One of the emblematic works of Stephen King is The glowa work that was adapted and made into a film by the director, screenwriter, producer and photographer Stanley Kubrick, well known for his peculiar films and treatment of the actors.
After a long time, the topic of the time The Shining was nominated for the Razzie Awards in the category of worst director and worst actress comes up again. At that time, the position was awarded to Shelley Duvalla figure that gave life to Danny’s mother, Wendy Torrance.
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Turns out now, in a recent interview with Vulture, John JB Wilson and Maureen Murphythe creators of the anti-Oscars, confessed to being sorry for nominating Shelley Duvall for worst actress in 1980, much more after learning about the abuse Duvall suffered by Stanley Kubrick.
“Some of us who had read the Stephen King novel went to see The Shining the night it opened and didn’t care what Kubrick had done with the novel. The novel was visually much more striking, much more terrifying, much more compelling, and we couldn’t understand why you would buy a novel that had all those visual opportunities and then not do the topiary, you didn’t do the snakes on the rug, you didn’t do the children’s visions,” Wilson and Murphy began.
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They continued their lack of admiration for Kubrick: “If you’re going to say it’s The Shining, you have to have certain key things that weren’t there. I think that guy is overrated. He made a good movie and that was it.”
That said, they both agreed on their take on Shelley Duvall’s nomination: “Knowing the background and the way Stanley Kubrick pulverized her, I would retract that (worst actress nomination). We’re willing to say, ‘Yeah, maybe that shouldn’t have been nominated.’ Everybody makes mistakes. That’s being human.”
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We hope that with these statements the 72-year-old actress, Shelley Duvall, can feel a little better, or who knows if she was able to overcome such trauma, since she suffered from constant mistreatment and ridicule from critics at the time, as well as from the public in general, quite apart from already being psychologically affected by Stanley Kubrick.