The Castle in Kubrick's Wide Eyes Shut was built in reality by Baron Mayer de Rothschild

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Mentmore Towers

Mentmore Towers is a Neo-Renaissance English country house in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. It takes its name from the village in which it stands, and from its numerous towers and pinnacles. It was built by Baron Mayer de Rothschild. Historically it was always known simply as 'Mentmore', and by locals and estate staff as the Mansion, as is the case at nearby Tring Park. However, the name Mentmore Towers has stuck and is the accepted one today. One of the house's former owners, Lord Rosebery, once said: "Mentmore Towers sounded like a second-rate boarding house". It is a Grade 1 listed building.

Mentmore, the ground floor; many of the rooms named for the collections they once contained. 1:Grand Hall; 2:White Drawing Room; 3:Dining Room; 4:Library; 5:Amber Room; 6:limoges Room; 7:Imperial staircase; 8:Study; 9:Vestibule; 10:Green drawing Room; 11:South Enrance Hall; 12:Blarenberghe Room; 13:du Barry Room; 14:Billiards Room; 15:Smoking Room/Armoury; 33: Italian garden; 34:Servants' courtyard; 35:Cour d'honneur; 35:South Terrace; ST:minor service staircases. For other rooms, please see Servants' quarters.

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Mentmore Towers

The Grand Hall at Mentmore. Aged just six months, Hannah de Rothschild laid the foundation stone for the great mansion on 31 December 1851

The Rothschild era

The house was built between 1852 and 1854 for Mayer Amschel de Rothschild|Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who needed a house close to London.

The Baron and his wife did not live long after the Towers' completion. After the Baroness's death it was inherited by her daughter Hannah, later Countess of Rosebery. Following her death from Bright's Disease in 1890 at age 39, the house became the home of her widower Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, later Prime Minister for two years from 1894. In the late 1920s, the fifth earl gave the estate to his son Harry, Lord Dalmeny, who in 1929 on the death of his father, became the sixth Earl.

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Gold State Coach

During the Second World War, the Gold State Coach was transferred to Mentmore to protect it from German bombing.

Following the death of the sixth earl in 1973, the Labour government of James Callaghan refused to accept the contents in lieu of inheritance taxes, which would have turned the house into one of England's finest museums of European furniture, objets d'art and Victorian era architecture. The government was offered the house and contents for £2,000,000 but declined, and after three years of fruitless discussion, the executors of the estate sold the contents by public auction for over £6,000,000. Among the paintings sold were works by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Boucher, Drouais, Moroni and other well known artists, and cabinet makers, including Jean Henri Riesener and Chippendale. Also represented were the finest German and Russian silver- and goldsmiths, and makers of Limoges enamel. This Rothschild/Mentmore collection is said to have been one of the finest ever to be assembled in private hands, other than the collections of the Russian and British royal families.

The empty house, unaltered since the day it was built, was sold in 1977 for £220,000 to the Transcendental Meditation movement founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1992, the TM organization made Mentmore the British national headquarters of its political arm, the Natural Law Party.

From 1977 to 1979, the building housed the national office of the TM organization, and was used for weekend and longer residence courses in Transcendental Meditation, as well as World Peace Assemblies for the practice of the more advanced TM-Sidhi program.

In early 1979, Maharishi moved about a hundred young men, all TM teachers, to the property to maintain continuous group practice of the TM-Sidhi program. Mentmore was set up as the UK seat of the World Government for the Age of Enlightenment (founded in 1975) and was used as the launching point to establish City Parliaments in most of the UK's larger cities. For roughly three years (1979 through 1982), Mentmore Towers saw an immense level of activity, with numerous banquets to woo influential academic, government and business figures. A number of laboratories were built in the former servants' wing and used for TM research.
These operated under the name Maharishi European Research University (MERU), after the original institution of the same name established earlier at Seelisberg in Switzerland. Several series of seminars were run, aimed at inspiring academics, principally from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, to do research on TM. Visiting speakers included Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson, Professor Ilya Prigogine, Hans Eysenck, and many other leading international academics.

In 1982, Mentmore's role was changed to become the home of Maharishi University of Natural Law. In 1992, it was transformed again, to be the UK headquarters of the Natural Law Party, which launched over 300 candidates from the UK and Commonwealth countries to contest the election in that year.

