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I want you to raise your hand if you are jealous type. Right. [Music] [Music] Merry Christmas, you dumbass [ __ ] You know, I strongly considered getting the actual mask that Tom Cruz wore. And not I mean not the actual mask, but there are Etsy artists and people alike who make replicas from this film.
The same thing for the priest or the the the black featherwoman. And I'm not going to lie, I'm not going to hold you. You know, I I almost dropped it. I almost dropped a few hundred on one of these masks. But the thing is, my mouth would be covered and I didn't want to go through the whole mic situation. Like in my older videos, I would hold the mic in my hand. I don't do that anymore.
I have it rigged up above me. And what they did when they made the film, they had a earpiece. They had a a lav mic on underneath their mask so they could capture the dialogue, of course. But yeah, beautiful, beautiful replicas. I Oh my god. Like I honestly I might get one just to have in my room. I don't know. I'm still debating on it.
But for the time being, you know, this this this what we got. is what we rocking with. I'mma pop out at the orgy. I'm at the party and this mask. Eyes wide shut is a 1999 erotic psychological drama directed and produced by the late Stanley Kubri. He also co-wrote the screenplay along Frederick Raphael.
The story is inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's book Tromnavville. The film stars Tom Cruz and Nicole Kidman who famously at the time were one of Hollywood's hottest couples. Honestly, so proud of my girl from getting away from that man. Hey, look. If you know, you know, whenever I think about them as a couple, all I can think about is those paparazzi pics that they took of Nicole Kidman when she had left the I think she was like leaving the divorce attorney's office and like it was finalized. I'm sorry.
This This is what freedom looks like. Okay, this Oh god, that's another problem we going to have. You know, I laugh like 50,000 times in my videos if you're new here. And this mask is going to be sliding around my face. I do not remember the first time that I watched this film. Like I tr I truly could not tell. But what I could tell you was how it made me feel, right? And how did it make me feel violated? No, I'm kidding.
But it was it was like this this odd sense of uh this this state maybe I should say of like being transfixed. I'm quite vocal about my adoration for 2 am films, which is a little subgenre that lives in my head and which can best be described as those surrealistic pictures you come across late at night where there's just something uh off.
We follow a successful doctor who, after his wife confesses to contemplating on cheating on him, goes out into the night on a strange journey of trying to prove something to himself, embarking on a night-long odyssey through New York City, trying to confront desires, jealousy, and also stumbling across some sort of secret society.
And you know what? I'm not going to even front and act like another big massive reason that I love this film is the the mystique and like the theories that surround this film. I mean, damn, it's been what 25 years since this film was released. And, you know, just like many other of uh Stanley Kubri's films, we are still dissecting this.
Tom Cruz and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts agreeing to work on this project until Kubri released them from it. no matter how long that turned out to be. Filming started in November of 1996 and re-shoots were still being carried out into 1998. Are you serious to me right now? A world record of filming for more than 400 days.
But you know, this was Stanley's swan song to say, you know, he presented this film, the final cut to Warner Bros. and then 4 days later he died. cast, crew, friends, family, like everybody around him said that, you know, there was nothing wrong with him. They didn't they didn't see anything wrong with him.
And with all the theories and like symbolism that this man is known for and especially the theories that go into this film, like I I I I just like I No, I'm sorry. I want answers. I want answers. I want answers. There's a big theory that after Kubrick passed away, the studio cut the [ __ ] up and took out 40 minutes all having to do with the occult scene in the middle of the film.
And that's one of the biggest rumors. I just I I don't me don't like this. Me do not like this cuz what you mean? What you mean he died 4 days after showing the studio before the film came out? Yeah, let's let's Yeah, let's get into this. Let's get Let's get into this. So, go grab a mask and a cloak. Make sure it's Immine and meet me outside by the limo because tonight I'm taking you uh where the rainbow ends.
[Music] The film opens right on Nicole Kidman getting undressed. We're just, you know, setting the tone from the jump, aren't we? And we're going to have to get used to seeing her body. I mean, obviously, you can't see. This is YouTube, youknow. I got to I got to sprinkle it out. >> Nicole, nice to see you.
Welcome to London. >> Thank you. >> Wearing your clothes for a change as well. >> Funny enough, Stanley had watched films like Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Show Girls, which I've done a video on. Check it out. Check it out. during the editing phase of the film to see how explicit he could be with the R rating that Warner Bros. was forcing upon him.
Our protagonist is a doctor William Harford, but we'll know him as Bill. He's suited up and ready to go to an event and his wife Alice is on the toilet pissing, then washes her hands for 6 seconds. You dirty [ __ ] They also have a daughter named Helena. We meet a man named Victor Ziggler and his wife when they arrive to this party.
And I have to say this entire setup is beautiful. All the dangling lights on the wall along the staircase. It's quite exquisite if I say so myself. Ziggler throws these annual Christmas parties and you know, Bill and Alice don't know a single soul there. Over by the piano, we see Nick Nightingale, a guy Bill went to med school with who later dropped out.
One of the band members tells the crowd that they're going to take a 10-minute break. So, Bill tells Alice that they should say hi. But Mama's got to take another piss. Go piss, girl. You know, even though she took one before they left, like, uh, what were you drinking, Alice? Or do you have a UTI? What have you been doing? They agree on meeting at the bar, and Alice cuts a corner, chugging a glass of champagne.
The boys have a warm welcome after 10 years and grab a drink, but a man quickly comes and collects Nick. So Nick tells Bill if he doesn't catch him later. He's going to be in the village for 2 weeks at a place called the Sonata Cafe. Kamala. Alice is by the bar waiting having yet another drink. Godamn.
And there's a man next to her staring right through her soul. I don't know how she did not feel that. I always know when somebody is looking at me. She sets her drink down and the guy grabs it. So she's like, "Uh, Poppy, I I think I think that's that's my glass." >> Oh, I'm absolutely certain of it. >> I'm so soft.
Like was that was that supposed to be smooth or something? This is a Hungarian man named Sander Savast. He starts asking Alice if she's ever read the Latin poet OID on the art of love, asking if she's here with anybody. And boozy mommy's like, >> "Uh, well, yes, >> how sad," he says. But Sander assured this husband's the sort of man who wouldn't mind if they danced.
Why the hell did I say it like that? Anyway, they start dancing together. Sander starts asking uh Alice a bunch of questions and we start learning things about her like uh she's currently unemployed and she used to manage this art gallery in Soho, but it went broke. Sander says that he has friends in the art game and perhaps he can be of some help, right? But at what cost? Alice turns her head seeing Bill chatting up two young models and Sander asks if she thinks one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for
both parties. And she laughs in his face, you know, as would I. Like, I'm sitting here, champagne running through my veins, and you sitting up in here throwing philosophers and quotes in my, you know, your pretentious ass. You're not slick. We see what you're trying to do. Sand is like, "May I ask why a beautiful woman who could have any man in this room wants to be married? >> Why wouldn't she?" >> Over by Bill, these girls are quite tipsy.
And the one in silver tries refreshing Bill's memory when she was doing a photo session in Rockefeller and had something in her eye. And how Bill was such a sweetie pie, giving her his handkerchief, which was also clean, mind you. Sander asks Alice if she knows why women used to get married. >> Why don't you tell me, >> right? Cuz you just you just you just trying to slide in this gingerbread kitty like.
