur de vivre, and the guillotine, of the | exuberant high Baroque and Rococo concepts of beauty and of Neoclassicism.
On the other hand, I recall reading in an interview with Kubrick that that barn was found quite by accident and at the last minute.
238-39:
The eighteenth century is normally represented as a rational century, coherent, a little cold and detached, but this image, bound up with the way in which modern tastes perceive the painting and music of the epoch, is decidedly misleading. In his film Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick shrewdly showed how, beneath the frigid and aloof veneer of the Age of Enlightenment, there ran a tumultuous undercurrent of unbridled, violent passions in a world were men and women were as refined as they were cruel. Kubrick sets the unheard of violence of a duel between father and son in a barn with the architectonic structure of a classic Palladian edifice: this is how, more realistically we should try to think of and show the eighteenth century, the century of Rousseau, Kant, and de Sade, of douceur de vivre, and the guillotine, of the | exuberant high Baroque and Rococo concepts of beauty and of Neoclassicism.
On the other hand, I recall reading in an interview with Kubrick that that barn was found quite by accident and at the last minute.
