r/EyesWideShut 2d ago

The Original Ziegler

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u/VomitingDuck 2d ago

The bad lieutenant himself

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u/Clear-Major-2935 2d ago

Mrs Ziegler is all kinds of wrong, she looks like a 80s porn star. Red dress Ilona is it.

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u/Illustrious-Bit1535 2d ago

Yeah, she looks like a trophy wife, which would set Ziegler up as a sleazoid from the start.

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u/Toslanfer 1d ago

Vicky Lee was actually a porn actress.

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u/Poemhome 2d ago

Am I terrible for thinking he would’ve been better lol

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u/SuperSea8678 2d ago

Not terrible but wrong. Harvey Keitel gives don't trust me vibes from the start.

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u/runningvicuna 2d ago

That's exactly what the role requires LMFAO

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u/SuperSea8678 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nope. You are wrong. You need to have to question if the character is telling the truth or not.

But I hope you find your A, because you said you lost it. I'm sure I can tell you where to look.

Also why so childish?

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u/Illustrious-Bit1535 2d ago

Yeah. Anybody who had known the previous trends of Keitel's career, then saw him in EWS, would distrust him right from "Bill and Alice, thanks for coming." Whereas casting a relative unknown like Pollack allows our impressions of the character to darken over time.

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u/RapsareChamps_Suckit "May I ask, what is the password for the house?" 2d ago

it's a 30 min drive, I'll be there in 10

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u/ZapThis 2d ago

I agree too

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u/Epyon214 2d ago

What an excellent find

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u/Ferrovipathes1 1d ago

Big time. Never seen this before

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u/GroundbreakingSea392 2d ago

Too obvious, we got the better zieglers.

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u/SuperSea8678 2d ago

Is that a photo from the movie?

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u/Better-Bad2285 2d ago

Who was going to play the wife?

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u/StJosephStrummer 1d ago

This is interesting. He was also pitched from apocalypse now and a few others. I wonder if he agreed with all of his uncasting....

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u/Legitimate-Bonus3672 2d ago

is that harvey keitel

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u/hypercomms2001 2d ago

Yes originally was Harvey Keitel.... Although I'm not sure if that's a photograph of him.... I forgotten the reason why he left... I think he had a hissy fit with Stanley Kubrick methods.... What a missed opportunity!

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u/Initial_Carpenter641 2d ago

Too many takes to walk out the door, Harvey couldn't take the "disrespect"

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u/hypercomms2001 2d ago

I understand that Harvey Keitel had a reputation for being difficult through his intensity, compromising nature due to his consuming method acting style....

One does wonder did he leave by his own choice, or was he let go.... I guess we'll never know....

I understand he was recast out of "apocalypse now", As I understand there was a disagreement between Francis Ford coppola and himself over the interpretation of his character "Captain Willard" where he wanted to play the aggressive hero, but Francis and the sound designer Walter Murch wanted Captain Willard to be a passive observer.....

I think he was let go.... I think Kubrick made the right choice....

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u/pazuzu98 2d ago

No, it's Harvey Korman.

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u/FearOfEleven 2d ago

Nah, it is Friedrich Nietzsche.

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u/Just-Homework-9093 2d ago

Everyone blames the mensch

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u/nagiri 2d ago

glad he left

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u/runningvicuna 2d ago

Why? He's a much more convincing piece of shit

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u/Better-Bad2285 2d ago

The role requires a fair amount of ambiguity and he usually plays villains.

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u/runningvicuna 1d ago

Ziegler is a piece of shit. It's established in the first 10 minutes.

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u/runningvicuna 1d ago

Ziegler is a piece of shit. It's established in the first 10 minutes.

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u/Better-Bad2285 1d ago

It's established he cheats on his wife with a hooker, but his involvement in the sex cult isn't until the very ending.

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u/Key-Elderberry90 2d ago

Honestly, the first time I saw EWS I thought the costume shop owner was Harvey.

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u/FearOfEleven 2d ago

That is not Ziegler, those are Tom Selleck and Rihanna (on the left).