But the worst thing is your silly and smug arrogance. He's eventually discovered and forced to remove his mask but is saved from a bleak fate by another masked woman who tried to warn him to leave earlier. People were dancing, there was music wearing costumes, and although it was strange, calling it a "party," would not be unusual in the slightest. Eyes Wide Shut: What The Mask On The Pillow Means, Every Stanley Kubrick Movie Ranked, Worst To Best, The Shining: Why Stanley Kubrick Changed Stephen King's Story, Why Pirates of the Caribbean Producer Wants Johnny Depp Back, Chris Pratt Joins Luigi Actor To Troll Super Mario Bros. Movie Voice Critics. A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games; he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He did not know who she was: she was wearing> a mask. Related: Every Stanley Kubrick Movie Ranked, Worst To Best. After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. ". news:47897d0b$0$5129$4c36@roadrunner.com > Harry writes: (seen on google)>> >>> 1. so drugged out as to have been clearly incapable of making sense >> >>> of>>> anything and 2. never actually spoke (just some unintelligible >> mumbling),<<<>, >> No, she clearly says "sorry" to Zeigler when he says "you gave us a scare >> kiddo" and then Bill asks her, "How are you feeling now Mandy?" - Ziegler> wasn't concerned about her health, just eager to get rid of her so as> to avoid any potential social embarrassment, "Bill, this is just> between us").>>> What is interesting is that the film's very ambiguity concerning the> identities of the three women (Mandy, masked woman, woman in morgue),> sets up a desire to 'fill in' all the film's narrative gaps and> deadlocks, a desire to shut down such uncertainty, to give - just like> Ziegler - an easy, 'commonsensical' black and white 'explanation' of> events. He stares down at her but that'sit, and Kubrick tryied in vain to tlel his stories visually so itshould be considerd from a visual perspective. He is not exactly voicing his thoughts. i'm sure he knew that aaudiences would be sophisticated enough toexamine the bodies as bill is doing in the morgue. Are you suggesting that the people running Somerton would let the> women there know that there was an interloper? And even if it was clear, even if he hadreferred directly to the events of the night before as the (Somerton)party, it would still be uncertain, because. I am still on the side of those who think SK left that scene of the reflection of the sound man holding the boom mike at his crotch, in the crome tub enclosure, on purpose, that the DVD edited out. I think the voice would have rung a bell and > the Newspaper story rang a bell, with the name Amanda, and of course > seeing the corpse of someone who may have sacrificed her life for him--so > he was in shock. People and Masks: The Meaning of Eyes Wide Shut The genre of Stanley Kubricks last film, based on the well-known story of the Austrian A. Schnitzler, The Being "all a Charade," doesn't mean it was all a dream. Mon 14th Feb 2022 19.00 GMT. In a > case like that a pwerson would go through the various possibilities in his > mind, but he was kinda busy. He obtains the secret password to a clandestine masked ball, where he has a seductive encounter with a beautiful stranger. In fact, the only actual dream in the film is unseen, is onlylater described - namely, Alice's dream/nightmare about having sexwith numerous men (strikingly similar to the fate of the women atSomerton) in which Bill is openly humiliated, and told to Bill justafer he returns from Somerton. Mandy was not the same woman. Well, in the interview with "Mandy" - Julienne Davis. <<<<<<<<<>>>>> described (andcertainly not by Bill) as a 'party.'<<<<<<<<<<<. Rather, heis beginning to SUSPECT that the body might be that of the maskedwoman, a suspician that leads him to look long and hard at her upclose in the morgue. Perhaps itwould have worked better if there had been a photo in the newsarticle. <<<<<<<<, > In the spur of the moment people might first recognize voices, > subliminally. But then, Ziegler's 'explanation', his retconningof past events, only serves to further propel Bill into subjectivedestitution, another 'replay' of Bill's unmasking at Somerton, Zieglerpower-presiding over Bill's position and status at a red pool-tablemuch like Red Cloak presided over the power ritual on a red carpet atSomerton. Take another listen. The movie went through post-production following Stanley Kubrick's death, though some have argued about how much it represents his intended vision. I agree though, he hadnt made a defintiive connection yet. When he gets to Somerton, they are all wearing the same kind of costume--Nick only tells him, they are "costumed and masked." Statanic mass?>, > <<<<<<<<< wrote:> In rec.arts.movies.past-films Harry Bailey . Crumb Eye. Even had Alice found it in the cadenza, would she have recognized it as meaningful and taken it? I am normally the last guy in the, > world to criticize somebody for using big words. Eyes Wide Shut cast Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a married couple, with the former playing a doctor who goes on a strange, sexually charged journey one He was wrestling with whether his buddy Zeigler and all those at the "party," were killers. > it is clearly the same voice as the "mysterious woman." ANSWERS: 4. What a joke to call them "philosophers." He may literally have to go underground, or to the moon, etc. >>Even in the morgue he still might not have been positive, but he replays >>her voice in his head while looking over the body. In contrast to the Ziegler-Bill poolroom scene clearing up allambiguities (Ziegler's seeming 'commonsensical' and desublimating'explanation' of the Somerton ritual), as many