WTF Happened to Eyes Wide Shut?

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  • Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's haunting final masterpiece. The famous director passed away just a few months before the film opened, and indeed in the years since, it's been one of his most divisive efforts. Kubrick's first film since 1987's Full Metal Jacket, it opened with a flurry of controversy, as the studio had to insert CGI figures into an orgy sequence to avoid getting the film an NC-17 rating. The first teaser, which featured its married stars, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, cavorting nude to Chris Isaak's "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" was the public's clue to the fact that Kubrick's meditation on sexual relationships would be controversial. The film received a mixed reaction when it first came out, with some critics saying it was a masterpiece while others dismissed it. It's still one of Kubrick's most divisive films.
    In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, which is edited by Jeremy Hamley, and written and narrated by Mathew Plale, we dig into how tortured a production this was. Kubrick's film was shot for fifteen months, making it one of the longest, consistent movie shoots of all time. Kubrick shot and reshot sequences, even leading co-star Harvey Keitel to quit in disgust over the number of takes required. Jennifer Jason Leigh was also replaced. The shoot sidelined Cruise's career for several years, with him not making any movies in 1997 or 1998 as he was busy with the shoot, and many, retrospectively, think the film may have played a role in ending Cruise and Kidman's marriage, with them divorcing less than two years after the movie was finally released.
    Despite everything, it remains Kubrick's highest-grossing film, if perhaps his most widely disliked one. We'll dig into the tortured shoot in WTF Happened to Eyes Wide Shut, and let us know in the comments what you think of this entry into the Kubrick canon.
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  • @christhornycroft3686
    @christhornycroft3686 ปีที่แล้ว +815

    Kubrick always tried to make you think. He didn’t just want to make a movie, he wanted to create an experience that made you think differently. The fact that he died before the release of this movie is pretty poignant. He basically ratted out Hollywood on his way out the door.

    • @Gorgonzola0987
      @Gorgonzola0987 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      An abusive narcissist too

    • @mikeyfn-a6684
      @mikeyfn-a6684 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Which is why we ask..."Was he or wasn't he assassinated?🤔🤔🤔"

    • @mikeyfn-a6684
      @mikeyfn-a6684 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ​@@Gorgonzola0987Poor Shelly Duval 🙁

    • @KP-vy9ro
      @KP-vy9ro ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Yeah dude it's crazy how he suddenly died from a heart attack before he could finish

    • @alisterfolson
      @alisterfolson ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The movie Wag the Dog has entered the chat

  • @LeonardoKlotz
    @LeonardoKlotz ปีที่แล้ว +237

    This was the first movie from Kubrick I've ever seen
    And even after watching his other movies, EWS remains my favorite of his filmography

    • @michaeladams5636
      @michaeladams5636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad who was a big Kubrick fan thought EWS was a disappointment.

    • @dishsoap1
      @dishsoap1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Full Metal Jacket is a must and The Shining.

    • @JayRiemenschneider
      @JayRiemenschneider ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@michaeladams5636yor dad was right. I'm a big Kubrick fan and the movie sucks. Or maybe I'm just not 'intellectual' enough for it😅😅😅😅

    • @yashbspianoandcompositions1042
      @yashbspianoandcompositions1042 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@dishsoap1I think Full Metal Jacket and Shining are my favourites.

    • @harlemraider3347
      @harlemraider3347 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a good movie but nowhere near Kubrick’s best. It might actually be his worst if I’m being honest.

  • @ronpolaris5883
    @ronpolaris5883 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    I've read a couple of times (which might or might not be true) that the movie had 20 minutes of footage removed in the end. Removed and destroyed.
    I've always wondered, if all the gatherers wore masks, why the secrecy, why were they willing to kill to preserve their secret? So they had sex with prostitutes... big whoop!
    The rumor goes that, in the "lost footage", Kubrick wanted to portray the TRUE things that took place at the gatherings depicted in Eyes Wide Shut. The insane secrecy an willingness to kill would be justifiable if the gatherers used... children.
    There are several documentaries where actual victims come forward and claim that they were sexually abused at the secret gatherings as children by people who believed that abusing children would give them "special powers".
    It was suggested that Kubrick has witnessed one of these gatherings and, because he wanted to put it under the light, his death might not have been natural.
    If the contents of the "lost footage" was a real thing, the disappearance of their daughter in the end of the movie would get the whole new meaning.
    Who knows?....

    • @KlaustheViking
      @KlaustheViking ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Well it was suggested by the costume shop owner with the grooming of his daughter to the two Asian men. I’ve also watched another video that was more of a wild conspiracy that Bill and Alice was part of the mansion party and was grooming their daughter to be a part of it.

    • @mollykeane2571
      @mollykeane2571 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      The truth is far darker and Kubrick may have shed too much light on it. He certainly would have been aware of how truly evil that world is.

