The late director Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel Traumnovelle by Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler. Tom Cruise is a family physician who specializes in serving political and business celebrities. He lives in a mansion in New York with his wife, Nicole Kidman, and their daughter; The handsome-looking Tom Cruise can always attract the attention of women in such social occasions, and the beautiful Nicole Keemann, of course, will also be invited to dance by men who consider themselves romantic. In the middle of the banquet, the host, who was in the upstairs room and had sex with the former beauty queen, hurriedly asked the butler to ask Tom Cruise for help; because the former beauty queen who used drugs to help her fun, was in a coma with mixed drugs and almost died. Tom Cruise gently reminded her not to repeat the same mistakes when she woke up.
When she got home, Nicole Keeman was very angry that her husband suddenly left without saying goodbye in the middle of the banquet; and after smoking marijuana, she became a little excited; she and her husband talked about a past event: the summer before, at a resort hotel In the restaurant, I happened to see a young and handsome naval officer. I was deeply attracted to him, and even wanted to leave her husband and daughter on impulse, and go away with the officer. However, with the officer's departure, Nicole Keeman slowly calmed down; what she wanted to make clear to her husband was: "Everyone has feelings, but do they still have feelings between husband and wife?" In the middle of this conversation, the phone ringing interrupted, an elderly patient died suddenly, and Tom Cruise must rush to the other party's home immediately. Although the patient's daughter was already mentally prepared, her emotions were still affected; regardless of her already stable boyfriend, the patient's daughter still kissed Tom Cruise...
Walking on the snow-covered street, Tom Cruise repeatedly thought about the picture of his wife cheating with the naval officer. She goes home. Perhaps because of a call from his wife, Tom Cruise did not sleep with the street girl, but gave her a sum of money, an unintentional decision that was crucial; just when he wanted to visit her the next day, the street The girl's roommate told Tom Cruise that the street blocker had an AIDS reaction. When he left the girl's house in the evening, it was already late at night. Tom Cruise thought of the classmate who had dropped out of medical school at the banquet that day. Now he is a jazz pianist. In addition to the performance of private banquets, the band is still on tour in the bar; the two chatted. At the same time, the pianist suddenly received a call, which aroused the curiosity of Tom Cruise. In order to find out, Tom Cruise paid a lot of money to rent masks, gowns and capes, trying to sneak into a late night party in the suburbs. After reporting the customs clearance code, they were led into the magnificent interior, but everyone, both men and women, wore masks.
After a strange caroling ceremony, more than a dozen tall and graceful women suddenly took off their covering cloaks and began to pick people to take them away. One of the women approached Tom Cruise and kept persuading him to leave. This action caused the suspicion of the surrounding guards, but Tom Cruise did not listen. The deeper he went into the place, he realized that this was a sex party base. Tom Cruise's act of waiting for a taxi caught the attention of the party host, who had to take off his mask in public, reveal his identity, and accept punishment; a woman wearing a mask suddenly voluntarily committed Tom Cruise's crime, so he left this weird place. Unwilling, he still wanted to track down that mysterious villa and that lewd party, but the more he pursued, the less he could find out the truth. He tried to return to the villa, but was warned by the villa owner; Even the pianist classmates checked out and left the hotel early, and they were even followed by strange men.
In the newspaper, he read a story about the death of a former beauty queen who died of drugs, and he quickly linked everything together. Soon, Tom Cruise received a phone call from the host of the banquet at the beginning of the movie; the host of the banquet admitted many truths, including when Tom Cruise was exposed, and the matter of sending someone to follow him, but for the beauty queen I didn't talk much about the death of , I only said that in such a sex party, the participants were all powerful people, so it's best not to go into details. Her husband came home in frustration. The sleeping Nicole Kiman was having a nightmare, dreaming that she was sleeping with a naval officer, and her husband was watching. Later, more and more men had sex with her, but her husband did not stop her, so she Awakened by this terrifying dream. After listening to this story, Tom Cruise burst into tears and told his wife all the truth... At the end of the movie, the husband wanted to know how the marriage was going to go; the wife told him that it was always too heavy, it was better to "make love" !
