There's no reason this should have taken 3 years to film.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Eyes Wide Shut
Christ — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 06:19 AM)
This is one of the longest film shoots ever. It took 3 years to complete. It holds the record for longest continuous film shoots, which took 15 months. Those are the Tom Cruise New York scenes. What takes place in an hour on film, took over 15 months in real time.
But there's NO reason this should have taken that long. CGI didn't play a role here, as in Avatar, that requires a lot of post-production work to perfect.
Nor did it have a story boarded extravagant action sequence using practical effects, like the truck and Steel Mill chase in Terminator II, which would take a lot of time to shoot, due to constructing the set, doing several takes to perfect, and then edit.
This was a low budget drama, where the vast majority of the film was Cruise walking around 2 blocks of New York City.
The only scenes shot outside of NY were the orgy scenes. That was filmed at a castle in the UK. I think Tom Cruise was the only actor to travel on that trip, hence why all the masked orgy attenders were played by British actors.
The orgy scene is about 15 minutes of the film, but given travel time, renovating the interior for the film, getting all the actors together, it should not have not taken 2 months tops. I'd say 3 weeks, but I'll give it 2 months.
The rest was filmed on a NYC street and long scenes inside of shops and houses. You can do that in…3 months.
To put in perspective, Halloween only took 20 days to film.
The Blair Witch Project took 8 days.
The Dark Knight Rises, the same length as this Eyes Wide Shut, only took 6 months, and had considerably a lot more to do: way more locations to move around, action set pieces to construct, costumes to make, etc.
Just filming the opening plane sequence in TDKR should take just as long to film and edit as the entire Eyes Wide Shut movie.
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MovieManCin2 — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 06:26 AM)
Kubrick was a perfectionist who worked at his own pace. He was also the greatest director of all time imho.
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Woodyanders — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 12:56 PM)
Joe Sarno did the freaky sex cult folks wearin' masks and robes doin' kinky stuff with each other at clandestine illicit gatherings so much better in his soft-core gem "Sin in the Suburbs."
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geewizzz — 6 years ago(June 07, 2019 02:13 PM)
This was very calculated and heavily researched…and more than just some movie about an orgy
These vids might help give you some insight -
The film is an abdication of Arthur Schnitzler's
Traumnovelle
(Dream Story)
which had previously been adapted into a film -
Also think in terms of Surreal/Dreamlike films such as
Last Year at Marienbad
, in which it's poster resembles
Eyes Wide Shut
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bigbadwolf666 — 3 years ago(March 27, 2023 10:35 AM)
Yea,
Just a google, and his films arent that impressive for all the acolytes he gets. Though this film is interesting it is still overrated and overly made with the pseudo idea that is great, an impressive intellect film. Just like all his films get.
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