I taught at a high school with a student who had the same brittle bone condition. He was a brave little dude who insisted on not being homeschooled. They set up a cool system where two of the bigger football players would come in 5 minutes before the bell rang and escort him in his wheel chair to a safe place in his next class. Nothing to do with the movie, but reminds me of a heartwarming experience I had teaching high school.
Man, that is touching. That kid have a love for living life. Kudos to the whole setup. Kids can actually be pretty capable when given the chance. Thanks for sharing.
I really love how calm the ending is-no big bombastic fight scene, just the revelation of what Elijah did, and then David just walks away. Very powerful. Also, the explanation for his powers is very simple yet elegant, while also perfectly fitting into the duality the movie sets up: David is simply born with his powers in the same way as Elijah is born with his brittle bone disease; they are two sides of the same coin.
The movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
Most people? Good lord RUclips comment section is unsettling. First of… the VAST majority of movie goers, doesn’t go online and complain/praise. You think most people didn’t like it because paid reviews or shady sites like rotten tomatoes or IMDb told you what to think. I assume you also think Oscars matter? Like it’s not rich people who are throwing glitter and champagne, building the illusion that they know what’s best? Movies are subjective, and you NEVER hear the majority’s opinion, no matter what internet tells you, or how arrogant one is.
The movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
You may hear this a few times in the comments...but this movie was way ahead of its time. I don't think audiences were ready for the whole comic book movie with a serious tone. I think of things like Logan today as far as comparable types of serious comic book movies.
@@DigitalSketcher ,,, It's a very dark vision of an alternate reality with superheros ,,, check it out , you won't be disappointed , just the opening sequence alone is amazing .....
19:14 This is inspired by something that happened in real life. In the 1950s actor George Reeves played Superman for 6 seasons on the popular TV show The Adventures of Superman. As part of his job, he used to do in-person appearances in character as Superman for audiences of almost entirely children. There was one appearance where a kid secretly brought his father's gun to the show. He pointed it at Reeves and was going to shoot him, thinking the bullets would just bounce off like they did on TV. George Reeves had to talk the kid down, saying that if he shot him, the bullets could bounce off and hit one of the other kids. Ben Affleck also depicted this incident on screen, playing George Reeves, in the movie Hollywoodland.
The scene in the kitchen with Joseph trying to show his dad wouldn’t get hurt is one of the most intense scenes ever. It’s also cleverly written because as a viewer you’re starting to buy into the idea that David really is like a superman, because it’s just a movie, and so a part of you wonders if maybe this is how they’ll discover it’s true, but then you’re dealing with the dread of what it would mean to Joseph if he was the cause of his father’s death. You’re caught between wanting to find out if it’s true but also not wanting to be shown that it’s false.
That was one of the best things about seeing Split in the theatre opening night :) it was only 25% to 45% full but we all recognize him at the post credits scene :)
The thing is the stories are completely unrelated, they just share the same sequel. The bad thing about the spoiler is that some people watch one looking for the connection to the other when there really isn't one, and it distracts them from the movie.
Me and a friend watched Split in cinema with no knowledge of it being tied to Unbreakable. When the Unbreakable soundtrack started playing in the end scene I thought "c'mon Night that is so cheap". Then they started talking about the guy in the wheelchair and then the penny dropped. My friend and I turned to each other with a reaction I've never had before and never seen before in anyone I've ever known 😂
@vinnylewis9245 that was the exact same thing with me! I had no knowledge of any sort, saw Split with my mom, we both liked it, then the reveal happened and our jaws hit the floor
@@michaelriddick7116 My theater was completely silent and I still remember gasping extremely loudly when the unbreakable theme starts playing when he's talking to himself in the mirror. It's a solid minute before they show Bruce Willis so I'm sure everyone thought I was crazy
I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of his story telling and I'll agree he knows cinema. Something even Disney appears to have forgotten. I miss thoughtful shots without how it will look on a phone.
Split came out so many years later mainly because Unbreakable wasn't a hit so the studio didn't want to make the sequel. It was awesome, but at the time a lot of people found it too slow. It also suffered because it was marketed as a thriller like the Sixth Sense, which was a huge hit, so people kept comparing them and found Unbreakable lacking. Everyone just kept asking Shyamalan to make the next Sixth Sense and then complaining because his movies followed a similar formula
I haven't seen "Glass" but "Split" is really good. It's kind of ruined now but the cool thing about Split at least for me is that people didn't know it was connected to Unbreakable or a kind of sequel. it was just a new stand alone M. Night movie. The movie could be a stand alone movie it really doesn't feel like a sequel at all. The 3rd one I believe ties the two movies together.
when elijah gets his first comic his mom tells him "this one has a surprise ending" i love that. you noticed elijah's purple color scheme but if you look back at davids wardrobe you'll notice that it is predominantly green. just a couple cool little tidbits.
