Shymalan
Happening for the birds
22/07/08 09:23 Filed in: Movies
It's a stunning thing to realise but The Happening IS The Birds.
It would probably be more polite to describe it as being inspired by the earlier film, but that's just trying to avoid the blindingly obvious.
When two films are about a mysterious, unexpected and never adequately explained attack by nature on apprently innocent people, when the key protagonists are a man, a woman and a young girl, when they end up in a crazy old lady's house during the final attack, well inspiration doesn't really quite cover it, does it?
The curious and lingering similarities also seems to cast a deeper meaning on Shymalan's appearances in his films, another characteristic of Hitchcock's career.
Now if Night could get a bit more consistency going in his movies, we could set aside the embarrassment of comparing them.
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