The 127 Takes of Kubrick's The Shining: What Shelley Duvall Endured
The baseball bat scene required 127 takes—a world record. Stanley Kubrick deliberately isolated and exhausted Shelley Duvall to capture raw terror, but at what cost? We dissect one of cinema's most controversial director-actor relationships and ask whether her haunting performance was worth the psychological toll.
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