M. Night Shyamalan Tells Us The ‘Provocative’ Alternate Ending He Shot For 'The Village' That Was ‘So Polarizing,’ He Chose Not To Put It On The Blu-ray

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Director M. Night Shyamalan has become famous over the years for his twist endings, beginning with the shocking reveal at the end of "The Sixth Sense" and continuing through movies like "The Visit," "Glass," and "Split." When ranking the best M. Night Shyamalan movies, it’s impossible not to focus on the success or failure of his endings. One of my favorite twists in an M. Night Shyamalan movie occurs in the 2004 thriller "The Village," though during a recent appearance on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast, the director informed us that he had a wildly different idea in mind, but it was too jarring on audiences.  The following is going to get into spoilers for "The Village," and a few more of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies, so proceed with caution if you prefer not to know story details for a 20 year old movie.

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00:00You know that ending changed a bit, you know, I had shot a different ending for for the village and

00:06Can we ask what it is?

00:09Yeah, it was it was it's funny I thought for a long time about putting it on the blu-rays and

00:15No, and I intentionally didn't because it was so different and would make such a you would change your memory of the movie so much

00:22Because it was so alternate path to basically like she came she came out and everyone found out about it

00:29Found out about the place and it kind of basically blows up essentially

00:34and

00:35It was it was there was something and then you know

00:38It literally like there we were the Jay-z's song and like I was thinking about putting

00:4299 problems like this is before it came out the black album and and

00:46I was thinking of putting that as the thing cuz like she comes in literally like a car almost hits her but the guy driving

00:52It which was me by the way

00:53Yes

00:53And it was was was listening to Jay-z's 99 problems

00:57That was the ending of the movie. Like I almost hit her and like you're hearing him

01:02So you basically the value system just goes flip at the end and what ended up happening

01:07It was so by my wife loves that and she saw it and was like that was yeah, you shot it

01:11Yeah, yeah. No, we shot it. Okay. Yeah, and it's so provocative

01:15that it was it was so

01:17polarizing in Indian cuz like people got like offended cuz like you're hearing cursing and it's like immediately you went from like

01:23Little house on the prairie to

01:25Yeah, Jay-z, so it was really exciting

01:27So anyway, but the idea of the way it is now where they they could they make a decision to continue

01:35this way of life is

01:37You know was really powerful pointing in that kind of you know

01:40Tableau of them standing at the end and making the decision where we're all like it's worth it for it for this

01:46I mean we'd all want that for our kids kind of like if we could

01:48Could make a world where they were we think they're safer, you know

01:53You

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