Eyes Wide Shut and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey
In the late 1970s, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick discovered a short story by psychologist and philosopher Arthur Schnitzler called Traumnovelle, or "Dream Story". Penetrating into the precise mechanisms that govern human desire, emotion, and fantasy, the story caught Kubrick's imagination, and became his pet project that he would devote the rest of his life to, along with the unfinished epics "A.I." and "Napolean Bonaparte". Unfortunately, AI is being produced as I type by Steven Spielberg. This may sound all great to the average moviegoer, but Kubrick's true vision was to analyze whether or not a computer that thinks and knows it is real has the right of citizenship or civil rights. Does "I think therefore I am" apply to artificial brains as they do real one's? Kubrick's version would of been beautiful. But Steven the Great is making it, so it will be an over-sentimentalized feel-good Hollywood epic instead of true art. Man, I wish Darren Aronofsky or even the Coen brother!s could have directed AI, oh well, that's another essay. Back to EWS, It was once imagined as a comedy starring Steve Martin (Kubrick also made, in my opinion, the funniest political satire ever made, Dr. Strangelove.), the story eventually was made
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