"Quiet" in movies is so underrated, to the point we made horror movies about it and for some illogical reason, the concept blew people's minds out of their butts. The word used to be called subtlety.
This is one of the underrated classics of the 21st century. It is M. Night's best film. It is Bruce Willis' best performance ever. And it is one of the greatest original screenplays of all time.
@@moviescatsmargs That's not what underrated means. Underrated means that it's better than people give it credit. And how do you know how many people have seen it?
@kuhpunkt if they haven't heard of it or seen it, then they don't know how good it is. Only the ones who have seen it know how good it is. The movie, in general, is viewed as a cult film. People have seen it, but for the quality of the film, you wish it had the same audience that a movie like The Dark Knight did.
Unbreakable was way way ahead of it's time, and the fact that nobody had any idea that it was connected to Split 16yrs later was mindblowing at the time, Split is brilliant also.
Yeah its hard for folks to ve imoressed with it after the MCU/DCEUA but this was as close as many of us ever thought we'd get to a "superhero" movie for a very long time 😊
Yep, the movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
George - "He's kinda dressed like a villain..." Simone - "His head's big!" You two really picked up on some of the more subtle super villain traits of Elijah. His big hair and eyes, the dark purple/black color scheme that contrasts to David's blues and greens. It's wonderfully crafted. I'm also an enjoyer of Split and Glass.
"Look everyone it's Brock Turner!" Classic line George. Everyone needs to know that his story. By the way continue with the trilogy. This was before the MCU and I think Shyamalan used his directorial power to get this made. Superhero movies at this point in history were not taken seriously. He was the first one to do so. Patton Oswalt did a very awesome bit about this movie and it sequels. You should check it out.
Technically the "antagonist" doesn't have to be evil. In romantic movies usually one of the couple is a protagonist and the other is the antagonist. The antagonist gets the protagonist to act. In this movie Elijah gets Bruce Willis's character to act as a hero.
Not evil but they do need to be in opposition of the protagonists goals. I don't think movie had a definitive one, nor needs one. Idk enough romantic movies but id argue most rom coms the antagonist is the main character himself/herself. Antagonists being against protagonists and overcoming them is what delivers the end goals.. Sometimes external sometimes internal forces. I don't think 'getting hero to act' makes an antagonist... I mean who would that make the antagonist of lion king? Nala, rafiki, or ghost Mustafa.. it's def not scar who gets simba to act right
@@beesmitty3435I do agree that movies don't need to follow the typical Syd Field style 3 act structure. And I think a lot of bad film criticism stems from people demanding that every film does it, even if they don't need to.
Absolutely. The primary role of the antagonist is to provide conflict for the protagonist. They don't have to be evil or even working against the protagonist, they simply create conflict in the story. In Unbreakable, Elijah is trying to make the world a better place by finding heroes and he is willing to cross any number of lines to achieve it. He is a monster, but he is not David's enemy.
@@algi1 Yeah, exactly. The conflict is internal to David but introduced by Elijah. Elijah just has to put the idea into David's head and he does the rest. The fact that Elijah also casued the trageides is utterly incidental.
Five-O is definitely from the tv Show Hawaii Five-O. It was a police procedural set in Hawaii, which is the 50th state. At the time of the original series’ start, Hawaii had only been a state for 9 years and this was supposedly a task force set up to handle special crimes in the absence of a longstanding U.S. regulated police force to handle crimes that were not just day-to-day petty crimes.
5-0 was also radio code for a patrolman/patrol car though they changed the code every few years to keep criminals from knowing what was said on police scanners (I think these days cops don't bother using them anymore cause there were issues with different departments using different codes and it causing confusion when they had to work together.
@@jasonrd316 Right, so the TV executives in the 60s and 70s were naming their cop shows after the ganster rapper's slang from 25 years in the future? You're not friends with logic are you?
