Barry Lyndon movie fakery.

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Usually Stanley Kubrick is really detail oriented in his movies. That said, I watched Barry Lyndon for the first time in many decades. The scene where Barry is fighting for the Prussian army, he is in a building where they are shooting out of a window, it's hard not to notice the flintlock muskets are actually have trap door actions with a fake flint on the hammer. Also, the (obviously fake) frizzen is open before firing. My wife thought I was going mad since I was laughing so much during that battle scene. Anyone else pick up on this?

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Who's Barry lyndon?

 

[PathfinderNC]

Those kind of mistakes are kind of common in “ historical” movies. Reminds me of a scene in “Revolution” where the Americans are behind breasrworks awaiting the British advance. One close- up of a farmer with a percussion musket.
I try to overlook these and just enjoy the film, but yeah, sometimes it’s hard to
Barry Lynden was a great movie.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Kubrick concentrated on getting the clothing correct. Although one of the characters is wearing a brown cocked hat. The color was based on an original black hat that had faded to brown.

Most of the available "flintlock" prop guns were those trap door guns. Made it easier for the armorers to provide blank cartridges.

In general, "Barry Lyndon" was a decent movie with the Seven Years War in Europe driving the plot.

 

[Eric Krewson]

Jed Clampet is shooting a trapdoor/muzzleloader prop gun in the opening scene where he was "shooting at some food and out of the ground comes some bubbling crude".

 

[tenngun]

Who's Barry lyndon?

It’s a long slow movie, that is really an enjoyable few hours. It was a real stab at historic correctness in a movie for the time.
Guns less then correct, but John Wayne had a ‘peacemaker’ colt and a Winchester in Commancheros set in the Texas Republic sometime before 1846

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Who's Barry lyndon?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[64Springer]

Sgt Schultz carried a .30-40 Krag in Hogan's Heros.

He refused to carry a German made rifle.

 

[springfield art]

Usually Stanley Kubrick is really detail oriented in his movies. That said, I watched Barry Lyndon for the first time in many decades. The scene where Barry is fighting for the Prussian army, he is in a building where they are shooting out of a window, it's hard not to notice the flintlock muskets are actually have trap door actions with a fake flint on the hammer. Also, the (obviously fake) frizzen is open before firing. My wife thought I was going mad since I was laughing so much during that battle scene. Anyone else pick up on this?

Wow! I saw the movie in the Theater at the time it came out. Never noticed that hokey .45-70 thing, but also would not have thought they would have done that at the time because it was touted as such a superior movie. BTW, was 1st use of a 1:1 camera lens which could capture very dim natural light images. Thanks for the time-travel note!

 

[Hawk54]

It’s a long slow movie, that is really an enjoyable few hours. It was a real stab at historic correctness in a movie for the time.
Guns less then correct, but John Wayne had a ‘peacemaker’ colt and a Winchester in Commancheros set in the Texas Republic sometime before 1846

In the John Wayne movie the Undefeated which takes place months after the end of the Civil War he and his men are carrying 1873 pistols and 1892 Winchesters. The Rebs are using 1873 trapdoors.

 

[tenngun]

In the John Wayne movie the Undefeated which takes place months after the end of the Civil War he and his men are carrying 1873 pistols and 1892 Winchesters. The Rebs are using 1873 trapdoors.

It was a real surprise to me as a late teen to learn that they weren’t carrying winchesters and trapdoors during the WBTS as that’s what so many movies had.

 

[kansas_volunteer]

Years ago, I don't remember when or why, I saw a movie about some affair in Russia in the 17-hundreds. One scene stuck in memory. The guard is called out to meet some disturbance. It made me laugh hard as the weapons were Mosin Nagants.

 

[Sidney Smith]

The original Swiss Family Robinson used a lot of those fake flintlock trapdoors. It was so obvious when they fired and the frizzen didn't move yet the guns fired anyway.

 

[PathfinderNC]

For me, it had one of the coolest bayonet charges, ever!

 

[hanshi]

I saw the movie Barry Lyndon at the theater and figured Kubrick must have put most of the money into the clothes. It's been so long I can't remember much about it just a few scenes here and there. I pay attention to the ordinance in movies and on TV. And yes, it sometimes annoys the squeeze; she'll always say something like, "most people don't know about old guns like you do". I do catch mistakes when they use the wrong/fairytale weapons.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

I took a gal on a date to see Barry Lyndon in the theater when it first came out. I fell asleep during it. Didn't get a 2nd date for some reason.

 

[Fitzhugh Williams]

It seems that the French in the video above have trouble pronouncing the command for "feu". But then most reenactors do too, but in a different way.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Barry Lyndon is a great movie if you can look past Ryan O'Neal's terrible acting. It won several Oscars (but not for Best Actor). Too bad they didn't cast someone that seemed to care about the role, and get the guns right of course!

 

[Packrat]

I was amazed, in The Red Badge of Courage, a close up showed that they had Enfield rifles. Not many repo's when that movie was made

 

[vintovka]

Too bad the MGM prop/ stembridge gun rental sales happened before the advent of digital cameras. The faux MLs were amazing and often comical.