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Rainbow imagery plays a central role in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, the enigmatic Eyes Wide Shut. In its opening sequence, respected Dr. William Harford (Tom Cruise) flirts with a pair of alluring models at a colleague’s lavish party. He asks the women where they are taking him. “Where the rainbow ends,” one rather cryptically responds.
The image makes another appearance later in the film, when William visits “Rainbow Fashions” in order to get his disguise for the now-infamous, Illuminati-inspired orgy sequence. Interestingly, the store sign’s logo reads, “Under the Rainbow.”
The rainbow, an archetypal symbol for a bridge between two worlds, is a fitting allusion for this scene. The costume store, in a sense, functions as a bridge between William’s mundane, everyday existence and the cryptic world of the secret society into which he is about to enter. After all, without a cloak and mask, he would be unable to sneak into the exclusive gathering.
The colors of the rainbow operate as visual cues within many other important scenes. The film’s winter setting, for example, allows Kubrick to flood the screen with Christmas trees, whose Norse mythology cites the rainbow as a connecting bridge between Earth and the realm of the gods, known as “Asgard” (“Rainbow”).
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What is it about Stanley Kubrick that makes people crazy?
I was truly excited about the release of last year’s film Room 237—as a historian and Kubrick fan, the idea of an hour or two of deep interpretation of the themes and symbolism of his 1980 horror classic The Shining sounded delightful. It would be like taking a cultural history or film studies class where all the insights of a semester’s discussions were distilled into one megacut.
As it turned out, though, the film was more like a documentary about a cult or conspiracy theory, or simply the adherents of a weird fetish or hobby (say, a King of Kong for ersatz anthropologists). Fairly ludicrous and elaborate inferences about the genocide of Native Americans or the faking of the Moon landing were narrated by the film’s motley, disembodied lot of amateur analysts, who even admitted that they may be reading too much into something but nonetheless went off on their ridiculous flights of hermeneutic fantasy.
What makes this all possible is the legend of Kubrick as the perfectionist. (The word “perfectionism” comes up frequently in Wikipedia entries on the filmmaker and his work.) He has the reputation of a director for whom every granular detail on screen is purposeful and rich with intent—a director
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Pre-Raphaelite Reflections
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As picture film’s famous poster bring abouts clear (above), Eyes Wide Shut is modified from the 1926 German-language novella Traumnovelle (often translated jounce English as Dream Story)