Blank Check — Patreon: Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Karina Longworth.

Subject films: Barry Lyndon.

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy mangling of names (a speech-to-text pass); host attributions are guesses at 0.3-0.4. The cinematography, costume and art direction Oscar winners are named only as categories, not as people, so no photography or craft credits for the film are named.

Films that came up

passing (44)

The Last of Sheila · High and Low · M*A*S*H · Network · Shoot the Piano Player · The World According to Garp · White Noise · A Star Is Born · Ghostbusters · Back to the Future · Once Upon a Time in America · Waterloo · The Charge of the Light Brigade · Sailor from Gibraltar · The Way We Live Now (BBC) · What's Up, Doc? · Irreconcilable Differences · Love Story · Lincoln · Marie Antoinette · The Jinx · Jaws · Nashville · Dog Day Afternoon · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · The Story of Adele H. · Hester Street · Shampoo · Seven Beauties · Tender Mercies · Inside Daisy Clover · The Natural · The Sting · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · Downhill Racer · The Way We Were · The Woman in Red · The Story of O · Swept Away · Mahogany · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Let's Do It Again · Doctor Sleep · 2010

compared (10)

Glass Onion · Dr. Strangelove · Eyes Wide Shut · Spartacus · The Shining · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A Clockwork Orange · Full Metal Jacket · Paper Moon · The Driver

subject (1)

Barry Lyndon

anecdote (8)

Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) · Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Cabaret · The Killer Elite · Three Days of the Condor · The Sunshine Boys · The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Claims (36)