@@psycho42069 Aside from the tv show, is there a place I can find an example of people using the term 5-0 prior to the late 80s, before the Mustangs and Crown Vics? The show is named after Hawaii, the 50th state. The slang comes from the cars. They are independent of one another, even if the show has police in it.
I love how this is the first act of any other superhero movie, but expanded to be an entire movie. It's JUST the hero discovering their powers and thwarting their first crime.
Definitely watch Split. It was the movie that revitalized his career and features an incredible James MacAvoy performance. It was a dark period for his career between Lady in the Water and Last Airbender. Although if you want some fun unintentional laughs, watch The Happening. That’s practically a comedy in all the wrong ways.
I only watched The Happening a few years ago, and I'm convinced Shyamalan meant it to be an absurdist comedy but forgot to tell anyone else. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
What I've was that Unbreakable was always intended to be part of a trilogy, but when it bombed at the box office, no chance of a sequel existed. Then M. Night had an entire series of movies that tanked, but once he started to redeem his reputation, he did the second movie - Split. Which did quite well, enabling him to complete the trilogy with Glass.
This is the main problem about watching movies years after they come out. Back in the day when Split came out it was 100% unknown that it was a “sequel“ and it actually really is not. But now they’re automatically clumped together and it ruins the absolute mind blowing surprise of the connection. Because THAT was the twist.
Yep. What a shame. When I first saw Simone and George had reacted to Sixth Sense I was hoping they wouldn't look ahead too much and take some hints to just watch them in order of release and be surprised at what they'd be surprised with. Now that's out the window.
M Night's The Village has a great cast and some wonderful performances, even if the "twist" at the end was rather easy to guess. Still a good flick. Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Phoenix both kill it.
@@Pengi_SMILES I agree; I suspected the twist fairly early in the film but I kept hoping it wouldn’t actually happen. Then it did and I was just kind of disappointed because I thought it was pretty great up until then, and would have been more compelling without the twist.
James Howard Newton did the music for all of M. Night’s early movies, and did a great job with each, but The Village is on a completely other level. It’s also a well-directed and visually cool movie. And yes, great cast … there’s also Sigorney Weaver, William Hurt, Judy Greer and Adrien Brody in there. That said, there are two twists, and they’re both disappointing. Still worth a watch, just don’t expect anything mind blowing at the end 🤣
Split has had some backlash since its release due to its handling of mental illness. That being said, I am one of the folks who really enjoyed it as it has a couple of really good performances, highlighted by James McAvoy. Another thing to be aware of with it is to not expect a full-on sequel out of it as no one knew it had any ties to Unbreakable until seeing the final couple minutes of the film. Its very much its own story until that point and then GLASS brings it all together.
I think the backlash is more due to the fact people are way too sensitive about every little thing not how they handled the subject matter. It was a great movie
@@Chriswallace0405 It's not about sensitivity, it's about it not representing a mental illness in the way that it actually is and people who do have that condition being even more stigmatised and hurt (as friends, family, peers and colleagues are gonna see that and are most probably not gonna want to try to understad what that condition actually entails). And it's also just more of: the people who do not fit the societal archetype of "normal" being portrayed as monsters or villans.
@@personwithoutabody3236 Tell me who has a condition that transform them into a being that can withstand gunshots and climb walls? It's not the multiple personality disorder of day to day life, it's a comic book version that it's completely different from the real life version, and people are just idiots and want to feel offended and victimized. If they are offended by the girl self harm and depression than it's even worst, because there's unlimited ways those conditions work varying from people to people.
@@ThrashCommand There was an actor who was in one of those Melrose Place/Beverly Hills 90210 style shows. His character was an abusive prick. People couldn't separate the man from the character and it ended his career. So there are real world examples of people thinking what they see on a TV show for film is real.
This movie is kind of jarring because it has all these wholesome old school themes in it that really work. It's about a kid whose dad literally becomes a superhero. Dads are supposed to be absentee losers, buffoons, or villains. I actually think this is Shyamalan's best film. He's always trying to do this magical realist drama thing, but he usually misses the mark and it just comes off as absurd or awkward; he nailed it in this movie though. Unbreakable kind of gives you a way of understanding what he was trying to do in all his other films but could never quite pull it off.
If you ever get a chance, watch the deleted scenes... there's one in particular where it's Bruce Willis' character bench pressing some insane amount of weight in front of the football athletes he protects.
