is the only writer in Hollywood with orginal ideas?
Everything else has been a remake of something else lately. What's up with that?
2006-07-20 07:48:01 · 9 answers · asked by Kate T 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Definitely, his films are like a breath of fresh air at a time when everything at the cinema is a remake, sequel or just plain rubbish. He's the only one who comes up with new and interesting plots and is willing to put in the work to see those storylines come to life.
2006-07-20 07:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by starchilde5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love that Shyamalan has had a successful career. It shows there is a market for original filmmaking. Can't wait for "Lady in the Water". What I love most about his films is the eye for detail. He goes back over them with a fine toothed comb and makes sure every hint, every plot development makes sense...then you see the second time and see that he gave you the payoff all through the movie and you still never saw it coming. Brilliant writer.
"Signs" is my favorite.
**to Soul Patrol....I thought that too..it seemed this one would be "sweet", he has said he wrote it as a story for his daughters...but the ads are showing a darker side that is making me really interested.
2006-07-20 15:14:52 · answer #2 · answered by Monkey Queen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Hollywood has finally "ran out of originality" so to speak. Everything that could be done in Hollywood has been done already. M. Night Shyamalan seems to be the only one with an original outlook on things.
2006-07-20 15:06:52 · answer #3 · answered by ~**badboys_wife**~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has some problems--- Sci Fi Channel hoax
In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with the Sci Fi Channel, which when eventually uncovered by the press prompted Sci Fi's parent company, NBC-Universal, to denounce the undertaking as "not consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press and value our relationship with both". [24]
Sci Fi claimed in its "documentary" special — The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village — that Shyamalan was legally dead for nearly a half-hour while drowned in a frozen pond in a childhood accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural. The Sci Fi Channel also claimed that Shyamalan had grown "sour" when the "documentary" filmmakers' questions got too personal, and had therefore withdrawn from participating and threatened to sue the filmmakers.
In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with Sci Fi, going so far as having Sci Fi staffers sign non-disclosure agreements with a $5 million fine attached, and required Shyamalan's office to formally approve each step. Neither the childhood accident nor the supposed rift with the filmmakers ever occurred. The hoax included a non-existent Sci Fi publicist, "David Westover", whose name appeared on press releases regarding the special. Sci Fi also fed false news stories to the Associated Press [25] and Zap2It.com [26], among others. A New York Post news item, based on a Sci Fi press release, referred to Shyamalan's attorneys threatening to sue the filmmakers; the attorneys named were non-existent.
After an AP reporter confronted Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer at a press conference, Hammer admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to generate pre-release publicity for The Village. Despite his office's disclosure-agreement requirement and approvals of each marketing step, Shymalan told the AP, "I was, of course, involved in the production of the special but had nothing to do with the marketing of it. If the Sci Fi Channel erred in their marketing strategy, it was totally out of enthusiasm". [24]
2006-07-20 14:56:15 · answer #4 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
M. Night Shyamalan, Quentin Taurantino(sp), and Rob Zombie are really the only ones making movies that are original and interesting to watch, they are true geniuses!
i cant wait to see 'Lady in the Water' it looks so good, it's so cool that he plays in all of his movies!
2006-07-20 14:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by Fatty McButterpants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man is a genius. I can't wait to see "Lady in the Water". I really enjoyed "Signs". I think he played a part in that one.
2006-07-20 14:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is extremely creative. Can't wait to see "Lady in the Water".
2006-07-20 14:56:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe so, but a mermaid in a pool of an apartment complex just does not scare me.
2006-07-20 14:52:29 · answer #8 · answered by soul patrol baby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is really great
2006-07-20 15:14:21 · answer #9 · answered by va8326 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