by Sweejak » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:33 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The region 3 release (Hong Kong) is uncut and contains the recitation of a passage from the Bhagavad Gita during the orgy scene. It is rumored that this is the closest the film comes to being unaltered after Kubrick's last edit and is the most true to his "vision"<br><br>... the verses, "paritranaya sadhunam, vinasaya ca duskritam, dharma-samstapanarthaya, sambhavami yuge yuge", are heard on the soundtrack (track 9), but not any DVD or video releases.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/alternateversions">www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...teversions</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>edit.. adding a little more;<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Trivia about Eyes Wide Shut:<br>Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh originally played Victor Ziegler and Marion Nathanson. After Keitel and Leigh had shot some scenes, Keitel was dismissed from the production. His scenes needed to be reshot, but Leigh was not available to reshoot them (due to a scheduling conflict with eXistenZ (1999)). Consequently, Sydney Pollack and Marie Richardson were brought in to play the respective roles.<br>Hart, Melissa Joan auditioned for a role in this movie.<br>According to writer Frederic Raphael, the final form of Bill's family name (Harford, as opposed to Scheuer in the original story) was inspired by a debate about Bill's character. Raphael felt Bill should be Jewish as in the original, but Kubrick insisted Bill and Alice be "vanilla" Americans, without any details that would arouse any presumptions. Kubrick said that Bill should be a bit like Harrison Ford (I) - hence the name Harford.<br>In order for the film to be given an R rating in America, some scenes contain computer-generated people in the foreground obscuring some of the more explicit sexual action.<br>When Bill Harford returns to Soho, a sign painted on the side of a building prominently features the name BOWMAN. David Bowman is a character in director Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (196<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br>One of the patients who Cruise, Tom cancels is called Kaminsky, the name of one of the hibernating crew that HAL kills in 2001: A Space Odyssey (196<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br>The mask that Bill Harford wears with his costume is modeled from the face of 'Ryan ONeal, a reference to Barry Lyndon (1975).<br>The password "fidelio" (from the Latin root "fidelis" meaning "faithful"<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> refers to Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio". In the opera, Fidelio is a woman who disguises herself as a man to save her lover.<br>In the film, Field, Todd plays a character who dropped out of medical school ten years earlier. Ten years before this film was released, Todd Field played a character who dropped out of medical school in Gross Anatomy (1989).<br>This film contains clever in-joke references to almost all of Stanley Kubrick's films, including his first feature Fear and Desire (1953). At one point we see a scene from Blume in Love (1973) on a TV set. "Blume" was directed by Paul Mazursky, who made his acting debut in "Fear and Desire".<br>A real estate agent's sign that appears briefly in shot at the end of a street carries the name Vitali. The newspaper article that Bill reads announcing the death of Mandy mentions that she was a model and that she had been involved with a designer named Leon Vitali. Leon Vitali is one of Kubrick's longest-serving colleagues and also plays Red Cloak in "Eyes Wide Shut".<br>Director Kubrick, Stanley died just four days after presenting Warner Bros. with what was reported to be a final cut of the film, after a legendary long shoot.<br>A VHS copy of the movie Rain Man (198<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> is seen in Alice and Bill's bedroom on top of their entertainment stand during their marijuana-enhanced argument.<br>Numerous recurring shots of Christmas trees with colored lights (in almost every room/apartment) and wedding rings.<br>The tremendous hype around the release of this film resulted in several rumors about the plot. The most widely circulated was the mistaken rumor that in the film, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman played married psychiatrists having affairs with their patients.<br>The headline of the New York Post that Bill Harford buys when the bald man is stalking him reads: LUCKY TO BE ALIVE.<br>When Bill enters his apartment for the last time (right before he discovers the mask on his pillow) we can see a stack of Kubrick, Stanley videos from on the long table under the painting. The one on the top is Full Metal Jacket (1987).<br>The letters and the newspaper read by Tom Cruise are written in Italian for the Italian version of this movie. Apparently, Stanley Kubrick shot those scenes with papers written in different languages, as he did for Shining, The (1980).<br>Stanley Kubrick had three assistants for "Eyes Wide Shut". Their credits are "Assistant to the Director" (Leon Vitali), "Assistant to Stanley Kubrick" (Anthony Frewin) and "Assistant to Mr. Kubrick" ('Emilio DAlessandro).<br>Reportedly, the DVD version sold in Europe is completely uncensored: gone are the computer-generated people in the foreground obscuring some of the more explicit sexual action.<br>Dumont, Sky dubbed his part himself in the German release.<br>Rade Serbedzija dubbed himself in the Italian release.<br>Director's Trademark (Stanley Kubrick):[114] The room in the morgue visited by Bill is in wing C, room 114 (C-Rm114, or CRM-114). CRM-114 was the name of the decoding machine in Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), as well as the number printed on the medicine that Alex is given in Clockwork Orange, A (1971).<br>The music during the ceremony at the masked ball is a fragment of an Orthodox mass played backwards; the priest is singing in Romanian.<br>The film was "pushed" two stops in processing, thus enabling Stanley Kubrick to film using existing source lighting (table lamps, overhead lights, etc.) whenever possible. The light level remained low even when lighting had to be supplemented with Lowell or Chinese paper ball lamps as fill or key lights.<br>Entered into The Guinness Book of World Records as "The Longest Constant Movie Shoot".<br>Though often referred to as Kubrick's "unfinished masterpiece", the final edit of the film was actually presented to Warner Brothers (by Kubrick) a full four days before his death.<br>Filming on this movie lasted 400 days.<br>The 13 and-a-half minute billiard room scene between Tom Cruise and Sydney Pollack took about three weeks of filming. The greeting scene at the party early in the picture took only two hours.<br>Early on in production, Kubrick, a huge Woody Allen fan, considered casting him in the Victor Ziegler role eventually given to Sydney Pollack. While he also considered casting Steve Martin (I) in the role of Dr William Hartford, eventually given to Tom Cruise.<br>Stanley Kubrick's first film to open at #1 at the US box office.<br>The Harford's apartment is based on a New York apartment where the Kubrick family lived during the early 1960s.<br>This movie spent almost a year in post-production.<br>Variety reported that Stanley Kubrick himself selected the movie's release date after analyzing scores of box-office data provided to him Warner Bros.<br>Stanley Kubrick and the director of photography Larry Smith (VIII) tested out different film stocks and finally settled on one that had been discontinued by Kodak. As a courtesy, Kodak offered to supply as many rolls of this film as would be needed for the project.<br>Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts. They agreed to work on this project until Stanley Kubrick released them from it, however long that turned out to be.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005ATQD/102-5978246-4864938?v=glance&vi=quotes-trivia&n=130">www.amazon.com/gp/product...&n=130</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sweejak@rigorousintuition>Sweejak</A> at: 12/3/05 7:47 pm<br></i>