Eyes Wide Shut Essay
Art 199 / Motion Picture Appreciation
Due Date: Nov 6th, 2008
5 Principles of film form in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick once said "If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed". With that in mind, my paper today is an analysis of the 5 principles of film form in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut”. Even tough “Eyes...” isn’t my favorite of the Kubrick films, it is surely really close to being, I love every aspect of it, from the music, to the themes, to the way it was shot, to just the overall darkness of the whole idea, its just awesome. In this essay I will analyze the Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development & finally the Unity and Disunity of the film. Anyway, I’m not sure if you (Professor Villeneuve) have seen it yet, but if you haven’t… you really should. Furthermore, I just hope that some of the sexual themes of the movie that I include in the essay aren’t too off-putting, but besides, we are all adults here, right?
Function
To begin with, function as I understood it has to do with the elements of a film, the function of those elements within the film & also the motivation for those elements within the film. Here I will cite specific examples of such things within “Eyes Wide Shut”. One of the 1st scenes in “Eyes…” takes the main characters Dr. Bill & Alice to a wealthy friend’s party. At the party they become separated and end up meeting a bunch of different people on they’re own. After mingling a bit they both settle on someone and with the help of champagne they being to flirt, the flirtation is pretty out in the open and after a while it pretty much turns into to a desire for sex from the flirting parties. Alice is flirting with an older rich handsome Hungarian fellow & Dr. Bill is Flirting with two young blonde models. The whole function of this flirting serves in this story to ignite a jealousy between Alice & Bill, or a lack there of. In a later scene, while
Due Date: Nov 6th, 2008
5 Principles of film form in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick once said "If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed". With that in mind, my paper today is an analysis of the 5 principles of film form in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut”. Even tough “Eyes...” isn’t my favorite of the Kubrick films, it is surely really close to being, I love every aspect of it, from the music, to the themes, to the way it was shot, to just the overall darkness of the whole idea, its just awesome. In this essay I will analyze the Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development & finally the Unity and Disunity of the film. Anyway, I’m not sure if you (Professor Villeneuve) have seen it yet, but if you haven’t… you really should. Furthermore, I just hope that some of the sexual themes of the movie that I include in the essay aren’t too off-putting, but besides, we are all adults here, right?
Function
To begin with, function as I understood it has to do with the elements of a film, the function of those elements within the film & also the motivation for those elements within the film. Here I will cite specific examples of such things within “Eyes Wide Shut”. One of the 1st scenes in “Eyes…” takes the main characters Dr. Bill & Alice to a wealthy friend’s party. At the party they become separated and end up meeting a bunch of different people on they’re own. After mingling a bit they both settle on someone and with the help of champagne they being to flirt, the flirtation is pretty out in the open and after a while it pretty much turns into to a desire for sex from the flirting parties. Alice is flirting with an older rich handsome Hungarian fellow & Dr. Bill is Flirting with two young blonde models. The whole function of this flirting serves in this story to ignite a jealousy between Alice & Bill, or a lack there of. In a later scene, while