Hey folks, Harry here with a look at M Night's UNBREAKABLE... basically spoiler free... There are some spoilers here.... but not the big one. What is here is basic plot structure... the basic... what is going on thing. Mr Durden seemed to really enjoy the film... Take care and god bless you... everyone...
Harry,
Hows it hangin' big guy? As cold as it is now, mine's not doing so
well..but I digress. Here's something you'll find more interesting: a
review of the test screening for Unbreakable that some people ALMOST didn't get into.
And it was all your fault too!
The whole thing was quite a bit of luck, anyway. I dont actually
live anywhere near Camarillo, I just happened to be visiting my father at
the time, who has connections and dropped a few hints suggesting the proper
time and location of such a screening. Now, this is a movie I've been
looking forward to ever since I first heard about its preproduction, so I
eagerly high-tailed it to the theater.
That's where the trouble began...
See, this guy and his friend, a rather large, bearded redhead, though (and
I mean this as a complement)nowhere near your exquisite stature. Fucking
Nazi NRG's apparently thought he was you, and they got ID'd and everything.
Eventually, though, they got in, and the rest, as they say, is history. I laughed my ass off at those NRG bastards, he was so not you, I think.
Before the movie began, we got the standard "this is a rough print,
temp score, blah blah blah". Although nothing was said about the presence
of celebrities, I did indeed hear that Mr. John McClain himself was present.
Unfortunately, I didn't see him.
In the film, Bruce plays a guy named David Dunne, who works crowd
control at a football stadium in Philadelphia. He used to be a football
player himself, but back in college his future wife and he were hit by a
truck driver. It was a pretty severe crash, and David was injured enough
not to be able to play football again. The interesting thing, though, is
that he recovered VERY quickly and all these years later he doesnt even limp
or anything. Now, about David... he's a very simple guy: its NOT the same
character he played in 6th Sense...David is, to put it frankly, not as
intelligent. He is, however, vaguely comic-bookish; quiet, strong. Anyway,
David is sick of working as a security guard, so he goes to New York to do
some job interviews. On the way back, however, the train he's on wrecks and
something like over a hundred people are killed(everyone on the
train)...David comes out basically uninjured, however, and makes the news
because of it. This is how Samuel L Jackson's character, Elijah Price, hears
about him. Elijah runs a comic store called Limited Edition, and he thinks
that David may be a real superhero; a guy who cannont be injured by
conventional means. More than that, however, he believes that he has a
spiritual connection to David; see, Elijah was born with a condition that
makes his bones break VERY easily, and he thinks that for him to recover, a
person like David has to be injured. Elijah's condition is illustrated very
graphically; in one scene, a flashback to his childhood, Elijah becomes
seperated from his parents and is injured so seriously he become paralyzed.
Anyway, as the story develops, Elijah both tries to convince David who he is
while also learning more about him so he can figure out a way to hurt him.
As the movie drew to its conclusion, I thought I had the "surprise ending"
figured out; naturally, I was wrong. While the ending is indeed a surprise,
I don't really think its the shocker that some people have claimed; at
least, I didnt't think it was on the level of The Sixth Sense or Usual
Suspects or Jacob's ladder. It's not that sort of ending, where it changes
everything we thought before, it simply involves characters doing things we
don't expect them to.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the info!
- Tyler Durden
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