Barry Lyndon: Dying Scene

[titoratm]

Es conmovedor ser testigo de la genialidad de stanley Kubrick. Que gran experiencia fue ver esta película.

[AlexMoby]

Moving and well-acted scene. What makes this scene more tragical is the fact that the child would be still alive if he wasn't spoiled by his father.

[minamu8]

"Observancy is a dying art."

- Stanley Kubrick, the greatest director to ever walk this Earth.

[charms71]

This film is a monster of a movie. Infact, it's not a movie...rather an experience. Mature minds will enjoy it more IMO.

[TheBorzoilover]

Wonderful acting by all the cast, but Ryan O"neal just shone,always thought he was brilliant,not just because he was a good looking guy,but he was an actor,and sadly there are not many around like him these days. IMO.

[vickiehill1]

I'm not really a Kubrick fan...(I know, my husband thinks I'm crazy too)...but I do love this movie. My favorite of his films. This scene was gut-wrenching. You cannot stop crying. It shakes you to the core. I loved his use of Vivaldi & the others, & I had forgotten what a brilliant actor Ryan O'Neal is with his talent & Irish good looks. I agree though...that this movie was definitely "underrated". Great movie!!

[TheGatorfan93]

Great video,moving scene.This shows why kubrick was the best.Not only visually,and with storytelling.But,how he can get the best or most memorable performances out of actors.O'neal was never better in his career,and gives a great performance.And everyone knows he's not much of an actor at all.But in this film you wouldn't even know it.Also look at the scene he first meets the gambler,also another quite moving piece of acting by O'neal.

[RyanStileswliia]

Thank you for uploading. This scene is a perfect example of Kubrick's sentimentalism and prove that he wrote A.I.'s ending (totally underrated and misunderstood film).

[molanlabexm15]

Lord have mercy.

[GordonMorrice]

Nice 1.66:1 upload of the most heart-breaking moment in all of cinema...

[roachy333]

Ryan O'Neal was the perfect choice to play Barry Lyndon....absolutely perfect.

The blank canvas...from which Kubrick was able to build this masterwork.

I find that if you pay lesser mind to the content of the comments from the narrator during this film (Horden is excellent, but still operates using bias imo) and actually watch Barry throughout his ordeals etc....then you'll find that he is not what the narrator describes....at all, far from it.

Lacking emotion...I think not.

[sslohier]

this is something that will always be heartbreaking- parents watching their child die in front of their eyes; when i first saw this i fell apart (i was so heartbroken)

so well acted too

[TheGatorfan93]

Great scene,and proves kubrick is the best.Ryan o' neal gives a great performance,and he's as bad an actor as they come.

[Engage777]

@TheGatorfan93 Shows you how Kubrick could elevate any rube's performance...

[TheGatorfan93]

@Engage777 Bingo,yet he never really gets credit for this.Alot of people say Duvall overacts in the shining,but she's an honest representation of a woman put in those surroundings.Hayden in the killing,Douglas in paths of glory,Ustinov in spartacus,Sellars in lolita and dr.strangelove,Scott in dr.strangelove,Mcdowell in clockwork orange,O'neal in barry lyndon,Nicholson in the shining,Ermey,D'onofrio and Arliss Howard in full metal jacket.He either got they're best performance,or most iconic.

[Indycritic]

What makes this scene truly sad is that later in the movie, Barry Lyndon leaves Lady Lyndon forever after being paid by his step son to leave the country, therefore breaking his promise to his only son, making him die in vain.

[ervjun85]

can anyone tell me how is this music masterpiece is called and the name of that genius who wrote this?

[NYCBG]

@ervjun85 It's Handel's Sarabande, however I don't know who did this modern orchestration.

[NYCBG]

@ervjun85 It's Handel's Sarabande, however I don't know who did this modern orchestration. It's another sign of Kubrick's geius that this theme is first heard when the kid asks for a horse!

[NYCBG]

@ervjun85 It's Handel's Sarabande, however I don't know who did this modern orchestration. It's another sign of Kubrick's genius that this theme is first heard when the kid asks for a horse!

[achantus1]

Barry Lyndon must be an absolutely masterpiece! The choice of music is perfect.

[moosmum01]

The first time I saw Barry Lyndon, I only caught a bit: the duel scene. I laughed til I cried. I searched out the movie and watched it from start to finish, thinking it was a comedy. I have never cried so much at a film. Heartbreaking. Absolute genius the way Barry's absolute love for his child was communicated:putting into words the unintelligible

[patrickbateman1960]

Kubrick evinced probably the best performance ever given by Ryan O'Neal on film. This movie really is like a series of magnificent period paintings. Brilliant and underrated.