"Sex", "love", and "desire" are the three words that almost every adult pursues the most and finds the most painful. Director Stanley Kubrick does not criticize or preach at all. Instead, he speaks in an almost "hallucinatory" way, bringing the audience into a world of conflict that has never been seen before: starting with a beautiful appearance A couple of actors and actresses, their beautiful carcasses and bold performances; magnificent scenes, breathtaking extras, dazzling flashy society, plus beautiful and appropriate soundtracks, and even paragraph after paragraph. A mysterious event that cannot be seen and seen. After penetrating "sex", "love" and "desire", the issue of "trust" has become the most severe, cold and huge obstacle that must be overcome. Stanley Kubrick's last posthumous work, the most shocking thing is not only the movie itself, but also a premonition of this very suspicious: Nicole Keemann with a naked back is looking forward to the mirror in front of the mirror, and then the shirtless Tomke Ruth came in and put an arm around Nicole Keeman's waist while kissing her neck; Tom Cruise's expression was intoxicated, but Nicole Keeman was thoughtful. The fascinating soundtrack, plus the word cards "Cruise", "Kidman", "Kubrick" interspersed in the trailer, I can't think of any movie trailer that is more enticing than this clip.
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Great Director Stanley Kubrick
"Eyes Wide Shut" director Stanley Kubrick is very famous. When he made this movie with the hero and heroine Tom Cruise and Nicole Keeman, he attracted a lot of media attention. It is strange that such a big director like Black came to make this simple film, but the reason why this movie is so sensational is because it is Kubrick's work. He has only made one movie for several years. He is a big-name film director who is different from ordinary directors. He never socializes and never steps out of the house. The background of the film is in New York, but the whole film was shot in the United Kingdom, including the street scenes, because the director lives in the United Kingdom, and because of this, the budget of the film was spent on Nicole Keeman. $20 million with Tom Cruise. "Eyes Wide Shut" was released during the summer vacation in the United States in 1999, and the box office was good. Maybe Nicole Keeman and Tom Cruise, two big-name actors, also added a lot to the movie. The film was completed in March of that year, and the bosses of Warner Bros. were invited to the UK to watch the test film. Those bosses were very satisfied after watching the film, but they just showed the boss the first version of the test film. Black died at home of a myocardial infarction, and the news immediately filled the front pages of the European media.
Stanley Kubrick is actually an American, born in 1929 and raised on the eve of the beginning of New Hollywood in the 1960s. Kubrick made "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968. The entire film was produced in the UK and completed using British technology. Since then, he has lived in the UK for 30 years and has never returned to the United States. He has never left the UK to go to other countries. In 1975, he filmed "Children in Troubled Times", and then in 1982, he filmed an adaptation of Stephen C. Jin's novel "Ghost Shop", five years later, "Golden Armor" in 1987, and "Eyes Widespread" was not filmed until 1999. In the 12 years in between, he mostly stayed at home, watching videotapes, DVDs, reading books, and occasionally going out for a walk. Living in isolation, why didn't he go back to Hollywood in the US?
Hollywood has been the world's movie dream factory since the silent film era, the center of film production, where all important commercial films come from. Before the late 1960s, we called it old Hollywood, and after the 1970s, it was new Hollywood, in the old Hollywood period, Hollywood was self-contained and had its own long-standing operating model, which was passed down from generation to generation, so it became a very closed team. Anyone who wants to enter the American film industry to make movies or develop a film career has no other way. They can only go in and start as an apprentice who helps the protagonist carry a bag and pour tea. If the average person enters Hollywood as an apprentice at the age of 20, when It takes at least twenty years to be a director, so there are absolutely no directors under the age of forty in Old Hollywood. In 20 years, in addition to being familiar with filmmaking skills, I also need to be familiar with all the working methods of the team, including the production of scripts, how to form a team, dealing with photographers, and all film work colleagues, such as lighting, set affairs, makeup , costumes, behind-the-scenes music, etc., all of which are familiar before you can become a director on your own and start making movies, and this is how old Hollywood works.