Sander says it was the only way women could lose their virginity and be free to do what they wanted with other men. You know, the ones they really want. Both of these girls are on Bill's arms talking him up about what's so nice about doctors. And do you know what that is? That they're I can't even get it. It's so stupid. I can't get it out.
It's that they're so knowledgeable. >> Airheads. She says they work too hard. You know, just just think of all the things that they miss. Bill is cheesing hard as hell. look at him ask him where these ladies are taking him. >> Where the rainbow ends? Don't you want to go where the rainbow ends? >> That's when the same man from earlier asks Bill to come with him because Mr.
Ziggler needs him. And Bill says to be continued. Oh my god, look at these stairs. I just wow. I mean, electric bill. I'm scared to look at it, but imagine the pictures. Ziggler's in this huge bathroom with a girl that's passed out on a chair. Oh my god. What did this pig do? This girl is Mandy. She was shooting up heroin and Coca-Cola and hada bad reaction.
Bill manages to get her to come back to conscious. Meanwhile, Sanders telling Alice how much he loves Victor's art collection and more importantly his sculpture gallery. We know where this is going. He he asks her if she would like to see it. >> Maybe not just now. >> Girl, what the hell does that mean? Mandy now has a blanket on, fully aware of her surroundings, and Bill tells her that she's a lucky chica and she can't keep doing this, advising that she go to rehab.
Ziggler thanks Bill for saving his ass and tells him that this is just between us manly men. Girl, when the music changes, Alice admits that she's had a little too much champagne, you know, a and she should go find her hubby. But Sander grabs her, pulling her back three times, mind you, saying he must see her again. She's like, "That's impossible, Spongebob, cuz I'm married.
" Then she kisses her finger, pressing it on his lips. Later that night, there's a moment where the married couple make out in front of the mirror in their bedroom, but little Alice's mind is elsewhere. Uh-oh. The next day, we see a montage of both Bill and Alice's life. Bill's day is seeing patients of various ages.
One is a woman who's topless. Alice has mommy stuff going on at home. We end up seeing her naked body for the thirding time in the film. And you know, Nicole has a beautiful body. I just I don't like pointless nudity. By the way, this is another thing, too. You see, you see how I said this is the third time.
We're only 20 minutes into the movie. I should let it go, though, because, you know, honestly, Stanley was very respectful with Nicole about the nudity. He basically like let her know how much he wanted to show and he asked her if it was okay. She had the power to say, "I don't want that much in there or this much." So, props to her.
Props to props to both of them. Oh, shoot. And that's another thing, you know, I said that we're we're 20 minutes into the film and um guess how long this film is in total. This movie is around 2 hours and 40 minutes. That night, Alice goes in the bathroom medicine cabinet and grabs some boooo bandages where inside she's got some hidden Mary J. BLAH.
And she rolls up with Billy Boy. So, uh, let the let the confessions begin. Q Usher after hitting the J. She's like, "Tell me something. Those two girls at the party last night, did you you did you by any chance happen to [ __ ] them?" Bill, of course, is like, "Mommy, what what is you talking about? They're just some models.
" So, Alice asks where he disappeared. Bill starts kissing all over her, saying that he went to go help Ziggler. But anyway, who who was that euro that you were dancing with on the floor? And this makes her cackle. Yeah, you you ought to laugh. When Bill asks what did he want, Alice says that he wanted the stuff the the kitty, the gingerbread house, the the red velvet cake.
>> I guess that's understandable. >> Understandable. >> Oh [ __ ] Here we go. Now, Bill says that it's because Alice is a beautiful woman. So, she's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, hold on." getting off the bed asking, "So, because I'm a beautiful woman, the only reason any man ever wants to talk to me is cuz he wants to [ __ ] me.
Is that what you're saying?" Uh, you know, she she's got a point, but also you might be overthinking. Like, you know, put the joint down. Calm down. It's not that deep. Bill says, "It's not that black and white, but I think we both know what men are like." So, Alice says, "Okay, on a basis, then I should conclude that you wanted to those two models, right? There are exceptions.
>> See, see, now I'm on Alice's side because No, no, no, no. What is What? What? What is you talking about? When she asks what makes him an exception, he says it's because he's in love with her and because they're married and he would never lie to Alice or her. >> That is not correct. >> Alice is not having it.
She's like, "You're telling me the only reason you wouldn't those two models is out of consideration for me, not because you really wouldn't want to." Bill tells her to calm down cuz the pot is making her aggressive. And she's like, "No, [ __ ] the pot. It's you, you [ __ ] muppet. Why can't you ever give me a straighting answer?" She pulls an example out, such as some gorgeous woman in Bill's office, right? You know, he's he's feeling her tits and Alice wants to know what he's really thinking about when squeezing them. So, let let's let's hear it. Let
le let's hear it. Bill says that I'm a doctor, Alice, and it's all impersonal. There's always a nurse present. You know that. But more than that, this is a female patient and I'm sure that sex is the last thing on her mind because women simply don't think like that. And she got his ass.
She's like, "Million years of evolution." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Men men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women, it's all about security and commitment and whatever the [ __ ] else. If you men only knew.>> Billy boy raises his voice saying, "I'll tell you what I know. You smoked a little Mary J.
Blah, and now you getting froggy and trying to pick a fight and make me jealous." Bill claims that he's not a jealous person. So Alice is like, "Okay, you know, like why why have you never been jealous about me?" And you know, I'm I'm sorry. I just I I just have to laugh. You know what Bill says? He says, "I don't know.
Maybe it's because you are my wife. Maybe it's because you're the mother of my child and I know that you would never be unfaithful to me. >> You are very, very sure of yourself, aren't you? >> No, I'm sure of you. [Laughter] >> Alice literally starts busting out laughing at this. And after she's done having her fit, she asks Bill if he remembers the previous summer that they spent at Cape Cod.
One night in the dining room, there was a young naval officer sitting near their table and the waiter brought this man a message at which point he left. And none of this is ringing a bell to Bill. Alice says she first saw him that morning in the lobby checking into the hotel following the boy bell with his luggage to the elevator.
Now, this officer just glanced at Alice as he walked past. Just a glance, nothing more. But I could hardly move. >> Oh my god, this monologue, this scene actually is so good. That afternoon, Helena went to the movies with her friend and both Alice and Bill made love. They made plans about their future and talked about Helena.
And yet, at no point was he ever out of Alice's mind. And I thought if he wanted me, even if it was only for one night, I was ready to give up everything. >> She said, you know, she said, "I was willing to give up my entire [ __ ] future." She was willing to give up Bill. She was willing to give up Helena, >> everything.
And yet it was weird because at the same time, Bill was dearer to Alice than ever. And at that moment, her love for Bill was both tender and sad. Damn. Alice barely slept that night and she woke up in a panic because she didn't know whether she was afraid that the soldier had left or that he might still be there. But by dinner, she realized that he was gone.
>> And I was relieved. I mean, how do you even react to your spouse saying this to you? In preparation for this real life couple, Stanley joined psychoanalysis sessions with Tom and Nicole, where both of them confess their fears about relations and their real life marriage. Nicole said it was so real that it blurred the line between them and their characters.
They both took a vow until this day, neither of them have openly stated what they discussed in these sessions. The phone rings about five times till Bill answers and is told about a man named Lou Nathansson dying. So, he's got to go over there and show his face [Music] through his cab right there. All he thinks about is seeing a visual of that naval officer all over Alice.
We meet Marian Lou's daughter. Now, while Lou is laying in the bed, you know, dead, Marion tells Bill all about the day and how she discovered him. Her stepmother is in London, and her fiance, who she's marrying in May, is named Carl and he's on the way. I'll just get this out the way.
