Which movie is this Tom Cruise?

Stanley kubrick's Eyes Open/Close your eyes/Open your eyes.

synopsis

This film is the last work of legendary director Kubrick before his death. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the golden couple in the movie (divorced), continue their roles in life and play the same roles as lovers.

Nicole Kidman's wife is a very beautiful woman with a charming figure. She is a woman who fantasizes about having an affair in a quiet and comfortable life. She is also an accomplished gallery manager. There is also a female colleague around her, who is very interested in other people's sex lives and talks about men and women, forming a small environment where she fantasizes about meeting passion. Tom Cruise plays a husband who is a successful doctor. Perhaps his life is too dull and he has a desire to find alternative stimuli. In the upper-class circles where he often moves, the actions of celebrities who look like gentlemen not only opened his eyes, but also enabled him to find himself again and return to his wife and family.

At a high-class friend's Christmas party, the physician was stimulated by her nudity because she saved a sexual partner who overdosed on drugs, which led to the subsequent adventure. My wife was also seduced by a graceful gentleman at the dance, and almost became an affair.

The doctor accidentally got the time, place, dress and password information of a mysterious party from an old classmate who is now playing the piano. Curious and eager for excitement for a long time, the doctor knocked on the clothes rental shop in the middle of the night, rented a dress and mask at a high price and went to that mysterious place. Of course, he got in smoothly.

He saw a scene he had never seen before, that is, the luxury of the venue, the large number of people, all the participants were wearing dresses (black robes with cloaks) and weird masks, all of them were like ghosts, and the mysterious, boring and horrible atmosphere surprised him!

However, what surprised him even more was the formal activities that began after the simple ceremony. Such an activity is really unheard of for him, unheard of. It was a scene of naked sexual intercourse and group intercourse between many men and women who took off their cloaks (still wearing masks). The actor turned a blind eye and the bystanders were calm. The doctor was shocked by such parties and animal-like sex, and was at a loss. ...

In fact, the doctor was noticed and followed as soon as he came in, because the participants in this mysterious party were all fixed people, and even the doctor's friends came in blindfolded to play for them from beginning to end. So, when a stranger comes in, he will be noticed immediately.

Then a beautiful woman asked him to leave as soon as possible, and then he was caught by the mob when he wanted to leave, and then he was taken to the hall where the ceremony was held to be questioned by the person who was similar to the leader. In this process, he was forced to take off his cloak and mask in full view and expose his handsome and sunny image to these ghosts.

At the critical moment when he was threatened and didn't know life and death, the beautiful woman who cared about him stepped forward and was willing to accept inhuman punishment for the freedom of the doctor. So the thugs took the woman away and the doctor walked out of the luxurious and mysterious manor.

Adventures and adventures make doctors feel extremely uneasy. He thought of home, so he went home soon, hid his cloak and mask, and lay beside his sleeping wife with his clothes. ...

Then the doctor wanted to do an investigation. He wants to know who the real owner of the mysterious manor is. He wants to know who are the naked people in the party who are covered by the mask of terror. As a result, he was repeatedly intimidated and followed, which caused him to fall into extreme fear and anxiety.

Until one day, his upper-class friends who held a Christmas party told him the truth and told him that she was there that night and saw everything about the doctor. The woman who gave her life to save the doctor was also arranged to scare him away. A friend told the doctor that the political status and social status of the people attending the party were very special and noble, and advised the doctor not to make any investigation and curiosity about this matter to protect himself.

Behind the scenes:

About movies

Kubrick bought the copyright of the original novel in 1960s, and it took him 30 years to conceive it before his death. The film has a seemingly grandstanding theme, which is "sex" and jaw-dropping group sex scenes. The film caused widespread controversy because of its overexposure. The most controversial scene is Tom Cruise's seven-minute homosexuality, sexual abuse and voyeurism. But critics agree that this is a very serious work, and its structure is like Homer's Odyssey or Joyce's Ulysses. There are many independent characters and plots around the main line, as if accidentally entering the hero's world, and the theme connecting these disjointed branches is "sex".

Although the story is set in new york, the scene and tone have a European grandeur. The film uses red to symbolize married life, and blue to symbolize death and crisis. These two colors cross. The film creates a dreamy realm, suggesting that the hero's "discovery" is not so much in the real world as in the fantasy of normal people. As the original book said, "everything seems so surreal-his family, his wife, his career and even himself are wandering in the streets at night, and their thoughts are floating in the air."

Although this film uses Hollywood's most dazzling couple stars (now divorced), its commercialization is very limited. Like Kubrick's previous works, this film was neither a cash cow at the box office nor an Oscar. The reason is that the film has a slow pace and chewy lines, which is more like a European-style literary film serving the minority. The film has exquisite composition, full color and strong lens expression. The first time may be very long (especially for those who have the mentality of watching porn), but every time you watch it repeatedly, it will make people "open their eyes" again. Exploring confusion is not the ultimate goal of the film, but about the life and mental state of people of different classes and sexes caused by this socio-economic structure, as well as the reaction of this state to social development and the ultimate trend and law, which is also one of the consistent themes of Kubrick's works-the dehumanization tendency caused by social development and structure. Kubrick not only revealed and reflected deeply through this film, but also made a pessimistic prediction again.