  1. lineage (character influence): The Last of Sheila → Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The Sue Mengers-type characterization in Last of Sheila influenced Kate Hudson's part in Glass Onion.
    “And she's that sort of characterization is very influential to the way that Kate Hudson plays her part in Glass Onion.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:03:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (director's pick): Noah Baumbach → Barry Lyndon. Barry Lyndon was on Baumbach's director-select list, which the speaker says makes more sense after White Noise.
    “The Bombach list was Barry Linden high and low mash network shoot the piano player world according to GARP.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:03:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. programming (emotional pairing): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest.
    “But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (tonal contrast): Barry Lyndon → A Clockwork Orange. Barry Lyndon is warmer than the cold, sharp films on either side of it (2001, Clockwork Orange, Shining, Full Metal Jacket).
    “And especially if you look at it being buttressed by 2001 Clockwork Orange on one side, Shining Full Metal Jacket on the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:14:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. career (career sequence): Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) → Barry Lyndon. A host says Barry Lyndon comes out of Kubrick's failed attempt to make Napoleon; later the hosts deny the research was reused.
    “obviously, it's after Clockwork Orange, and right, it comes out of he's trying to make Napoleon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:19:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. industry (financier): MGM → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). MGM was going to fund Napoleon but backed out as costume epics flopped.
    “But MGM, you know, was going to fund the Napoleon movie that didn't end up happening, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:19:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (what-if casting): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Kubrick wanted Jack Nicholson as Napoleon.
    “He wanted Jack Nicholson to play the role.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:20:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (research reuse (denied)): Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) → Barry Lyndon. A host says the common belief that Kubrick moved his Napoleon research into Barry Lyndon is not true.
    “I think people have long thought that Lyndon like took his Napoleon research and started putting it into Linden, but that's not true at all.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:20:58 · Karina Longworth (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (unmade adaptation): Stanley Kubrick → Vanity Fair. Kubrick said he considered filming Vanity Fair but could not compress it, so he took Barry Lyndon.
    “He had said at one point he considered turning Vanity Fair into a film, but he couldn't figure out how to compress it into a feature length, because it's so sprawling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:22:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. career (career sequence): Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) → Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
    “it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (adaptation): William Makepeace Thackeray → Barry Lyndon. Kubrick adapted Thackeray's novel Barry Lyndon into the film.
    “versus just reading Barry Lindon once and then going, oh, I could just adapt this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:24:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. people (casting fit): Ryan O'Neal → Barry Lyndon. The star's own insecurity matches the character.
    “you're casting a guy who basically feels the way that Barry Lindon does.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:30:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. people (director and actor): Peter Bogdanovich → Ryan O'Neal. Bogdanovich got better performances out of O'Neal than Kubrick did.
    “I think Bogdanovich got like better performances out of him, but...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:31:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. people (casting parallel): The Driver → Barry Lyndon. In The Driver O'Neal is again asked to give nothing and look good.
    “The only other movie I like him in is the driver, and that is a similar, which is that is that, sorry, that is after Barry Lyndon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:32:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. people (casting philosophy): David Fincher → Barry Lyndon. Fincher's reported rule of casting for the core quality (Rooney Mara) is compared to Kubrick casting O'Neal.
    “And it's like that's the Ryan O'Neill casting here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:33:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. craft (shared star effect): Paper Moon → Barry Lyndon. O'Neal's lack of presence lets the actress in each of his films pop out.
    “Yeah, but in a weird way, that sets up really good, interesting female performances.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:34:17 · Karina Longworth (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (real-life model): Captain Feeney → William Makepeace Thackeray. A real highwayman's autobiography so charmed Thackeray that he wrote him into his book.
    “is a real highwayman who wrote an autobiography, the Thackeray loved so much that he was like, I'm going to put you in my book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:56:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. people (shared actor): Godfrey Quigley → A Clockwork Orange. Captain Grogan's actor is also a prison warden in Clockwork Orange.
    “I believe he's also, he's a prison warden in Clock of Orange.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. people (shared cast): A Clockwork Orange → Barry Lyndon. Kubrick reused actors across Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.
    “There's a lot of overlap with Clockwork Orange in these casts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:58:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (comic register): Barry Lyndon → Monty Python. The supporting cast play in a Monty Python key while Barry stays straight.
    “But it does feel like all these supporting actors are giving Monty Python performances.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:58:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. people (shared actor): Pat Roach → Indiana Jones movies. Roach is the stuntman who plays the big British tough guy over and over, including across the Indiana Jones movies.
    “Who's Pat Roach, who's like that stuntman who exists 5 times over the Indiana Jones movies, plays like the German mechanic and the thuggy guard, whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:58:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. people (shared actor): Pat Roach → A Clockwork Orange. Corporal Toole's actor is the milk bar bouncer in Clockwork Orange.
    “he's the bouncer at the milk bar in Clockwork Orange, that kind.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:59:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. people (casting source): Cabaret → Barry Lyndon. Kubrick cast Berenson after loving her in Cabaret.
    “Yeah, he loved her in cabaret.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. people (casting research): Stanley Kubrick → Stanley Donen. Kubrick phoned Donen, who knew Berenson, and quizzed him before offering her the part.
    “And he called Stanley Donan, I guess who knew her, and basically grilled Stanley Donan on everything about her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (mentor): Leon Vitali → Todd Field. Vitali worked on Todd Field's movies and mentored Kubrick acolytes.
    “He also, you know, he worked on the Todd Field movies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  26. people (casting): Leon Vitali → The Shining. Vitali was the main person who had to find Danny Torrance.
    “him being the main person who had to find Danny Torrance for the shining”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  27. people (shared actor): Leon Vitali → Eyes Wide Shut. Vitali plays seven different roles in Eyes Wide Shut after Barry Lyndon.
    “playing like 7 different roles and eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. theme (character parallel): Paper Moon → Barry Lyndon. O'Neal's con-man father in Paper Moon is set against Barry as a father.
    “Compare this character to Moses Prey in Paper Moon, a guy who does not want to be a father because the idea of being a father is having to settle down and live a respectable life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:43:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  29. people (shared actor): Philip Stone → The Shining. Stone is Grady in The Shining and the dad in Clockwork Orange, here in a sympathetic role.
    “Grady, the caretaker, the ghost of the caretaker and the shining, and the dad and cockroach orange.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:45:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  30. craft (music): The Chieftains → Barry Lyndon. The film has no score, just 18th century music, including The Chieftains.
    “The Chieftains? Yes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:48:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. craft (music): Leonard Rosenman → Barry Lyndon. Rosenman helped pick the classical music and won the Oscar for adapted score.
    “So Leonard Roseman won and he was the guy who helped pick the classical music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:48:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. craft (use of music cues): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick repeats and uses every music cue powerfully in both films.
    “I mean, that's what eyes wide shut as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:49:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  33. people (director): Sam Peckinpah → Killer Elite. The number one movie the Barry Lyndon opening week was a late, sellout-seeming Peckinpah picture.
    “It's a peck and paw.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:52:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (shared players): Gene Wilder → Mel Brooks. Wilder's film has many of Mel Brooks's regulars in it.
    “Although it has a lot of Mel Brooks guys in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:58:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. people (director): Lina Wertmuller → Swept Away. Swept Away was in the 1975 box office top ten, with Giannini.
    “Speaking of Wertmuller, the, you know, Giancarlo Janini classic.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  36. career (next film): Barry Lyndon → The Shining. Kubrick's next movie after Barry Lyndon was The Shining, a swerve toward a bestseller.
    “His next movie was The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 2:00:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items (22)