    • @deeem2628
      @deeem2628 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      There were specific scenes alluding to certain people who 'they' (synagogue of satan) didn't want the public having knowledge of that were ORDERED to take out but Stanley refused and subsequently didn't live to see his movie premiere.

    • @lstruggy
      @lstruggy ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Harvey Weinstein has entered the chat

    • @davemccombs
      @davemccombs ปีที่แล้ว

      "It was suggested that Kubrick has witnessed one of these gatherings"
      Passive voice, no source
      Didn't happen, stop gossiping like a 60 year old hag

  • @spaceodds1985
    @spaceodds1985 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    One of the best films of the 1990s. A film that feels like a dream and probably is a dream.

    • @china_is_asshole
      @china_is_asshole ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This and the Ninth Gate.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Seems Victorian to me.

    • @franknada8235
      @franknada8235 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. It only had a nightmare atmosphere cause that's what it feels like when you realize the things really going on among the powerful people. The studios wouldn't have let the movie get green light had it been more straightforward. It had to be written as vague as possible and the movie company probably still edited more away. Epstein is barely a tip of a huge iceberg and it's connected to so much more.

    • @Oxmustube
      @Oxmustube ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Martin Scorcese once gave his top ten list of the '90s and placed it at number 2. His number one was a chinese movie made in 89, but got wide release in the '90s...so he kinda cheated lol.

    • @Mathematik_Anhaenger
      @Mathematik_Anhaenger ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Funny enough, The Book is called "Dreamnovella"

  • @Yes-Yes1
    @Yes-Yes1 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    Ziegler’s conversation with Bill in the study at the end has some of the best dialogue I’ve seen in a movie. One of my favorite movies.

    • @cameronskye94
      @cameronskye94 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Absolutely. This has to be Tom Cruise’s best performance as a dramatic actor

    • @A_Final_Hit
      @A_Final_Hit ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The dialogue is that scene is great, but, just as importantly, so too is Sydney Pollack's acting. The mannerisms and physical things he does in that scene are what really sells it.

    • @wet-read
      @wet-read ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@cameronskye94
      One of them. Cruise is a good actor with a good script and in the hands of a master like Kubrick. He was also great in Risky Business, a film that surprised me with its depth.

    • @wet-read
      @wet-read ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@A_Final_Hit
      I am so glad Keitel left the production. He is great, of course, but he just wasn't right for that role.

    • @DAGDRUM53
      @DAGDRUM53 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@A_Final_Hit Fully agree. Originally I was disappointed Keitel didn't stick around (then the EWS movie poster could've read Cruise, Kidman, Keitel & Kubrick) but now I can't imagine Harvey doing a better job than Sydney Pollak. Who'd have thought a director could act so well?

  • @naverich4603
    @naverich4603 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    When I was studying at film school we had a whole course dedicated to Stanley Kubrick and his filmography. For three weeks we would meet and talk about his movie and then watch them chronologically in a small one screen theater. Maybe it's the fact that Eyes Wide Shut concluded the whole course but for some reason it made the biggest impact on me, despite seeing it twice before. It's in my eyes the best Kubrick movie...it's his essence as a filmmaker removed from the grandiose stories of science-fiction, horror or war movies...captured in the most basic setting, which makes all the themes shine through even more.

    • @enzop2835
      @enzop2835 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most sacred setting being reality.😂

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I was a 20 year old looking to just watch some T&A in the theaters. I ended up LOVING this movie. I never took my eyes off the screen. That’s how mesmerizing the movie was.

  • @RictaScale.Official
    @RictaScale.Official ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Kubrick showed a cut of the film to the sudio. He stood outside the theatre, pacing up and down, saying "They're going to kill me"

    • @Scars.make.you.more.evolved
      @Scars.make.you.more.evolved ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But at the end, it was his sick heart that killed him hehehe A little too obsessed with perfection, that must add bad stress.

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 ปีที่แล้ว

      And so they did. Seriously, "hart attack" my ass... Doctors say everything if you bribe them bard enough, when someone was "neutralized" who would become dangerous to.... certain people in power and influence. Remember.... EVERYONE knew about the things Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein did... and they all looked the other way or participated... and PROTECTED such individuals.

    • @marcusmaynard1526
      @marcusmaynard1526 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Scars.make.you.more.evolveddenial

    • @jpraise6771
      @jpraise6771 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Scars.make.you.more.evolvedif you actually are being serious then you're dumber than most.

    • @ShineMedia1
      @ShineMedia1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@Scars.make.you.more.evolved how do you know this? Did you diagnose or do you know the family? Maybe you read it in the paper!? 🤔

  • @hmat3255
    @hmat3255 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I saw it recently. It is engaging and it grabs your attention. It is definitely one of the more interesting works of Stanley Kubrick, and it is not bad as the critics or audience say. Remember when nobody liked The Shining? Stanley's work is always interesting no matter what quality.

