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En este video, M. Night Shyamalan responde las preguntas más populares de Internet en donde revela datos muy interesantes sobre él y su carrera, como cuál fue su primera película, la historia de cómo fue que hizo la trilogía de Unbreakable y nos platica de los pequeños papeles en los que ha aparecido en sus películas.
M. Night Shyamalan es un escritor y director originario de India, se caracteriza por hacer películas de temas sobrenaturales y con twists inesperados. Entre sus películas más reconocidas se encuentra The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Visit y Split. Old es la aterradora película de M. Night Shyamalan que saldrá próximamente.
Ha sido nominado para un Oscar para Mejor Director y para Mejor Guión Original por su película Sexto Sentido (que tiene una tenebrosa historia real que inspiró la película). Además del género de terror Shyamalan también ha escrito rom-coms y comedias como She's All That y Stuart Little.
M. Night Shyamalan es un escritor y director originario de India, se caracteriza por hacer películas de temas sobrenaturales y con twists inesperados. Entre sus películas más reconocidas se encuentra The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Visit y Split. Old es la aterradora película de M. Night Shyamalan que saldrá próximamente.
Ha sido nominado para un Oscar para Mejor Director y para Mejor Guión Original por su película Sexto Sentido (que tiene una tenebrosa historia real que inspiró la película). Además del género de terror Shyamalan también ha escrito rom-coms y comedias como She's All That y Stuart Little.
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00:00Hi, I'm M. Night Shyamalan,
00:01and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:07There is no moratorium on when do you tell
00:10the end of the movie.
00:10You don't ever, ever tell them.
00:16What M. Night, all right, let's see what it says.
00:19What does the M stand for in M. Night?
00:24It stands for Manoj, which is a very common name in India.
00:28It's not quite as common as Michael or something here,
00:30but it's pretty common.
00:32Everyone would mangle it in school.
00:34They'd call me Mango or a million things,
00:37and so it kind of abbreviated to M eventually.
00:40What was M. Night Shyamalan's first movie?
00:45It's a feature called Praying With Anger,
00:48and we shot it in India, I was 21 years old,
00:51and we kind of did it the kind of classic way,
00:53you know, friends and family and borrowed
00:55and did everything we could,
00:57and there was one moment that I remember
00:58where I was really down and I was, you know,
01:01didn't know what I was doing,
01:02and the sound guy came over, the Indian sound guy,
01:04and said, you remind me of Steven Spielberg
01:08when he came and he shot Close Encounters,
01:10and I was like, that like pumped me up,
01:12and you know, it's just words of encouragement,
01:16but it felt like he had ordained me
01:19to be something special or something,
01:20because he used the word Steven Spielberg,
01:22who was like a god to me,
01:23so it really, it made a difference,
01:25and I, you know, got all excited,
01:27and then we finished the movie.
01:28What is the M. Night Shyamalan trilogy?
01:34Ah, well, I don't really do sequels,
01:37so this was really kind of a one-off thing in my life.
01:41When I thought of the story of Unbreakable,
01:44it was really complicated and very long,
01:46and then I realized, hey, I won't be able
01:48to make this in one movie.
01:49Maybe I can put it into multiple pieces,
01:52so I made Unbreakable as the first movie of that,
01:56and hoped I would make the other two,
01:58and then to be honest, I was kind of down
02:01about the reaction to Unbreakable when it came out,
02:03so I said, ah, you know, I'll go make other movies,
02:06and I went and made Signs, and The Village,
02:07and all that stuff, and then many, many years later,
02:10I went, hey, you know what?
02:12I think I should come back and make that,
02:14the second movie of the trilogy, which was Split,
02:17and then I finally made Glass,
02:18so I was super lucky to get to finish the trilogy
02:22in this kind of weird and interesting way.
02:24What is M. Night Shyamalan working on?
02:28I'm releasing Old, and I'm doing all the press for Old,
02:32but at the same time, I'm writing this new movie.
02:35It's actually a book that I optioned, and I'm adapting it.
02:38I'm about halfway through, to be exact,
02:41I'm on page 54 of the first draft.
02:44It's sitting there right now.