However, in the 1960s, the situation changed. Two new groups of directors appeared. They were able to be directors on their own without going through the torture of old Hollywood. The first group graduated from film school and represented the director Francis of "The Godfather". Coppola and Martin Scorsese, who was born in the film department of New York University, in the 1960s American schools began to set up film departments, and it was still a master's course, and Coppola was studying at UCLA, and the representative of the second batch was Stanley. Kubrick, he didn't go through Hollywood, he didn't go to film school. He had two hobbies in high school, one was photography and the other was playing chess. After high school, he left home and spent every day in the park. He played chess with people to make money, and when he made money, he bought a camera and traveled all over the United States to take pictures. When he found out that he also wanted to play movies, he bought a camera and started making short films. Later, he became famous and was interviewed. Someone asked He: "What do you think the younger generation should do if they want to be directors?" He said: "Going to Hollywood to hone training is a waste of time, energy, and energy. Going to film school is also a waste of time and money. Why don't you get yourself a camera and shoot a ten-minute short film, and you will know how to make a movie." He added: "Do you want to read a movie book? Just one book is enough, that book is 1920. "Film Techniques and Film Performance" written by the Soviet director Pudovkin in the 1990s.", he has never read any film books, but he has read this one. He thinks this book is very helpful to him, because this book It is very straightforward to explain how the film is made, how to combine it, and how to complete the film through the principle of editing.
In 1960, he made several short films of ten to twenty minutes, from which he learned the skills of filmmaking. Later, he had the opportunity to meet several young people from wealthy families, and cooperated with them to make films. He made one or two good black-and-white films in the early days, such as "Road to Glory", but they were only simple low-budget films, and the most critical step for him to be able to make a film on his own was in 1960. "Invincible" one piece. "Invincible" tells the story of the independent judgment of Rome in BC, which failed and Spartacus was crucified. At that time, Kirk Douglas wanted to make this film, but because of insufficient funds, he decided to Asking Kubrick to be the director, this movie is also very well done, especially the war scenes in it are very exciting. All the crew in the film are from old Hollywood, and the biggest problem Kubrick faced in making this movie was that he was unprepared to work with these people, and these crew members couldn't accept a man who had only done one or two shots. He was a short film, and he didn't have a Hollywood-trained director at all, so everyone from the cameraman down to the bottom of the staff was harassing him, so it was very painful and unpleasant for him to shoot. After the film was finished, he didn't even want to admit that it was him. 's works, which also buried the biggest factor for him to leave Hollywood in the future.
After that, Kubrick made "Lorita", which was adapted from the novel by the famous Russian-American writer Nabokov, and also invited him to write the script. This novel was published in 1959 and was published in 1966. The zeros were very popular. When filming "2001: A Space Odyssey", due to many technical conditions, as well as the studio, it was necessary to go to the UK to obtain it, so he moved the entire team to the UK. This is the first film in film history to use technology to shoot space. It cost a lot of money to produce. The film shows a majestic space landscape. Never leaving the UK, "Dr. Strangelove" and "A Clockwork Orange" were both completed in British studios. When he left the United States, he once said: "Hollywood in the United States is a dying production system. It must be reformed, otherwise American films will always stay at the stage of old Hollywood and will not progress." It was very unpleasant to be bullied in "Invincible", so I didn't plan to interact with the American film circle anymore, but after his popularity rose, American bosses, especially Warner, respected him very much.