About the original work and the author

The film is based on the playwright Arthur schnitzler's novel The Story of a Dream (1926). Schnitzler is a world-renowned playwright, novelist and diary writer in Austria. Schnitzler used to be a doctor, but later he gave up medicine and went into literature. His early romantic career and morbid pursuit of "absolute sexual purity" contributed to the birth of the original film Dream. It is worth noting that schnitzler himself is an out-and-out middle class, and his lifestyle and ideology are in line with the characteristics of the Victorian middle class, which is also a template for the formation of middle class consciousness in the United States today. This work is a portrayal of the author. In the words interwoven with lust, Schnitzler inevitably conveys the fear of cross-class, so readers see the group image of a class in his works-the bottom, such as the immigrant boss who bought the clothing rental store, the prostitute infected with AIDS, and the page boy at the front desk of the hotel; At the middle level, Dr. Bill Harford and his pianist are classmates; High-rise, the rich man he serves, the antique dealer, the invisible high-rise in the RV.

executant

Hollywood's brightest stars, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, play the role of husband and wife in the film.

Tom Cruise's performance in the film is sometimes good and sometimes bad, as if he is not in the state; Kidman, on the other hand, has a sharp edge and performed very well, which is his best role since he started shooting.

Nicole Kidman said that she and Tom have been married for ten years, and the film was shot in the seventh year of their marriage. During these ten years, the life of husband and wife has undergone many changes. She felt that if she made this film at the early stage of their marriage, she might not be able to interpret the connotation and performance as she did when she was married for seven years. She praised Kubrick for attaching great importance to the feelings of actors, and thought that Kubrick's way of guiding actors was not through action guidance, but through in-depth conversation with actors to understand each other's inner thoughts. This cooperation experience has benefited her a lot. Tom Cruise revealed that Kubrick first asked for his fax number through another director. At first, he thought it was a joke, because he couldn't believe that the famous director would ask him to make a movie. As a result, Kubrick did contact him the next day and expressed his hope to find an American couple to star in his new film. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman agreed without hesitation. Even though Kubrick made Nicole Kidman appear at three o'clock, Tom played in bed with many beautiful women. Both superstars spared no effort and spent two years shooting this film.

Some media jokingly asked Tom Cruise, if he were not an actor but an audience, which one would he choose between prequel trilogy and Eyes Wide shut this summer? Tom answered without hesitation, of course, it was an eye-opener. Tom even reminded everyone that he felt that it was not enough to watch the movie "Big" once, because there were many things to think about. For example, after the premiere in the United States, he found that the reaction of male audience and female audience was very different, especially the scene of husband and wife talking in bed. He thought it would take several times to have a deep understanding.

Both of them said, "Even if you have been married for many years, you will be embarrassed to tell each other something, especially sex." . When making this film, the director asked us to tell the truth and tell everything we were afraid to tell each other before. As a result, my wife and I are more loving than before. "Unfortunately, the two broke up soon.

Trivia:

In order to obtain the R-level screening standard (minors under 17 can watch under the guidance of adults) and strive for a higher box office, technicians have made electronic covering treatment for individual shots. Even so, there are still many viewers in the United States who question the film grading standards.

Frederic Raphael, one of the screenwriters, said that the alternative names of this film are You and Me and Female Subject, and Kubrick finally chose Eyes Wide shut.

Kubrick preferred eva herzigova to play the role of Mandy, but refused to play because there were too many nude scenes, and Kubrick did not try to modify it.

Bill Harford, played by Tom Cruise, reads an article entitled "The former beauty queen died of an overdose in a hotel" in a cafe. The author is signed by Larry Cerona, who is actually the news consultant of this film.

Variety reported that Kubrick personally decided the release date of the film after analyzing the box office data provided by Warner Bros.

The second half of the film took nearly a year.

Bill Harford's apartment in the film was designed according to the Kubrick family's apartment when they lived in new york in the early 1960s.

Director paul thomas anderson visited the shooting scene and invited Tom Cruise to play a role in the film Magnolia.

Kubrick's wife and stepdaughter donated original oil paintings for this film.

Because Kubrick was afraid of traveling, the whole movie was shot in and around London, even though the background of the movie story was new york. Street scenes and buildings built by Songlin Studio are used to shoot all the scenes of Tom Cruise wandering in the city.

As a huge fan of Woody Allen, Kubrick once considered giving him the role of Victor Ziegler, and finally gave him the role of Sydney Pollack.

When Kubrick came up with the idea of making this film in the early 1980' s, the hero in the film was very interested in steve martin at that time, and he appreciated the stupid man starring this actor (1979).

Movie 13 minutes and a half, Tom Cruise and Sydney Pollack play in the billiards room, and the shooting time is about three weeks. At the beginning of the film, the welcome scene at the party was only filmed for two hours.

The film was shot for 400 days.

Although it is usually regarded as Kubrick's "unfinished masterpiece", in fact, the final version of the film was submitted to Warner Bros. by Kubrick himself four days before his death.

Kubrick's daughter Katharina and grandson Alex Hobbs also appeared in the film, playing the little patient and his mother, and his face was examined by Cruise.

Kubrick had three assistants when shooting this film. In order to distinguish them, they are called: director's assistant, stanley kubrick's assistant and Mr Kubrick's assistant.

Tom Cruise wore a mask at the mystery party. The prototype of the mask was Ryan O'Neal, the actor who starred in Blood Debt.