  1. fun, about Barry Lyndon: The movie ends on an epilogue title card that the hosts treat as the whole point: none of it matters, everyone ends up dead anyway.
    “Like title card saying, what does this fucking matter?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:01:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Karina Longworth: Karina answers the favorite-movie question with three favorites: A Star Is Born (1954), Barry Lyndon and Ghostbusters (maybe swapped for Back to the Future).
    “I say that I have 3 favorite movies, which are, um, a star is born from 1954, Barry Lyndon and Ghostbusters, um, because that just like covers all the bases.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:06:11 · Karina Longworth (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Ben Hosley: Ben watched the film for the first time at the Paris Theater and in five minutes decided the mid-talented Irish liar was his people.
    “Karina, like 5 minutes in, Ben turns to me and he goes, these are my people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:07:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Barry Lyndon: Karina worked at a video store and hogged the two-tape Barry Lyndon for weeks, so nobody could rent it.
    “You didn't have to check them out on the computer. And I just kept it at my house for a really long time because I just kind of kept watching it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:17:28 · Karina Longworth (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: To plan the costumes and sets Kubrick bought art books and tore pages out of them, feeling guilty about it.
    “He said that, quote, he had to very guiltily tear up a lot of beautiful art books.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:24:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Barry Lyndon: The ending was Kubrick's own invention; in Thackeray's book Bullingdon beats Barry up and Barry dies a drunk in prison. Kubrick wanted a duel in a barn with pigeons.
    “And he really liked the idea of having a big duel in a barn with pigeons.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:26:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Ryan O'Neal: O'Neal was supposed to narrate, he says, and Kubrick got a bored Englishman instead; the hosts say the narration is exactly why the movie works.
    “Kubrick got some bored Englishman to do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:36:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Ryan O'Neal: O'Neal's own take on the shoot: his contract was for 18 weeks, and the film ran so long it was all overtime.
    “After 18 weeks of work, we'd done about 4 pages of the script.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:38:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's own casting justification for O'Neal is a backhanded compliment: he was confident O'Neal could act better than his earlier films let him.
    “Kubrick's Kubrick's quote here is he looked right and I was confident he possessed much greater acting ability than he'd been allowed to show in any of the films he'd previously done.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Marisa Berenson: Kubrick was shy with actresses and wrote Berenson personal letters instead of talking to her, while he and O'Neal talked sports.
    “But for Marissa Berenson, he would send letters that were very personal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:43:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Barry Lyndon: The ribbon scene runs on far longer than expected and tells you the film is a comedy; Karina's friend asked what she had put on.
    “The ribbon scene is, you know, the moment where I was surprised by how immediately the movie is playing fully in a comedic realm because Kubrick just lets that scene go on forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:47:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Barry Lyndon: Captain Feeney, the highwayman who robs Barry, was a real highwayman whose autobiography Thackeray loved enough to put him in the book.
    “is a real highwayman who wrote an autobiography, the Thackeray loved so much that he was like, I'm going to put you in my book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:56:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Pat Roach: The Corporal Toole actor is the stuntman who plays the big British tough guy for smaller heroes to fight, and the milk bar bouncer in Clockwork Orange.
    “It's just this ultimate, like, big British unit tough guy for smaller heroes to fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:58:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Barry Lyndon: Barry is a hermit crab of status, always looking for the next shell, which sums up the first act.
    “Right, he's like a hermit crab of status.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:02:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Marisa Berenson: Lady Lyndon's hair gets bigger the sadder she gets, which a host reads as the period version of fighting age.
    “I love how her hair gets bigger as she gets sadder.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:13:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Ryan O'Neal: O'Neal told Time magazine that Berenson was vacuous, giggly and lazy the week the film opened.
    “Ryan O'Neill said of her that she was vacuous, giggly, and lazy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:15:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Leon Vitali: Vitali stopped acting after Barry Lyndon to become Kubrick's personal assistant, then found Danny Torrance and coached actors; his misfire scene is called one of the funniest ever.
    “I did not realize within that that he is like the 3rd lead of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:24:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Barry Lyndon: The two duels use different rules; the British method is standing still and shooting in turn, which a host likens to turn-based gameplay.
    “Turn base gameplay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:34:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Leonard Rosenman: Rosenman, who picked the classical cues and won an Oscar, hated the finished film.
    “When I saw this incredibly boring film with all this music as I that I had picked out going over and over again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:49:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Barry Lyndon: The poster tagline is basically 'for Oscars'; the film got best picture and other nominations but lost to Cuckoo's Nest and made $3M in Paris alone.
    “If you look at the poster, it says for Oscars, Barry Lyndon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:49:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Killer Elite: On Christmas 1975 Barry Lyndon was not in the top ten; number one was Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite with James Caan and Robert Duvall.
    “It is not in the top 10.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:52:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Karina recalls Entertainment Tonight reporting the film might contain unsimulated sex, and Eyes Wide Shut angering viewers who expected the horniest movie ever.
    “I remember entertainment tonight going, we're hearing there might be unsimulated sex in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 2:04:50 · Karina Longworth (0.60 sure it was them)

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