Kubrick has a big problem with making movies. He is a slow director. It takes a year to write a script, two or three years to make a film, and a year to post-production. It takes at least four years to make a movie. And the scenes must meet his requirements, so he often only shoots two or three shots a day. Generally, a director needs to shoot at least 20 shots a day. It takes about two months to complete a movie, and the time he spends is someone else's. Twenty times, but one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and the boss is completely willing to follow his way. After all, Kubrick is the greatest American film director since the 1970s and 1990s. In addition to westerns and musicals, Kubrick has shot almost all themes. He once made a thriller "Ghost Shop", which describes a big hotel in the wilderness, a hotel closed in winter. Watch what happened there. In this film, he used a hand-held camera that does not shake. Before 1980, the general hand-held camera was placed on the shoulder, so it would shake. At the time of Kubrick, he invented the "crane". A movable boom that can fix the camera, this shooting method makes "Ghost Shop" a movie with a very prominent image style. Later, it became popular to make Vietnam War movies, and he also made "Golden Armored Forces", and he was the only director who did not need to go to Vietnam to make a Vietnam War movie.
Eyes Wide Shut with Buñuel and Freud
Let's look back at "Eyes Wide Shut". Kubrick wanted to make it a surreal movie at the time. If you look closely, this movie is actually very similar to one of his admired predecessors, Buñuel's. Movie. "Eyes Wide Shut" is adapted from the short story "Dream Story", the original author Arthur. Schnitzler was a very famous writer in Austria from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. He was also a good friend with Freud, the master of psychology. Freud has been very interested in the phenomenon of dreams since he began to develop his psychoanalytic theories in the 1890s, and he also wrote a book, The Interpretation of Dreams, which Freud wrote to Snee. Schnitzler, the letter said: "I really envy your writers, who are able to describe people's subconscious life in words." There is a book called "The Century of Schnitzler", the author of which is the author of "The Biography of Freud" of Peter. Guy, the content is mainly based on Schnitzler to describe the world of the European middle class from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, including some of Schnitzler's wonderful novels, but most people put Schnitzler in the first place. Second, because there was another very famous writer in Austria at that time, that is, Chu Weige, who wrote "Letter from a Strange Woman". Chu Weige and Schnitzler are both Jewish, and the world they describe is also very consistent. Freud's subconscious life. Freud was very envious of the writers of the same period as him. He once said, "You as writers can write these things as you want." In fact, there were still some taboos at that time, and there were many unrestrained sexual fantasies. There is still no way to write it out. For example, there are many nude scenes in the movie. It was impossible to show so many scenes before the 1990s, so in terms of sex, the movie is much more open than the original.
Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" mainly talks about the subconscious imagination and life related to sex. The biggest part of subconscious life is occupied by sexual problems." Freud was the first psychologist to bring sexual problems to the table for analysis and discussion. Havelock, a famous British sexual psychologist. Olerichs wrote "The Psychology of Sexuality" in 1900, and Freud's "Three Treatises on Sexuality" was published in 1906, containing a report on the psychological study of homosexuality, Freud It is also the first person to do this research. Therefore, whether it is from Freud's psychological point of view or from Buñuel's surreal films, it is not difficult to see that Eyes Wide Shut imitates them, expressing middle-aged men's fantasies about sex, especially for Young woman sexual fantasy.
Sex and Dreams
in "Eyes Wide Shut" Comparing "Eyes Wide Shut" with Schnitzler's original novel, it is not difficult to see Kubrick's attempt to make the novel into a movie with the feeling of a dream. The adventure of the actor Tom Cruise that night in the film can be explained as a process of dreams, and from that sex party, it can be seen that it is closely related to "sex", and he also "dream" to see two sex-related characters , one is a street girl, and the second is a little girl in a clothing store. At the beginning of the movie, when Tom Cruise and his wife went to a friend's party, a drug overdose coma occurred. This is also a sex-related episode. There is already a sexual subconscious in Tom Cruise's mind. activity, and it manifests in the form of a "dream". After he got home after the party, the daughter of one of his patients called to tell him the news of her father's death, and hoped that he would come to see it. He was gone now. In Freud's world, the dreams of middle-aged men are often treated It is intertwined with sex and death, so what the male protagonist faces here is death; when he arrives at the deceased's house, it can be regarded as the subconscious dream of the male protagonist, including the deceased's daughter who keeps saying I love you, always. The courtship with him will not end until her boyfriend arrives. Here is his first sex-related imagination. This imagination comes from the drug-addicted naked beauty at the party, which creates a sex-related imaginary in his subconscious. Impression, so in the end, I met this beauty again at the crossbreed party. It was not accidental, but a combination of reality and dream. Bergman's "Wild Strawberry" also has a similar plot. He met a couple on the road, and then The man appeared in his dream - so the hybrid party was Tom Cruise's main dream that night. Because this dream was so real that it was difficult to identify, so the next day he walked back to the places he had been to last night, and found that there were all these places and all these people, but he didn't see the piano who took him to the party. division.
