Being Tom Cruise wait a minute. Scientology. It all makes perfect sense now." Ewan McGregor tries to convince Cruise to convert to the Jedi methodology. When Cruise first meets Nicole Kidman (Dolly Wells), he asks her to sit down so that he will appear taller. Cruise performs his "dangling-from-the ceiling routine" from "" – while in bed with Kidman. Cruise asks Kidman how he can prove he is not gay, and she recommends that they make the film "Eyes Wide Shut". Stanley Kubrick is portrayed as a sleazy film director, and the program shows a newspaper headline giving a critical review of "Eyes
Influence of Stanley Kubrick went on to make "In the Bedroom". William Arnold, in reviewing the film, wrote: In January 2002 Field cited Kubrick as an important inspiration: Paul Thomas Anderson (who was fond of Kubrick as a teenager) in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly", stated "it's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It can all seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with." Reviewer William Arnold described Anderson's "There Will Be Blood"