Uh, she has a crush on Bill, and the performance is honestly so subtle in the pacing of how we get there and start to realize like how she feels about him. It's it's so well done. She tells Bill that Carl's a professor. He got a job out in Michigan. And Billy Boy says that that's fantastic. He's like, "Mission Michigan is a great place.
" And this girl just you starts sobbing. And then she >> I love you. >> Oh boy. Wow. And what what makes this crazier is as I said this this like brilliant nuance to her performance and how it's like that we as the audience like you know be like second by second we slowly start to realize that she has feelings for this man and then she kisses him and not only are you starting to understand the themes that this film is playing around with marriage and infidelity but she kisses him like five times and Bill does not pull back at
all. Oh, Marian says she doesn't want to be with Carl. And even if she was never to see Bill again, she wants to at least live near him. And he's like, "Uh, baby doll, you know, you're just upset. You're grieving." But Marian's like, "No, daddy. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you." Bill is like, "Girl, we barely know each other, right? You know, I don't I don't even think we've had a single conversation outside of your father.
" She says, "I love you for the 10th time." Just as the doorbell rings and it's Carl who comes in and oh my god, Marian like hesitates kissing him. It's so uncomfortable. Anyway, Bill gives his final condolences and goes for a walk. Stanley Kubri has a major fear of flying. Therefore, this entire film was shot in and near London.
They had these elaborate street sets built at Pinewood Studios to mimic New York City and capture Tom walking about. It's done incredibly well because I, you know, Ihad no idea. There are even shots in here of him walking in front of a projector. Like, what the hell? Billy boy walks the New York City streets, passing a couple, making out outside his shop, getting more flashbacks to Alice and the naval officer.
Get used to that as well. >> Then he turns the corner approaching a group of young 20some guys, and we can hear a dude yapping about some girl with a red rose in her mouth doing a Mexican lap dance. What are you What the hell are you even talking? Get a job. And out of nowhere, one of them says to Bill, "What team is this switch hitter playing for?" I always forget about that.
I'm sorry. I love that word, switch hititterter. Like, that is crazy. Bill deliberately moves out the way as these guys call him a shoulder checking him against a car. It's so over the top, you know, like they're slapping their butts and like what are you what are you doing doing all this in a Yale varsity jacket? Be for real.
This scene always confuses me because I'm like, what? This dude is dressed Well, okay, that's a bad example. I was about to say, this dude is dressed like Patrick Baitman, >> right? Right. >> But no, he he looks like Patrick Baitman, you know, just just cleancut Wall Street dude. Um, he's a doctor, but you know what I mean.
Rich guy, trench coat. Like, there's nothing, you know, queer about him. So, why the hell are they throwing out the slur and like hate crimeing him? I don't know. But I I do have I have a theory about this actually. But we we going we going to talk about that later. Bill is about to cross the road after traveling a few blocks and we see a girl in a fur coat.
This is Domino. You know, like the pizza. >> How'd you like to have a little fun? >> Uh-oh. She says she lives only a few feet from where they stand now. And her roommate is gone, so no, no one will bother them. And guess what? He goes inside with her. Underneath her coat, she's got a purple ensemble going on with this hair.
She's giving me Daphne realness. Bill asks if they should talk about money and she says that depends on what he wants to do. Bill asks her what does she recommend and she's like, "Um, I'd rather not put it into words." You freak monster. >> How does 150 sound? >> Sounds wonderful. >> Back in 1999, this was about $300. Alice is back home eating cookies and milk, having a cigarette, watching an Italian film.
Meanwhile, Bill and Domino are slow kissing, deep staring into each other's eyes. But right before they get down to business, Bill's phone rings and he cuts off the sexy time music. It's Alice on the other end and she's like, you know, um, hey, I'm your wife, so when when you going to bring your white ass home? This joker is whispering that it's a little difficult to talk right now and it could be a while.
So Ally says she's going to bed. He technically didn't have to, but Bill thinks that it's best for him to leave. And although they didn't bang for bucks, he still gives Domino $150. I'm also going to point out that she initially rejects, like, you know, we ain't do nothing, so you ain't got to.
But he gives it to her and he says, "No, I want to." While on the way home, Bill passes the Sonata Cafe and sees Nick's picture on the outside. So, of course, he's got to go in and see what's popping. This jazz club is such a vibe. It's still on my bucket list to hit up New York late at night. Find a nice like low-key underground jazz club.
Get a nice suit, a hat. I just I I need to live I need to live the fantasy. So, if anybody is in New York, you know, give give your man some recommendations. Help a brother out. Bill has a seat at a table right when the set ends and Nick gets on the mic to spit introducing the band with a little tune and he tells the crowd that they're going to be here for the next two weeks. So, do stop by.
Nick orders a vodka tonic after sitting down with Bill and the fellas update one another on their lives. Billy's been married for 9 years, 7-year-old daughter. Nick has a wife and four boys in Seattle. And so, now you think, you know, what the hell is he doing all the way out here across the country? Well, uh, as as as Nikki, little Nikki says, you got to go where the work is.
This jazz band is just a pickup band for him. Nick says that he plays with anybody anywhere and he's actually got a gig tonight, but these people only ever get started around 2:00 a.m. cuz it's in a different place every time and he only gets it about an hour before the event. >> What's the big mystery? >> Hey man, I just played the piano.
>> Bill is confusion as we all are and Nick confesses that he plays blindfolded. Bill thinks he's joking, but Nick says that last time, my friend, you know, the the the blindfold wasn't on so well. And oh man, Bill, I have seen one or two things in my life, but never anything like this. And never such women.
He went to a freak off. I I know it. I I just can't prove it yet. Nick Sy goes ping ping and he starts writing on a napkinas Bill puts his hand on the other end to steady it. And we see the word fellatio. A ain't that a uh ain't that a Harry Potter spell? Fidelio is actually the title of Ludwick Van Beethoven's opera, his only one, as a matter of fact.
And it's about a woman who disguises herself as a man to save her lover. And specifically with the word fidelio, it has Latin roots, fidelis, which means I'll tell you later. Bill raises the napkin asking, "What the hell is this?" And Nick says, "Well, Poppy, it's a Beethoven opera. Cut the [ __ ] It's actually a password.
And when Nick tries to leave, Bill says that there's no way on earth he's leaving tonight without taking him with him. But this is a very, very, very private freaky event. William, are you up for that? I mean, Bill's already got the password, so just slide your boy the address and he'll go there by himself.
And boom, there won't be any connection between them in case Nick gets in trouble. Nikki tells this creep he couldn't get in anyway with his clothes cuz everyone is always costumed and masked asking where is he going to get a costume at this hour of the morning. You must have forgotten you talking to a wealthy white man in New York City. He knows everybody. Okay.
Bill hops out a cab to a place called Rainbow Fashions buzzing the man on the intercom for help. Now he's looking for a man named Peter Grinning who's the owner of Rainbow Fashions and this is one of his patients. But too bad for Billy because Pia moved to Chicago a year ago. Mr. Millage is now the shop owner and Bill persuades him to let him rent tonight because he offers $200 extra dollars over the rental price.
Bill requests a tux, a cloak with a hood, and a mask. He's guided all the way to the back room and at one point we hear a noise where in another room there's a couch with clothes thrown around and there's Chinese food. Then we hear a giggle and discover an Asian man hiding behind a rack of clothes with makeup and a wig on.
