Revealing mistake: In the newspaper that Tom Cruise is reading, the same sentences are printed over and over.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Jackie Sawiris, Madison Eginton
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Question: One of the mistakes says there's a newspaper that Tom Cruise reads that has the same sentence written over and over. Is this a reference to the Shining by the production?
Answer: No. They needed to have an article for Cruise to read and, on the assumption that it wouldn't be readable by the viewers, they simply filled up the space required by repeating the same sentence over and over again. Another commonly used tactic is to steal text from a real article, leading to situations where the text of a newspaper article can be seen to have nothing to do with the actual headline.
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