Daily Dialogue — February 14, 2017
“This has been a sad day’s business for our family, Mr. Redmond Barry. And you’ve robbed us of fifteen hundred a year. Now you’d better…
“This has been a sad day’s business for our family, Mr. Redmond Barry. And you’ve robbed us of fifteen hundred a year. Now you’d better ride off before the police arrive, they’ve wind of this business before we left Killarnen.”
— Barry Lyndon (1975), screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Period Piece, suggested by @etom212.
Trivia: Production was moved from Ireland to England after Stanley Kubrick received word that his name was on an IRA hit list for directing a film featuring English soldiers in Ireland.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Period and Irish. Barry Lyndon is not only one of the most beautiful movies ever filmed, the dialogue feels completely authentic.