10 Things You Didnt Know About EyesWideShut

[Mrmoviefan]

According to IMDb, when he heard Tom and Nicole were going to England to do this movie, Vincent D'Onofrio, having worked with Stanley on Full Metal Jacket, gave them this advice: "Rent a house or apartment, because you're going to be in England for a while". If that's true, good advice Vincent.

[EriqOrtiz]

It's one of the few movies that didn't try to hide how short Tom Cruise is.

[DrewberTravels]

2:00 I rented eyes wide shut from blockbuster just because it had Tom cruise in it. I rode my bike home and somehow my mom saw the movie I rented. She made me return it back to the store. 😂

[matthewalexanderlemma]

Kubrick dying when he did is so not a coincidence. Once he was dead, the studio had the power to remove scenes they didn’t want in the film. Many speculate a subplot having to do with the couple selling their daughter to the occult was removed.

[MrJayrock]

Could you imagine if Kubrick filmed Groundhog Day? He’d probably film Bill Murray slowly loosing his mind as he repeats the same takes over and over until he becomes delusional and delirious then splice them all together in sequence till all the takes combined show him becoming a raging lunatic

[chriswills]

The most unsettling movie to exist. Because you just know this shits real

[masonfreeman]

The exterior of the mansion in eyes wide shut is also used as Wayne manor in Batman begins. Rade Šerbedžija who plays the under the rainbow dress shop also stared in Batman begins, he played the homeless guy who exchanged cotes with Bruce Wayne.

[lauralarrabee]

The movie makes me nostalgic for Christmas time. First time I saw it I couldn’t understand what I was looking at. I was into the whole adventure aspect. Later I saw it with someone who was able to break it down for me. Informed me that these people are everywhere in all sectors of society.

[wstine]

I had a crush on Vinessa Shaw (who was the escort in the red dress next to Tom Cruise). She was great in Ladybugs.

[panthertrain]

It’s funny. Watching this when it came out I was 16 and at the time I thought it was ok but not as good as clockwork or the shining, after re watching it at age 39 and being married with kids as an adult, I find it to be a masterpiece and right up there with all the other Kubrick films.

[alexandermikhailov]

Stanley Kubrick was a unique director: he made a movie in each genre and each movie set a new high for a genre.

[Vaporvice]

I REALLY hope someday you do a "10 MORE thing you didn't know about..." for this movie. There's SO MUCH MORE to unravel about this film regarding its deeper meanings. Granted, there's plenty of other YT channels that do it already (and usually have conflicting viewpoints regarding lots of symbolism) but you always put a cheerful positive spin on things.

[sidharthchand]

They should’ve done an NC-17 version for DVD

[andyscott]

I always liked that the NY streets felt a bit off, adds to the surreal “dream” aspect of the film.

[indepthliterature]

This was hilarious man. Your impression of the creepy music was spot on

[jencheevers]

IMO it’s one of Cruise’s best performances because he’s put out of his comfort zone by Kubrick and he’s probably used to having more control on movie sets .

[aidanhever]

It's also the main inspiration for the Court of Owls from the Batman mythos.

[stinkleaf]

Research the eyes wide shut ritual in Belgium. the Historical reality is far more Disturbing than Kubricks depiction.

[rottensquid]

I think R. Lee Ermey's story actually sounds perfectly plausible, but so dues Todd Field's report. Stanley may have been doing take after take out of perfectionism, or perhaps a desire to capture the deeply lived-in performance of a stage actor who's done the same play literally hundreds of times. Or, it could be the symptom of a growing obsessive compulsive disorder. Similarly, Stanley's celebrating his triumph to one friend, and lamenting the film's failure to another, sounds like the peaks and valleys of depression. Who knows?

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what Stanley felt about the end product, only what we think about it as the audience. If there's a hypothetical version of the film that Stanley would have preferred to make, we will never know for sure, let alone see it. So contemplating it can only detract from the experience of the existing film. Eyes Wide Shut may not be my favorite Stanley Kubrick film, but it has plenty of virtues to recommend. It doesn't actually need to be better than it is.

I think too many critics play the role of backseat director, commenting on how they'd have made something different rather than experiencing the film in front of them for what it is. And audiences all too often pick up this bad habit. It deprives us of the appreciation of the work in front of is, trapping us in the frustrated grandiosity of the notion that we could have somehow done it better. Notice how many films get panned in their initial release for not being what audiences expect, only to be rediscovered years later and finally appreciated for being ahead of the curve. I think Eyes Wide Shut was destined to be this kind of film, simply by being too complex and subtle to be truly understood on its first viewing. Most of the best films are like this. If we confine ourselves to defining films purely through our first hot take, we deprive ourselves of films that need multiple viewings to be completely understood. And to my mind, those are the best films.

[adamhawn]

Kubrick makes weird films.

David Lynch: hold my beer.