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RE: Stanley Kubrick - Defining Cinema: Part III
Excellent third part.
His daughter said that they asked him to remove the last 30 minute of the film (Eyes Wide Shut) and he refused, shortly after he died. They cut that part anyways and that's why the movie ends like that, in the middle of a random conversation.
I don't know how much truth is in there though. :P
The edit was locked a couple of weeks before he died, and mostly unchanged. That's gotta be the ending SK intended!
Cut to black.
That's an awesome ending!
I'm pretty sure I learned about this in a Reddit AMA with his daughter Katharina - some shots were cut out from the orgy scene, the reason being Warner Bros had contracted Kubrick to produce an R rated film. That had to be done after his death, but it's likely he would have agreed to those cuts anyway. Let me try and fish out a link to that!
Of course, there might some regional versions that were horribly censored, but the master copy was as he intended.
Edit - Found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/134rvs/stanley_kubricks_daughter_katharina_kubrick_and/c70xidf/?
So he did participate in the censoring just that it had to be executed after he died.
Wow! Thanks for the detailed answer Sen!
All I knew was hearsay, this is very insightful.
Yeah I've seen one that was censored and one that wasn't, but that depended on air time I guess.
Very interesting film, you dive into it.