I misspoke: for some reason whenever I have occasion to mention the screenwriter Frederic Raphael, I misname him Rafael Kubelik (a classical musician, I think?)... this isn't even the first time I've had to comment on one of my own UA-cam videos to make exactly the same correction
A fascinating movie! Stanley said so much about the 'elites' and how things are done. Here we are in 2024 seeing more truths revealed about Hollywood and the music industry. Do you have any info on when and how Stanley Kubrick died?... It wasn't long after the movie came out? Also didn't he have a fear of flying?... or was it a fear of going abroad?
I don't know whether or not it's true that Kubrick actively feared flying. I know that completely eschewing work related travel, gave him a social and professional distance, from the industry, that could definitely have been useful to him... Even celebrities had to go to him, to literally his country estate, to take meetings... I don't know what his declared/official cause of death was. He did die shortly after turning in a director's cut of Eyes Wide Shut, so presumably the shift in physical strain, when the movie was finished, is what killed him. I've heard from people who knew him and worked with him that Kubrick's drug of choice was pure oxygen - he liked to huff oxygen as a stimulant and always had a tank close at hand... and was also a multiple packs a day chain smoker. So whatever the specific cause of death was, that peculiar combination of personal habits, and what it did to his lungs and heart, is certainly what got him. Kubrick, I've been told, died in bed, while grabbing for the oxygen. (I was in a FB group for a while with a bunch of guys who were older than me, who'd worked on the last couple of Kubrick movies, and those comment threads are my source - )
Good film, I agree with those that are suspicious about editing and cutting out scenes. It would be a better film with clear blood worship scenes in it. Have you seen babalyon about Hollywood, feels a little bit like it.
@@RavenShinyThings one thing about Eyes Wide Shut, is, it's about dreams and fantasies... That is... It's not the Illuminati orgy we witness... It's Tom Cruise's character's fantasy about a party to which he's not invited. So his ideas about what the orgy is like, are really straightforward, entry level fantasy material... A pale shadow of the implicit actual orgy that may or may not have taken place
@@RavenShinyThings and yeah I think Kubrick probably meant to release the slightly more graphic version with an NC-17 rating... He just didn't live long enough to insist on winning those arguments
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I misspoke: for some reason whenever I have occasion to mention the screenwriter Frederic Raphael, I misname him Rafael Kubelik (a classical musician, I think?)... this isn't even the first time I've had to comment on one of my own UA-cam videos to make exactly the same correction
A fascinating movie! Stanley said so much about the 'elites' and how things are done. Here we are in 2024 seeing more truths revealed about Hollywood and the music industry. Do you have any info on when and how Stanley Kubrick died?... It wasn't long after the movie came out? Also didn't he have a fear of flying?... or was it a fear of going abroad?
I don't know whether or not it's true that Kubrick actively feared flying. I know that completely eschewing work related travel, gave him a social and professional distance, from the industry, that could definitely have been useful to him... Even celebrities had to go to him, to literally his country estate, to take meetings...
I don't know what his declared/official cause of death was. He did die shortly after turning in a director's cut of Eyes Wide Shut, so presumably the shift in physical strain, when the movie was finished, is what killed him.
I've heard from people who knew him and worked with him that Kubrick's drug of choice was pure oxygen - he liked to huff oxygen as a stimulant and always had a tank close at hand... and was also a multiple packs a day chain smoker. So whatever the specific cause of death was, that peculiar combination of personal habits, and what it did to his lungs and heart, is certainly what got him. Kubrick, I've been told, died in bed, while grabbing for the oxygen.
(I was in a FB group for a while with a bunch of guys who were older than me, who'd worked on the last couple of Kubrick movies, and those comment threads are my source - )
Good film, I agree with those that are suspicious about editing and cutting out scenes. It would be a better film with clear blood worship scenes in it. Have you seen babalyon about Hollywood, feels a little bit like it.
@@RavenShinyThings I loved Babylon. My other favorite movie about the dark side of Hollywood is The Day of the Locust
@@RavenShinyThings one thing about Eyes Wide Shut, is, it's about dreams and fantasies... That is... It's not the Illuminati orgy we witness... It's Tom Cruise's character's fantasy about a party to which he's not invited. So his ideas about what the orgy is like, are really straightforward, entry level fantasy material... A pale shadow of the implicit actual orgy that may or may not have taken place
@@RavenShinyThings and yeah I think Kubrick probably meant to release the slightly more graphic version with an NC-17 rating... He just didn't live long enough to insist on winning those arguments