I wouldn't say it's an insane amount of weight. He benches 495 in the deleted scene. Now, don't get me wrong, that's a lot of weight for a regular guy. But it's definitely not "super strength." The big thing is we obviously don't see the theoretical upper limits of his strength in this movie. If he weight trained, could he double that? Triple it? More?
@robertcampbell8070 Thanks. I just now rewatched it and you're right. I think you're right about him maybe doubling or tripling that if trained harder.
Five-oh has been slang for the police since the 1968 series Hawaii Five-O about a police squad in Hawaii. The name Five-O was selected because Hawaii was the 50th state and at the time of the series had only been a state 9 years. And so they basically used that as some fictional concept of the police department designation as kind of a double meaning. It’s assumed it was probably lifted off some article or something about the state of Hawaii and someone decided it sounded catchy. Bench pressing 350lbs is not record breaking, but for a person Bruce Willis’s size and age it would be an indicator of being very dedicated to strength training. You would typically expect such a person to clearly appear muscular or of a larger build like an American football linebacker.
I believe a handful of Shyamalan's films are masterpieces, including Sixth Sense, The Village, Signs, and this. They are frequently assessed or experienced literally, about superheroes, aliens, ghosts, etc., but the deeper meanings are about the limitations of humans. I know you watched Signs--which is really about the tendency of people to fill in the blanks of what they can't know, because we need to make meaning. If you watch that movie again, you'll notice that the aliens never attack humans. You only see humans attacking the aliens. Even the gas that goes into the kid's nose at the end, which is interpreted as "thank god his asthma blocked the poison," but which could have actually saved the kid's life. I would highly recommend watching The Village if you like his films and are curious to dig into them/
This is one of my favorite movies, specially being a superhero/comic book aficionado. It's so underrated and flew under the radar for so many. Its unique, serious and quasi-realistic take on the superhero gripped me so hard all the way back when it came out.
From google ' “5-0” (pronounced five-oh) became a popular nickname after the television show Hawaii Five-O which aired from 1968 to 1980. “Five-o” referred to the Hawaiian police force in the show, based on Hawaii being the fiftieth state to join the union.'
@6:37 In a deleted scene, the minister who spoke at the memorial for the train disaster expresses hostility towards David when David reveals he was the sole survivor and asks him for guidance. @25:45 As the movie progresses, his poncho gets longer until it becomes cape-like. So glad you reacted to this one. It's my favorite M. Night Shamylan movie.
Young Simone and Young George, it became popular to call the police " 5-0 " due to the popularity of the original Hawaii 5-0 tv show, that ran from 1968 - 1980.
I heard the reboot was pretty good too. Same with Magnum. Shows you need to really let some time pass between iterations for a reboot to find a new audience I guess.
I KNEW a lot of young people didn't get the "5-0" reference. There was a TV show called "Hawai'i 5-0", a police show, since it was the 50th state, the state police were called Hawai'i 5-0, often shortened to just 5-0. The show was popular enough that "5-0" became another name for any police force, hence "if you do that again, I'm calling 5-0'. the other famous quote from the show is "Book 'im, Dano. murder one."
And speaking of theme music, if you notice the music in "Unbreakable" has a hero theme, you only get parts or snippets of it played throughout the early movie, you only get the full theme played as Bruce Willis' character is rising from the pool.
George wondered whether comic sales have gone up or down since those statistics...as I understand it, the sales of all comics went up and up for a long time, but have begun to fall steadily since 2016 nor 2017. The exception to that has been Manga and other Japanese comics, which have been hugely popular with rising sales that have only gotten better as US published comic book series are selling less and less. Oh...and "a pint is a pound the world around"...at least that is how I learned how to remember how much a pint of water weighs. And since there are 16 pints in each gallon, each of those paint cans weighed at least 16 pounds...assuming they were full...and then add the weight of the can, and add however much heavier that paint is compared to water. LOL
@@ApesAmongUsfor context the comic boom in the 90s was due to speculation. Comics themselves are not a big money making industry so sales always look bad. Character licensing is where the big bucks live.
@@gapsule2326 Except in the 90s, they hadn't really started the marketing to collectors the way they have now. They weren't doing 2 dozen alternate covers and they weren't restarting the same book 4-5 times. Yes, the collectors increased the market back then, but the more they have focused on the collectors, the worse they have done. And you cannot discount the effect of things like Image comics. Not that it stole market share, but more to the point that the big 2 changed the structure of the business to prevent something like that from happening again, leading to a move away from the big polymath talents whose names sold comics.
