Do you think Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise ever had sex? They must have at least once right? During the making of Eyes Wide Shut, Nicole said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that she had to be coaxed into the sex scenes and she was uncomfortable. Now, before you go and say that actors always get nervous about sex scenes, remember that Nicole was no stranger to sex scenes or nudity in movies. Plus, this was with her husband and one of the greatest directors in the world. I think she was nervous because she knew there would be absolutely no chemistry on the screen between them which was exactly spot on. Nicole also says she has no idea what the movie is about and that Stanley Kubrick never shared any of it with her so she really is not sure she even understands it. She does know it was supposed to reflect her marriage to Tom. Well, no one could understand that either so I guess Kubrick accomplished what he set out to do.
Perhaps she should ask Arthur Schnitzler what it's about.
ReplyDeleteI remember after Kubrick passed, there were a few conspiracy theories about possible CO$ involvement in his death. Scary and interesting, all at the same time.
ReplyDeleteShe does look uncomfortable in the movie! Although, I thought they had great chemistry in Far and Away, and I really did like that movie and Tom in it! Of course that was when Tommy boy was not Mr. Scientologist!!!
ReplyDeleteI love Far and Away!!!!!! One of my favorite movies.
Delete2 Tom Cruise posts & a Narcanon post. I love it.
ReplyDeleteI thought this movie was a real piece of crap. If no one understands what the movie was about, it just wasn't a good movie. Even a great director can produce drivel occasionally.
ReplyDeleteOh please. Eyes Wide Shut was about a couple in a stilted, loveless marriage who had been willfully blind to their unhappiness. This isn't an opinion, it is textual in the film. I always hated how Tom Cruise's character got all pissy and indignant when Nicole's character finally confronted him about the state of their marriage.
ReplyDeleteArt imitating life, I suppose, but not hard to understand at all, Nicole.
I have never seen this movie and have no intentions to see it. I think the last Tommy movie I saw may have been Jerry Maguire, which I hated.
ReplyDeleteTrying to be vague here...I knew someone that worked for Tom and Nicole around that time...that is as detailed as I get.
ReplyDeleteBut they told me that Tom and Nicole didn't even communicate with each other face to face. Lived in very different parts of the mansion, when they were in LA.
All I remember about that movie is Nicole peeing and wiping on camera (ugh, really?) and the ridiculous orgy scene with people in masks. Yawn.
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ReplyDeleteI think Camembert and Jason said more or less my feelings. If Stanley K wanted to capture that feeling for the couple in the film (forget the characters names) he certainly managed.
ReplyDeleteSean - I believe that's the way Stanley Kubrick wanted it during filming. Tom was in London for over 2 years and Nicole was in LA or NY or wherever. Kubrick wanted little contact between them because he wanted a sense of isolation, uncertainty, and distrust and distance to reflect in their performances. This was what he wanted during filming.
ReplyDeleteI do strongly believe it might very well have been the way your friend described between the two of them during their marraige. I don't doubt it. I have a feeling Tom likes to keep his women locked up in the basement in a box like the Gimp from "Pulp Fiction" and he only lets them out for movie premiers and events.
I LOVE Eyes Wide Shut though. I watch it every Christmas week. Sounds like an odd movie to watch during that time, but the movie did take place during Christmas week.
I agree. I love this film and its soundtrack. I love how there are Christmas lights visible in nearly every scene. I love the slow pace of it and I love. It is a favorite film of mine.
DeleteI agree. I love this film and its soundtrack. I love how there are Christmas lights visible in nearly every scene. I love the slow pace of it and I love. It is a favorite film of mine.
DeleteI agree. I love this film and its soundtrack. I love how there are Christmas lights visible in nearly every scene. I love the slow pace of it and I love. It is a favorite film of mine.
DeleteI was going to say pretty much the same thing Roman Holiday did. They seemed so much more at ease in Far and Away. I remember Ron Howard talking about the scene where Tom is naked except a pot on little Tom and he didn't tell Nicole about it, just told her to lift the pot so he could film her reaction.
ReplyDeleteI thought this movie was horrible and incomprehensible. And she was just dreadful. Kubrick does have a way of finding girls willing to be completely nude with amazing bodies but other than that it was just stupid.
ReplyDeleteI thought "Eyes Wide Shut" was awful as well, and that it showed how far out of touch Stanley Kubrick was with the real world. I remember a scene set in a phone booth, for example, long after phone booths had disappeared from the streets of New York. There was also a scene in which Tom, who was supposedly and unbelieveably supposed to be a successful doctor, walking into his office and saying to a secretary, 'Bring me some coffee!" as if it were 1974 and he was Jerry talking to Carol on the Bob Newhart show. By the late 1990s, when that movie was set, even doctors got their own damn coffee.
ReplyDeleteI loved "Far and Away!" I thought their chemistry in that movie was awesome. Didn't completely see "Eyes Wide Shut," by the looks of it, didn't miss much.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Nicole miscarry with Tom? Am I making that up?
