The Wendy Theory is Bad

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE is now streaming on MUBI in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/eyebrowcinema Like and subscribe if you'd like to see more video essays about movies. 0:00 - Introducing 2:40 - Unpacking 8:10 - Unraveling 14:13 - Questioning 23:43 - Confronting Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: https://www.patreon.com/eyebrowcinema In this video essay, I respond to "The Wendy Theory", a popular fan interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining which argues that Wendy Torrance is the true villain of the story, popularized by Youtuber "Rob at the Movies". My goals are not only to debunk "The Wendy Theory", but also to explore film and media interpretation more broadly. The Wendy Theory Link: /watch/gWh9-W0_rRw_9 Filmography: https://letterboxd.com/pgcooper/list/the-wendy-theory-is-bad-filmography/ See also: "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo." Alexandre Astruc. 1992. "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form." Sergei Eisenstein. 1949. Music Featured: "No. 8 Requiem" by Esther Abrami "Love Him" by Loyalty Freak Music "The Plan's Working" by Cooper Cannell "Marxist Arrow" by Twin Musicom "The Wind" by Komiku "Martian Cowboy" by Kevin MacLeod "Both Flanks" by Small Colin "Setup with an E" by Small Colin "Measured Paces" by Kevin MacLeod "Strange Stuff" by Matt Harris "The Six Realms" by I Think I Can Help You "Northern Lights" by Chris Haugen Marxist Arrow by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/ Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100349 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100164 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ More Stanley Kubrick Videos: Barry Lyndon - The Unworthy Protagonist - /watch/IqugzYNoXShog Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - /watch/MoeBOWY2wMt2B Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - /watch/4XECTnu8noU8C The Shining Dissolves - /watch/Qz83tWc6H3K63 More Eyebrow Cinema: The Death of Michael Corleone - How I Learned to Love The Godfather Part III? - /watch/0ZQ6U3Gl-U9l6 The Last Picture Show and the Legacy of BBS - /watch/sLddXidssDIsd This Might Be My Masterpiece - Inglourious Basterds and Lady in the Water - /watch/EunZnylMPCuMZ The Film Bro is Dead - /watch/cJ4x8UAt-SKtx Villains Reformed in Batman: The Animated Series - /watch/AA1j6-BT91STj Listening to Blade Runner's Terrible Voiceover - /watch/Eg645qyH2V3H4 No, Superhero Movies are Not Like Westerns - /watch/8lZluOb-ViS-l Dark Souls Difficulty and the Easy Mode Debate - /watch/MXkA8PIRl_zRA The Fly - The First Horror Movie I Loved - /watch/o-7pXnzyt3uyp Dune, Star Wars and Building Sci-Fi Worlds - /watch/sB5TJ328W_d8T On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond - /watch/sx9sTz294oK9s Long Movies are Good, Actually - /watch/0FgXspxshGYsX Harry Potter - 10 Years Later - /watch/wvia6sWjV0Hja Never Say Never Again is a Waste - /watch/AMmvjuCMdsGMv Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - /watch/UDit0ebO3IsOt The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - /watch/4latnhDE9PxEt Learning to Love Batman v. Superman - /watch/EwedWrq_W3o_d The Decay of Cinema - /watch/M5i2hwtNDjhN2 Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - /watch/MaLeVdIyLZUye Star Wars Can't Move On - /watch/EuUcl-zgWSEgc Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - /watch/4QRtrz5feUIft Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - /watch/IBWN7D9ldZulN Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - /watch/MSnm8HAhIufhm

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