The main factor that triggers this dream is that Nicole Keeman confessed to Tom Cruise: "When we last vacationed, I had a sexual fantasy about a naval officer." This is in Tom Cruise's mind. It set off an uncontrollable jealousy, and also activated the subconscious activity of sex in his mind, and began his dream-like sexual adventure. Sex is often carried out in an adventurous form in dreams. Like Buneuer's movie, every time a middle-aged man wants to have sex with a woman, either the button can't be unbuttoned, or someone interferes, making it impossible for you to do it. When Tom Cruise entered the hybrid party, it brought a kind of excitement and fear, and this process made him panic. In the end, the naked beauty who was in a coma on drugs was the one who took him back. After returning to reality, he was in a The newspaper learned that the beautiful woman had died of a drug overdose. He suspected that her death was not simply but indirectly caused by him, so he went to his friend, but his friend said, "That's not the case." Causes a kind of confusion between reality and dreams, so we often say that there are many things that are like dreams but not dreams. Was last night a dream or real? Humans have three worlds, one is the real world, the other is the world of dreams, and the other is the world of fantasy. My view is the same as Buneuer's "The Brooding Woman", and I interpret it as all imaginary. The message conveyed to us by Ernest's "Broochette" is also related to sex. A cold girl in the film has many fantasies and dreams due to sexual obstacles, and Tom Cruise's biggest dream comes from Imaginings of specific images that suspect his wife may have been unfaithful. Later, when Tom Cruise came home, he said to Nicole Keeman, "I'm going to tell you all about it." From Freud's point of view, this is a way to heal psychological obstacles by confessing, and secondly When they were in the store, the wife was very open-minded, and the husband seemed to be relieved temporarily. At the end of the movie, the husband asked the wife: "What should we do now?" The wife said, "Having sex." Lifted, so this movie is a treatment process for psychological disorders, especially for psychosexual disorders. Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" tells us that the subconscious world is very large and vast, and sometimes there are dark corners. You have to push it away, let it see light, and then let it surface. , the person's mental disorders or psychological barriers will be lifted.
There are many people who wonder why this movie took a whole year to make? There is no special place or special skill in it. In fact, no matter how simple Kubrick makes a movie, he is taking his time, and there are many mysteries hidden in this movie, which are very worthy of everyone's thinking and discussion. I think it is very interesting.
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"Eyes Widespread" is the last work of the great director Kubrick, this time Kubrick invited Tom Cruise and Nicole Keemann. A husband and wife team, to play the seemingly perfect couple in the film, but their hearts are just around the corner.
First of all, let's look at the storyline of the movie. Tom Cruise and Nicole Keemann are a middle-class couple married for nine years and have a daughter. They are going to dinner, an upper-class party, Tom's Occupation is a family doctor, and Nicole was an artist before, but she was out of work after marriage.
At this time, we begin to understand such a marriage relationship, in which the wife gives up her beloved art work (may be forced to give up) because of marriage, and the husband is the head of the family.