  • @stephennootens916
    @stephennootens916 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    One of the problems with this movie was its ad campaign because it sold you on some sort of erotica movie, there was a sense in the campaign you were going going to see hot sex scenes with Kidman and Cruise and as it turned out it felt like Kidman was barely and most of it was just Cruise walking down sidewalks and hallways.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว

      To repeat..
      Victorian.

    • @vambo13257
      @vambo13257 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@marknewton6984 How simple of you

    • @vmusket5464
      @vmusket5464 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think part of the point was to challenge whoever wants to see such things in a film by showing them the sinister nature of some sex and its consequences. Hence tricking them into watching something that would unexpectedly challenge them.

    • @stephennootens916
      @stephennootens916 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vmusket5464 that sounds like a generous view of the ad campaign. One could also say they were trying to get buzz on the film because the ads were cut before Kubrick died. Or a they just didn't know how to sell the film they had.

    • @vmusket5464
      @vmusket5464 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephennootens916 Kubrick was involved in marketing and planning the release date before the film was finished and before he died

  • @DelightLovesMovies
    @DelightLovesMovies ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Eyes Wide Shut is one of my all time favourite films that gets better the more I watch it.

    • @Yes-Yes1
      @Yes-Yes1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It really is like that, you notice more and more each time you watch it, the subtleties and so on.

  • @RickDrew
    @RickDrew ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I think Kubrick's passing before it was actually completed was the biggest problem. He did not complete post-production, his "estate" did. Many people consider it unfinished.

  • @arp3259
    @arp3259 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The acting always felt weird to me in Kubrick films. Idk what it is I can’t put my finger on it. I always felt like they always just focused on making sure they read the lines right instead of it feeling real. Natural

    • @Ffoo_ffighter
      @Ffoo_ffighter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cause they are trying to ipen your eyes to the corruption of the elite

  • @tylerdyrdan3005
    @tylerdyrdan3005 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    It is a masterpiece. It touch our unconsious desires and fears that are suppressed by society and superego and i think thats the point of this movie.

  • @_PL_
    @_PL_ ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Regarding Jennifer Jason Leigh's original casting in the film: she wasn't just initially cast but then passed over for another actress, she actually filmed all the scenes for her character, but when those later reshoots were required (mentioned in this video), she was no longer available and so had to be recast.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jennifer is one Great actress!

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, this actually happens a lot of times for various reasons. Actor-swapping and reshoots are pretty common. And in many cases the scenes were actually shot but then discarded and quite literally destroyed because they were not needed anymore.

  • @mikeyfn-a6684
    @mikeyfn-a6684 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    More like-"Was Kubrick actually assassinated after this movie or NO?" Also I love the man's work..but this is absolutely on my list of 'Only Once'

  • @lorenzogalassi3311
    @lorenzogalassi3311 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In my opinion this is Stanley Kubrick's best film; and his work more complex than him !!!
    And there are many things that remain without plausible explanation; and there is a whole atmosphere of mystery that hovers throughout the film.

  • @behelit1997
    @behelit1997 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how this film is so mysterious; Kubrick died after releasing this film and Kubrick already had satanic references on The Shining, To Understand More i did research and then knew something i think i didn't was supposed to know, Theorists says Kubrick was in a Cult and The Cult made him famous in change for his soul; He after that became famous, but then the Cult did something wrong and Kubrick was furious; Then Kubrick got out from the cult and revealed it's secrets and died after... This is really mysterious, and i hope this is not true

    • @conradkavinsky9468
      @conradkavinsky9468 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is true. Reality is stranger than fiction

  • @nightwolf318
    @nightwolf318 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this film. He was a genius at his craft. I believe he added mystery to his films to allow others to draw their own unique interpretations about his films.

    • @propellerjfk
      @propellerjfk ปีที่แล้ว

      No mystery there. I wonder if he was part of a club

  • @ZackGarcia-ci2by
    @ZackGarcia-ci2by ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Kubrick was a gift to the world. I wish he would have done more than 13 films, but quality over quantity.

  • @quitestiger2818
    @quitestiger2818 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    still the deleted 23 minutes haven't recovered to this day

  • @Rlrlrl1962
    @Rlrlrl1962 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watched this last Christmas at a special screening at a nyc theater. The whole theater was full. I think may people still love this movie including me. It’s a masterpiece. Every watch is like it’s brand new.

    • @denisedoherty4909
      @denisedoherty4909 ปีที่แล้ว

      I take it you're not Christian....

    • @offbeat65
      @offbeat65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I noticed this, too. Whenever I rewatch it, I'm surprised by how much I had not remembered.

  • @spaSSkloppe
    @spaSSkloppe ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I want to see the version that is 28 minutes longer and for which the director had to die.

