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About That M. Night Shyamalan
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I’ve seen this reported in a number of places, and dozens of you have written in about it by now. Most of the letters read about like this:
Hey Harry.
Just thought you would be interested in reading about what started out as a documentary for the Sci Fi Channel on "The Village"turned out to be an expose that M Night Shyamalan will NOT be happy about.
It was once called "Making of The Village".
NOW it's called "The Buried Secret of M Night Shymalan," a 3 hour expose on the director you love to love or love to hate.
Here's a snip:
"If the project reveals more than Night was comfortable with, that was an inherent gamble that he was aware of long before this was started...."
Click here for the “official” story.
Talkbackers....start your TiVOS!!!
ZWhat’s odd is that I got a letter about a month and a half ago, before any of this started to be made public, that I dismissed because I assumed this thing was just going to be a standard issue hype special for THE VILLAGE. Now, in light of what we’re hearing, I thought it was worth going back to:
The Sci Fi Channel is airing a "documentary" on "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs" director M. Night Shyamalan titled, "Portrait Of A Filmmaker: M. Night Shyamalan". Episodes will air simultaneous to the release of Shyamalan's new feature "The Village" this coming summer.
Nathanial Kahn ("My Architect") directed the series and is credited with writing as well, though according to sources close to Callum Greene (credited producer) the project was actually written and executive produced by Shyamalan himself!
The "documentary" is a FICTIONAL piece in the spirit of "The Blair Witch Project" that emulates the suspense/thriller aspects of "The Village". It will be presented as a factual documentary highlighting the making of "The Village", as well as the achievements and background of its subject, M. Night Shyamalan.So is this all just an attempt to create buzz by stirring up a fake controversy? My sources say absolutely. In fact, I've heard that M. Night was the one who was the creative force behind this documentary from the get-go. The story certainly sounds fishy the way it’s being reported so far, and M. Night is such a notorious control freak that this sounds exactly like something he’d do.
At this point, I’d say you probably shouldn’t go into this expecting to see something really ugly and revealing, because I get the feeling it’s all just part of his master plan to sell us a whole bunch of nothing this time around. We’ll see...
"Moriarty" out.
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We all know that this movie will suck - it's the most obvious reveal of all time - like a bad twilight zone or 50s comic....
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Who did he kill and where did he bury the bodies. Seriously, unless they reveal that M. Night is really an alien from a distant world who has a fear of swimming pools I would take this story with a grain of salt.
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The Japanese version of this documentary is much cooler and has footage that no one in the U.S will get to see.
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Jun 18, 2004 6:36:27 AM CDT
I suspected right away that this "controversy" is fake...
by prof. pop-cult
I wouldn't put it above Sci-Fi Channel to go along with this, and it helps to hype the film for the studio. As for the movie's twist end, I wonder if M. Night is in the process of changing it into something that is just utterly confusing. The speculation that the village is actually in the modern-day, that the people dying are being killed by the village elders to protect this secret, and that the monsters are actually construction workers working late into the night...while this is cheesy, it does make sense. Any other explanation -- that the monsters are real, for example -- might be harder to take.
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Jun 18, 2004 8:09:58 AM CDT
Excellent. How about a mockumentary showing another worthless, u
by salvatoregravano
"W. S. Anderson vs Predatress: she runs away, freaked out by his sexual preferences".
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Thanks Sci-Fi... we needed another one.... just like we needed the one you ran about Blair Witch.... yeah, that was great too
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Sci-Fi lost a lot of credibility with me over the whole Farscape cancellation issue. Whether your loved or hated that particular show, it was the point in time when Sci-Fi's overall programming changed, and not for the better. My 2
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The "secret" element of M. Night Shmile-on is that he considers Americans to be idiots, and his dumb u-turns and trick endings are his smart-alecky revenge on our idiocy. No doubt this "scathing expose" reveals that....yes...Night is *in contact with the scary aliens from THE VILLAGE!* Oh, what a hoaxter! All his movies blow--SIXTH SENSE most of all. (Am I the only person who noticed early on that....Bruce Willis isn't talking to anybody but the kid? And therefore...?)
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M. Night is actually a little mouse named Stuart Little! And in a world filled with human directors, he knew as a mouse that he couldn't be taken seriously unless he disguised himself as a human too.
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Always so negative
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Yeah heywood, you are so fucking brilliant. You got that he was dead early. OOOOOOOO!
