Who was responsible for the digital censoring of Eyes Wide Shut?
In short, the MPAA, the American censors. Kubrick’s brother in law Jan Harlan explains: “The film was first shown on the first of March to Bob Daily, Tom Cruise and Nicolle Kidman in New York. They absolutely loved the film. Stanley was very, very happy and died a week later. We had to show a copy of the print to the MPAA and they insisted that the orgy scene be changed. How do you change it? Had Stanley lived, he would have because he had to deliver an R-rating that was not to be discussed and of course was out of the question. But had he lived, he would have re-cut it. It’s very easy to do. I could have done it. Anybody can do it. You just go back to Tom and in the objectionable copulation scenes are visible, you just go back to Tom walking and looking and then you go back and then that’s how you do it. But we couldn’t do that. There would have been an uproar had Warner Bros. or anybody cut Stanley’s cut. So we had only one option and that is to add electronically or digitally, more
In short, the MPAA, the American censors. Kubrick’s brother in law Jan Harlan explains: “The film was first shown on the first of March to Bob Daily, Tom Cruise and Nicolle Kidman in New York. They absolutely loved the film. Stanley was very, very happy and died a week later. We had to show a copy of the print to the MPAA and they insisted that the orgy scene be changed. How do you change it? Had Stanley lived, he would have because he had to deliver an R-rating that was not to be discussed and of course was out of the question. But had he lived, he would have re-cut it. It’s very easy to do. I could have done it. Anybody can do it. You just go back to Tom and in the objectionable copulation scenes are visible, you just go back to Tom walking and looking and then you go back and then that’s how you do it. But we couldn’t do that. There would have been an uproar had Warner Bros. or anybody cut Stanley’s cut. So we had only one option and that is to add electronically or digitally, more