have complained in thepast, this scene instead multiplies and amplifies the uncertainties.Ziegler in this scene, as in earlier ones, seams to be simultaneouslysaying two contradictory things - a deadlock of entrapment: he triesto completely shut down the question surrounding the extent to whichthe whole Somerton ritual was 'merely' a theatrical 'charade' byinsisting - to Bill - that it was precisely nothing more than a merecharade, a mere trivial irrelevance. ">> "I saw her body in the morgue. >>>>>>>>>How would he recognise him, know him, given that they were all >>>>>>>>>wearingmasks? In contrast, why does the masked woman seeminglyalready know much more than they do? >on the balcony looking down> at Bill, knows that it is him and nodded to him. > slight, single frame, mini-wink and subsequent eye movement was intended? People and Masks: The Meaning of Eyes Wide Shut. Again, how is it 'clearly' the same voice? Again, how is it 'clearly' the same voice? The film centers on a profoundly unsatisfied couple tied together not by pure love, but by social convenience and appearances. But it is obvious from Kubrick's portrayal of Somerton that thewomen are there purely as sex-workers, are there toservice the inner sanctum of male patriarchy in the ritualized desire-space of the power elite at Somerton. WebEyes Wide Shut Mask Woman - Etsy Browse a wide selection of eyes wide shut mask woman and face coverings available in various fabrics and configurations, made by a From his meeting with Ziegler in the poolroom, it appears that Billhas been unclear about the identity of the woman in the morgue via-a-vis Mandy and the masked woman. What a mish mash of mental masturbation that is.. Psycho-semi-freudian-lacanisn-junkie-marxist babbling. for the morgue scene but it is still meant to be the same Mandy. That is what she was" implying that her deathis of no consequence because of the low-status manner in which Zieglerchooses to define her (an identity created and perpetuated by theZieglers of the world in the first place), earlier confirmed by hisdesire to get the drugged-out Mandy out of his bathroom and house("Can we put some clothes on her and get her out of here?" Other interpretations are floating around, including the idea Alice was also at the party, and while there's no set meaning for how the mask got on that pillow, the idea Alice put it there herself seems to be the prevailing theory. Bill Harford doesn't really showmuch recognition in th emorgue scene. It is only when Ziegler respondspositively to Bill's question, "The woman at the party is the woman inthe morgue?" The lower part is made of paper-mache, while the upper one --Napoleon. My extra-fat dictionary yields the following: "rhi'zome, n. A rootlike stem under or along the ground,ordinarily in a horizontal position, which usually sends out roots fromfrom its lower surface and leafy shoots from its upper surface.". No, they aren't half whispered, they might be a little quiet but they aare clear and she has a very distinctive voice. and she >> replies, "Better," and then when Bill says, "you are a very lucky girl," >> Mandy says, "I know." Now that's out of the way, a brief introduction. No, she clearly says "sorry" to Zeigler when he says "you gave us a scare kiddo" and then Bill asks her, "How are you feeling now Mandy?" > But the credits have Abigail Good as> "mysterious woman" and Julienne Davis as Mandy. When Bill thinks hes just about to score his own sexual liaison, his charade is exposed. The "over the rainbow" remark earlier at Zeigler's party was already a suggestion for Bill to think of his patient who owned "Rainbow Fashions." He had no reason to think Zeigler was at Somerton, > till Zeigler tells him. I don't think there were any other dreams, although the redpool table scene always seemed the most dreamlike to me. AmericanCinematographer did some thing on the lighting or something in thismovie when it came out, but David Mullen who used to post here (whenthis place was even worse) could answer like anything. Indeed, he appearsthoroughly confused: later with Ziegler in the poolroom, he asks, "thewoman at the party is the woman lying dead in the morgue." (1) As more people opt for lasik surgery, he will not be able to hide behind those specs. Statanic mass? <<<<<<<<<<<<<. Superman movies must keep him in the pre 80s, or he needsto do some serious upgrading. Plus there is *no* *way* that a rare bookdealer would smoke anywhere near a book of which there are only threecopies in existence. > <<<<<<< after> visiting the morgue, as his disbelief at Ziegler's explanation> indicated. because Bill didn't get to see him up close like the film audience. That is a possible explanation. And didn't Ziegler subsequently admit that the Somerton peopleonly learned of Bill's identity as a result of becoming suspicious ofhis manner of arrival and the costume-rental receipt in his coatpocket? that Bill first makes this connection, or at least, has> it confirmed by someone else (Ziegler)", > Ditto. --And men fancied he was dusted in gold. >>>>>>>>>> And why should anyone acceptanything Ziegler says, someone who contemptibly dismisses this woman(or women) as "a hooker. Perhaps the conspiracies surrounding Eyes Wide Shut began when the maker of the film, Stanley Kubrick, died only days after the first viewing of it. ", "I saw her body in the morgue. 20 years ago today, the final masterpiece from the late, great Stanley Kubrick arrived in theaters. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<, ME> You can identify Pollack's eyes and chin quite easily in the close ups.>. And you bring up anachoronistic Deleuze and Guattari? Why would he demand that she take off> her mask if this were so? 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