Mr. Glass and The Unbreakable Man, the villain and his super hero nemesis. This was by far my favorite Shyamalan film, probably because of the superhero angle.
Man, the fact that you guys already know that Split is a part of the same universe is a huge spoiler. Nobody knew at the time, I thought it was just about a crazy guy. Then there's a HUGE reveal that blew everybody's mind.
This is my favourite superhero origin film, it’s about as realistic a portrayal as a real life superhero you can get, it’s not someone that’s came from outer space, just someone that’s really strong somehow and has good instincts about things.
George, I think the text at the end was always there, because it was a parody of the old school Batman comics, where Joker would end up at the "Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane" at the end of the comic. You noticed earlier that "Mr. Glass" was dressed like The Joker, you just didn't finish putting it together.
I wish Marvel's Phase 4 had scaled back and made more gritty and down-to-earth comic book movies. That would've been alot more interesting than just throwing CGI money at the screen and giving us mediocre stories.
Yeah, people really hated it when it came out, but I loved it. I like most of his movies actually. Enjoyed the heck out of the village, even liked the happening.
Re: the text at the end. You were exactly correct. I saw this movie in the theater and the text wasn't there. It was apparently added in some of the overseas theatrical showings and then on the home video version.
Yeah, when it first came out a lot o people felt disappointed with it. I remember being excited for it when it came out on DVD and nobody I knew at the time was really looking forward to it lol It's definitely more popular now than when it was first released.@@kuhpunkt
I love the scene were he goes looking for people who have done something wrong. Everyone is dressed in like greys, except the people who he has visions of. The lady in the red jacket, the guy with the green jacket, and then the final guy in his orange jumpsuit.
I am not sure he really nailed these films but the concept is really interesting and it's worth watching all three. Split is surprisingly good and Glass does bring them together.
Okay, you seriously cracked me up when you said "here's my twist" at 0:58! And that Sixth Sense pun.....hats off to you! Also, you two always have a lot of wit. DEFINITELY watch the other two movies. Amazing acting!
One thing I like about this film is how it looks at the dark side of destiny. If someone is destined or created to do good, then someone is destined or created to horrible things. Elijah finds out he is destined to be a villain, but he's happy because he has found his purpose.
The thing about Split is, it was not marketed as anything to do with Unbreakable. Most people saw it as a stand alone film and had no idea about Unbreakable. I was one of those.. I was like.. "WTF is happening?" and had to watch Unbreakable to get it. Other people who had seen unbreakable and forgotten about it were super excited
Yeah, put me in the camp of you guys loving Split. This trilogy may not be a tight trilogy as following the same set of people equally throughout all three movies but I consider Unbreakable and Split two of M. Night’s best films.
The soundtrack is so underrated! I love it so much. Bruce is my favorite actor and this is my favorite movie - he did such a great job here and this has become my comfort movie.
I think it's kinda sad that the fact that Split is a "sequel" is out there because it technically isn't, and you don't even find out until the very, very end. Finding out that way was such a wonderful surprise that is now forever ruined because the movies are listed as a trilogy.
This movie was so far ahead of its time. It came out before Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and barely after X-Men. It did meta-commentary on comic books in an era when comic book movies were taken so not seriously that they had to put a text card at the beginning to explain that comics can be serious. Split is worth a watch, it was quite enjoyable. It was actually a "surprise sequel": they didn't advertise that it had any relation to Unbreakable before hand. Glass wasn't quite as good unfortunately.
20:48: "If you do that again, I'm calling 5-0" -- George got it! Yep, it's pop-slang in the US to refer to police, as a longstanding reference to an older cop show from the 70s and 80s called Hawaii 5-0, in which the police department was a precinct in Hawaii, and Hawaii was the fiftieth state to join the union. Thus, in the show, "Hawaii 5-0" was the name of the central Task Force around which the characters and story revolved. As such, it became a popular referential phrase for general "police".
"No shooting friends, Joeseph" is going on a coffee mug. ALSO: Another (super) hero movie about a regular joe that is overlooked but well worth it is "Defendor" (2009) w/ Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas and more.