[blowskiol]

This is one of the most poignant, wistful scene ever framed (Kubrick's most). It's best to watch the whole kind of content of it with the movie context, though. But this is just so amazing! The substantive real suspense that Kubrick interweaves with and then forces us to watch without the knowledge of the outcome, Barry's despair and reassurance, his mirthlessness yet attempt to comfort his son in the last moments... It's so adeptly handled.

[bsartist]

Unfortunately I can no longer see Ryan O'Neal in anything without being reminded of that "OH MAN, OH GOD, OH MAN, OH GOD" clip.

[mrgrtbfrd]

@bsartist Thank heaven I don't know what you're talking about! Don't tell me!

[bsartist]

@mrgrtbfrd watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4

[skintrade]

I wonder what this film would look like in Blu ray, especially the landscape shots

[mrgrtbfrd]

@skintrade I don't know about blu ray, but it was overwhelming in a movie theater. Just as 2001 was spectacular on a cinemascope screen. I may be the only person on youtube who was alive when it was possible to do that, and I can't imagine anything else even coming close.

[annenna]

I'll come out an admit that I'm no great fan of Barry Lyndon, but I would gladly sit through the entire film any time in order to see this one scene. It's just devastating. I want to cry every time I see it.

[Aorticax]

A beautiful and moving scene.

[Bassbait]

It seems like Barry Lyndon is the most praised of Kubrick's work from fans of the director. Martin Scorsese's favorite film is BL, and I like the film a lot. Unfortunately, the length of the film is very hard to endure, so I don't watch it often. My personal favorite of his is 2001, but 2001 is too controversial to have a good conversation about. Every time I bring that film up, it's always "that film is about nothing, and it's boring". But you can't deny that Kubrick could do everything.

[creolelady182]

I must admitt- Ryan O'Neal was perfect for this part but he never talks about this film.O'Neal is a better actor than I thought he was but then his personality is like Barry Lyndons. Maybe thats why Kubrick chose him,

[kurenai117]

i never saw this movie, but how did the little child die? was it from a disease?

[FatAlbertCamus]

Barry Lyndon, upon retelling the tale of his wartime exploits, finally realizes the gravity of what he's done - the end results... the lives he took and how that affected everyone who ever knew anyone of those Frenchmen that he slaughtered. It's devastating.

[polymath7]

@FatAlbertCamus

Very astute. More broadly, 'Barry Lyndon' is a tragedy in the classical sense.

The proclivities that enable Barry's rise are the very ones that lead to his downfall.

[PatDollard]

@polymath7 Horseback riding accident at his birthday party.

[pureindian407]

kills me a little bit to see tht tiny coffin, even if this is a movie

[LooneyLopez]

ok ok ok i know its sad and all put his casket is being pulled by a sheep lol

[mastermovies10000]

@LooneyLopez that's becuz he was a child and letting him pulled by a horse is a little bit ironic.

[mrgrtbfrd]

@LooneyLopez Watch the whole movie or just Bryan's birthday party. This scene refers back to that. Don't be insensitive because of the moving scene.

[kuock]

Perfección. Perfection.

[ajitvir90]

The cut to the casket is so fucking perfect. The whole funeral procession is a breathtaking scene.

[RENAUDPARISFRANCE]

Barry Lindon is my best choice for 'best film ever'.

The acting, the line; everything is so perfect... so sad and real ...

[kodalicious77]

This scene moved me entirely. I felt inspired and sad, yet amazed and awe-struck. One of the greatest scenes in movie history, in my opinion. Along with a scene in Across the Universe where the song Because was playing. Mezmirizing.

[catlover75]

Is this the little child who wanted that pincel in the earlier scene?

[ortugrul]

الحمد لله الذي عافاني مما ابتلى به غيري وفضلني تفضيلا اللهم لا تحرم ابا من ابنه يا ارحم الراحميين

[wakeupbritain1]

I can't for life of me understand film critics.

Trust a critic to take the MOST truly emotional film I have ever seen in my life....and criticize it for 'lack for emotion' because it wasn't the flavour of the month.

This is the shortcoming of the critics, not Barry Lyndon.

They spend half their time reviewing films like Garfield, American Pie and various horror sequels.

When Barry Lyndon was reviewed they had barely finished raving about Jaws. I guess that had enough emotion for them.

