Camp Pendleton is a big sprawling base where a bison herd roams freely. Once they were alongside the road as I bicycled about ten feet past a massive bison that watched me impassively. We were told they were passive, just be careful when driving.
Viral video out of Yellowstone National Park shows an elderly man being launched eight feet into the air after a bison charged him from nearly 300 feet away, covering the distance in seconds.
@Ryanmatta You're not making sense. There is no wife. They're obviously looking to secure all sensitive material in the house, which is inherently shady but also consistent with their protecting Epstein files names.
@prissmorgen@KubrickPoint the Englishman, and declares his loyalty to the "game" lad from then on. But, again, Nora and Quin are minor figures in the story, and not worth the time or analysis.
@prissmorgen@KubrickPoint who is there to provide you with this exposition--Nora wasn't worth Barry's time, much less the life he vowed to lay down for her--but the kindly Capt Grogan (I've been calling him Barry's "uncle" but he's just an older relative) can't help but admire B's spirit in calling out
@prissmorgen@KubrickPoint It's a curious case of Kubrick, always so detached and unsentimental, softening and (almost) sentimentalizing an original by a similar artist (the appeal of Thackeray's wry satirical wit for K is obvious) that was uncharacteristically detached.
@prissmorgen@KubrickPoint to his face. Barry's mother isn't beloved by him, but avoided as a nuisance. The stepson isn't a weakly mamma's boy, but a bit too much like Barry for them to get along.
F these X accounts dedicated to particular movie directors. Someone with a handle like "Scorsese World" or "Kubrick Land" and his strained counter-intuitive takes on familiar films that would be groan-inducing even if they weren't so trite and oblivious. Fight on sight, bitches.
@KubrickPoint Thackeray's "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" is very different from the film. The satire is of Barry unreliable narrator lacking self-awareness due to vanity. Kubrick's adaptation takes the same approach, but gentler, giving Barry an inherent nobility.
@KubrickPoint Quin's attempt to effect the sort of humiliation you describe here is thwarted when he announces his engagement to Nora at a dinner attended by Barry, who glasses him and forces him into a duel for which he's unprepared. So, no. Not at all.