History Film / EyesWideShut

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* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The orgy scene.

* NoExportForYou: Kubrick arranged to have the novel that the film was based upon kept from getting an english language release until after the film's release in order to ensure the film's plot does not get spoiled.

Victor has a talk with Bill in which Victor explains that there is no crazy conspiracy, the piano player is fine and the girl was not murdered. However, that does not fit well with the story Bill heard of Nick the piano player's disappearance and it doesn't account for the mask in his house. In the end the film leaves the mystery unclear.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Dr. Harford after the orgy, when he becomes convinced that the powerful people there are assassinating his friends. [[spoiler: One of those people later reveals himself and claims that they are not.]]

* TheUnreveal: Victor has a talk with Bill in which Victor explains that there is no crazy conspiracy, the piano player is fine and the girl was not murdered. However, that does not fit well with the story Bill heard of Nick the piano player's disappearance and it doesn't account for the mask in his house. In the end the film leaves the mystery unclear.

* APartyKnownAsAnOrgy: The orgy scene.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Just barely averted, as Kubrick delivered the final cut (without the digitally added people in the orgy sequence) to Warner Brothers just a few days before his death. And apparently Kubrick himself was prepared to insert digital people should his cut not receive an R rating.

* CaliforniaDoubling: London standing in for New York. The English countryside, Buckinghamshire, for Long Island.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: London standing in for New York.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Just barely averted, as Kubrick delivered the final cut (minus the digital people) to Warner Brothers just a few days before his death. And apparently Kubrick himself was prepared to insert digital people should his cut not receive an R rating.

* CreatorBacklash: Disputed. [[FullMetalJacket R. Lee Ermey]] has said that Kubrick confided to him that he thought the film was "a piece of shit" and that he allowed Cruise and Kidman too much creative control, but Kubrick never openly said anything ([[AuthorExistenceFailure for obvious reasons]]) and his producers said he was very pleased with the result. Todd Field, who starred as Nick the piano player, [[http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php?story=20061024toddfieldinterview2&query vigorously disputed]] Ermey's allegation.

[[IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] DiesWideOpen.

* AllJustADream: ''Very'' subtle hints in the movie provide clues that this is so. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Eyes Wide Shut.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/HarrisonFord was Kubrick's first choice for the lead and reportedly wished that he had gotten Ford in a comment made shortly before his death.

* SceneryCensor: see ExecutiveMeddling above. And apparently the early versions were [[{{Narm}} more badly done]], with Creator/RogerEbert even comparing them to ''Film/AustinPowers''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: In order to bring the rating down from NC-17 to R, extra people were [[InnocentInnuendo digitally inserted]] into the orgy scene via CGI to [[SceneryCensor cover up genitalia]].

* AdaptationExpansion: Most of the episodes in the original novella are adapted one to one, with some minor differences. Some larger changes exist though: In the film, the party is explicitly shown to be an orgy, whereas in the book this was just strongly hinted at. The big [[TheReveal Reveal]] in the end is also an addition, as the "''Traumnovelle''" left the story fairly open.

* QuestForSex: With his wife's affair haunting him, Bill Harford goes on a voyeuristic exploration to deal with his sexual frustration. Probably shouldn't have visited that mansion party though. And in the end, [[spoiler:he never gets it.]]

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Just barely averted, as Kubrick delivered the final cut (minus the digital people) to Warner Brothers just a few days before his death. It would have been interesting to see how the NC-17 situation would have been handled if Stanley Kubrick hadn't passed away. As it was, he told the production crew that if they weren't getting the rating they wanted to insert CGI people into the scene to obscure the sex. That's what they did.

* TheConspiracy
** TheIlluminati

Creator/StanleyKubrick's last film, completed just days before his death in 1999. It follows Dr. Bill Harford (played by TomCruise) as he spends two noirish, surreal nights on his sexually charged adventures wandering New York City when his wife Alice (played by Cruise's then wife NicoleKidman) reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier.

StanleyKubrick's last film, completed just days before his death in 1999. It follows Dr. Bill Harford (played by TomCruise) as he spends two noirish, surreal nights on his sexually charged adventures wandering New York City when his wife Alice (played by Cruise's then wife NicoleKidman) reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier.

* SceneryCensor: see ExecutiveMeddling above. And apparently the early versions were [[{{Narm}} more badly done]], with RogerEbert even comparing them to ''AustinPowers''.

* SceneryCensor: see ExecutiveMeddling above.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Snatch}} Boris the Blade]] is renting out a costume...

** The sheer idea that Stanley "I Drove Shelley Duvall And Scatman Crothers To Nervous Breakdowns" Kubrick would allow them too much creative control is laughable in and of itself.