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I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.I think the "Here's something humans do. Isn't that interesting/funny/terrible?" thing applies.
All this had me poking around on the Kubrick site for a while tonight, and this seemed relevant to the misanthropy discussion:
[A]s Kubrick himself remarked to Gene Siskel, "You don't have to make Frank Capra movies to like people."
I would have liked to see Kubrick's A.I.
I liked Spielberg's version okay, but I would have liked it more if it had ended with David at the bottom of the ocean wishing for the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy.
The Beast was way better than the movie anyway.
P-C, I remember reading somewhere that the ending after your whitefont was actually Kubrick's idea, not Spielberg's. I was completely shocked; I'd have bet any amount of folding money that the whitefont was Kubrick's original intended end, but apparently, no.
Huh! We are as one in our bet and our shock.
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
And then he went and died, and everybody blamed Spielberg right on schedule and he wasn't around to correct them! Well played, Mister Kubrick, well played indeed. Except for the whole dying part.
I bet Kubrick convinced George Lucas that what The Phantom Menace needed was Jar Jar....
Yeah, the ending of AI was Kubrick's idea. But then, he'd spent 20 years fussing over various versions of the script and still wasn't happy with it. And the rest of the Spielberg script was based on a treatment that Kubrick had rejected 10 years earlier.
I bet Kubrick convinced George Lucas that what The Phantom Menace needed was Jar Jar....
Nah, that was Scott Baio.
Hah!