It’s so true about night and his characters slowly coming to the realization of the situations they’re in. It took the characters in the movie “Old” years literally to realize they were aging really fast lol
The part where Elijah (Jackson) fell down the stairs, broke his bones but was able to see the gun matched David’s (Willis) mental vision, I wanted him to look at the camera while choking on pain and say “worth it”
This movie is still amazing. This is the definition of "graphic novel". This is a standalone film that later turned into a trilogy (by MKS decision, nobody asked him anything). I guess when you watch the next one you'll figure that out. This was made way before the comic book movies era and I don't think it was very popular at the time, cause it's pretty much a cult classic today. Back then all of us watched it without even knowing what it was and, finding out that it was a superheroe movie was such a great surprise, cause the genre died out some time ago after Batman Forever. I think I remember reading the synopsis at the theatre describing this film as a "psychological thriller" even, not realising that the events were supposed to be taken seriously.
Yes, there are two more follow up movies. I think I read that this movie was shot so that the ending could have gone either way. Anyway I like how Glass didn't kill just to kill. He was looking for his opposite, Unbreakable. And as Glass said "I finally know who I am, why I'm here." Great reaction. Thank you.
Mr.Night is director known as Mr.twist. Split was his twist to audience when this was shot in quietly and the twist was that these two movies have the same universe.
I also believe the raincoat represents a cape or costume of a super hero. It's passive in a way, no bright colours or symbols. As in the way this whole film is presented. It's calm and passive.
I love the concept of this movie. The idea that superheroes and supervillains could exist but not be “larger than life” is very clever. It is also a fairly sophisticated examination of how trauma can impact a person’s mental health.
12:08 I can’t believe you called that out. I had literally just watched a video essay the other day about how modern movies use too many cuts within scenes, to the point an average shot length is 3 seconds long. But the movie the essay talked about had less cuts and every scene was held a lot longer. Guess what the film was.
Another connection to comic books and superheroes is actually in the sketch in the newspaper. It was illustrated by a well known comic book artist named Alex Ross.
The amazing part about Split (other than the AMAZING performance by James McAvoy) is that it wasn't billed.or presented as a sequel. The realization of the connection was a shyamalan twist in itself.
It's been a long time since I watched the film (and the DVD extras) but I think you're right about the onscreen text about David leading the police to Elijah being added later. I think originally the film ended with Jackson revealing the truth and that's it, but either the studio or test screenings wanted some resolution of the plot so the film didn't end with the villain winning and "getting away".
Get well soon, Simone!!! Great reaction to a great film - remember seeing this the first time, and the twist really got me. It's such a slow burn, well acted and directed.
There's a scene in the special features that was cut out where he also went to the Football team's gym and benched 405lbs and when he sat up, the players were all staring at him in complete silence with utter disbelief on their faces. It was cut because director said it was unnecessary since they already showed he was pretty strong when he was doing the bench with his kid.
Shyamalan said at the time this film was released that he was interested in doing a comic book movie (and this was 2000, long before the MCU) and realized they had a 3 act structure: first act was the hero's origin and discovering his powers, second act was the hero established as a hero and fighting crime, and third act was him fighting his arch-enemy. But when he was writing the movie he realized that he was only interested in the first act so he changed the movie to only be about that.
I'm not sure if M. Night Shyamalan has ever said so, so this might just be a total guess, but a director playing cameo roles in their own movies was a thing that Alfred Hitchcock used to do, and other directors have emulated since. So, my guess is that's why he does it. This is also maybe a guess, but as I always understood it, the "5-0" expression in reference to police, comes from the fact that first, the California Highway Patrol asked Ford to make a custom car that would be lighter and faster than the large heavy sedans that had previously been used as cop cars, and Ford did create a specific model of the Mustang 5.0 (the 5.0 is a reference to the engine size, I think), that in the 80s and early 90s became very popular to be used by many law enforcement agencies across the US. So, in the ghetto, or whatever, "5-0" just became a way to refer to the police. The only problem with that theory, is that the original TV show "Hawaiian 5-0" existed long before that happened, and I believe the "5-O" in that case was a reference to Hawaii being the 50th US state, and was the name of the special team of police in the show, so I don't know?
Yes it's a reference to the television show Hawaii 5-0. Which is about the state police in the 50th state. Early rap stars coined the phrase out of admiration for the catch phrase used at the end of each episode "Book 'em Dan-o". This movie, the first in a trilogy is essentially an origin story for a comic book.
I taught at a high school with a student who had the same brittle bone condition. He was a brave little dude who insisted on not being homeschooled. They set up a cool system where two of the bigger football players would come in 5 minutes before the bell rang and escort him in his wheel chair to a safe place in his next class. Nothing to do with the movie, but reminds me of a heartwarming experience I had teaching high school.
