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      Is Eyes Wide Shut a True Story? Is the 1999 Movie Based on a ...
      • No, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ is not based on a true story. The movie is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella ‘Traumnovelle.’ The book is also known as ‘Rhapsody: A Dream Novel’ and ‘Dream Story.’
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  2. Feb 14, 2022 · Filled with sex, murder and conspiracy, Eyes Wide Shut is based on the 1926 novella, Traumnovelle (Dream Story), by Arthur Schnitzler. However, Kubrick transposed the setting from decadence-era Vienna to New York, a move that has been taken by many as a means of holding the mirror up to contemporary society.

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  3. Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.

    • Myth: Harvey Keitel left the film due to scheduling conflicts. Harvey Keitel was originally cast in the film as a friend of Tom Cruise’s character; however, midway through the shoot, it was announced that his role had been recast, with Sydney Pollack taking over as the wealthy and mysterious Victor Ziegler.
    • Myth: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were on set for each other’s intimate scenes. At the time the film was made, Cruise and Kidman were still a couple in real life (the pair would go through a highly publicised divorce in 2001).
    • Myth: Kubrick considered scrapping the entire film. In January 1999, rumours began to circulate within some film industry circles in Los Angeles that Kubrick was thinking about destroying the film altogether, despite having completed the long shoot and being in the middle of post-production.
    • Myth: The film released in cinemas was approved by Kubrick. Kubrick finally sent his rough cut to Warner Bros in early March 1999, who held a private screening in New York for studio executives.
  4. Jul 9, 2024 · Open Eyes. Based on the Austrian novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut is very much an odyssey in the classic sense of the word. It traces Bill’s voyage into the darker, sexual...

  5. Jul 15, 2024 · Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick spent a lifetime trying to make his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, a reality. He had been struggling to make it from the moment he began making feature films,...

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  6. Apr 28, 2022 · The film is a confounding story, and even two decades later, fans and critics alike continue to debate the meaning behind "Eyes Wide Shut" and whether the final cut was what Kubrick really...

  7. Jul 15, 2024 · What they’ve discovered (and what some of us have known from the start) is that “Eyes Wide Shut” is a film like no other—a strange, unsettling, and provocative exploration of marriage and sexual jealousy as defiant of expectations as anything that Kubrick ever made.