In the footage handled by the director, at the beginning, Nicole Kiman became a vase-like character. She took off her clothes, and then put on glasses and a suit to prepare for a dinner party. Then at the banquet, the so-called test began. Nicole was teased by the man to dance while Tom hugged the two beauties. After that, neither of them cheated. How could these two handsome men and beautiful women be loved by everyone, without doing any wrongdoing after being raised for more than seven years? The director showed us Nicole Keeman's drunken appearance, but in the end he suddenly came back to his senses and stopped this possible sexual affair. Tom did not have a relationship with the two women because the host of the banquet asked for help.
When we got home after the banquet, we saw the couple arguing about the banquet. The crux of the dispute was that Nicole thought what Tom meant by saying:
"The reason why men don't do it is because he is married and he can't mess around. , instead of not wanting to do it."
"The reason a man starts a conversation with a woman is to have sex with her."
Then Nicole asked Tom if he had eaten Nicole's vinegar, and the answer was "no"
Tom said, "He believes she won't mess around." 』
Nicole was very angry. Men were so self-righteous that they thought that women would not have sexual desires, and women should be regarded as men's possessions. Brilliant highlight, the whole point of this whole scene is that men think their wives won't have sex with others, but they don't think about the possibility of a spiritual affair.
When Nicole finished talking about her sexual fantasies with other men, Tom even wanted to take a physical affair as revenge for his wife to bring him a green hat. Let us see the reason why Tom still did not succeed in cheating. First of all, the patient Tom was taking care of passed away, and the patient's daughter (a woman who was about to get married) confessed her love to him, but the possibility of cheating was interrupted by the appearance of her fiance. Moral pressure) failed again, and he entered a mysterious sex party that had to be brought up again.
Sex parties are held in a Goethe-style palace that requires passwords, masks, a place to hide identities, and most importantly, money and social status, upper-class men to play, women are playthings, they are manipulated, in At the party, the beauty pageant was finally killed by drugs, which also echoes the woman who was comatose due to drugs at the beginning of the banquet. At this time, the plot begins to describe a promiscuous phenomenon in the upper class. We know from Tom who rents the dress who only If you have money, you can sell your daughter's body, and then we see that Tom Cruise can do a lot of things with money (including, of course, a medical certificate representing the middle class), and he is paying for everything, which is ridiculous. Even if a man with money and power makes a mistake, he will still be very (complete) in the end, and there will be no retribution. In contrast, in the movie, men are rich, women are not rich, men control everything, and women are manipulated , men go out on sexual adventures, women only dream, fantasize, good masculine chauvinism.
Going back to the reason why the male protagonist did not cheat successfully, when he entered the sex party, everyone must wear a mask, but there are also rules of the game (even cheating has rules, that is, never admit it, never Speak out), violators are punished, common people like Tom who will report to his wife sooner or later must never enter here, and then we see men make mistakes and women are punished. The mistakes Tom made, but in the plot, the sacrifice of the female characters must be arranged, (the death of the beauty queen) (the prostitute gets AIDS) Tom Cruise is a male fluke, this story has dealt with this, it is really amazing Question Kubrick's masculinity thinking (of course, his previous films are very big men). In addition, the handling of the ending is very inexplicable, and even the ending makes Nicole Kiman say "when we wake up from an adventure" as simple as looking at the sex party as a search, seeing money as a panacea and so on! (The film did not solve some doubts later, which would make people rationalize the social problems in the film.) For example, at the end, the essence of women, the so-called tenderness, sacrifice, and understanding (essentialists) are used as tools to achieve men, which is really problematic. .
In the movie, Tom also met the caring eyes of gay men (the possibility of cheating is not limited to women), and then made fun of Tom Cruise's actual life gossip (the scene where he was mocked because he was considered gay), However, when dealing with these two games, others felt that it was unnecessary.
Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick's last posthumous work, but it is limited by some small visions of gender identity and introspection, which does not make this film as appreciated as the past works, but we can still get it from the film Some perspectives, after all, the work still reflects certain desires and dissatisfaction of the middle class and some social conditions, but the myths in the plot need to be solved by smart audiences outside the plot, just as the director told Nicole Keemann at the end of the film.
"People who have never seen each other in their entire life can understand life, let alone one night."
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