  • @Nemastic
    @Nemastic ปีที่แล้ว +43

    You didn't talk about the studio cutting 40 minutes against Kubrick's contract then murdering him. People might find that interesting.

    • @LonelyK1d
      @LonelyK1d ปีที่แล้ว +3

      my gosh those 40 minutes might have been fascinating , and was he really murdered ? I think its just a conspiracy theory

    • @cheesybellend6842
      @cheesybellend6842 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@LonelyK1d of course he was murdered it’s basically what goes on in high society’s , they don’t want you too know

    • @LonelyK1d
      @LonelyK1d ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@theviewbot you think it might be targeted towards the P*dophilia circuit as a lot of other folks are saying it might the reason why those additional shots were deleted?

    • @paco1022
      @paco1022 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bro u didnt even watch the video, it was a 15 MONTH long shoot, he did retakes of tom cruise walking thru a door cus he was an obsessive perfectionist, and the scenes that were cut out were cus warner wanted an R rating, do u really think its that crazy that an old guy got a heart attack and that some of the footage didnt make it on the final cut because it was so much footage? Apparently even 2001 had more deleted footage than this movie, why dont you talk abt that?

    • @joebroart
      @joebroart ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@paco1022learn to spell

  • @markelijio6012
    @markelijio6012 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nothing much. This was Stanley Kubrick's haunting final masterpiece for Warner Bros. in 1999 and in my opinion, Eyes Wide Shut was the
    director's highest grossing film.

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    On one level this is a movie about a strained marriage... But obsession, imagination and confusing one's imagined expectations with reality; dreams vs real life; seem to be the main gist. Nothing Dr Bill sets out to do (every attempt to cheat on his wife) comes to fruition. People criticise this when I think it's actually the point.
    Kubrick's wife said it's a film about fear and Stanley's metaphor about filmmaking itself; the struggle to bring a creative idea to fruition and the fear of not being able to accomplish what's in the artist's head. Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist, possibly obsessive compulsive about details, and would famously take years between projects and his productions would continue way over schedule. I love that the Harford's apartment is literally a re-creation of Kubrick and his wife's Manhattan studio apartment in the 1950s and 60s. The paintings on the wall are Christiane Kubrick's own art work from that time. A few of her paintings also appear in A Clockwork Orange.
    Say what you will about EWS, I'm glad he finally got to make it as the book was obviously near and dear to him. The fact that he died only a month after post-production wrapped and a few weeks before his 70th birthday is sucky coincidence. Fuelled a lot of paranoid conspiracy thoeries.

    • @DeidreL9
      @DeidreL9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for a sane and balanced comment!

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    *Underated* masterpiece 🥰

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No disrespect intended, but how does a highly regarded, well-known, respected, and financially successful film quality as "underrated"? 🧐

    • @jeremysiron9622
      @jeremysiron9622 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheStockwell it the time of its release, critics and audiences were highly divided on it….

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeremysiron9622 That's absolutely true, but that was over two decades ago. Claiming the film is *still* underrated is like saying a burrito from three years ago is *still* fresh and tasty.
      I started off by defending my statement, but now I'm hungry for some reason. Weird! 🤔
      Best wishes from Vermont! ❄️💙❄️

    • @AnthonyFlack
      @AnthonyFlack ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheStockwell - half the comments here are people saying how much they hated it. No accounting for taste - Sidney Pollack as the avuncular face of evil was just fantastic. That scene with the red pool table...

    • @GooseGumlizzard
      @GooseGumlizzard ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheStockwell it was not that well received at the time but you can say that about a lot of Kubrick's masterpieces like the Shining and Barry Lyndon.

  • @quarantinebored1427
    @quarantinebored1427 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another little fun fact: after what r lee ermey stated, Todd field fired back and said “that not only Kubrick loved eyes wide shut, he advised Field to not work with Eremy”. Field was in the process of making his first film “ in the bedroom” and considered Eremy for a role.

  • @islammohamed1441
    @islammohamed1441 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love and admire several of Kubrick's films, chief among them 2001 and Full Metal Jacket. That shooting schedule for Eyes Wide Shut belies more than just perfectionism: it suggests significant pathology.

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just think if SK had lived to make another movie.

    • @aliensoup2420
      @aliensoup2420 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hermanhale9258 It likely would have been AI with Spielberg directing and Kubrick producing. They were already in progress with development.

  • @lambknot
    @lambknot ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I once heard Kidmans father had some sort of a shady past.

    • @MOB_JD
      @MOB_JD ปีที่แล้ว

      Nicole herself is an evil, dirty, rotten person..likely taking after her father.

    • @GooseGumlizzard
      @GooseGumlizzard ปีที่แล้ว +1

      of course, he's Australian lol

    • @conradkavinsky9468
      @conradkavinsky9468 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was supposedly part of a pedo ring. There are statements from his victim(s) online. hard to say if it's true but who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes anymore

  • @ajtaylor8750
    @ajtaylor8750 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Recently watched this last month and it's a truly fascinating and weird way to show people being in love.

