Editing Eyes Wide Shut (section)

===Use of Venetian masks===
Historians, travel guide authors, novelists, and merchants of [[Venetian mask]]s have noted that these have a long history of being worn during promiscuous activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTIuAAAAYAAJ&q=venetian+masks+history&pg=PA311|title=Sketches from Venetian History| first=Edward| last= Smedley|date=March 13, 2018| publisher=Harper|via=Google Books| access-date=November 11, 2020| archive-date=January 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112004245/https://books.google.com/books?id=fTIuAAAAYAAJ&q=venetian+masks+history&pg=PA311|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Frommer's Portable Venice |first1=Darwin |last1= Porter |first2=Danforth |last2= Prince |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkuNDff0RscC&q=venetianmaskshistory&pg=PA150 |isbn=978-0-470-39904-0 |date=March 16, 2009 |publisher=Wiley |access-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112004204/https://books.google.com/books?id=hkuNDff0RscC&q=venetianmaskshistory&pg=PA150 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjpduEh-ajAC&q=venetian+masks+history |title=The Venetian Mask: A Novel |date=March 25, 2008 |access-date=August 22, 2014 |isbn=978-0-307-41018-4 |last1=Laker |first1=Rosalind |publisher=Crown |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112004209/https://books.google.com/books?id=qjpduEh-ajAC&q=venetian+masks+history |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.magicofvenezia.com/servlet/the-template/maskstory/Page |title=Magic of Venezia Mask Story |publisher= | website= Magicofvenezia.com |access-date=July 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621223111/http://www.magicofvenezia.com/servlet/the-template/maskstory/Page |archive-date=June 21, 2012}}</ref> Authors Tim Kreider and Thomas Nelson have linked the film's usage of these to Venice's reputation as a center of both [[eroticism]] and [[mercantilism]]. Nelson notes that the sex ritual combines elements of Venetian Carnival and Catholic rites, in particular, the character of "Red Cloak" who simultaneously serves as Grand Inquisitor and King of Carnival. As such, Nelson argues that the sex ritual is a symbolic mirror of the darker truth behind the façade of Victor Ziegler's earlier Christmas party.{{sfn|Nelson|2000|pp=288–289}} Carolin Ruwe, in her book ''Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie 'Eyes Wide Shut''', argues that the mask is the prime symbol of the film. Its symbolic meaning is represented through its connection to the characters in the film; as Tim Kreider points out, this can be seen through the masks in the prostitute's apartment and her being renamed as "[[Domino mask|Domino]]" in the film, which is a type of Venetian Mask.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dfKY3D7cuEC&q=Eyes+Wide+Shut |title=Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie 'Eyes Wide Shut' | via= Google Books |date=July 30, 2000 |access-date=July 2, 2012 |isbn=978-3-638-84176-4 |last1=Ruwe |first1= Carolin |publisher=GRIN Verlag |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210112004209/https://books.google.com/books?id=_dfKY3D7cuEC&q=Eyes+Wide+Shut |url-status=live}}</ref> Unused early poster designs for the film by Kubrick's daughter Katharina used the motif of Venetian masks, but were rejected by the studio because they obscured the faces of the film's two stars.<ref name="S&S2">{{cite web| authorlink= Katharina Kubrick| last= Kubrick | first= Katharina | url= https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/katharina-kubrick-eyes-wide-shut | title= 'When you hold a mirror to society it rebels': Katharina Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191114205722/https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/katharina-kubrick-eyes-wide-shut |archivedate= November 14, 2019 | work= [[Sight & Sound]] | date= November 2019| publisher=| url-status= live| accessdate=}}</ref>