What the [ __ ] what is going on? He starts saying he can explain and then a girl stands up behind the couch and this is Mr. Milich's daughter who is not given a name and then another man stands up. I what? And okay, I want prepare prepare yourself. Okay, if you do not know, prepare yourself. This girl in the film is a minor.
And in real life, um the actress who's, you know, standing here in a bra and panties, SHE'S 14 YEARS OLD. >> OH. OH, E YOU. >> WHAT THE [ __ ] >> THE MEN SAY THEY WERE INVITED by the young lady and Militch is yelling that she is just a child and he's going to call the police. Milage starts calling his daughter a little [ __ ] chasing her, but the girl runs behind Bill.
Millage locks both men in the room and orders his daughter to go to her room while he serves this customer. When Bill leaves in the cab, he's still having flashes of Alice with this goddamn naval officer, and he's taken all the way out of town into the boonies at a place called Summerton, where there are two men standing at a gate.
His cab ride was $74.50 or $145.85 today. And Bill gives him 80, but he also promised 50 bucks over the meter. So he pulls out a $100 bill, rips it in half, and says if homie waits for him, and lets the meter run, then he'll give him the other half plus the meter. When he returns, Bill gives these fellas the password and they drive him up to the house.
So, not only are you talking to these two men at the gate without a mask on, but he also passes like three more people until he steps foot in the house. Still no mask on. Out of context, why do I sound like I'm talking about the pandemic? He's greeted by a man in a gold mask as soon as he walks into the house. And we start hearing this unsettling chant that is going to be playing on and off throughout this entire sequence.
The man asks for the password, then takes his coat. Mask is still not on. Anyway, he steps into the main room and everybody in this [ __ ] is wearing a black cloak besides the person in the middle who's holding a sensor as in an incense inside a ball with a chain. And he's chanting [Music] I'm sitting here at my desk editing this and I I I just I just like it it can't it can't just be me.
Like you're you're crazy. This is cra This is crazy, right? I I just No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I'm a very curious person, too. Like, I love I love an adventure, you know? Like, I'll do things for the the the plot of it all, but like this it No, no, no. I would have gotten my black ass out.
I would have hopped in that [ __ ] taxi. That's what I would have did. And got the [ __ ] This music that's playing was composed by Joselyn Puk and is a fragment of an Orthodox mass that's being sung in Romanian, but it's also being played backwards. Do I ha do I have to spell this out for you? Loosely translated, the lyrics go something like, "We still pray for the mercy, the life, the peace, the health, the salvation, the scrutiny, neglection, and forgiveness of the sins of God'sservants, worshippers, almsgivers, benefactors of this holy site." There's
also another line of the chant that says, "God says to his followers, a new commandment I GIVE TO YOU." AGAIN, playing backward. Get my [ __ ] holy oil over by the end. The Nikki is indeed blindfolded playing this spooky organ as the red man hits the stick two more times and all the women remove their cloaks.
I am having flashbacks to my show girls video. There are so many didds in this movie. Uh love that. But you know for for me in postp production editing this that that's not fun. That's that's not fun. That's that's a lot of work. Every single person at this party has a different mess. like there are no identical ones.
Then in this whole circle with all these naked women, they all go like counterclockwise and they kiss each other through their mask. Two people in masks at the top level turn and look directly at Bill and the presumably male one nods at him. Then one by one uh the the priest, the red man in the middle goes to each woman and he slams the pole down and they each like go find a man to go, you know, mess around with.
And how they do it is they walk up to the man and then they kiss him through the mask on the lips. Now, the woman with this black feather headpiece on goes after Bill and when they exit the room, she says, "I'm not sure what you think you're doing, but you don't belong here." Bill tries to play dum dum, saying that she's mistaking him.
And she's like, "Please don't be foolish. You must go now." After Bill asks who she is, the woman says, "It doesn't matter. Billy is in great danger and must get away while he's still got a chance." There's a man who comes up behind this girl and tells Bill if he would be kind enough to excuse them for a moment. Speaking of moments, um these next few moments, I absolutely cannot show like it's a little bit too much.
And yet, you know, the fact that I say that and yet it's like honestly very tame. Like it's really nothing really crazy is honestly happening in this scene. But for YouTube, no. No. This is a big no no. No. We watch Bill walk through various rooms in this mansion. You know, various people are getting it on one room. There's this dining table and it's a bunch of women just, you know, um how do I say, you know, moving together, if you will, and all the people in the black cloaks are watching.
It's happening in multiple rooms. Very, very weird. Very weird, right? You know, I mean, I I mean, I guess that I guess there is no shame because with something like this, it's anonymous. Obviously, everybody's wearing a mask, so it's like But I I just I don't know. Personally, I I I would not be able to do that, you know, like I just I don't I don't know where you guys have been, you know? I don't know who you are, right? I doubt this is like the adult industry where, you know, they are required to get tested.
So, I'm good, Shotty. I'm I'm good. I'm good. At one point, we see the same guy who nodded at Bill earlier. He comes in with a woman and he like nods at the woman to go collect Bill to go, you know, entertain him, if you will. But then right after that, the black featherwoman, she comes and basically does exactly what that other stranger did with her and she pulls Bill away.
Does that make sense? I'm making this all sound way more complicated than it. All you need to know is the woman with the black feather, she finds him. She finds Bill and she grabs him again. She's once again telling this orgy virgin he doesn't realize the danger he's in and Billy Boo cannot fool these people much longer.
He's still trying to find out who she is and she's like it don't matter. He asks if she can leave with him and she's like no because it would cost her her life or his. She rushes away as one of the yesmen enter, asking Bill if he was the gentleman with the taxi waiting because his driver is at the front door and would urgently like a word.
Inside of what I believe to be the most beautiful room we have yet to see in this mansion, a man escorts a blindfolded Nick out while couples slow dance on the floor as strangers in the night plays. And funny enough, although every pairing we've seen has been straight up until this point, the biggest couple in the frame is both two men dancing together.
And by the door, there's also two women together. The man who collected Bill doesn't even take him to the front door, guys. Okay, you got his ass. Okay, [Music] what would you guys do? By the way, that six note piano that plays like on and off throughout the rest of the scene. Actually, it plays throughout the movie a few times, but in this scene, like I don't I'm scared.
Who else is scared? We see different shots of all these masks before the red man asks Bill to step forward. And as he does, they close him in the circle. The red man asks for the password. And Bill says, "Fidelio." And homie is like, "That's correct. That's the password for admittance, but may I ask what's thepassword for the house?" >> Okay.
Um, >> have you guys seen that have you guys seen that video when that woman is in she's like interviewing like a random stranger and she asks her to name three black people. >> Do me a favor. Name three of your favorite black people. Point taken. I I have uh autism and so whenever you ask me a question like that, I immediately forget like everything. Sorry.
>> Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Cool. Thank you so much. >> Like no, like that would have been me. If you said password, I'd have been like, >> "Oh, oh, um, um, Muhammad Ali, >> you point taken, right?" Bill's like, "Actually, um, I have seemed to have forgotten the password, Miss Mama.
" And everybody in the room starts murmuring. The priest says that that's unfortunate, and frankly, it doesn't matter whether he knew it or not, solemnly demanding Bill to remove his mask, and he does. Now, get undressed. >> Or the priest tells Bill to strip and show that thing or they will do it for him. That's when we hear the featherwoman at the TOP LEVEL YELL STOP AND EVERYBODY breaks their neck like Buster Rhymes.
