Favorite Stanley Kubrick Film

Hi,

Even though a lot of movies "include" history, many folks don't like to see these movies used as a de facto idea of what history is, or was ... but sometimes, it is hard to not laugh and appreciate the old stooges using their canes to keep time in front of the king, and then agree with him when he says "too many notes", to a musical style (at the time) that was notoriously slow and strictly time kept! ... familiar? guess what daw'ists do? The same thing!

But in general, for example, theater and music, were originally together in Greek theater as part of their festivals, and some how they got separated, more than likely by the new "religion" that decreed Oedipus bad, since it did not approve something that probably had happened for many hundreds or thousands of years before! All that was left? Edith Hamilton's Walt Disney version of the Greek stories, and some horrible misogyny that is pathetic and sick! I get really sick hearing about Medea poisoning a robe, when all the lighting in those days was by candles and oils on a pedestal, and in rooms that had carpets in all walls and floor to keep the heat in ... and how easy it would be for a fire to spread if one of those fell! Glauce likely hit one of those and the place blew up a fire! But the messenger, tells a vile story of hatred for the "magic" and women that had strength as Medea did ... my thoughts still are that the "chorus" was an invention that was badly translated and used to usher a new ear of religious controls ... plain and simple. It had nothing to do with a public sentiment!

To see, and find, as you say, that the music in "Barry Lyndon" is important (I have a copy arriving this week for me!) is something that is far out, and I really look forward to seeing it. I don't specifically know the names of the pieces and what they are about, but will definitely look for it, and maybe even look for a soundtrack CD.