Kubrick reportedly sowed disharmony between real-life couple Cruise and Kidman on set, marrying art and life: after intimate therapy sessions whose contents were never to be disclosed, Kubrick forbade Cruise from visiting set while Kidman was shooting her erotic scenes with the Naval Officer in her character’s fantasies.ħ. Exteriors in New York were shot and rear projected behind Cruise for several walking scenes by second unit cinematographers such as Malik Sayeed (“He Got Game”).Ħ. Despite the film’s New York setting, Kubrick shot almost the entire film in London at Pinewood Studios, where he recreated Greenwich Village. Eva Herzigova was offered the role of Domino that eventually went to Vinessa Shaw, but turned it down because it required too much nudity (though there’s none featuring the character in the final film).ĥ. Although shooting began with them in the roles, both had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts and they were later replaced by Sydney Pollack and Marie Richardson. Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Victor Ziegler and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Marion, the daughter of Bill’s patient. Meanwhile, Bill and Alice were given the last name “Harford” as a reference to Kubrick’s onetime desire to find a leading man like Harrison Ford for the film.Ĥ. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman won their roles after visiting the Kubrick estate during the shooting of Kidman’s film “Portrait of a Lady” in England. Kubrick briefly considered Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger for Bill and Alice Harford as well.ģ. In the 1980s, he re-conceived a version of the story as a melancholy sex comedy starring Steve Martin.
In the 1970s, he reportedly imagined it with Woody Allen in the lead role.
Stanley Kubrick first acquired the source material, Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle in 1968 after completing 2001: A Space Odyssey.Ģ. To commemorate the 20 th anniversary of the film’s release, Moviefone looks back at the legend that has grown around its epic production for a few of the lesser-known details about its making, its meaning, and the man who remains one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.ġ. Bill Harford ( Tom Cruise), his wide Alice ( Nicole Kidman) and his nightmarish odyssey through a sexually-charged community of privilege and secrecy, Kubrick’s adaptation of the 1926 novel by Arthur Schnitzler touches on some important and uncomfortable truths about marriage, intimacy, gender roles and desire that prompt new interpretations with every viewing. Stanley Kubrick’s final film “ Eyes Wide Shut” went misjudged and misunderstood by many during its initial release, but 20 years later, it feels like the perfect kind of cryptic grace note to a career that always kept audiences guessing.
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