I don't like this little formation right here. You see how it's like it looked like a upside down triangle like they in the middle of an eyeball. Clock it. Clock it. The woman is like let him go and take me. I am ready to redeem him. Everybody is in the room whispering gagged as hell. And the priest asks the lady if she's sure she understands what she's taking upon herself in doing this.
>> Yes. >> The priest tells Bill that he is free, but warns this Patrick Baitman reject if he makes any further inquiries or says a single word to anyone about what he's seen here, there will be the most dire consequences for him and his family. A man collects the black feather woman and Bill asks what is going to happen to that sexy woman.
>> No one can change her fate now. [Music] When Bill gets home, he hides his cloak and sees both his girls are asleep. But Alice is giggling in her sleep. And when Bill says her name touching her, she jumps up frightened. By the way, it's a little past 4:00 a.m. Bill starts pressing about what she was dreaming about.
And she talks about her and Bill were in a deserted city and their clothes were gone. They were naked. She was terrified and angry because she thought it was his fault. So, Bill rushed away to go find clothes for them. But as soon as he was gone, it was completely different. Alice felt wonderful. She was suddenly lying in a beautiful garden, titties out in the sunlight.
Then the naval officer walked out the woods laughing. Alice starts sobbing in her pillow and Bill knows that that's not the end of the story. No, it is not, buddy. The officer was kissing her. They were making love and there were all these other people around them. Hundreds of them everywhere. Everyone was [ __ ] y'all. Then Alice was [ __ ] other men, losing count of how many.
And she knew Bill could see her in the arms of all these men. And she wanted she wanted to make fun of him to laugh in his face. And so she laughed as loud as she could and that was when he woke her up. Divorce. The next day, Bill tries to hit up the Sonata Cafe with the Rainbow Rental, but they're closed.
Side note, who is this cat in this Oliver Puffer? He is a cutie. Somebody find him for me. Wait. Anyway, Bill stops in a place called Gillespiey's Cafe next door and orders a cup of coffee, asking a waitress if she knows about Nick. And the only reason she tells this trick where Nick is is because he whips out that doctor badge. Get your mind out the gutter.
So, Bill hits up a hotel and I'm going to show him my hand right here. This is my favorite scene in the movie. Allan [ __ ] Love him. He plays the front desk clerk. The clerk tells Bill, "Mr. Nightingale already checked out around 5:00 a.m." So, Bill asks if the clerk noticed anything unusual about him when he left.
Bill is showing him his ID, and the clerk like looks down. He's like, "Well, Bill, there was something strange about the way Mr. Night and Gail left." Yeah. He then leans forward in the most unserious way. Oh my god, it's so good. Telling Bill that Nick came in around 4:30 this morning with two men, big guys. He's like, I mean, they were very well-dressed and very well spoken, but you know, they're they're not the kind of guys that you would want to mess around with, >> if you know what I mean.
Anyways, >> the clerk noticed Nick had a bruise on his cheek and even admits that he looked a little scared. Nick said that he wanted to check out, so he went upstairs with one of the men, and the other one went and settled his bill. When they came back down, Nick tried to pass the clerk an envelope, but they saw it, took it away, and said that any mail or messages for Nick would be collected by someone properly authorized to do so.
Then they took him off in a car. Bro, look at the way that the clerk is looking at him. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. Bill thanks him for histime, and he's like, "Oh, oh, sure. Anytime, Bill." Billy Boy returns to Rainbow Fashions to return his rental, but uh-oh, the mask is not in the bag.
Just throw it in the bag. Bill tells homeboy to put it on the bill because he must have lost it. So 150 for the rental, 200 for his trouble, 25 for the mask. So that makes $375 with inflation over $700 [ __ ] dollars. What the hell? Was it worth it? $700 to gear to go to an orgy where you ain't even you ain't even getting you ain't get no ass.
His daughter comes out the side room. My god. Once again in her bra and underwear. Millig asks what she needs. Why are we being so calm? Why is she dressed like this this early in the morning? Millage then tells her to say hello to Bill and right after the two men whom we saw the other night come out fully clothed and they tell Millage that they will call him soon.
Then say goodbye to the girl and one of them blows her a kiss. Mill says, "Merry Christmas and happy new year." Then gives Bill his receipt and says, "Thank you for the business." This little girl is just looking straight through Bill smiling. And you know, Bill is like, um, last night you was going to call 12. You was going to call the popo.
So, and this gross ass man is talking about things change. They have come to another arrangement. Oh, and by the way, if the good doctor himself should ever want anything, >> anything at all, it needn't be a costume. >> Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. NOW, WAIT A MINUTE. HOLD UP. >> OH MY GOD. Bill is once again visualizing Alice getting stuffed by this military boy cuz he's forever traumatized from her confession.
And later on, one of his assistants come in to give him his tuna sandwich and black coffee. And Bill asks her to clear his schedule for the rest of the day and collect his whip out the garage, his Range Rover out the garage. Okay. Bro drives all the way back to that mansion where we hear that sixkey piano playing.
He's looking through the gate and notices a camera following him. So, a car drives all the way up through the driveway to the gate and the passenger holds out an envelope. [ __ ] what the [ __ ] Then homie hops in the car and leaves. [Music] >> Not only does the envelope have his name on it, so they all know who Bill is, but inside it reads, "Give up your inquiries, which are completely useless, and consider these words a second warning.
We hope for your own good that this will be sufficient. Well, after coming home, Alice and Helena are doing homework at the table. Bill greets them and grabs a beer from the fridge as she starts hearing Alice's dream in his head about the hundreds of people around them screwing. Then he goes back to work in his office, still having visuals of her in this office. We get it.
We We get it, [ __ ] I'm losing patience. Okay. And Bill's got the chops to pick up the phone dialing for Marion. But her husband Carl answers and he doesn't say anything but hang up. The hell was you call? Would you you going to call him cuz you you want some fish? You you you want some fish? Is that it? Bill takes a cab to Domino's place, but she's not home and instead her roommate Sally is there.
Sally recognizes him as the Bill aka the one who was here last night. And she invites him in. Checking this rich man out, you know, looking them eyes as laser. She's scanning it through his pocket. Sally's got no idea when Domino's will be back and says to be perfectly honest, she may not even be coming back period. The hell going on here? Bill starts unbuttoning her top, ready to get down to business.
Don't even know the girl, but you know, he just you you so mad over Al you you you you freak monster now. You know, you you just going you just want to get it in anywhere. Huh? HUH? While he's trying to get freaky, Sally is like, "Lol, Poppy, I think there's something I should tell you." >> She got the results of a blood test this morning and uh it was HIV positive.
[Music] >> Oh, babe, this this could have went south so quick. Remember this is 1999. You know, we had AZT to treat HIV, which came out around I think it was like 1987. But the first drug to prevent, you notice how I I didn't say treat. That's that's a treat. The first drug to prevent was Truvvada.
And guess when that came out? 2012. On Bill's walk home, he's being followed by a Baldi. So he's spooked, trying to haul a taxi, running across the street to get one, but the driver yells, "I'm off duty." It just kidding. Just kidding. He didn't say that word. Who else is scared? Bill buys a newspaper at the stand and the man walks across the street, stopping at the end just to stare. Then he walks by.
Bill goes inside a building called Sharkies and orders a cappuccino to collect himself, opening the newspaper he just bought, where he reads about an ex beauty queen who OD. And look at that first paragraph. What do you notice? Her name is Amanda. Mandy. Bill takes a cab to the hospital showing off his badge, requesting to visit her. And we learnedshe died this afternoon around 3:45 p.m.
