About Barry Lyndon

i. By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired the Style and Title of Barry Lyndon. In the opening scene, set in 1750s Ireland, the father of Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O\Neal) is killed in a duel over the sale of some horses. This detail is related by the film\s narrator (Michael Hordern), who commentates ironically on the events that transpire. The widow (Marie Kean), disdaining offers of marriage, devotes herself to the raising of her son. When Barry is a young man, he falls in love with his cousin, Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton). She likes him well enough to seduce him, but when the well-off English Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter) appears on the scene, the poverty-stricken Barry is quickly dropped. She and her whole family are set on relieving their financial difficulties with an advantageous marriage. Barry refuses to accept the situation and (seemingly) kills Quin in a duel. Fleeing