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If the ending is the actual ending Moriarty posted, then this movie will be absolute shit. Hopefully he has some fucking balls and does something witty and intelligent, instead of trying to play the audience for a bunch of fools and being a fucking racist about it.
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Who knows what is going on with this documentary. It would be entertaining to see SHyamalan get all flustered and go pout when they asked him questions about his private life. You'd think if it was fake, he would come out and say so, cuz this isn't exactly making him look good. Especially when people already think he has a big ego
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Jun 18, 2004 10:54:08 AM CDT
Do people who call him "Shamalamadingdong" think they're being c
by atticus finch
I hope not.
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Jun 18, 2004 11:01:50 AM CDT
Doesn't sound right - Sci-Fi Channel doesn't have the clout to b
by notchjohnson
Sorry, but Sci-Fi Channel doesn't have the clout to start going around being "provocative."
Leave that to E! channel or Fox News, or CNN, or other larger networks.
Sci-Fi's production budget is not that big. They still haven't started a widely known "newscast" for science-fiction, similar to what E! does with news.
So, they're not going to be biting the hands that feed them.
It has a loyal core audience, no doubt, valuable to advertisers, but they're not in the "big leagues" yet.
Notch out. -
You know, "Stan Lee's forgotten superhero" The one drawn by Jae Lee. I...Forgot his name. Ha !
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Jun 18, 2004 11:09:42 AM CDT
Does anyone REALLY care anymore when celebrities are EXPOSED!! f
by notchjohnson
I've now officially tired of celebrity "gotcha" stories, like "CAMERON DIAZ LOSES HER TEMPER IN AIRPORT".
Who cares? They're human beings. Sure, they're out of touch with reality, but 99% of them came from the real world before the Hollywood machine sucked them in.
Why is it so interesting when Matt LeBlanc gets angry at someone holding up his car in traffic? Basically, he's doing when 99% of us would do in the same exact situation. Why is it more intriguing when he does it?
Sure, when someone -- especially politicians -- try to cultivate an image of "perfection" or impossible grace, they deserve comeuppance with the embarrassing moments preserved or revealed.
But most celebrities are now wise enough to not project such images. M. Night Shalalalalalaman has certainly never tried to project that image (his disposition fits his medical school background, if you ask me), so who cares if he gets angry during a film shoot??
Thanks,
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Jun 18, 2004 11:43:12 AM CDT
Crazy fucking white people who swing water at aliens who invade
by lost skeleton
used to be unbreakable until they were drowned by John Mclaine and his L.A. partner Martin Riggs while Mace Windo travels around in his weird Bobby Brown from the 90's haircut making bad movies with Benny Barbarino and Tony B in New Jersey....I think that is the twist...at least, that is what I heard anyway.
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When?
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Knight's a great filmmaker. Jealous fucks make slanderous documentaries.
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According to the scifi website, the show is schedualed to aire on July 18. That's a ways off, so it could still change.
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Jun 18, 2004 1:07:24 PM CDT
Its got to be fake, Sci Fi are not investigative journalist
by sexybeast
If this has been Hard Copy or some cable news interview then I might believe it, but Sci Fi is not in the business of alienating directors or producers.
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Jun 18, 2004 1:28:43 PM CDT
Uh, Drew - you're condemning the guy over something that there's
by mosquito march
"Yeah, that sounds like something M. Night would do!" is not good enough. All this article's really doing is exposing your hatred for the guy.
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If they think a Sci-Fi-related TV show, connected to a huge summer movie, might get them big ratings, they'd be stupid not to pick it up and air it. Almost any network would.
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Sounds a lot like Harry's hero Michael Moore...
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Sci-Fi is promoting this as an expose. It better be or they're going to lose a lot... reputation wise.
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The thing I don't get is that why would Callum Greene, who IIRC produced "Lost in Translation" do a fake thing? That part kind of doesn't add up.
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Nathaniel Kahn was nominated for an Academy Award this past year for his documentrary "My Architect". I don't think you go from that to being a pawn in a big studio scheme designed to generate a few more bucks opening weekend. Well, I know Errol Morris wouldn't do it.
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not even SFC would be that dumb to air it if it were real.
"Yeah, we went out and filmed the doc, but halfway through we dicided he was a jerk, so we just bashed him through the rest."
"that sounds world class! Let's air it!"
SFC paid these guys to do one thing and came back with something else, they would have been thrown out the door if this wasn't fixed.