Maharishi inspired Beatles but died leaving £2b and rape rumours

He inspired the Beatles and promised world peace but died leaving £2 billion amid rumours of rape and murder
He was the Sixth Beatle, a spiritual force with the potential to create world peace and end famine.
Or he was an avaricious old man with a penchant for young girls who ruined the greatest pop group in history.
when he began his first world tour as a spiritual leader in Burma in 1958, the Maharishi was praised for his austerity.
One commentator wrote: "He asks for nothing. His worldly possessions can be carried in one hand."
The 'giggling guru' - so called because of his high-pitched laugh - lived in an opulent 200-room mansion, with helicopters and dozens of cars at his disposal, and was worth an estimated £2billion.
The movement the Maharishi leaves behind, after his death at his luxurious retreat in Vlodrop in the Netherlands, has been called the world's richest cult.
Then came the stories of the Maharishi's attempt to have sex with Mia Farrow. John Lennon said later: "There was a hullabaloo about him trying to rape Mia and a few other women. The whole gang charged down to his hut and I said: 'We're leaving!' He asked why and I said: 'If you're so cosmic, you'll know why.' The Maharishi gave me a look that said: 'I'll kill you, you bastard!'"

QuoteThe Mirror, UK/February 7, 2008
By Nick Webster
http://www.rickross.com/reference/tm/tm169.html

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Future as a hotel

In 1997 Mentmore Towers was sold to a company, owned by Simon Halabi, now named Mentmore Towers Ltd [...]

Golf courses

The park is home to Mentmore Golf and Country Club, established in 1992, which has two eighteen hole golf courses, the Rothschild Course and the Rosebery Course.

Film location

The house has appeared in many films, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), Slipstream (1989), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Philip Kaufman's Marquis de Sade biopic Quills (2000), The Mummy Returns (2001), Ali G Indahouse (2002), Johnny English (2003), and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005) where it was used as the gothic Wayne Manor.

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Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

The interior is made up of Elveden Hall and Highclere Castle in Wiltshire.

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"Eyes Wide Shut" is the only Kubrick movie that I hate despite all the supposed Illuminati symbolism or whatnot it's supposed to have. I just can't get into it at all, to me it's just bad filmmaking. I tried two or three times and just gave up. I'm all for slow movies that take their time, I love "2001" and "Barry Lyndon" but EWS, forget about it! :roll: Why would anyone of Kubrick's caliber want a moron like Tom Cruise to be anywhere near his flick? I'm not a big fan of the "The Shining" either but it definitely has its points; I can watch Nicholson's performance in that one, for example, just as a performance, even though a low-budget movie like "Carnival of Souls" spooks me out more. Again why would a genius like Kubrick waste his time doing a Stephen King movie when he's already done a perfect Nabokov and Southern and Clarke and Burgess and Thackeray?

As far as the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi angle goes, Bezmenov mentions the KGB's (& by extention the Bolshy Jews in charge of KGB of course put in power by Jew Western Bankers) intense interest in the Maharishi Yogi as a supreme useful idiot charlatan to guide the useful idiot Beatle/celebrity influenced mass youths of the U.S.A. he seemed to have such a strong influence over in the late 60s and early 70s.

At around the 3 minute mark right here:
[youtube:1j9h1qqj]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkGgHEjO_A[/youtube]1j9h1qqj]

You might also be interested in this:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/99/06/Kubrick150699.html

STANLEY KUBRICK, SELF-HATING JEW

By ROD DREHER

THE late Stanley Kubrick once remarked that "Hitler was right about almost everything," and insisted that any trace of Jewishness be expunged from the "Eyes Wide Shut" script that author Frederic Raphael was writing for him.

"Master thyself, then others shall thee beare"
Pull down thy vanity
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail
A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,
Half black half white
Nor knowst'ou wing from tail
Pull down thy vanity
How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity
Pull down thy vanity
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity
Pull down thy vanity,
I say pull down.

But to have done instead of not doing
this is not vanity
To have, with decency, knocked
That a Blunt should open
To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered . . .
---- Ezra Pound

Timothy_Fitzpatrick · August 10, 2010, 03:25:20 AM

The orgies in that house in the movie remind me of what Ostrovsky said about the orgies at Mossad headquarters.

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