So, he visits her body and very nearly gives her a kissy on the forehead, but stops himself. And that's when Bill gets a call summoned to Ziggler's crib, although it is late at night. Let's cut the [ __ ] You know, it it takes Ziggler like a whole 3 minutes to get to the point, but um he knows that Bill went to the party and he knows what's going on after.
Oh, Ziggy Zigg thinks Bill's got the wrong idea about some things, asking you know what what the hell were you thinking showing up, yada yada. He thought to himself, how did Bill even get past the gate? But then he remembered seeing Bill talking with Nick. So he he he put two and two together to Gava, right? Bill says it wasn't Nick's fault and Victor is like, "Well, yes it is, Boo, because if he never told Bill, then this wouldn't have happened.
" And Ziggler was the one who recommended that little wee wee sucker to those people and he's made Ziggy look like a complete a-hole. Bill says he didn't know Victor was involved in this. And Victor is like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. But you know what else? I know that you went to the hotel and talked with that clerk this morning."Oop.
>> How do you know that? because I had you followed. >> So, you're an op. Zicki says all they did was put Nikki on a plane back to Seattle and he's he's probably back with his family banging Miss Nick. Tell another lie. Tell another I'm not I'm not buying this. >> The clerk said he had a bruise in his face. >> Okay. He had a bruise on his face.
Uh uh uh. They killed this motherucker. Ziggy says if he told Bill these people's names, which he's not going to do, then Bill wouldn't sleep. so well at night. Oh, and the second password was what gave Bill away. But it wasn't that Bill didn't know the password. It was that the password doesn't exist. >> The limit does not exist.
>> And of course, it didn't help that these people arrived in limos and Bill showed up in a taxi cab or you know when they took his code and saw the receipt made out to the rental house to you know who dumb [ __ ] Bill tries to bring up the featherwoman who tried to warn him. And of course, Victor says that he knows who she was.
>> She was a hooker. >> Ziggy Z is like, "Suppose I told you that everything that happened to you over there, the threats, the girls, the warnings, her last minute intervention. Suppose I said that all of that was staged, that it was a a kind of charade, that it was fake." Like, when Bill asks why would they do that, Ziggler says because they wanted to scare him and keep him quiet about where he was and what he saw.
Bill takes out the newspaper article he ripped out revealing Mandy's death. And once again, yes, he has seen her. The man knows everything. Okay, we established that Mandy was the one at the party, you know, who who was sacrificed. So, so, so, so, so Bill's like, "Okay, Daddyo, you know, you explain to me if this was all someing charade, how does this end up with somebody being dead? You feel me?" Okay, Bill, let's let's let's let's cut the [ __ ] He says after 8 minutes, Ziggler says the whole phony sacrifice that Bill has been jerking
himself off with had absolutely nothing to do with her real death. Lie. Ziggler says nothing happened to Mandy after he left that party that had not happened to her before. She got her brains [ __ ] out when they took her home. She was just fine. She was just fine. And the rest of it is right there in the paper.
Okay. She She was a junkie and she ODed. There was nothing suspicious. Her door was locked from the inside. The police are happy. End of story. The way is it the way like the way y'all are trying to gaslight this man is crazy. This is crazy. You know, talking about, oh, it was it was always going to be a matter of time with her. You you you remember her.
She she was the one with the great tits who ODed in my bathroom. Ziggler says nobody killed anybody. Someone died. It happens all the time, but life goes on. That damn piano comes back in and we see Bill's mask lying on the pillow next to a sleeping Alice as he returns home, walking through the crib, grabbing another beer.
And when he walks in the bedroom, he has a fullon mental breakdown, crying, saying, "I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you everything." I feel like this would have been more impactful if one, you know, we didn't spend a wholeing 60 seconds following him walk through this house and then into the room, but two, if we had not seen the mask until he walked into the room because that's we see that before he walks through the house, you know? I don't know.
The next morning, the couple are sitting in the living room. Alice is, you know, looking stressed out, having a cigarette, and they go awkward family Christmas shopping. I mean, damn. Just look at look at this body language, you know? They stop in front of some teddy bears and Bill asks Alice what they should do. Alice says that theyshould be grateful.
Grateful that they've managed to survive through all of their adventures, whether they were real or only a dream. Bill asks if she's sure. And Alice says, "I'm only as sure as I am that the reality of a one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth." >> And no dream is ever just a dream. and okay, but Alice says the only important thing is that they are awaken now and hopefully for a long time to come.
Bill starts saying, this is so funny. Bill starts saying forever and she's like, let's not use that word. Not not too much. She says it frightens her, but she does love Bill, you know, and there is something very important that they need to do as soon as possible. I'll give you a few seconds to guess what it is that they need to do.
[Music] What I find the most alluring about this project, besides its surrealistic tone and after hours quality, is all the theories surrounding what this film is really about. Stanley Kubri is deemed the father of symbolism in the director category. And I mean, come on. Look, look at the film's title, Eyes Wide Shut. Wake up.
Screenwriter Frederick Raphael said some of the proposed titles for the film were You and Me and The Female Subject. But Stanley personally chose Eyes Wide Shut. Imagine if he was still alive. And years later, he made eyes wide open. You got to keep your mind wide open. the boss [Music] the Terabithia stands. You can say this title is playing on the fragility of monogamy and marriage when one of the parties are committing adultery.
But this entire elite orgy sequence which again happens like smack dead in the middle of the film and it's almost like it's like opening up this portal because until that point until we get to that mansion this is pretty much like a marriage drama. It just makes you think about all the people around the globe.
And I mean, not even we're not even only talking about wealthy people, just people general who have everything that they deem perfect. You know, a great house, kids, pets, whatever, great job. But then there's that one little thing in the back of their mind that that itch that needs to be scratched, which would be u what we call sexual gratification.
During the confession scene, I do believe that it's it's the way that it is set up is you're supposed to think that Alice is like like, you know, girl, girl, you just hide. You just hide. You just talking. You just rapping, man. But she was making some very valid points. Bill saying that women don't think like men do and that they aren't horny or crave sex is absolutely ludicrous.
and the idea of him believing because again since Alice is a woman who's married to a successful man and has a child with him then that automatically means she would never break her loyalty. >> If you men only knew. >> Speaking of loyalty, Fidelio, it's not just an opera. Its definition means faithful.
Using that as a password to an anonymous orgy is crazy. And just also the thought that like, oh my, oh my god, like imagine being married and you find out your partner goes to like these masquerade freakoffs. I'm going to stop saying freakoffs. I promise. You know, go to these parties being a freaky frog and then you get back in the bed with me and cuddle like you're going to hell.
I 100% believe that Alice went. It It could have been the same night as him. It could have been a different night, but she went. She she went and her admitting a lust for a naval officer whom she didn't even speak a single word to. I mean, come on. Like, that hints to me that clearly Billy boy Billy ain't he ain't he ain't doing something right when Sander was trying to glide in the kitty.
She was contemplating that, too. And speaking of that goddamn Hungarian, I also believe that him and a lot of people at Ziggler's party at the beginning of the film, I think they were all there, too. And I'm not that's not coming from me. Both of those are like very popular theories. I just also happen to believe in them.