Man, that is touching.
That kid have a love for living life. Kudos to the whole setup. Kids can actually be pretty capable when given the chance. Thanks for sharing.
That is a wonderful little story 😊
I really love how calm the ending is-no big bombastic fight scene, just the revelation of what Elijah did, and then David just walks away. Very powerful.
Also, the explanation for his powers is very simple yet elegant, while also perfectly fitting into the duality the movie sets up: David is simply born with his powers in the same way as Elijah is born with his brittle bone disease; they are two sides of the same coin.
The movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
How did Bruce Willis get that scar on his face.😅
@@charlize1253 Well, even as a kid, Superman always had powers on Earth. While his 1978 film didn't really have any fights.
“What if Superman were real, but he didn’t know he was Superman?”
Split just for James McAvoy’s performance is a must. I didn’t hate Glass as much as most people did. I actually thought it was quite clever
I didn‘t hate „Glass“ either. It just wasn‘t what I expected and I found it incredibly underwhelming.
I don't hate Glass, mostly because technical wise it's solid. I'm also expecting Shyamalan to be underwhelming at this point.
Yeah split was pretty good mcavoy especially. M.night redemption and then old ruined it😂
agreed, hope he got an award for them
Most people? Good lord RUclips comment section is unsettling.
First of… the VAST majority of movie goers, doesn’t go online and complain/praise. You think most people didn’t like it because paid reviews or shady sites like rotten tomatoes or IMDb told you what to think.
I assume you also think Oscars matter? Like it’s not rich people who are throwing glitter and champagne, building the illusion that they know what’s best? Movies are subjective, and you NEVER hear the majority’s opinion, no matter what internet tells you, or how arrogant one is.
I have told many people this but this is one of the best superhero movies ever made.
I’m partial to Chronicle, myself.
The movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
@@dracoargentum9783 I completely forgot about Chronicle. It's another great watch!
I think there is competition between Unbreakable and Dark City
@@charlize1253 Beautifully said. This movie is exactly that and more. It's my favorite "super hero" movie.
You may hear this a few times in the comments...but this movie was way ahead of its time. I don't think audiences were ready for the whole comic book movie with a serious tone. I think of things like Logan today as far as comparable types of serious comic book movies.
Watchmen ,,, 2009 ,,,
@@RichardHead23 I never saw that. It didn't spark any interest for me back then.
@@DigitalSketcher ,,, It's a very dark vision of an alternate reality with superheros ,,, check it out , you won't be disappointed , just the opening sequence alone is amazing .....
@@RichardHead23 Unbreakable came out in early 2001. The world had changed a lot by 2009.
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THAT all depends on your age , and as someone born in 63 ,,, 2001/2009 there's not much difference ,,,,,
19:14 This is inspired by something that happened in real life.
In the 1950s actor George Reeves played Superman for 6 seasons on the popular TV show The Adventures of Superman. As part of his job, he used to do in-person appearances in character as Superman for audiences of almost entirely children. There was one appearance where a kid secretly brought his father's gun to the show. He pointed it at Reeves and was going to shoot him, thinking the bullets would just bounce off like they did on TV. George Reeves had to talk the kid down, saying that if he shot him, the bullets could bounce off and hit one of the other kids. Ben Affleck also depicted this incident on screen, playing George Reeves, in the movie Hollywoodland.
The scene in the kitchen with Joseph trying to show his dad wouldn’t get hurt is one of the most intense scenes ever.
It’s also cleverly written because as a viewer you’re starting to buy into the idea that David really is like a superman, because it’s just a movie, and so a part of you wonders if maybe this is how they’ll discover it’s true, but then you’re dealing with the dread of what it would mean to Joseph if he was the cause of his father’s death.
You’re caught between wanting to find out if it’s true but also not wanting to be shown that it’s false.
It's too bad most people that watch Unbreakable now are spoiled that Split is related to it. Would love to see blind reactions.
That was one of the best things about seeing Split in the theatre opening night :) it was only 25% to 45% full but we all recognize him at the post credits scene :)
The thing is the stories are completely unrelated, they just share the same sequel. The bad thing about the spoiler is that some people watch one looking for the connection to the other when there really isn't one, and it distracts them from the movie.
