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M Night Shyamalan - 37 Today

August 7th 2007 03:54
M. Night Shyamalan
At the age of 37 this "young" director has a solid Hollywood career ahead of him. With Oscar nominations and a definite cult following, Shyamalan has seemingly orchestrated a charmed career with movie after movie falling brilliantly into place one after the other, dazzling audiences with repeatedly more bold and fantastical conceptions.

Admiedly Lady in the Water sucked, but it will take a great deal of time before audiences forget the brilliance that was The Village and The Sixth Sense - which also did the world the service of providing Toni Collette with a major box-office behicle.
With no shortage of projects on stand by and a production entitled The Happening presently filming, it is unquestioable that this innovative director will be around for many years to come. We eagerly (though cautiously) await his next movie.
In the meantime - Happy Birthday!
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Comment by Dustin

August 9th 2007 17:05
Just a note on said director. I didn't really grab an opinion from your post, so it's not an attack, but I feel like he has been getting too much credit lately and is really one of the major reasons that innovation in modern filmmaking has greatly slowed. He has made it ok for a filmmaker to attempt to trick the audience and pass it off as innovation, when it is really exaggerating the form complexities of the medium. Whereas someone like Maya Deren sought out the complexities and problems of form and truth in t he mediu and made comment on them in an attempt to create a new cinema. It seems that M. Night is content to merely pull parlor tricks and amuse ignorant audiences with films that may be entertaining on first viewing but on second viewing you can only realize that his parlor tricks negate any meaning which may have been present before the last twenty minutes of the film when he tries to pull the rug out from under the audience. It becomes a game where the goal is not to understand a film and gain an expereience but an expereince where you go and try to guess what the trick is, what the ending will be. Just a note.

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