[Hzqi]

@wakeupbritain1

One tendency that inspires an eye-roll, is when critics target O'neal as a weakness in the film. I understand the point they're making, as far as I understand the point that they're dumbasses. If you watch carefully for the trend, the acting they appreciate in these period films is so often when it's hammed up to the point of being caricatures of a period. I sware todays film watchers would be so misguided about how "artificial" they would have been in amid their "manners".

[garfrain]

@Hzqi well put

[Hzqi]

@Hzqi

LOL at me spelling swear as sware. How the hell did that happen?

[Hzqi]

@wakeupbritain1

It's one of so many qualities of this film that is so unnoted, and that makes it probably the finest period film ever made, that the performances resonant so organically, as if they're FROM the period. Whether haughty or exasperated or pretentious or angry, or even witty, noone in this film bastardizes the aesthetic and flaws the illusion of when it's being filmed.

35 years later, nothing comes close.

[wakeupbritain1]

Exactly. I think people tend to get excited about charismatic, larger than life performers like Nicholson in One Flew Over and Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon that same year - and a work as bold, intelligent, and so utterly unique as this was something the groovy critics couldn't 'dig'

The cast is perfect. Smaller, undeveloped characters like Rev. Runt for example blend in with the background....but never get lost in it, or disturb it.

All the elements are in perfect harmony throughout.

[Hzqi]

@wakeupbritain1

There's a lot of ways you can slice it. I've pondered often why I find O'neal so magnetic in this role. I think it's because of the way actors, especially in period mode, "act" in a way that they're trying to draw attention to themselves. O'neal? No.

Kubrick has some uncanny ability to "tame" an actor. I don't know if he moulds them, or breaks them, or simply knows how to inspire the right sensibility, but even actors you wouldn't suspect come out as if remade under him.

[wakeupbritain1]

I think Kubrick always subjugated his actors to his own will; whether huge stars or character actors, he always managed to keep their egos in check and their work tuned in to his vision.

This was part of Kubrick's genius, the ability to control people and encourage them. He knew what he wanted, and he knew how to express himself.

It nearly drove Shelley Duvall crazy, but she was grateful.

I think its fair to say Kubrick was an egoist, and that's what seems to have turned off some critics.

[polymath7]

@wakeupbritain1 "..Kubrick always subjugated his actors to his own will..."

As well he was richly entitled to. In art, genius invariably has the right of way.

[FoolTheSystem]

@polymath7 Cert, Sir! . "And suchly so in other avenues of life too", the fool (on this side of the screen) feels tempted to add... . and in fact added it did add it it adding he did! (C, your idiom was made for idiots but this fool wasn't made 4 ur idiom)

[polymath7]

@Hzqi

Well said. You're dead-on.

[wakeupbritain1]

I would also imagine most of these critics are the kind of people that see emotion in a modern jazz improvisation after 10 Jack Daniels, while finding Beethoven a 'bit cold'

They seem to be to have an instinctive hostility toward anything 'highbrow', almost taking offense at anything that goes a little further.....they might have felt Kubrick wasn't being fair to other, less talented filmmakers such as Godard or Bergman. I think they wanted to keep 'art' cinema in a foreign language.

[polymath7]

The short simple answer is that they're *film* critics, not literary critics.

The intellectual standard is much lower and generally they're just dense.

[soccom8341576]

Ryan O'neal's performance here is testament against any criticism against his acting being too wooden.

[polymath7]

@soccom8341576 Hardly. Stanley Kubrick could get a good performance from a mannequin (but not Tom Cruise; there are limits even to Kubricks talents).

[soccom8341576]

@polymath7

lol!

I think Tom's performance was reasonable, though not good. Kubrick didn't really expect great acting from him anyway.

[greyskull979]

this scene really destroyed my heart i cried just like i was there.

[drbrunch]

Interesting fact: This films was shot entirely with natural light, not one electric light on set.

[kevbomb]

lights were used. Look at the dueling scene where barry is shot. Most likely artificial light beaming through the narrow windows, and a warmer light coming from the unseen part of the barn, probably not candles or a lantern. daylight is too unpredictable for some setups. Especially in Ireland where I live and a good deal of it was shot, you don't get sunlight for more then two minutes

[drotenka]

@kevbomb

quote from the original cover of the DVD I bought:

"Costumes and sets were crafted in the era's designs and pioneering lenses were developed to shoot interiors and exteriors in natural light."

Although I believe Ireland is a very rainy country. I am not sure if Kubrick shot it in Ireland, but if he did, it makes the film even more of a masterpiece of patience (waiting for sunny days) and attention to detail.

