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Shelley Duvall in THE SHINING is brilliant, no performance ever captured the stress and paranoia of fear, yet the critics hated her performance and she even got a Razzie nomination. Go Figure!
I just don't get how anyone can watch THE SHINING and think she was bad. I thought she was just as terrific as Jack Nicholson, if not better.
I loved how Duvall's Wendy goes from being a plucky housewife who can be perceived as a bit overbearing and annoying to then have her gradually descend as paranoid and terrified.
One great scene is when Wendy thinks Jack hit Danny and she becomes aggressive, you don't expect her to be that way, but then you understand that Wendy's fear and paranoia was always there, that her cheerful persona was a cover to keep the peace, and then she goes into survivor mode.
I love the scene where Wendy is finally able to watch the ghosts in the house. Her reaction shots are everything.
The truly sad and tragic part is that Duvall's performance came from the abuse that Stanley Kubrick was enforcing on her. He didn't believe she could pull it off so he started doing mind games meant to stress her out and that really messed her up.
I just don't get how anyone can watch THE SHINING and think she was bad. I thought she was just as terrific as Jack Nicholson, if not better.
I loved how Duvall's Wendy goes from being a plucky housewife who can be perceived as a bit overbearing and annoying to then have her gradually descend as paranoid and terrified.
One great scene is when Wendy thinks Jack hit Danny and she becomes aggressive, you don't expect her to be that way, but then you understand that Wendy's fear and paranoia was always there, that her cheerful persona was a cover to keep the peace, and then she goes into survivor mode.
I love the scene where Wendy is finally able to watch the ghosts in the house. Her reaction shots are everything.
The truly sad and tragic part is that Duvall's performance came from the abuse that Stanley Kubrick was enforcing on her. He didn't believe she could pull it off so he started doing mind games meant to stress her out and that really messed her up.
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