00:00Hello and welcome to WhatCulture. I'm Josh, joined today by Scott because the latest trailer for Glass has been released
00:05and I think it looks awesome and I'm really scared as to what you think about it, Scott.
00:09I mean, I'm very much appreciative of what Shyamalan is doing.
00:13I like the idea that he's just sort of gone, right, superheroes are a thing and it's huge and, you know, what can I do?
00:18What have I got in my little repertoire of madness that I can put out into the world and try and get in on some of that sweet MCU style hype?
00:24So I like that he's managed to sort of find a way of bringing James McAvoy back to all the different personalities for that character.
00:30But now it's like Elijah Glass or Mr. Glass or whatever, he's just a mastermind.
00:36I love that, man. I love that.
00:38He always kind of had that in Unbreakable. Obviously, the big twist at the end of that movie was that he pre-planned everything out.
00:43But now it's like he might as well be a supervillain himself.
00:46And so, like, if you don't already know, like, you know, the way that this movie is being set up is you've got James McAvoy's beast slash 27 personality character
00:53is the big old villain. You've got Mr. Glass who's kind of manipulating everything from behind the scenes or whatever he's going to end up being.
00:58I'm assuming there'll be a big Shyamalan twist at the end of it.
01:01Of course.
01:01And then David Dunn is the good, righteous hero donning his anorak one more time.
01:06I think you get the dynamic between those three so well in this trailer, like James McAvoy, of course, is over the top with all these different personalities.
01:13He looks ridiculously intimidating as the beast.
01:16Looks great.
01:16The one thing I think they absolutely nail in this trailer is, like, the tone because Split, although it was very sinister and was a thriller at heart,
01:23it was sort of very silly in the way, you know, he had, like, Patricia and was channeling all these different personalities.
01:28They managed to mesh that with the sort of serious comic book roots of Unbreakable in a good way, I think, anyway.
01:34Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, I think Split is, like, Shyamalan's best movie since, like, Signs or something.
01:38Yes, absolutely.
01:39Like, he's been on the wane for a while.
01:42But, like you said, Split's kind of got this almost, like, horror kind of sensibility to it for the most part,
01:46but then you get characters like Kevin, the little 12-year-old, or whatever kind of age he's meant to be, his child personality kind of brings a bit of levity to it.
01:52And then, like, I mean, you see him channel a whole bunch of personalities in this, in the new one.
01:56Interestingly, like, you know, being that they're going from Unbreakable, which was kind of like a standard hero's journey,
02:01and then Split was more of this, like, horror, almost slasher kind of thing by the end of it.
02:05It was, yeah.
02:05Now, it's all three characters in, like, an insane asylum or in some sort of, like, test facility,
02:10and you've got this, like, doctor who's trying to figure out who they are and how to control their personalities,
02:14which I guess is maybe a way for Shyamalan to sort of directly address the narratives that they've had before in their individual films.
02:20That was really intriguing for me because a lot of this trailer spent most of its time in that facility rather than, like, whatever's happening outside.
02:27And a lot of superheroing and David Dunn with Anorak on and kicking fools into doors.
02:31But I wonder how much of this movie is actually going to take place in that facility because that could,
02:36that's a perfect environment to channel those horror elements from Split, I think, and bring them over before we get into the superhero rumps.
02:42I'm sure it's going to devolve.
02:44True. I think that they showed way too much in this trailer.
02:47I think by the time you get to the end, there's always that thing in every Hollywood trailer where they need to ramp it up for the big finish.
02:52And the scenes that they're pulling from, if you just consciously, cognitively watch them and take them in, you can pretty much see the entire movie here.
03:00I know what I mean. That's what I'm really worried about.
03:02We see the final fight, we see the thing when he goes out the window, which looks bad for me.
03:05But, like, that whole final fight, though, we even see the hostages that, what do you call them,
03:09Beers McAvoy's character has being freed.
03:11Yeah.
03:12So it's like, okay, you've just kind of shown us that.
03:14I have to assume and hope that there's more to the movie and maybe Mad Max style, all this gets out of the way.
03:19With Shyamalan, there's always more to come, you know what I mean?
03:21I'm sure he has something up his sleeve. I can't imagine he's just blowing everything in this trailer.
03:25I hope not.
03:26I'm a hot dog because, like, there is a lot of good stuff in the trailer.
03:29I know you don't like the Beast when he's running on other phones.
03:31Oh, God, that looks so bad.
03:33That looks so good.
03:34It looks like Beast in the X-Men Apocalypse.
03:39That was awesome, though.
03:41X-Men Apocalypse was not awesome.
03:43No, but Beast is awesome in all of it.
03:44Beast is awesome.
03:45But the way that he runs when he's out on the garden thing where he's pulling himself forward,
03:48I just think that, I mean, as Get Out and Terminator 2 proved, just have a militant run.
03:53That's all you need to do. You don't need your weird beast run.
03:55That, to me, is sort of indicative of the tone this is going for with the comic book roots.
03:59You see the way Split is mythologized in this trailer.
04:03James McAvoy's character is in a comic book inside this movie.
04:06There are so many meta levels to this and Unbreakable and, of course, Split.
04:10And that's great.
04:11See, I think each one has been its own individual genre.
04:14And this feels more like a comic book movie than anything else.
04:18It's weird because, I mean, you think about when Unbreakable came out, I think it was 2001 or 2000?
04:222000, yeah, one of those.
04:23Either way, it was before the superhero boom that we're in the middle of now.
04:26And obviously, like I said at the beginning, Shyamalan seems to have gone,
04:29right, well, I can get in on this by sort of meshing some stuff together.
04:32But I hope that he's got some wider commentary on the genre itself.
04:36I'm sure, yeah, yeah.
04:37And the boom itself and how he's kind of forcing his way in.
04:40I hope that he's got more to it other than the base staples of what we see in the trailer so far.
04:44Yeah.
04:45So that's our first reaction to the trailer.
04:46I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below.
04:48Are you as excited as we are?
04:49Are you a little bit apprehensive?
04:51Because this has been so long in the making.
04:53Either way, though, I've been Josh.
04:54I've been Scott.
04:55You've been watching Wild Cold Chain.
04:56We'll see you soon.
04:57Bye.
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