02:45It's actually, I can feel the moment that I'm on,
02:47and I'm a little, you know, what's gonna happen next?
02:50I know what the character just said,
02:52and something really bad is about to happen
02:54right after page 54, so I'm preparing how to execute it,
02:58but that's what I'm working on right now.
03:01What does Jim say, M. Night Shyamalan?
03:04I don't even understand that.
03:05What does that mean?
03:06What does Jim say, M. Night Shyamalan?
03:08This is from The Office?
03:09I don't currently reside in Scranton,
03:11or in an apartment building in Scranton,
03:13if that's really what this question is.
03:15Is M. Night Shyamalan in Unbreakable?
03:17Yes.
03:18I play a drug dealer in Unbreakable,
03:22if you look carefully, and my family are all doctors and all.
03:25I still stayed in the medical field,
03:26so you see that works out great.
03:28Is M. Night Shyamalan in The Sixth Sense?
03:31Yes.
03:33Play a doctor.
03:34See, you see the themes here?
03:36Is M. Night Shyamalan in Signs?
03:39Yes.
03:40I had no medical connection in Signs, my character,
03:42but this was one of the bigger parts that I played in Signs.
03:45I play kind of the person that's involved
03:48in the death of the family member in Signs,
03:51and one of the fun memories I have
03:54is trying to do this really emotional scene in Signs,
03:56and Mel Gibson is acting across from me,
03:58and he's the least serious human being,
04:00and he started doing off-camera his lines
04:03as if he was Sean Connery, so in a Scottish accent,
04:06and the tears started to just drive right back up,
04:09and I was like, Mel, I don't know how to do this.
04:13I was feeling emotional, and now I don't feel,
04:15and he's laughing, and I'm like, I'm not you.
04:17I don't know how to do this, so now I'm angry at you,
04:19so now that's what you got.
04:20You got angry at you, but it turned out fine,
04:22and we used take five, which he knew was the best take.
04:25Is M. Night Shyamalan in Split?
04:29I am not in Split, I don't think I am.
04:33Is M. Night Shyamalan in The Village?
04:37Yes, very small cameo towards the end,
04:40you kind of see me with a hat,
04:41and in a reflection at the end of it,
04:45if you haven't seen it.
04:46Is M. Night Shyamalan in Always Sunny?
04:50I don't think I am in it,
04:51but I think they've referenced me in the show.
04:54You know, if they want a cameo, we can do it for real,
04:57but I know there was a whole episode
04:58where they were trying to get into one of my movies.
05:00They're so sweet, and what a great show that is, by the way.
05:02How M. Night Shyamalan, okay.
05:04How, how old is M. Night Shyamalan?
05:08What a great question at this time.
05:11I'm actually 50 years old.
05:14Big birthday for me, so very excited,
05:17and we're gonna have some friends over,
05:20and all of that stuff.
05:22How tall is M. Night Shyamalan?
05:24I'm like that, I'm that height, you know,
05:26where guys always lie about their height, you know?
05:28It's like, you're close enough to six foot.
05:29Yeah, I'm six foot-ish.
05:31Everybody that's just right below six foot
05:33always goes, I'm six, I don't know,
05:34and they pretend like they don't even know exactly,
05:36you know, like we haven't obsessively measured ourselves
05:39constantly to get to six foot.
05:40Probably more like 5'10, 5'10 and a half,
05:43something in that world, but who's measuring, really?
05:46How did M. Night Shyamalan get his start?
05:51The moment I think that the industry started
05:52paying attention to me is when I wrote a script
05:55that no one paid me to write called Labor of Love,
05:57and everyone bid on it, all these,
05:59all the studios bid on it, and I was in my,
06:01living in my parents' guest room,
06:02you know, there was no cell phones at that time,
06:04so you're getting all these phone calls saying,
06:05they offered $200,000, I was like,
06:07$200,000, what?
06:10I'm in my parents' guest room, by the way,
06:11it was my sister's old room, which was pink's,
06:13just to add to the drama of it all,
06:16and so I'm in the pink room, and then they're like,
06:18$250,000, $300,000, Fox offered $400,000,
06:21New Line Cinema offered $500,000, and I was like, what?