    • @Shlogger
      @Shlogger ปีที่แล้ว +13

      that's the outer layer of it. there's a lot more going on there.

    • @onatics
      @onatics ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Shlogger If you know you know

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love is weird.

    • @H4rd5tyl3r
      @H4rd5tyl3r ปีที่แล้ว

      How in love were they if they keep wanting other people…..

    • @kemiiwii
      @kemiiwii ปีที่แล้ว +2

      its literally about human trafficking wtf are u on

  • @AlexGarcia-ze4yg
    @AlexGarcia-ze4yg ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Kubrick was never going to do another film after this even if he lived.

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was an unhealthy, 70 year-old man; a smoker, a workaholic who didn't take care of himself, and who obviously didn't go to a fitness club. It's amazing he lived long enough to finish *this* film.

  • @interdimensionalsteve8172
    @interdimensionalsteve8172 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love this incredibly unnerving and beautifully shot film. And the music/sound design... /swoon

  • @shalishjaved1627
    @shalishjaved1627 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In my opinion, Eyes Wide Shut is still a cult classic and admired by cinephiles. Nothing has happened to it.

    • @Rlrlrl1962
      @Rlrlrl1962 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly. It’s a masterpiece. I watched last Christmas at a special screening at a local theatre the whole theater was full.

  • @ppcy
    @ppcy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wierd how i watched this last night and you uploaded this yesterday

  • @CornishCreamtea07
    @CornishCreamtea07 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I still to this day can not figure out what I think of this Movie.

  • @AllboroLCD
    @AllboroLCD ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The longest running shoot for a hollywood movie of all time, and a film exposing the nefarious acts of the very people who let him take that long to shoot it to boot! His death shortly after the films screening is NO coincidence.

    • @essies4294
      @essies4294 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope😂
      It was a faithful film version of Arthur Schnizler’s ‘Dreamstory’

    • @AllboroLCD
      @AllboroLCD ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm aware, but that doesnt stop a director from telling their own story by means of someone elses. Im sure your aware "Apocalypse Now" was based upon the book "Heart of Darkness"

    • @offbeat65
      @offbeat65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AllboroLCD - I am sure Kubrick had you, your astute sense of conspiracies and your present revelation in his mind all along. Which only shows how big a genius he was.

  • @moseswan44
    @moseswan44 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where is the original edit available at

  • @gryphonlaw2138
    @gryphonlaw2138 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kinda crazy to remember that this was Kubrick's last movie. Still great bit he left this life still making people question and attached.

  • @LucyLioness100
    @LucyLioness100 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Definitely not a movie for everyone, but I think it ended Kubrick’s career on a high note. It’s stylish in its production design and cinematography, Tom and Nicole deliver quality work under the strictness of Kubrick (though their marriage was essentially on the outs by this point), the score is mysterious and the themes are thought-provoking

    • @leonw.8855
      @leonw.8855 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Kubrick died before the movie was even released, so yes you're right. The movie ended his career...

  • @timcombs2730
    @timcombs2730 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The football game on TV is actually a CFL game between The Saskatchewan Rough Riders and Calgary Stampeders

  • @jules-yi8rn
    @jules-yi8rn ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I never realized this was released AFTER Kubrick had died.

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always heard he HAD finished it, but the studio cut out twenty minutes.

  • @candycrushhater5828
    @candycrushhater5828 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When will you guys do a WTF Happened to Transformers (2007)?

  • @spaceghost9440
    @spaceghost9440 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To this day, I consider this Kubricks greatest film

  • @johnwatson3948
    @johnwatson3948 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Always thought it felt like should be taking place in the 1926 period when the book was written - the seriousness of a woman having fantasies, the jealousy plot point, and the existence of a costumed secret society would make more sense. Maybe it was considered as a period piece but would have doubled the budget.

    • @MaximusNYC
      @MaximusNYC ปีที่แล้ว

      This has always been my feeling also. It just didn't make psychological sense as a movie about modern people living in 1990s New York City. The idea that Cruise's character would be so shaken by his wife's confession of a fantasy felt a bit absurd to me. In the 1920s people were just out of the Victorian era. But by the 1990s, Western societies had already been thru the sexual revolution, so Cruise's character seemed unbelievable.

    • @johnwatson3948
      @johnwatson3948 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes that’s exactly what I thought - being so shaken by his wife’s confession was also the main thing that lost me.

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well, the wife did tell him that she would have left him and the kid if the other man had wanted her for one night. Something is wrong, there.

    • @geechyguy3441
      @geechyguy3441 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MaximusNYC Bro it's 2023 now and if my gf told that to me I'd still have a sleepless night. Loyalty and love mean a lot to some people, it's not even the fact that she had a fantasy it's the fact that she explained it in detail to him and literally told him she was about to leave him that night just like this other guy said.

