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So what were the critics saying about Shyamalan only eight years ago?
Roger Ebert said Signs "was the work of a born filmmaker able to summon apprehension out of thin air."Peter Bradshaw didn't really like Signs. He said the sci-fi thriller was a "pretty weak sub-Spielbergian drama with a heavy-handed conservative message about faith."Mike Clarke prophesied that Signs "finds its maker immersed in what's beginning to look like a career trap."
It seems there is a new trend in town, and that's to be quite vocal in one's dismissal of M. Night Shyamalan as a filmmaker – yes, the very same two-time Academy Award nominated director who at age 32 was regarded as "The Next Spielberg" by Newsweek in 2002, when Shyamalan was riding high with the release of Signs, the seventh highest grossing film of that year. Currently, Shyamalan's latest film The Last Airbender (2010), a live-action feature film adaptation of the popular animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], currently sits at 7% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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The Critics vs. The Filmmaker
Reading through the reviews for Shyamalan's summer blockbuster, it becomes painfully obvious that some film critics are not just denouncing the film for the 11th hour 3-D conversion (surely a studio decision) and questionable repeated accusations of racism (similar casting "controversies" affected Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Dragonball: Evolution (2009)) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but curiously the filmmaker himself. Sadly it seems film critics have forgotten the golden principle that no filmmaker sets out to make a "bad" film – rather they put their all into every scene, with great enthusiasm and passion. Shyamalan reinforced this principle in recent interview;
Shyamalan himself has become aware of how he as a director is perceived in the American media, stating, "I feel this about my movies, the fact that my name is on them, that means they are doomed." The sad fact is that Shyamalan is right, but whether they are "doomed" because they are bad films or because the film critics have gone on the attack since Signs is not clear.
Going against expectation [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Shyamalan's next feature film was The Village in 2004 – a mystery/thriller, which unlike Shyamalan's previous directorial efforts, was blatantly not about the supernatural nor the spiritual but rather, about fear and deception. It was critically described as both Shyamalan's "best film to
Early Critical and Commercial Success
In 2002, Shyamalan, aged 32, had Hollywood at his feet, but was Shyamalan in a "career trap"? Phillip French in response to Signs said that Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) shared all too similar repetitive characteristics. In particular French referred to:
"You know what? I don't know what the disconnect is ... I definitely approach filmmaking with great respect, integrity and effort and take into account advice of all my peers. We collectively come to a place where we are ecstatic about the particular stories we are telling."
"the Pennsylvania setting; ... a star associated with action roles playing a sensitive, spiritually troubled hero; a preternaturally wise child; strange, briefly glimpsed visions of menace; broad hints of supernatural forces working to shape our lives; a clumsy final twist that delivers a message of uplift and aspiration."