RIP Shelley Duvall

[gunhilltrain]

Not sure anybody as unconventional as she was could make in it movies nowadays.

 

[MyBareTorso]

Not sure anybody as unconventional as she was could make in it movies nowadays.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It's a shame that she became so defined as Wendy Torrance, when the work she did with Robert Altman showed her range far better.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It's a shame that she became so defined as Wendy Torrance, when the work she did with Robert Altman showed her range far better.

That's show business. I suppose the Stephen King connection with The Shining pretty much guaranteed that the movie would do well.

 

[mildlyaroused]

Shelley felt very authentic in a way few actors do. Even when I saw her across multiple different roles, I never felt like I was watching an actress act. She made each character a human being.

Edit: she was also very gorgeous, I always thought.

 

[ElectricBlue]

That's show business. I suppose the Stephen King connection with The Shining pretty much guaranteed that the movie would do well.

More so because it was a Kubrick movie with Jack Nicholson starring. Stephen King didn't like the movie.

 

[nice90sguy]

It's a shame that she became so defined as Wendy Torrance, when the work she did with Robert Altman showed her range far better.

I never saw "The Shining", and didn't know that she was the star until the news of her death. So to me she'll always be Martha, the sex-loving hippy in "Nashville"

 

[Abbafan]

She got undeserved flack for the Shining. That scene on a stairway where she hits Jack in the head with a bat is the most convincing portrayal of being scared shitless I've ever seen from an actor.

 

[ElectricBlue]

She got undeserved flack for the Shining. That scene on a stairway where she hits Jack in the head with a bat is the most convincing portrayal of being scared shitless I've ever seen from an actor.

The scene that does it for me is when she's flipping through all of the typing, and realises Jack is insane. Puts a shiver up my spine, every time.

 

[lovecraft68]

That's show business. I suppose the Stephen King connection with The Shining pretty much guaranteed that the movie would do well.

Umm...not always, some total bombs have been released of his work since the 90's. Part of it is over saturation, part his work really went downhill around the same time period.

 

[lovecraft68]

The scene in that movie that scared the hell out of young me was the old lady in the tub.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I loved her as Olive Oyl in the "Popeye" movie opposite Robin Williams.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The scene in that movie that scared the hell out of young me was the old lady in the tub.

Spoiler Alert: That is one thing that was changed from the novel, perhaps not for the best in terms of the scare factor. In the film, both Danny and Jack see her at different times. In the book, Jack only hears here walking around after he closes the door to the room. It's extremely creepy because he he never saw her; he only knows of Danny's description.

 

[alohadave]

It's a shame that she became so defined as Wendy Torrance, when the work she did with Robert Altman showed her range far better.

The Shining and Popeye are the only two things I ever saw her in.

 

[lovecraft68]

Spoiler Alert: That is one thing that was changed from the novel, perhaps not for the best in terms of the scare factor. In the film, both Danny and Jack see her at different times. In the book, Jack only hears here walking around after he closes the door to the room. It's extremely creepy because he he never saw her; he only knows of Danny's description.

I have a thing with elderly people as in they creep me out. The movie the Taking of Deborah Logan had me wanting to sink behind the pillows on the couch.

A few years back, I went with my wife to see her grandmother who suffered from dementia. While we were in the hallway an elderly woman came out of her room, screaming something about "My son my son" and threew herself into me. I almost jumped to the side and let her fall, but managed to stay still and she hugged me and screamed some name into my ear, then kept screaming as the staff untangled her from me, then she starts laughing.

I've had some bad things happen to me, and in front of me, but that was the only time in my life I was scared beyond shitless. Like I was shaking for the next half hour.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have a thing with elderly people as in they creep me out. The movie the Taking of Deborah Logan had me wanting to sink behind the pillows on the couch.

A few years back, I went with my wife to see her grandmother who suffered from dementia. While we were in the hallway an elderly woman came out of her room, screaming something about "My son my son" and threew herself into me. I almost jumped to the side and let her fall, but managed to stay still and she hugged me and screamed some name into my ear, then kept screaming as the staff untangled her from me, then she starts laughing.

I've had some bad things happen to me, and in front of me, but that was the only time in my life I was scared beyond shitless. Like I was shaking for the next half hour.

Well, I'm going to be seventy next year, so does that make me elderly? As I used to joke with my friend, neither of us will be around in 2099. He only made it to age 59 in 2014. The horrible thing about dementia is that the people who have it don't seem to know it. Better to have those euthanasia boxes like in Soylent Green. The Edward G. Robinson character seems to welcome being put in one.

The woman in the tub is estimated to be about sixty by one of the hotel workers who saw her while she was still alive. Sixty seems sort of young to me now!

 

[jehoram]

The simple fact that Robert Altman, one of the true geniuses in the directing business, used her often in a variety of roles is a testament to her greatness as an actor.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well, I'm going to be seventy next year, so does that make me elderly? As I used to joke with my friend, neither of us will be around in 2099. He only made it to age 59 in 2014. The horrible thing about dementia is that the people who have it don't seem to know it. Better to have those euthanasia boxes like in Soylent Green. The Edward G. Robinson character seems to welcome being put in one.

The woman in the tub is estimated to be about sixty by one of the hotel workers who saw her while she was still alive. Sixty seems sort of young to me now!

I should be more specific as to say its more like very elderly women and the ones that are either evil like in the movies or mentally lost like the woman who attacked me.

I recall my daughter making a joke about it later, "That poor woman was really out of her mind, who'd want you to claim you as their son."