  • @dranaesthesia0305
    @dranaesthesia0305 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It still feels like a dream. Now its not even there in Netflix. Even feels more like a dream 😢

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kubrick is the 🐐

  • @KidFresh71
    @KidFresh71 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    While it's not Kubrick's finest work, any film that isn't formulaic and makes you actually think is a "win" in my book. Even though this is a baseless opinion, I've always felt that we didn't get to see the true final form of Eyes Wide Shut. My guess is the really juicy sex/ satanic ritual stuff was cut out. Perhaps hitting too close to home, for certain Hollyweird execs.

    • @offbeat65
      @offbeat65 ปีที่แล้ว

      So sorry that you have been deprived of the juicy satanic sex certain Hollyweird execs are rotten enough to be interested in.

  • @gonogazz
    @gonogazz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Best acting ever from Tom Cruise..When he is contemplating from the backseat of the car..

  • @brion0220
    @brion0220 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I haven't seen this yet, although I've only seen a handful of Kubrick's movies so far. I adore 2001 and Full Metal Jacket is another favorite.

    • @MoarRushPl0x
      @MoarRushPl0x ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I still haven't gotten around to "Spartacus" or "Dr. Strangelove". They are on a long list of movies I need to see. I recommend "Barry Lyndon".

    • @brion0220
      @brion0220 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MoarRushPl0x Nice. Yeah I need to see all 3.

  • @JokersVsZombies
    @JokersVsZombies ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Now its time for joblo to discuss full metal jacket

  • @satsubatsu347
    @satsubatsu347 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Considering the embarrassing lengths Kubrick was willing to go to destroy footage, I believe Ermy.

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would like to see the footage of the other girl who played Marion. Too bad if he deleted it.

  • @jeremysiron9622
    @jeremysiron9622 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    actually liked it, and this was pre-Illuminati panic….ahead of it’s time

  • @thatpaulschofield
    @thatpaulschofield ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sticking to the facts and not trying to sell a bunch of ludicrous conspiracy theories.

  • @stevefugere2687
    @stevefugere2687 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Kubrick was considering making a movie about Napoleon, can you imagine how long that would of taken. I would love to have seen it though.

    • @Zanaduu
      @Zanaduu ปีที่แล้ว

      the script is ready, steven Spielberg and another director are planning for adapting it think.

    • @stevefugere2687
      @stevefugere2687 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zanaduu That's great news, thank you.

  • @RabidNemo
    @RabidNemo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Heiswide shut is more of a documentary and a warning than any of the novella stuff that people talk about.

  • @jimbojiveable
    @jimbojiveable 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is definitely my favorite kubrick film. it's mysterious and visually striking

  • @marco.salvatori
    @marco.salvatori ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:44 Actually in the movie there's a Menorah in tom's house

  • @liorleeroy4276
    @liorleeroy4276 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve been a huge fan of his when I was 16, and I watched most of his films, but I only watched WES a few weeks ago - now it is my favourite film of his

  • @Omar-wq9dz
    @Omar-wq9dz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    There's also an edited version known as Eyes Wide Cut

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tylerlyons4943 Yeah, there was. I saw it on Twitter a while back. I liked it, even though the idea was hard to imagine. He cut out scenes that he thought bogged the story down. Only he didn't put it that way. He was respectful of SK.

  • @j.mieses8139
    @j.mieses8139 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I need to re-watch this again...for like the 5th time

  • @MatthewSmith001
    @MatthewSmith001 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still think ACO was better. I love all MacDowell's work.

  • @noneed4me2n7
    @noneed4me2n7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This one I’ve skipped even being a huge Kubrick fan. Not out of any issue with it, just wasn’t my bag with the subject matter. Maybe someday.

  • @leoinsf
    @leoinsf ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I must see "The Shining" every year at least once. It actually doesn't get "old".
    Kubrick is like Beethoven. You never get tired of his themes because they "fit together" so well!
    "Eyes Wide Shut" is a great movie, but for some reason, it doesn't invite a yearly viewing.
    I have seen it many times and each time I enjoy it more and more.
    However, I think Kubrick was trying to challenge the "sex rules" of the time by making this movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
    In the process, the mood-painting that made "The Shining" so spectacular was not done.

  • @bobinchainz
    @bobinchainz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:45 say fuckin what !? Lmao nah brah couldn’t be me

  • @GizmoBeach
    @GizmoBeach 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It was obviously a labor of love for Kubrick. Those shots of Cruise walking through the city after sundown are glorious. Makes you want to be right there with him on that little adventure. Not so much for Domino and the mansion and those closeted bozos messing with the Dr. but for the cafe and the jazz club and just generally taking in the nightlife and the idea of roaming at will.

