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In Reply to: RE: "If you are a fan of Kubrick..." I am not posted by Victor Khomenko on May 13, 2021 at 05:40:48
Ryan O'Neal was miscast.... The cinematography is nothing short of beautiful...
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be in danger of being upstaged by props.
I think his ho-hum attitude is completely in place, I think.
And that music...
insisted that a top 10 box office star be given the role which at the time meant that Redford or O'Neal were the only choices. Redford being Kubrick's first choice turned it down to do The Great Waldo Pepper which left O'Neal.... Harris IMO is a MUCH better actor than either of the other two and probably would have been amazing! Marisa Berenson is one of the MOST beautiful women EVER period!
Sidney Pollack as Ziegler in EYES WIDE SHUT.
Harvey Keitel was supposed have the role, but had a falling out with Kubrick during the shoot. He was removed from the film, even though almost all of his scenes had been shot, and replaced by Pollack.
The official story was that Keitel had a scheduling conflict.
I still imagine how much better he would have been in the role, as a sneaky, weasel-ly duplicitous Ziegler, with a suspiciously urbane and mannered exterior.
Instead, we got an avuncular Pollack, totally unconvincing as a sexual animal, who spent way too much time playing with a billiard ball.
I am so darn glad he turned it down.
I think Ryan was such a success, that Kubrick later decided to try that trick again - to take a lousy actor and make him shine in his hands. But EWS killed that "universal success recipe" idea. It simply gave us dreck actors, dreck directing and dreck movie.
light comedy and some drama pieces. Redford has been successful as a director, especially with films like Ordinary People which I think is one the best films of the last 50 years....
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