And if saying the Academey likes the director says anything, it doesn't. Hell, Donald Kauffman was up for an oscar! -
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Jun 18, 2004 9:36:45 PM CDT
Fool me once, shame on me; fool me for a fourth time...
by madfreethinker
This director's movies are progressively getting worse
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I dont see why some people like this guys new agey, family-friendly horror, stupid twist ending...movies so much. The new Spielberg? Gimme a break!!If the ending of this 'Village' turns out to be as stupid as some are suggesting I wouldn't be surprise at all. I hope it is!! The guy's a hack. His movies are slow and boring, with dumb stilted dialogue, and huge plot holes. Blah
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i loved unbreakable. maybe the ending in this one is like the truman show. if you go into the woods, you'll see the cameras.
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That's clever!
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Friend worked on the shoot in the Philly area. Didn't have much good to say, but that the reshoots were due to an unusable original ending involving "the director wearing a really bad animal/monster suit".
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you referring to The Sentry 5 book miniseries? Despite being a gimmick, it was still fun. The art is sick, anyway.
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Jun 19, 2004 1:30:41 AM CDT
there's been a bunch of fake documentaries made to promote movie
by nny777
The worst was for M Night's previous film Signs. I only watched part of it, but it was horrible. FX just did one for Hellboy and I think Fox did one for both X-men and X2.
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Jun 19, 2004 2:41:25 AM CDT
How can Shyamalan be "the most overrated filmmaker in history",
by mosquito march
How can Shyamalan be the most overrated filmmaker in the world when they're still letting John Woo make movies? Did anybody see fucking PAYCHECK? WINDTALKERS? That guy hasn't made a truly good movie in over a decade. Not to mention, he's always repeating his gimmickry. And, still, people around here revere him like a god. You don't see 1% of the animosity levelled at M. Night when Woo churns out yet another meaningless piece of trash, rife with stereotypical John Woo moments, like in-your-face Mexican standoffs and pretentious flapping doves (he couldn't even keep that shit out of M:I2). And, don't get me started on some of these self-important, wildly overrated auteurs like Darron Aronofsky, who also resort to gimmickry of some kind. There's one thing that even the detractors have to admit about M. Night - at least he's not trying to convince you that his movies are socially important, or serve any purpose other than to entertain. He's not showing you a bunch of people laying around killing themselves with drugs while their arms rot off from too much heroin and too many needle punctures, just do deliver the amazingly original message that "drugs are bad". He's trying to make generally-appealing genre movies that entertain the masses without giving them exactly what they've been given before. And, as entertainment goes, they're miles above most of the stuff Hollywood churns out. If you don't believe that, put your hatred of Shyamalan and "surprise" movies aside for just a moment and weigh his stuff against just about anything else you've seen this year. What do we have - THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW? CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK? ALIENS VS. PREDATOR? Does anybody really think I, ROBOT is gonna be that great? Even if you hate M. Night with every fiber of your being, you know THE VILLAGE is at least going to be worth talking (or bitching) about when everything else just fades away.
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People often compare MNS to Speilberg. I don't see it. The biggest thing that seperates these two filmakers is JOY. There is no joy in the works of MNS. Everyone is so morose. But with Speilberg, no matter what the subject matter, there are pockets of joy of light. I'm not a fan of MNS's films. To me, he's a humorless one trick pony. I felt genuinely jipped at the end of Unbreakable. Though I can appreciate it more with repeated viewing. Only because I know not to expect anything. Screw it. I won't see The Village until it hits cable (and maybe not even then).
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Jun 19, 2004 2:44:08 PM CDT
Wait, Sci Fi, the same people who do "The Lowdown", slang for or
by big bad clone
Shit, did you see the one for Van Helsing? Stephen Sommers dick is still sore from how muched they sucked it. Expose my ass! BTW- Do they still have Declassified Tuesday or just some Canadien shiyt on?
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That is a ridiculous comparison. How much DIFFERENT can two filmmakers be? They make genre films and that is where the comparison ends. Spielberg makes exhilerating films, and Shyamalan makes morose films. Here is where the comparison ends: both made films in the Alien Genre, Shyamalan made the incredibly ridiculous "Signs" and Spielberg made all-time classics "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial".
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The big secret is that M.Night Jambalaya is a homosexual.
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just BARELY keeping you entertained while you're standing on a 45 minutes line for the eventual theme park ride that might come about from the film.
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Can anybody tell me what that original ending Moriarty posted was like?