  • @markhirstwood4190
    @markhirstwood4190 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alice is 'The Pink Panther', a predatory big cat that preys on birds and rabbits at night.

  • @do9138
    @do9138 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the only film with Cruise in it that I can stand to watch.

  • @mgutkowski
    @mgutkowski ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mark Kermode called it "Eyes wide shit"

  • @Mario_N64
    @Mario_N64 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I sometimes feel like it's a "Red Shoe Diaries" episode stretched into two and a half hours.

  • @UnbelievablyGauche
    @UnbelievablyGauche ปีที่แล้ว +2

    But how do you know? All the info you gleaned…could all be curated knowledge you’re allowed to know, or encouraged to know

  • @laurenced2916
    @laurenced2916 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He refused to cut the film and they killed him for it

  • @AllboroLCD
    @AllboroLCD ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Apparently there was a cut duiring the orgy scene where cruise peers into an open doorway to a room that had the ole pentagram painted on the floor. The ending was clearly cut as well, you see the daughter walking away towards the men who worked at the long island mansion.

    • @DarthVader-1701
      @DarthVader-1701 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I heard that there is a scene that never made it into the movie that basically showed a child sacrifice.

    • @AllboroLCD
      @AllboroLCD ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DarthVader-1701 Maybe reword that a little, "implied" a sacrfce. Youd need to find the OG screenplay/script to get to the bottom of this.

  • @DCandtheInsectobytez
    @DCandtheInsectobytez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What's the piano music playing the background?

  • @vinnym6734
    @vinnym6734 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every time I watch this film, I like it more and more.

  • @jadenalvarado4912
    @jadenalvarado4912 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Stanley Kubrick was killed for this Movie and will remain a legend for dying for what he believed in😤😤😤

    • @TheViral_fyp
      @TheViral_fyp 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Illuminati reveal ??

  • @colinthedogfromspaced9365
    @colinthedogfromspaced9365 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember bunking off school to go and see this at the cinema on the day of release. Not what I was expecting but you could say that about any Kubrick film. Coincidentally the last line of the film is fuck, very fitting for the WTF series !

  • @filmbuff2777
    @filmbuff2777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Martin Scorsese is a big fan of this film too. Look up the Scorsese/Ebert best of the 90's special.

  • @alisterfolson
    @alisterfolson ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Me: wins a million 💸
    World: how will you spend some of it?
    Me: pay someone so I can watch the uncut version of this movie

  • @mbryson2899
    @mbryson2899 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It was a beautiful film, it touched so many aspects of life and relationships.
    My better half and I have been to parties and have encountered situations akin to those shown in the film. The impulses, considerations, and recriminations were definitely reflected realistically.

    • @denisedoherty4909
      @denisedoherty4909 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh please. You're swingers! Not quite the same.

    • @mbryson2899
      @mbryson2899 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@denisedoherty4909 That's a bit random. How did you come to that conclusion? Are you a swinger?

    • @denisedoherty4909
      @denisedoherty4909 ปีที่แล้ว

      @mbryson2899 No, but I know some very prominent people who are and it's very private and subtle. You would never know unless you know. If you are having those kind of encounters and continue to socialize with those people you are either a swinger or on your way to being one. there or on your way there.

  • @johnnyxmusic
    @johnnyxmusic ปีที่แล้ว

    Good stuff that I learned some stuff about the film making process here… Especially the rear projection. Very nice.

  • @evertvanderhik5774
    @evertvanderhik5774 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watched it yesterday for the first time. Quite brilliant I would say

  • @Thathorrorguy12FU
    @Thathorrorguy12FU ปีที่แล้ว

    Just wondering why you skipped over Barry Lyndon and The shining. You went from Space Odyssey and Clockwork to Full Metal Jacket.

  • @nweditor875
    @nweditor875 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    very good suspensful christmas movie really liked this one.

  • @sonofJurell
    @sonofJurell ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wanna see the 20 mins that the studio made Kubrick remove then he died!

    • @DarthVader-1701
      @DarthVader-1701 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That 20 mins allegedly shows human sacrifice.

    • @aisle_of_view
      @aisle_of_view 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Allegedly, there's an unedited copy floating around Latin America.

  • @ArcherSuh4721
    @ArcherSuh4721 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It might not have been a case of R. Lee Ermey being "full of it." He and Kubrick remained friends after Full Metal Jacket and it's possible Kubrick might've been worried about how Eyes Wide Shut was coming together, then confided in Emery about how he was feeling at the time. For all we know, maybe Kubrick had the same concern over all of his movies at one point or another. (Well, except maybe Spartacus. He admits that was a job for a paycheck and it was really Kirk Douglas's production more than it was his.)
    But yeah, like the narrator said, I'm not calling R. Lee Ermey a liar! Lol
    Plus, it ultimately doesn't really matter at this point anyway...