06:25And finally, I sold it to Fox.
06:27Ironically, after I sold it, and I was, you know,
06:30I was pretty young and I hadn't done anything,
06:32they actually fired me as director,
06:33so it was very sad, a sad conclusion of that thing,
06:37but I did have enough money to go get a little home
06:40after that, me and my wife, we were just married,
06:41we moved out, so that was really the beginning.
06:44I was hired off of that to write Stuart Little,
06:46and I became known as a writer, I think, first in the industry.
06:51How to contact M. Night Shyamalan.
06:54Well, I'll tell you how not to.
06:56You don't throw things over my gate to, you know, packages,
07:01you don't leave things on my car.
07:04Don't do any of that, don't do any of that.
07:06You know, I'm on social media and you can try to reach out,
07:09which I don't get to read everything,
07:10but sometimes, you know, messages really touch me and I respond,
07:15so, and don't reach out to my parents,
07:16because they're always like, this person stopped by the house,
07:19and I was like, mom, don't, don't, that, you know,
07:21they gave me this, I'm like, mom, just don't answer it.
07:25Bryce Dallas Howard, M. Night Shyamalan.
07:29Wow, so this is just a kind of a word association,
07:32is that what this is?
07:33So Bryce, I saw in a play off-Broadway,
07:38she was in a Shakespeare play, I think it was As You Like It,
07:41and so taken with her, and I was writing The Village at the time,
07:46so it was kind of a period piece,
07:47and I remember going to see her in New York,
07:49and just knew the second that the show was over
07:52that I'd found who I wanted to be the lead,
07:54so I went to lunch with her, and I said,
07:57hey, I'm gonna do this movie, and I handed her this script,
07:59and it was really sweet.
08:01Where M. Night Shyamalan, let's see,
08:04where did M. Night Shyamalan grow up?
08:07Grew up outside Philadelphia, in the suburbs
08:09of a place called Penn Valley,
08:11it was almost like being in a Spielberg suburban movie,
08:15we're all on our bikes, riding around the neighborhood
08:18every night after school, and then try to get everybody,
08:21ring the doorbell, can Joey play, can this person play,
08:24and then we'd ride around and have adventures,
08:26and then have to go home and go eat and do our homework.
08:29Where did M. Night Shyamalan go to high school?
08:32I went to Episcopal Academy, which is outside Philly.
08:36That school had just become co-ed a few years before,
08:40so there were girls, and this was the first time
08:42that I actually went to school with girls,
08:44so it was a very distracting time for me.
08:49Those of you that have Indian immigrant parents,
08:50you know what I'm saying, very restricted,
08:53and then go to school with girls,
08:54and they're just sitting right next to you,
08:56and the pretty girls over there,
08:57and very hard to learn algebra under those conditions.
09:00Where does M. Night Shyamalan live?
09:03I live outside Philly.
09:05We consider ourselves Philadelphians,
09:06even though we're right outside Philadelphia.
09:08I'm going to Philly every week,
09:10and that city is very, very dear to me,
09:13and protect it, you know, with everything.
09:15Where is M. Night Shyamalan now?
09:19Is that an existential question, or a literal question?
09:22I'm going to answer it existentially.
09:25At the place where I want to make
09:28the most distinct pieces of art for the largest audience.
09:33I want the pieces to have teeth.
09:35I want them to be challenging,
09:37and I want them to represent me,
09:38and I have the belief that the more distinct
09:42and different they are,
09:42the more they're going to resonate with you guys over time.
09:46This is obviously about the movie Signs.
09:48Is Signs a religious movie?
09:53Wow, that's a good question.
09:55Most of my characters in my movies,
09:56I think it's about some belief system that I'm trying,
09:59I personally am struggling with,
10:00and because I went to, I'm not Catholic,
10:03but I went to Catholic school for 10 years,
10:04that, you know, the form of a priest felt very,
10:07very natural to me as somebody to kind of carry the load.
10:11Whenever I talk about what the movie is about,
10:13if it's about ghosts, or comic books, or aliens,
10:16or you name it, those are really just kind of the clothing
10:20for a discussion about the crisis of fate.
