Eyes Wide Shut: 10 Awesome Images You've Never Seen

7. Meta-Kurbick

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You could spend hours going through Eyes Wide Shut, or in fact any other Kubrick film, to scout all the little details that refer to another one of his masterpieces. Instead of supplying you with a long line of screen grabs because I have a life to get on with, I will supply you with one. It occurs when a taxi pulls up in front of the costume shop Rainbow. Out steps Bill. If you look closely further down the street you can see a hardware store where Bill was earlier in the film; it's the place he meets the prostitute Domino. The poster reads in large letters MANNING and below that BOWMAN. For film buffs out there this is an obvious one; it alludes to Dave Bowman the protagonist of of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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