Wendy is the worst! We all want to axe murder her, with her dopey gazes and constant sighing and oppressive mouth breathing.” Her high-pitched speaking voice and shrieks just add fuel to our rage.” Also Vulture’s article, “It’s scary because we’re hoping he’ll kill her. Shelley Duvall is just so whiny and dense as increasingly unstable Jack Torrance’s wife that it makes it nearly impossible not to root for him to turn her into a lampshade for the hotel lobby. “It’s not often that we urge - nay, beg - the killer in a horror movie to gut the main characters. ’s Jason Serafino ranked Wendy at number five on a list of “The 25 Most Annoying Movie Characters”. Kubrick’s interpretation of Wendy has prompted misogynistic reviews and of her character. The novel version Wendy has been described as a “brave, courageous woman whose heroics help her save her son, herself, and Dick Halloran.” King created Wendy as a selfless heroine that tried to balance staying alive, protecting her son, all while trying not to abandon her husband, with whom she has a complex relationship. Stephen King is also dissatisfied with Jack Nicholson as well, since he looks like a crazy eccentric guy from the start and not the everyman described in the novel. This is something that’s dear to King’s self, having dealt with his fair share of his own struggles with alcoholism. ![]() But other than that, the struggle isn’t really there. It is mentioned in the beginning, and there’s still the scene in the bar where Jack finally has a long-awaited drink and talks to ghosts. She is basically just there to scream and be stupid and that’s not the woman that I wrote about.” Other problems King has with the film is that it doesn’t explore Jack’s struggles with alcoholism. In a 2013 interview with BBC, Stephen King described Kubrick’s version of Wendy Torrance as “One of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film. ![]() It’s no secret that Stephen King hates Stankley Kubrick’s version of “The Shining”.
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