{"id":4037,"date":"2016-05-08T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:22:44","slug":"is-glass-the-second-coming-of-m-night-shyamalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years of Twist Endings with M Night Shyamalan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ut of context, the name Manoj Nelliyattu might sound like the clickety-clack of a keyboard in Silicon Valley, churning out lines of code for the next big disruptive ride-sharing app. But with the addition of the last name Shyamalan, you\u2019re hit with a sudden jolt of realisation that feels all too similar to, shall we say, a twist ending. <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sixth Sense<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Shyamalan\u2019s debut feature <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/uri-surgical-strike-tahalka-anil-sharma\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">film<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offered a plot-warping mind enema of a finale that made \u201cKajol is the killer\u201d look like an episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teletubbies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and hasn\u2019t really been matched in the 20 years since.<\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in the \u201990s, endings like these were <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">de rigueur <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for cash-strapped directors when the X in SFX stood for expensive, and filmmakers had to rely on ingenuity and good old storytelling to make their wares stand out. At this same time, while films like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titanic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waterworld<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Armageddon <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wowed us with their 150-million-plus budgets, we now look upon them as nothing but heavily censored shells of their former selves, relegated to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/bengali-father-afternoon-napping-ghum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunday afternoons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Christmas movie marathons, with a viewership of exactly 10 bored housewives with broken vibrators. <\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M Night Shyamalan can take some credit for the decline of the visually awe-inspiring but intellectually hollow blockbuster. He made <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sixth Sense<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1999, with a 40-million budget, and earned about 650 million dollars worldwide. His maiden cinematic voyage cemented him among names such as, dare I say, Steven Spielberg, as a director who could deliver big-rig, 18-wheeler blockbusters synonymous with the excess that is America, paired with serious, thought-provoking scripts. Then came <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbreakable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Shyamalan\u2019s take on a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/serial-screenshotter-screenshot-superpowers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">superhero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movie, and what would be, unbeknownst to us at the time, the beginning of Shyamalan\u2019s \u201cEastrail 177<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trilogy\u201d. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbreakable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, more specifically its first 60 minutes, is Shyamalan\u2019s Piet\u00e0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his magnum opus that put his visual aesthetic, refined compositional, and meticulous eye on a pedestal for the world to see, giving him serious cred as an auteur, a term you don\u2019t hear much any more. <\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we saw <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/stan-lee-marvel-comics-indian-fans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stan Lee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sneak in clever little cameos into Marvel films, there was Shyamalan, sneaking into his own films, as Dr Hill in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sixth Sense <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Ray Reddy in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The latter, some argue, was also the beginning of his downward spiral.<\/span>\n <blockquote class=\"quote--center\">At this point in his career, the scorn of critics is Shyamalan\u2019s cross to bear, and there will be some who argue that he\u2019s certainly earned it.<\/blockquote>\n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hubris is a very potent drug that sometimes makes you see, do and say things you normally wouldn\u2019t. With <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it was evident Shyamalan was freebasing hubris with aplomb. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/gurgaon-movie-film-review-shanker-raman-ragini-khanna\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about aliens who didn\u2019t do their research and were defeated after playing Holi with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix was followed by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Village<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is what happens when you mix magic mushrooms and hubris. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lady in the Water <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last Airbender <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sealed his fate and robbed him of all the good Hollywood karma he accrued with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbreakable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It got so bad that Walt Disney Studios parted ways with the director. Shyamalan was discounted as a has-been, with people forgetting that everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Nolan have had slumps.<\/span>\n \n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44763\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1547806589.jpg\" alt=\"m_night_shyamalan_glass\" width=\"814\" height=\"407\" \/>\n <figcaption>\n \n <p>Blumhouse Productions<\/p>\n \n <\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n \n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But earlier this year with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glass<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, M Night Shyamalan returned with a superhero movie devoid of all the bells and whistles we have come to expect from big-ticket DC and Marvel offerings, but packed with visual storytelling unseen since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watchmen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On one hand you had the promotional material for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infinity War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with a bunch of caped and costumed superheroes running wild in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/black-panther-movie-review-wakanda-marvel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wakanda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the other you had an old Bruce Willis, an even older, nearly invalid Samuel L Jackson, and a ripped James McAvoy sitting in an empty, neon pink room. Compared to the overblown comic book aesthetic we\u2019ve gotten used to, that might not have sounded like much to look at, but as we\u2019ve come to learn with Shyamalan, what you see is just a fraction of what you get.<\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a world where we know the plot of the next <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extravaganza years before we hit up a PVR to see what the hype is about, Shyamalan kicked off with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbreakable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then followed it up with its sequel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13 years later. And while everyone was going gaga over James McAvoy\u2019s performance, in typical Shyamalan fashion, he snuck in Bruce Willis at the very end. Three years later, we have <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glass<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the culmination of 17 years of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/indu-sarkar-review-indira-gandhi-madhur-bhandarkar-emergency-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">filmmaking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this point in his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indian-parents-career-paths-media-industry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">career<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the scorn of critics is Shyamalan\u2019s cross to bear, and there will be some who argue that he\u2019s certainly earned it. But the same critics forget, that this man is trying to shun conventional, OTT camera trickery and big setups in order to give the world the a superhero movie it truly deserves \u2013 one based on realism where the superheroics might be in our minds, rather than from spider bites or radioactive accidents.<\/span>\n \n <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than hammer of CGI, Shyamalan prefers the delicate chisel of his cinematic vocabulary. A constant recurring visual motif in Shyamalan\u2019s movies is the use of objects such as glasses, mirrors, windows, and other reflecting surfaces for a slew of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/netflix-narcos-karnataka-elections-show\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dramatic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and thematic reasons. Shyamalan holds a mirror to the world, hoping to contrast images on the opposite sides of the mirror, revealing to the viewer a fantastical world, following the tradition of Lewis Caroll\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the Looking Glass<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when Alice climbs through a mirror into Wonderland. In Shyamalan\u2019s case, what lies on the other side of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glass<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> might be equally marvellous &#8212; all we need to do is follow him through it.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 years ago, M Night Shyamalan\u2019s feature film debut, The Sixth Sense, earned him serious Hollywood cred as an auteur \u2013 cred that he lost after the debacle of films like The Lady in the Water and The Last Airbender. 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