[kevbomb]

A good deal of it definitely was shot in Ireland. Some shots in Dublin castle I think. I know all about the lenses, 50mm f0.7 zeiss lens used by Nasa for still photography and modified to fit old movie camera. But to say the entire film was shot with just natural light I don't think is entirely true, as I said look at the barn dual scene.

[dajohnthomas69]

doctor Strangelove!

[HaviusCorpus]

What a brilliant piece of art.

[TJHARR007]

This is definitely Kubrick's true masterpiece... 2001, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket are great but this is spectacular.

[phille22]

overwhelming

[Michelo2000]

Heartbreaking because it was the father who insisted he have a horse over his mother's wishes.

[TheDaggettNuggets]

Amazing scene ! *cry*

[StueyLestrange]

When I first saw this it reduced me to tears, makes me well-up still. A beautiful film but the most heartbraking scene.

[kejosmadafaka]

jebe kevu

[BronsonEastwood210]

2:14......fuckin lump in my throat. my favorite movie...ever.

[Engage777]

@BronsonEastwood210 Well, that was a....unique critique of a masterpiece, lol.

[SLOFILM]

Kubrick was perfectionist and this is shown in his every film. Barry Lyndon is in my opinion of the best movies of all time. But unfortunetly it was extremly underrated like many other Kubrick's films.

[Timnaldo]

Agreed.

[DaMuttzNutz]

Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's magnum opus; one of the greatest movies of all time. Hard to find anything wrong with it (except perhaps O'Neal's pathetic attempt at an Irish accent). First class acting combined with camerawork that has never been bettered.

[NYCBG]

@SLOFILM Couldn't agree more.

[tempelton]

Perfection has been achieved.

[in2universe]

People will forget what you said, what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. And, ill remember this scene for a long time.

gotta admit this is deep.

[2ndpadrummer]

i wish barry stayed in the british army, cause i would have loved to c more seven years war warfare

[skintrade]

@2ndpadrummer Agreed, I would have liked to see the fort storming he talks of

[rom1216]

This is beautiful !!! My dear Stanley Kubrick.

[jjtreml]

rckroo.....it is 'his' coffin, not hers you sad ignorant fuck

[69Bluntsmoka420]

I just wish Warner Brothers would put this out on Blu-Ray. Barry Lyndon in high definition would be a sight to behold!

[NYCBG]

Ah, Kubrick! The Sarabande theme actually starts the moment the kid asks his father to buy him a horse... it is very discreet, only the double-basses at first.... So macabre and yet so ingenious.

[Timnaldo]

Interesting. I will try to catch that next time im watching this beautiful and cruel film.

[rckroo]

lol sheep were pulling her coffin :D

[NombiesNombies]

best part of the whole movie

[69Bluntsmoka420]

I just finished watching this and what wonderful film to look at. Almost every shot looks like it could have been an 18th-century oil painting.

[minimacas]

typical kubrick. i doubt anybody will ever beat him. he really is the best.

[Elvisdied]

masterpiece

[Defender78]

the lil kid had more virtue and righteousness than Redmond Barry could ever hope to attain

[cthulufunk]

Kubrick's most human movie.

[magobrizu]

no.

Paths of glory?

Lolita?

[afrodeutsch27]

I saw this movie years ago...and this is the one scene that stuck in my head...brillant scene...thanks for helping me to remember.

[HMservant]

Everytime I watch this scene I absolutely get ripped apart no matter how many times I wtach it.

[tomes55moon]

man, after this scene and the end scene of Paths Of Glory, Im always a quivering mess it's embarrasing but I love it. It's the kid, who wishes, not to live, but for his parents to be friends and never to 'quarrel so' thats all he wants! happy parents!

[Satch6strings]

this is a perfect movie

kubrick is one of the best directors ever

[thinwristsx]

This scene is so sad.

The best in the movie.

[matthewschark]

Great scene in a great movie. Love how it opposes the birthday party scene earlier in the movie. Kubrick was a visual master!

[tomes55moon]

yeah man. On the birthday scene when you see the kid in the carriage you think 'wow, this is pretty sweet and kind for a kubrick film' but he had other plans with that carriage didn't he, we know why he showd us the bday scene, to mess us up even more! genius

[dime138]

I wonder if the critics who critisized Kubrick for lacking emotion skipped this scene or what. This is one of the most emotional scenes I've ever seen.

[azzblaster]

those critics mustve been drunk on cock or somethin...critic fucks!

