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Well, that's the way that you would want to do it, right?

We hear about blockmail and putting people in compromising positions.

But then that gets into the thought, well, what if Stanley Kubrick was a part of this in some kind of way?

Because there's that rumor that he had spliced footage into eyes wide shut of real rituals, of real sacrifices, of some real occult rituals.

I mean, there's a whole thing of on set whenever they brought in the people for the ritual

where the guy is having the girls go to wherever,

he brought in a bunch of people that nobody knew.

That's right.

But they acted like they already knew what the ritual was.

Yeah, and that's not the first time that Kubrick has done that.

But again, it really emphasizes that the extras in Eyes Wide Shut are actually some of the

most important people in the film, which is very unusual for a film.

Extras are just people that come in, you can pay them 50 bucks a day, and they're just happy

to be in the movie, right?

But these extras are like real moving parts of the movie.

But he did it so under the table that you don't notice it.

You just don't notice it until somebody like me tells you.

Then, oh wow, who are those those guys why are they constantly in this movie

right and that's why because they're the henchmen for the cult they make sure that the

cult works right make sure that nobody tells anybody anything that everybody's in danger if

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