10:23So, I know the kind of the theories on Signs,
10:26that, you know, the aliens represent inner demons.
10:28It's accurate in the sense that all of them are,
10:31you know, you know, the comic book story
10:34is about you believing in yourself,
10:36that David Dunn doesn't believe in himself,
10:38and Signs is that same way about this world event.
10:42And does this have meaning for you?
10:44Are we just gonna get, you know, are we just food?
10:47You know, is there meaning in everything?
10:49And then he finds meaning in this moment.
10:53What was wrong with the dog in Signs movie?
10:57My mind was thinking that, you know,
10:59as the aliens got closer and were nearby,
11:03the animals would be becoming violent and irrational,
11:07and acting erratically,
11:09and that that was one of the first indicators
11:12that there was something around that was very threatening,
11:14sending them into a certain type of place.
11:17Something, something, something, something, Signs.
11:19Who played the alien in the movie Signs?
11:22Gosh, I'm forgetting the actor's name.
11:25He's so wonderful.
11:27He was so giving.
11:29I remember his energy and his kindness on set,
11:32just the opposite of the alien.
11:33He was very, very gracious,
11:36and made us all feel like we were doing
11:39kind of like a higher art form,
11:40like ballet or something.
11:41Yeah, a really wonderful man.
11:46What does water symbolize in Signs movie?
11:49Water always has a kind of a special place for me
11:52in my movies.
11:52There's a kind of a sense of purity from it or rebirth.
11:56It's often used that way in religious ceremonies.
11:59My parents and my mom, especially,
12:01who do a lot of Indian ceremonies,
12:02they use water in this fashion.
12:05And you see it a lot in different rituals.
12:08You see it in a bunch of my movies in Lady in the Water,
12:10and now I guess in old as well.
12:13That kind of the proximity to water,
12:14it feels like there's some magical property to it.
12:17So it always made sense to me that that would be the thing
12:21that burns off the demons, let's say.
12:23All right, Sixth Sense.
12:25What does the Titanic and the Sixth Sense have?
12:28Should I do this other line?
12:29In common, they both have Leonardo DiCaprio.
12:32No, they were both number one for a very long time
12:35in the movie theaters.
12:36I think Sixth Sense was either five or six weeks,
12:39and Titanic was 10 weeks.
12:40And since Titanic, I think these are the two movies
12:44that have been number one in the movie theaters
12:45for the longest.
12:46It's a joke, and it's icy, dead people.
12:50Ah, I see.
12:52That's funny, that's funny too.
12:55Is the Sixth Sense, let's see, what's this say?
12:58Is the Sixth Sense a three-act narrative?
13:00Look at this film school.
13:01I'm not sure, I don't, it's funny,
13:03I don't really think like that,
13:05but I'm sure it's true because what feels natural, right,
13:08is that kind of the setup, the conflict,
13:10and then the kind of the escalation in that third act
13:15to the resolution.
13:18I think my movies have a kind of a,
13:20it's by the nature of them because there's a revelation,
13:22there's probably a fourth movement in them
13:25in those last moments in these movies
13:27as you realize something,
13:28or there's kind of a revelation of some kind.
13:30I don't know if that falls into the three-act structure
13:33like that.
13:34What are the clues in the Sixth Sense?
13:36Gosh, you know, I'm sure there's many more
13:38than I will think of off the top of my head,
13:40but we use the color red to indicate the other world
13:42like nagging at him, and I think, you know,
13:44him staring at the doorknob,
13:46of the things that were not ripe
13:49that his consciousness is not acknowledging
13:51because he has to stay blind, essentially,
13:54as he's walking through life a bit.
13:57What's the twist in the Sixth Sense?
14:00Can't tell you that.
14:01I just, if at this point, if you haven't, you know,
14:03seen it, you just go, go watch it.
14:05This is how you do it.
14:05You go and watch this movie,
14:07and then you find another person,
14:09and you ask them before you say anything,
14:10have you seen it?
14:11And then if they say yes,
14:12then you can openly talk about it away from others
14:15kind of situation.
14:16That's it, that's it.
14:17There's no other way to talk about it.
14:18That's it.
14:20Okay, plot twist.
14:26It's been bing all along.
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