>> Do you know anyone here? >> Not a soul. >> The side story with Mr. Millage and his daughter who he openly said was underage. Like this minor is not only an Sex worker, but she is being pimped out by her daddy like electric chair. >> The world is sick, man. You know, and all of that, the everything with millage and the rainbow fashions, all of that is our largest evidence that there is something more going on symbolically with these elites and what's, you know, be behind the curtains because why the hell would she know
that? I also believe in the theory that this is hinting that I mean, obviously Stanley couldn't do it because first of all, gross, but two, illegal. A lot of people think that because she said that that that was kind of hinting at that all the women in the circle were supposed to be minors. >> If you make any further inquiries or if you say a single word to anyone about what you have seen, there will be the most dire consequences for you and your family.
[Music] I am 100% on board with the child abuse angle in this film. I definitely think that that is what's going on here. And then, you know, the the biggest the biggest theory of them all um surrounding Kubri's death. If you don't know, the fans of this film, most of them believe that Stanley Kubri had died because he was trying to expose or throw he was dropping hints that these elites were having minors at these parties.
And I don't remember when, but a long time ago, you know, this was just a rumor, a theory that, you know, I was I said I brought up the 40 minutes of footage that was missing. Well, babe, those 40 minutes of footage that was missing, that whole thing was it was supposed to be all footage that happened at this mansion.
And allegedly, I don't know if I believe this, but I remember reading a long time ago that Bill was supposed to be walking through the mansion and you would walk through these rooms. And in some rooms that he passed, there were like pentagrams on the floor and it was implied that these were very, very, very young girls at this event. Yikes.
I The whole situation is just I don't like it. I don't like it. To make all this worse, the actress who played Militch's daughter, Lely Sabeski, I'm pretty sure I'm saying that wrong. I might be. I don't know. Anyway, that's the girl who played Militch's daughter, the 14-year-old. Well, she said like at the time, um, she wasn't allowed to read the script, which I mean, why would she? She has oneing line.
But also, apparently she has this thing where every celebrity that she works with, she collects like a lock of their hair. >> Uhhuh. Uh-uh. No. Oh, now >> witchcraft. That's what I heard. That child then lost her damn mind. She asked Tom Cruz if she could have a lock of his hair and Tom said, "Oh, ass no. He might be a Scientologist, but he ain't stupid now.
" British author/conspiracy theorist named David Ike said in a magazine around the release that the Freemasonic mansion sequence was a mild mild version of what really goes on in elite society. Ziggler's party at the beginning of the film. Remember, Bill was being led away by those two models. >> Ladies, where exactly are we going? >> Where the rainbow ends? >> And what did Bill end up doing later in the film? He hit up a place called Rainbow Fashions.
Where the rainbow ends. Where the rainbow ends is also the name of a morality play by Clifford Mills and John Ramsay. And you know what else? Rainbow is the name of a Masonic organization. [Applause] [Music] >> While scouting the web, I did read a very dark theory about how Bill and Alice give Helena up to the cult for some type of appease or admittance.
I guess because Bill confessed everything to Alice. I don't know. I'm going to put this user's theory on the screen because it's too much for me to read and you can form your own opinion. Though, I will say the teddy bear comment low-key got me because in one frame I absolutely see it. And then we cut to Helena showing the Barbie, but when we go back, it's moved.
Stanley is the definition of a perfe. Go in the dictionary, look up perfectionist, you're going to see his name. That was not a mistake. That was that. If that was a mistake, they would have did more takes over and over. He would have caught that. I mean, babe, we're talking about a man who oversees every single visual element that's going to appear in a frame.
Furniture, props, colors of the wall, all of the carnival masks in the origy, which he tried all of them on and selected them one by one. The stories ride decades for how he works. Everything Shelley Duval went through. RIP to that queen on the shining and how Stanley drew her to psychological distress is the most famous. >> Somebody even said rogue video.
>> No desperate. Oh, come on. What do you mean roll video? We're freaking killing ourselves out here and you better be ready. >> I am too. I'm standing mood music. >> No, I can't. >> But when you came out like this, you said it just >> We're sitting there. So they say, "Wait a minute.
" And then you say on the radio, >> when you do it, you've got to look desperate, Shel. You're just wasting everybody's time. >> I can't even get this door open. >> Apparently, he made Tom Cruz walk through a door 95 times. I It's so ridiculous. But then again, you know, Tom Cruz like, "Nigga, you being paid $20 million.
is like, "You better do a cartwheel if I ask you to." It's just incredibly ridiculous and excessive. But but uh UH BUT LISTEN, I you know, I I say that, but I also respect a creator and an artist who knows exactly what they want. What happened with Shelley Dval on the sh that was way, you know, okay, dude, somebody need to cuss him out.
That was too much. But Kubri's like there there is a reason why people call him the best of the best because his attention to detail and his symbolism is like it's unmatched. It is Alan [ __ ] who plays the hotel clerk had to audition for this role six times. Six times. Why sixStanley? No, I'm just kidding.
But why six? So Allan has written a couple of memoirs and one of them is called Baggage where he talks about his personal relationships, romance, and he goes into a lot of his career stuff in the films that he's worked on. And there's a chapter called Debauchery where he talks about Eyes Wide Shut and you know he brings up when he met Stanley Kubri and I still you know you know I had to pick it up.
I've had this book for a while and when I found out that he talked about this in this book, which of course he is, if that's that's the theme here, his career, I have not read anything else in the book. Allan, if you are watching this, I doubt you are, but if you are, I'm going to read it. Okay, I promise. I read Not My Father Son. Excellent. Excellent.
Recommend. But yeah, by the time it was Allan's time to shoot his scene, mind you, a 3 to 4 minute scene somewhere in between there. Not only had the film been in production for over a year at this point, but Allan stayed on that set for a full week. A full week just to do one scene. He mentioned Stanley's reputation for doing take after take and how people would call him intimidating, but that wasn't the case here.
Stanley liked that Allan had stood up to him and, you know, they developed quite a strong bond when working and they had many great chats and laughs. Okay, I'm sorry. I've had this on long enough. I have to push this up. It's This [ __ ] makes my nose hurt, my blinking, my long ass eyelashes.
I went through all this pain for you. So, on professional film sets, there are these things called clapboards. They roll the camera, then roll the audio, and then you'll hear, you know, the classic It's used for the editor in post-p production so they know when to align the video and the audio together so everything is connected.
And Allan mentions in the book how, you know, you as an actor, the more that you hear that clapper sound, you start to feel like, you know, you're not doing something right because you're doing take after take after take. Well, Stanley, since he does 10,000 takes of a film, he doesn't use clapboards. his sound guy is like sitting in the corner of the room and he would like whisper the take number into his little recorder.
You know that that pressure was taken off. He said it was nice. I thought that was pretty interesting. Stanley would take Allan to the monitor and they would watch each previous take discussing the most detailed notions, facial movements, gestures, and he would give precise direction before they tried it again.
Allan knew exactly what to do or what to correct, what to try every time they started another take. And he admits that it's very it's very rare to find that because you know he would say a director would be like and cut great you know let's do it again one more because if it was perfect if it was so great then you know why are we doing another this hotel scene is in a way the only funny scene in the entire film and Allen's performance is not just a standout but a testament to him as an artist.
You can tell how much thought was put into this because even before he says a word, we see Bill come in, the camera pans over and we see him messing around with cards trying to like figure out what cubby to put it in. He turns around and the way that he scans his body, we immediately know who this man is. >> Excuse me. >> Hi.