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Oh brother. Are u really trying to suggest that NOT ALONE in christianity is suppose to mean there are little ETs out there on other planets? Hhahahh, Hell they didnt even know what a planet was back then......BTW, Mr Fucks post was funking brillant!! Shamalang's, or whatever, his movies are full of obvious phoney set ups, at least to anyone with half a brain. His mvoies arefor people with low IQs.
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The difference is John Woo doen't go around thinking he's one of the best directors in history unlike Shyamalan. M. Night was quoted as saying he and Steven Spielberg are the only two directors in the world. So someone who tries to fly high like that is begging to be shot down especially when his movies a big snore. You talk about the same thing seen in every Woo movie? M. Night's movies sing the same song but are sung to a different tune. I've heard about how much of an ass Shyamalan is. Any revelation of that sort won't surprise me. A guy that arrogant deserves to crash hard.
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It's not that fucking hard to spell, you goddamn illiterate, hillbilly yokels!!!
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sounds like a lot of frustrated movie makers out there are a bit jealous of a guy with talent. please don't see the movie-- i'm so sick of loudmouth assholes at the movies i can hardly stomach going anymore.
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Jun 21, 2004 8:40:23 AM CDT
So, what? He's really been a ghost all along? Mr. Glass is reall
by big bad clone
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AHA!!! So you agree with me, and with my hero Mr Funks!!! Shamalangadanga, er whatever, that "his movees are interesting diversions but by no means genius". That's puttin it mildly!! lol. But you just repeat the same stuff over again about 'not being alone', bla, bla ,mbla... You sound like some new-age religious kook. heh. We're talkin about lifeforms evolving on other planets, not some gobbledygook about the spiritual world. Where in the Bible does it say anything about organic life on other planets?? It doesnt, because they didnt know anything about space when 'people' wrote the Bile back then. lol. They didnt even know the earth was round They were writing about life here and their innerlives *barf* not outerspace. Get a clue!!!!
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"M.Night Jambalaya"
I like that! A good name for a man who made one spectacular movie and two craptacular ones. And also gave himself an insufferably long cameo in his third film. As for the ending of THE VILLAGE: Man in suit! Man in suit! Man in suit! I just hope it doesn't turn out to be Mel Giblets dressed up for a Passion Play! -
Jun 21, 2004 7:07:36 PM CDT
But I guess we can all agree...it can't be any worse than The Te
by minderbinder
Right?
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Heh, first of all, u know full-well what Mr Fuck meant by "BEINGS"...like 'beings from another planet'. Does that ring yer bell??? BOOONNNGGGGG!!!!! lol Secondly, "ignorant slut...mother take my pole outta her mouth...you fuckin dimwitted numbnuts", WTF??? LMAO YOu are waaaay outta control. Youre gonna end up gettin yourself banned, which would prolly be a good thing heh, but I hope not cuz I enjoy reading your nutty posts too much LMFAO!!!!
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a poser!
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What kind of egomaniac makes a documentary about himself? And to pretend he didn't make it himself is pretty desperate for attention and acceptance. It's an insult to the press and to the public to try to pull that off and continue to keep weaving and weaving the lies. I'd call everyone to blackball the movie and the doc except that would only give the Sci Fi Channel and M. Night more publicity they don't deserve. There's an election approaching you know? And troops in Iraq!
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I submit to you this M.Night Shamalama Ding Dong person is a one trick pony. All his movies are based on the basic premise: WHAT IF ?
What if we stayed with the character after he's shot to death ? (Six sense).
What if a man discovers he's a superhero ? (Unbreakable).
What if aliens actually landed on earth ? (Signs).
It takes more than pandering to the public to be a filmmaker. Besides, none of these storylines is actually original, they've all been done by Rod Serling as Twilight Zone episodes decades ago(and sometimes brilliantly I might add). The Spielberg association is auto-hype to Which Frank Marshall is no stranger.
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Are all a bunch of fucking nerds.
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I just watched "The Buried Secret of M. Night Shymalan" and what a horrible job they did with this!!! It couldn't have looked more fake if they tried.
Sci-Fi is really going down hill arent they? I thought their hype on the Blair Witch Project was bad, but this one really tops that!! The only enjoyable thing I got out of sitting and watching this piece of trash was getting to see Johnny Depp.
This whole thing is supposed to be real, but from the start, I just couldn't make myself believe any of it. I really love M. Night's movies, but what a HUGE disappointment this documentary was...I'm bummed I watched it...
Jodi Merrill
jodim@norwaymi.com
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