  • @ftuT
    @ftuT ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tightly done. Yet you've omitted the allegedly true story about Cruise pursuing Kubrick for the role, landing on Kubrick's backyard in his helicopter. Even if it's BS, it's worth mentioning.

  • @robertburk5550
    @robertburk5550 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He ran away from the choice of Alec Baldwin once he saw QuickDraw carrying a gun 🤣

  • @ADAMSIXTIES
    @ADAMSIXTIES ปีที่แล้ว

    Filmdates Nov 4, 1996 - Dec 9, 1997 & May 5, 1998 - Jun 3, 1998 Garbage or Masterpiece? I'm rewatching now and leaning toward the latter. Serious or Satire? I lean toward the latter. By the way this was supposed to be set in NYC, but filmed mostly in London. Actually Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman spent so long living in the UK, due to the prolonged shoot, that their 2 children acquired English accents.

  • @mjmellan
    @mjmellan ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Stanley kubrick was killed by WBs cus he wouldn't cut 30mins from the movie that revealed too much about the powers that be, even tom & Nicole knew he was murdered & tom was terrified in those interviews, so in the end WB did remove the 30mins that kubrick wouldnt back down from doing but instead of putting the 30mins they cut in a film vault they burnt it, totally destroyed every copy, what was so dangerous to the establishment that it couldnt be seen by anyone, these party's actually took place, there are photographs of these freemason illuminati sex orgy party's, it's like when WBs killed heath ledger to increase ticket sales for the dark knight plus win an posthumous oscar cus comic book movies dont win oscars, how many more tickets did they sell after heath was murdered but they shot them selves in the foot cus they were only thinking of the short term, if they let him live they would of had a cash cow on their hand for future movies with the real joker, they killed their golden goose, joker was supposed to be in dark knight rises, isnt it funny how heath's last film was a terry gillian movie about a man who sells his soul to the devil thats full of the all seeing eye & pyramids symbolism, gillian who is well known for having his movies shut down halfway through filming, it was a message to let people in the know that it was a murder made to look like death from a spoon of nytol, night nurse, over the counter sleeping syrup.

    • @heathernks8
      @heathernks8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or maybe Heath Ledger died of an overdose because addiction doesn't discriminate. If these "powers that be" were really so powerful, they would have foreseen the backfire and would not have "killed" him.🙄 Maybe dude was just a normal human like the rest of us. Unless you've dealt with addiction, you don't know how powerful drugs can be. It's worse than any imagined Hollywood exec..

  • @runarvollan
    @runarvollan ปีที่แล้ว

    Bill thinks Ziegler calls the Party a charade, when it's the House.

  • @CatholicK5357
    @CatholicK5357 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    For those who think he was murdered for making this film, why would it then be released 4 months later? Would a powerful organization have the power to fake a heart attack but not to stop a movie from being released in theatres?

    • @CatholicK5357
      @CatholicK5357 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@User-kv5bn4dxnThank you for your response. I understand the hypothesis. But it is not convincing to me. An organization powerful enough to murder someone without apparent consequence simply for challenging and exposing the elites would have the power to prevent that movie from being released. The point is, stopping a movie from being released requires less resources and is easier than unjustly killing someone. I think such a group would need a better reason than that.

    • @militaristica
      @militaristica ปีที่แล้ว

      wouldnt it be too obvious

  • @jqowens777
    @jqowens777 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    based on a true story let’s not forget…….

    • @ericseitzler81
      @ericseitzler81 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The problem with "based off a true story" is 90 percent of it is made up b.s.they rarely follow exactly what happened in real life.i doubt their has been one based on a true story movie that is actually accurate.

    • @MOB_JD
      @MOB_JD ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericseitzler81casino is strikingly accurate, more or less

  • @DeidreL9
    @DeidreL9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Reading some of these comments, it seems the problem with films now is that no one watches any film without reading their own favourite conspiracy theories into it.

  • @The00air
    @The00air ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is basically a rip from the Wikipedia article of the film; it barely scratches the surface of the film's deeper meanings, for which many better articles have been written online.

  • @SeeSetJaeMiirTv
    @SeeSetJaeMiirTv ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Illumanti / skull & crossbone the movie

  • @scottbarkley496
    @scottbarkley496 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What happened to EYES WIDE SHUT ?
    Ummm .. it's a FUCKING MASTERPIECE !!

  • @stevemcnary7963
    @stevemcnary7963 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While I liked Eyes Wide Shut its not better than Dr. Strangelove which is his best film. I also would rank A Clockwork Orange over it.

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance ปีที่แล้ว

    you've given us, "behind the scenes", politics and gossip and not much more... gee tanks

  • @triniborn76
    @triniborn76 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the most confusing movie I've ever seen!

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is a site called fan edit where people edit out big chunks of EWS. All the women with their problems get cut, except the teen ager in her undies.