How can I help you? >> The comical eyeing, the giggling, it's so detailed. the famous saying, "There are no small parts, only small actors." This proves that better than anything I've ever seen. I would not be surprised if this hotel clerk was one of the people at the party cuz remember, you know, we saw that one room where there were same-sex couples slow dancing.
And it's funny because Allan was even worried himself that he felt like he was like, "I don't know, Stanley. You know, I think we're I think we're kind of taking this a little too far. Like this is a little too gay, a little too flirty." But Stanley literally he was like, "No." Oh, like he like amp it up more.
He was like more more >> unusual. >> Hey, you're not 50, are you? >> I didn't know what 50 was. Then I realized how 50. That's what made me realize >> I'm a doctor. >> Well, um, learing >> Bill. >> Sure. >> If anyone came on to me like I'm coming on to him, I would be like, I'd run a mile. and Tom just stands there implacable.
We we both fell about laughing at the end of each take. It's interesting that at the time there was all these crazy rumors that, you know, people weren't allowed to look him in the eye and he would have a tunnel to take him from his trailer to the set and that he was gay and all. There was all these weird sort of myths that go around really famous people on their behavior.
He was absolutely charming. Completely charming. I have a pretty good gay dar. I um didn't get anything like that from him. And if he was a bit gay, so what? We're all a bit gay. Well, [Music]>> there are other little stories, but in the end, he says it was this precision that Stanley encouraged Allan to make every second he was on screen count, and that reignited his interest in acting.
He felt more excited by those few days of work and those few minutes on screen than he had by anything in years. As much as I think this film is fantastic, it's by no means perfect nor five stars. I'm going to say it, you know. I'm going to say it. This film has no business being this long.
What the hell does this need to be 2 and 1/2 hours for? Scenes are drawn out. Like the dialogue is just said very slowly, you know, mono. Like it just takes so long to get to a point. I just it it it bothers me. But then there are certain scenes where it just all of it just it it works for me. I don't know how to explain it.
All this along with the fake backdrop of New York City, all the set designs with the various scales of Christmas lights and decor. It's just gorgeous. Like, of course, we would go through this this family conflict on Christmas, right? You know, we supposed to be Holly Jolly in this mug. I'm also such a sucker for dual tone lighting and this blue cast that's always coming from out the windows.
It It just really really gets my It really tickles my pickle, you know? I was trying so hard to see if I could explain the characters names or find some meaning because initially my mind goes to like uh say Alice, right? Alice in Wonderland. What's in Wonderland? That damn origgy. Her dream where she said she was screwing a bunch of men while he watched.
I mean, come on. Domino the seex worker. Domino's Pizza. You know the the the domino effect. This girl is clearly some sort of decoy or pawn. She's got to be Bill. While it's short for William, it's got to be he's got to be named Bill cuz you know he he'd be spending bills dollars. Right. >> Right. >> He's wealthy, which is why Ziggler lowkey trying to recruit him for his little Masonic and Illuminati esque activities.
Or is this a jab at Bill Clinton? Mandy, short for Amanda, the woman who was slumped in the bathroom and dies later in the film. By the way, the girl on the operating table when Bill visits her is played by a completely different actress. Like Stanley really, you know, he really tried to throw us off there. And you know, people also speculate that Domino is actually Amanda. I don't know.
My ah my my my my my mying head hurts. But okay, let's think. Let's think. The Harford's daughter's name is Helena. Come on now. That's the the Greek goddess of beauty. Also lowkey feel like there is a parallel being made between Mandy, Militch's daughter, then Helena. They're all like red heads and like this like different ages.
Kind of like a loss of innocence. But what the hell does Mandy What What the hell could that mean? You know, handy. Mandy. She, you know, for for a good time call Mandy cuz she comes in handy. What? I'm sorry. I mean, she did come in handy. You know, she saved Bill. I don't know, man. I I need I need a I need a What time is it? 12:30. I need a blunt.
Actually, no, I don't because then I'm then I'm I'm really going to be be off the rock. If I did this while I was high, this would have been a whole conspiracy video. I I would have I would have pulled out a big ass white board and everything. They killed Stanley. >> They killed Biggie. They killed my boy Biggie. They [ __ ] killed Biggie.
>> One thing that came to me on this specific viewing that I really didn't even like bother to entertain, but I think that Bill could possibly be struggling with sexuality. Now, I'm going to go back to that scene where those college kids call him the fsler and holler at him to go back to San Francisco. It's all just way too random.
And we know by now that Stanley is not random. And again, what about him looks queer. And my personal head cannon, my little theory here is I think that this is not the first time they've seen him. There is zero evidence supporting this. But first of all, let's you know, I didn't I don't even think I pointed this out when I talked about it at first, but Bill is standing like 200 ft away from him and they immediately call him out.
If this was a stranger, you would not like I don't that that doesn't that doesn't make sense to me. So, what I think happened was I think that before this film began, maybe one night I think that Bill probably paid a guy for a night or maybe he had some some company. No, he paid he paid for somebody. Okay. I think him and some midnight cowboy were walking down the street and these guys passed them and they got hate crimes and they saw Bill again on this night by himself immediately recognize his little Patrick Baitman ass. But
yeah, Bill very much could have been unfaithful to Alice before the film even began. But it's only when Alice confesses that she almost passed that threshold that Billy boy starts glitching because you know what? Women don't do that, bro. and the queer hotelclerk and the the the deliberate choice of Kubri to push Alec and to make him flirt with Bill.
I just two instances where we are bringing up a queer narrative. I just I want I want answers, man. I want answers. And we're not going to get them. Okay, we're not going to get them because Stanley is long gone. So, I've accepted that. This feature seems to blur a line between what's real, what's imagined, and what's meditated by this doctor's mind.
Having your eyes wide shut is a state of being, a willful blindness to the realities of not just what your partner may or may not be engaging with, but the entire world around you. And Alice made Bill open his eyes that night she confessed on contemplating leaving him and their child.
This all though could very much be a psychological projection of Bill's jealousy and fears. We aren't for sure if the entire events of the mansion both times that he went actually happened or not. All the mask symbolism and these characters hiding behind them. Anonymity, duality, a repressed self, the entire mystery of the man in the red cloak, who a lot of people claim is either Ziggler or Sander.
It's all so fun to theorize about. Sexuality's got a lot to do with what's lingering in the New York City air. And the hidden world of the elite seems to be the top of it. lifting a cloak on a secret life that these wealthy people indulge in where they live by a different set of rules and morals.
The universe is so funny because of course all of this starts happening right after Alice's confession, right after he roams the streets looking for something freaky to get into because this man's poor little ego is wounded and he needs to seek his own adulterous opportunities, but he's blocked numerous times. What is Stanley saying about sex in the modern society? Is it a source for connection, alienation, or an instrument of power? Confession feels like the big statement here.
The film seems to be suggesting that confronting some truth, some fantasy, no matter how ugly, is a necessity for a marriage to survive. Personally, I couldn't tell you how I would feel if years into a marriage, my spouse said, "Only last year that they nearly decided to leave me and everything behind." And though I've picked on Dr.
bill for constantly thinking about it. I mean, come on, man. That's going to be in the back of anybody's mind for the rest of their relationship. Therapy or not, ignorance truly is bliss, my friends. But for the sake of our own sanity, should we wake ourselves up and see how deep the rabbit hole goes or lie in a state of serenity and keep our eyes wide shut? What do you think about Stanley Kubri's erotic drama, Eyes Wide Shut? Leave your opinions and theories in the comment section down below.
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