[Laz116]

Not just this scene but also the duel in the end. The soft almost inaudible "yes" from Barry contrasted by the frightened yet determined "yes" from Lady Lyndons son makes an incredible moving scene.

[polymath7]

@dime138 Kubrick's critcs are uniformly obtuse, and may be brushed off with a wave of the hand and not a second thought.

[QbriX]

@polymath7

there well being things to be brushed off

in some such manner of manorial grandeur,

there are others also - like ungainly character traits,

defilements of the soul, etc. - that will defy such ready cleansing...

-yours truly-

[FatAlbertCamus]

@polymath7 Amen to that. Amen, sir.

[magog1138]

@dime138 Not to mention that in this era it was "improper" to outwardly show emotion in a manner considered flamboyant. It was ungentlemanly and uncivilized. The emotion was in the sheer intensity behind their stoicism. You watch carefully the courting scene when Barry and Lady Bullingdon first meet and you can practically cut the enamored tension in that scene with a butter knife!.

[PatDollard]

@dime138 It's the most emotionally excruciating scene in the history of film.

[ColourfulAutumn]

It's such a brilliant movie.

[TFOP2007]

kubrick S.

[tantemanfred]

emotional

[blenhei]

Mrs Marisa Berenson played her best performance ever in this film. She is just wonderful.

[weirdchickwee]

:(:(:(:( oh god...i dont have kids but i just uugh i never wanna know

[goodsoninc]

So realistic and so sad...

[BjornHolmstedt]

A masterpiece!

It's no use holding the tears back.

They come no matter what!

[moulinRED]

Barry lyndon est un film parfait en tout point!

le plus beau film de tout les temps

[thelonedissenter]

yes. i concur. i don't understand it, but i absolutely concur, dang it.

amen.

[DonFarshido]

Kubrick is cold my ass.

[austenbosten]

Why has no one uploaded this film? at least in English of course

[waltermittey]

To me, one of the most astonishing feats Stanley Kubrick pulled off in this movie was actually getting a good performance out of Ryan O'Neal -- a terrible actor in most of his movies (see "A Bridge too Far," made just two years after this).

[sLiMsHaDyALwAyS]

waltermittey-

This film is proof that Kubrick could get a good performance out of a rock.

[thelonedissenter]

i respectfully disagree. did you notice the inconsistency in his accent? that's just one layer in acting, i agree. but it bugged me when i first watched it. but yes, generally, kubrick can get great performances out of actors.

[JohnnyH1982]

Classic movie, this is one of the most moving scenes in a film in history. Period.

[IngaMarr]

A great many people would disagree but I often think that Barry Lyndon may be Kubrick's greatest film because of is astonishing level of control. It remains one of the most aesthetically beautiful films ever made and its strange, seemingly substanceless narrative is part of its power. People can rush to analyse "2001" and "Clockwork" but it is very difficult to say what "Barry" is about and why Kubrick made it & devoted such longeurs to something apparently so slight. Gorgeous and brilliant.

[jeroid]

One way to see it is about a man who threw away his life by making poor decisions.

[IngaMarr]

Very true...I guess I was thinking that many of Kubrick's films are rife with - forgive my use of "theory-babble" - metatext. "2001" isn't just about E.T. intelligence and a trip to Jupiter and beyond the infinite, but also carries ambivalent messages about the technological imperative/will to power. "Clockwork" careens between opposing values about freedom, genius, Romanticism, and social control... What is "Barry" saying about contemporary life? I'm just not sure - but am fascinated!

[munkybrain]

it's Marisa Berenson who slays me in this scene most, i think.

[YACEDJE]

Ryan O'Neal and marisa Bereson are perfect. One of Stanley Kubrick's best pictures.A MASTERPIECE !

[tempelton]

A baroque cinematic treat indeed.

[mistifais]

absolute masterpiece

[jensaboy99]

GENIOUS

[TreasureIslandx3]

This scene is so sad, it makes me crying ...

[BestOfTheBestNumber9]

"In 3 minuets time, we left... *(sobs)*..." that's how long it took for the audience to watch the boy die, from the moment he says "...Pa" to the second we see him in a coffin is a full 3 minuets.

[ProtoCraken]

Woah. That's really interesting.

[zama202bc]

Heartbreaking.

[andreita89]

impresionante, puedo haber visto esta escena 100 veces y sigo quedando impresionada

[califgirl101]

Wow! What a sad yet, moving scene this is.

[cinecing]

Thank you ! Just after seeing it again on a big screen in Paris , I have to say the emotion is intact ! And I heartfully agree with you . I fall into tears each time I see this scene .