![]() It's amazing that a film this long and drawn out would actually leave so much unsaid and unclear. ![]() Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10 I know this makes me a heretic, but this film should have had at least half an hour trimmed. He manages to extricate himself, but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. ![]() All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale-now a musician-who tells him of strange sex parties where he is required to play the piano blindfolded. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. Head over to Vulture to read the “Eyes Wide Shut” oral history in its entirety. Me and Tom were among the last people he ever filmed.” “When all the other girls left, I was in this amazing position of being able to work with two incredible artists,” Good said, “I was on the set with Tom and Stanley, finding things on our own. The actress said she has no hard feelings against Stanley and cherishes her time making “Eyes Wide Shut,” especially because it was the last film Kubrick got to make before his death. Good told Vulture she wondered during the filming of the orgy scene whether or not her voice would be dubbed in the editing room because she didn’t have an American accent. The actress was coming off a breakout performance in 1997’s “Oscar and Lucinda” and then a star-making leading role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur’s 1998 royal drama “Elizabeth.” The film earned Blanchett her first Oscar nomination. She was in England at the time, so she came into Pinewood and recorded the lines.”Ĭate Blanchett: 'TÁR' Shows How 'Legacy Will Be the Death of Your Artistry'Ĭate Blanchett Says 'TÁR' Isn't a #MeToo Movie: 'This Film Isn't About Women, It's About Humans'Īustin Butler and Bill Nighy Hope to Land Their First Oscar Nodsīest Movies Never Made: 40 Lost Projects from Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and Moreīlanchett was a rising star during the “Eyes Wide Shut” post-production phase. It was actually Tom and Nicole who came up with the idea of Cate. After he’d died, I was looking for someone. Stanley had talked about finding this voice and this quality that we needed. “We wanted something warm and sensual but that at the same time could be a part of a ritual. “It was Cate Blanchett!” Vitali said of the voice. One of the biggest revelations in the oral history comes from Leon Vitali, Kubrick’s assistant who gained fame in front of the camera as Lord Bullingdon in “Barry Lyndon.” According to Vitali, Cate Blanchett had a never-revealed cameo in the famous orgy scene as the voice of the mysterious masked woman, played on set by Abigail Good. Vulture critic and writer Bilge Ebiri has published an oral history on the sequence in which assistant director Brian Cook, choreographer Yolande Snaith, composer Jocelyn Pook, and more weigh in on its months-long making. “ Eyes Wide Shut” is one of Stanley Kubrick’s most divisive movies, but it does contain one of his most iconic sequences: The orgy scene.
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