How do child actors exposed to gruesome scenes (like murder on a horror film) not get traumatized/PTSD?
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I am too lazy to really do the research, but Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining comes to mind. The child actor didn’t know what was going on. The one with PTSD was Shelly Duvall.
Except for sexual abuse by adults not related to the movie, it’s the adults who get fucked over.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film))
A lot of comments saying that they are edited in is true, but also you have to understand that even those scenes that are “scary” aren’t really that scary in person, there is no creepy music or sound effects, they have a camera crew standing around, and a director that tells you what to do and say, it’s difficult for this to be scary when you put these things together.
Also, the person who is the scary monster or killer is actually just a dude named Mike that likes to drink coffee and eat donuts, and they were just chatting with each other a few minutes ago, or the monster is just cgi so it’s just a dude running around in a green suit, or nothing at all
Movies look waaaay different when filmed vs on the screen. There’s no scary music. There’s usually only one or two walls on the set, with the other two open to a warehouse space with cameras, casually dressed people, food tables. It’s nowhere near as scary as it looks on screen.
Is this really an ELI5 question? I feel this sub is getting used for any question someone has. The point of this sub is for someone to explain something you can’t understand, not for general questions.
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