I provided the stories for The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village to Mr. Shyamalan in Chicago in 1997 and encouraged him to show his own face in them. Shyamalan introduced me to the 9-11 terrorists at Chicago Theological Seminary and even talked my hospital into letting him give medical students an error-filled talk on electrocardiology with which he had absolutely no familiarity.
I provided the stories for The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village to Mr. Shyamalan in Chicago in 1997 and encouraged him to show his own face in them. Shyamalan introduced me to the 9-11 terrorists at Chicago Theological Seminary and even talked my hospital into letting him give medical students an error-filled talk on electrocardiology with which he had absolutely no familiarity.
I provided the stories for The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village to Mr. Shyamalan in Chicago in 1997 and encouraged him to show his own face in them. Shyamalan introduced me to the 9-11 terrorists at Chicago Theological Seminary and even talked my hospital into letting him give medical students an error-filled talk on electrocardiology with which he had absolutely no familiarity.
This again is a classic example of rediff spin---only an $86 million dollar gross in the first 10 days, eh? Only $120 million dollars in the US,eh? Your coverage of this film has generally been negative, not just the film review...brings to mind your Yuva coverage... I just wonder if Mr A Pais is a bit miffed that Shyamalan refused an interview or something and is getting his own back by this uniformly negative slant to any report on 'The Village'.
The boxoffice dollar figures for all Hollywood movies in North America are available in several entertainment sites such as boxofficereport.com, rottentomatoes.com, and other Hollywood trade magazines. So I don't know why Arthur J Pais should have brought into this as a rediff trade pundit. He can keep to writing boring reviews peppered with his rundown sense of humor.
Is this a news item?
by Ankur on Sep 22, 2004 09:56 AM
The author smartly collects facts which prove that the Shyamalan is a copycat to bring a bias in the reader's mind. As most of the comments go, i don't see him succeeding in that. I understand it is not a news item and therefore it would have been really helpful if the author had bothered to read the book and pointed out to the readers, the similarities and the dissimilarities in the movie and the book. And finally, Shyamalan is not making a movie to get some patent, the objective is to entertain viewers which is very well accomplished.
