{"id":1302,"date":"2008-10-19T22:17:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:11:25","slug":"steve-martin-in-eyes-wide-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/19\/steve-martin-in-eyes-wide-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin In EYES WIDE SHUT?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Eyes Wide Shut<\/strong> may be the last film from wunderkind director Stanley Kubrick – he passed away in 1999 while putting the final post-production touches on the project – but it is a film he had been thinking about making for over two decades.<\/p>\n

Based on the French novella Traumnovelle<\/em>, translated to English as\u00a0Dream Story<\/em>, Kubrick’s film is a surreal and somber tale of sexual exploration. It is hard to believe that at one time the cinematic auteur contemplated making the film as a sex comedy. In his book Kubrick<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, writer Michael Herr details the director’s initial take on adapting the book and his rather interesting choice of lead actor.<\/p>\n

Stanley thought it would be perfect for Steve Martin. He’d love The Jerk<\/strong>… I know that his idea for it in those days was always as a sex comedy, but with a wild and somber\u00a0 streak running through it. This didn’t make a lot of sense to us, we were responding to the text as a work of literary art, and not a very funny one. Maybe Traumnovelle<\/em>is a comedy in the sense that Don Giovanni is: attempted rape and compulsive pathetic list-keeping, implied impotence and the Don dragged down into hell forever, the old sex machine ignorant and defiant to the end. A pretty severe and unsettling comedy, not very giocoso<\/em>,\u00a0and not the essence of Traumnovelle<\/em>, which more than anything was sinister. Now I think we were all too square to imagine what Stanley saw in Steve Martin, because this was not The Jerk<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Try to wrap your mind around what kind of film this would have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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