ReplyDeleteit was a good movie...agreed with the reasons of a few of the posters as why. this is a movie less about the "story" and more about art reflecting life.
ReplyDeletei think this was Kubrick's way of speaking out about what he knew/sensed
Yes, not sure it was Tom, and no, you're not making that up, Amber.
ReplyDeleteI never saw the movie because I read such horrible things. I have seen most of Vanilla Sky though and I loved it. Maybe one day I see all of both films.
Before he got creepy, I thought Tom was a good actor.
@amber pretty sure there were a few blinds where enty insinuated it was her trainer that knocked her up, but there was def a miscarriage during her marriage w Tom
ReplyDeleteEWS was kubrick telling the world about secret societies. He was dead three days after he showed it to the studio.
ReplyDelete@Missjenny, do you love this film and its soundtrack?
ReplyDeleteNEVER show Far and Away to Irish people. Terrible accents and some atrocious stereotyping. We still take the piss out of Kidman and Cruise for this film.
ReplyDeleteKubrick 's daughter is in Co$$.
ReplyDelete@Nutty - New York never had phone booths left in the mid 90's? The screenplay was written during that period. They may very well have been removed in 1999 when the movie opened though. This Movie filmed from late 1996 to the beginning of 1998. It was a long shoot.
ReplyDeleteIs the scene between Tom and Nicole in EWS really a "sex" scene though. It always seemed more like a nude heavy make out session to me.
The only really good thing about FAR AND AWAY was John Williams' terrific score.
I am completely baffled -- I honestly don't even remember the relationship between the couple in the movie or that it had a soundtrack. I'm with supapimp -- I thought the whole damn thing, every last aspect of it, was supposed to be a giant expose basically on secret societies.
ReplyDeleteNow I can't stop thinking about the poster who said he/she watches it every Christmas (!). Wasn't the whole damn thing about Satanic sex cult rituals of the super-elite (ie, Hollywood etc). Urban legend and/or otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a HUGE Kubrick fan, but when EWS first came out, I was extremely disappointed...but as the years have gone by, which each subsequent viewing I become more & more mesmerized by it - which I guess is par for the course with Kubrick, as many of his films were met with mixed reviews upon initial release, only attaining their masterpiece status many years later.
ReplyDeleteLike fine wine, Kubrick films get better with age...they're always ahead of their time; in the case of EWS, I see a lot in it about the ultra-rich, their decadence, privilege, living above the rules of "normal" society, even the illuminati, etc. - things that weren't nearly as big in the public's mind then, but have become the focus of so much of our public discourse today as inequality has really become more extreme in the dozen or so years since it was released...
Hmm, now I might have to watch it again tonight! LOL
@ supapimp - YEP! I was wondering if anyone else knew that.
ReplyDeleteI tried to find the post on Vigilant Citizen about Kubrick, but got duper distracted by an article on space mission patches and symbolism.
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of occult/Illuminati references in EWS, hence the conspiracy theories on his death.
*super
ReplyDeleteCO$ isn't affiliated with Illuminati, are they?
Yea she does looks bored, like I could of had a V8 bored
ReplyDeleteEWS was heavily edited by the film studio too after kubrick's passing. wonder what the director's cut revealed. No way CO$ is affliated with the illuminati, one worships a alien and the other, lucifer morningstar.
ReplyDeleteRick RB, you totally nailed "the Kubrick experience." I didn't used to "get" him or his work at all, and now I love pretty much all of it, especially 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which is one of my favorite films of all-time.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, though, that I wasn't too impressed with EWS the only time that I saw it. I wonder if another viewing mightn't allow me to appreciate it more.
This has been a nice, interesting post.
(I meant "thread," not "post.")
ReplyDelete(And it's Rick WB. Sorry!)
ReplyDeleteRick, sign me up, same boat.
ReplyDeleteKubrick will forever get a pass from me for Full Metal Jacket. LOVE that movie, even though I was pretty young when I saw it.
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ReplyDeleteMe too! That scene was gross. Right in front of Tom. I NEVER have or will do something like that in front of my hubs.
Interesting article about Kubrick's daughtrt and CO$$ :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/18/stanley-kubrick-christiane.
There are also connections developing between Co$ and one of Clint Eastwood's sons.
@supapimp I never knew it was that heavily edited, that explains why it always seemed so choppy.
ReplyDeleteI found the whole thing creepy and a tad ridiculous. I felt the strongest for that girl who had her life saved only to sacrifice herself for the doctor.
I think the illuminati only ultimately worship themselves. They rather remind me of the vampire clans in Vampire: The Masquerade...which was a totally awesome series, by the way, that if I remember correctly was canceled prematurely. Huh. Irony.
Go on youtube and search EWS and illuminati. It'll blow your mind away. 'Nuff said
DeleteThat was one messed up movie, then again, it was Stanley Kubrick! Good sex scene where Kidman does appear to be enjoying it? "Fur" with RDJ! Hot (I mean RDJ ;-))!
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