Me and a friend watched Split in cinema with no knowledge of it being tied to Unbreakable. When the Unbreakable soundtrack started playing in the end scene I thought "c'mon Night that is so cheap". Then they started talking about the guy in the wheelchair and then the penny dropped. My friend and I turned to each other with a reaction I've never had before and never seen before in anyone I've ever known 😂
@vinnylewis9245 that was the exact same thing with me! I had no knowledge of any sort, saw Split with my mom, we both liked it, then the reveal happened and our jaws hit the floor
@@michaelriddick7116 My theater was completely silent and I still remember gasping extremely loudly when the unbreakable theme starts playing when he's talking to himself in the mirror. It's a solid minute before they show Bruce Willis so I'm sure everyone thought I was crazy
Man, the acting in this movie is so good. And the way M. Night just lets the frame tell the story without moving the camera around much.
I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of his story telling and I'll agree he knows cinema. Something even Disney appears to have forgotten. I miss thoughtful shots without how it will look on a phone.
Split came out so many years later mainly because Unbreakable wasn't a hit so the studio didn't want to make the sequel. It was awesome, but at the time a lot of people found it too slow. It also suffered because it was marketed as a thriller like the Sixth Sense, which was a huge hit, so people kept comparing them and found Unbreakable lacking. Everyone just kept asking Shyamalan to make the next Sixth Sense and then complaining because his movies followed a similar formula
I haven't seen "Glass" but "Split" is really good. It's kind of ruined now but the cool thing about Split at least for me is that people didn't know it was connected to Unbreakable or a kind of sequel. it was just a new stand alone M. Night movie. The movie could be a stand alone movie it really doesn't feel like a sequel at all. The 3rd one I believe ties the two movies together.
There is a short scene at the end of Split that connected it to this movie.
Probably the most "realistic" superhero origin movie ever
Other than maybe Kick-Ass.
when elijah gets his first comic his mom tells him "this one has a surprise ending" i love that. you noticed elijah's purple color scheme but if you look back at davids wardrobe you'll notice that it is predominantly green. just a couple cool little tidbits.
"Quiet" in movies is so underrated, to the point we made horror movies about it and for some illogical reason, the concept blew people's minds out of their butts.
The word used to be called subtlety.
This is one of the underrated classics of the 21st century. It is M. Night's best film. It is Bruce Willis' best performance ever. And it is one of the greatest original screenplays of all time.
Is it underrated?
@@kuhpunkt Not enough people have heard of it or seen it
@@moviescatsmargs That's not what underrated means. Underrated means that it's better than people give it credit. And how do you know how many people have seen it?
@kuhpunkt if they haven't heard of it or seen it, then they don't know how good it is. Only the ones who have seen it know how good it is. The movie, in general, is viewed as a cult film. People have seen it, but for the quality of the film, you wish it had the same audience that a movie like The Dark Knight did.
@@moviescatsmargs That's still not what underrated means.
Unbreakable was way way ahead of it's time, and the fact that nobody had any idea that it was connected to Split 16yrs later was mindblowing at the time, Split is brilliant also.
A superhero movie done in a different, yet very smart and entertaining way.
Yeah its hard for folks to ve imoressed with it after the MCU/DCEUA but this was as close as many of us ever thought we'd get to a "superhero" movie for a very long time 😊
Tarantino described it once as ‘What if Superman was here on earth, and didn’t know he was Superman?’ and that is kinda spot on.
Yep, the movie is an inversion of a comic book superhero origin story. In the usual origin story, a normal person suddenly gains powers by being bitten by a spider or exposed to radiation, and the story ends with a final boss fight with the villain. Here, the hero always had his powers but never knew it, and the movie ends quietly with a handshake.
@@charlize1253 Are you posting this in every one of your replies?
George - "He's kinda dressed like a villain..."
Simone - "His head's big!"
You two really picked up on some of the more subtle super villain traits of Elijah. His big hair and eyes, the dark purple/black color scheme that contrasts to David's blues and greens. It's wonderfully crafted.
I'm also an enjoyer of Split and Glass.
"Look everyone it's Brock Turner!" Classic line George. Everyone needs to know that his story. By the way continue with the trilogy. This was before the MCU and I think Shyamalan used his directorial power to get this made. Superhero movies at this point in history were not taken seriously. He was the first one to do so. Patton Oswalt did a very awesome bit about this movie and it sequels. You should check it out.
Oh, are you talking about Convicted Rapist Brock Turner?
Simone as Bruce Willis is freaking me out 😂
Technically the "antagonist" doesn't have to be evil. In romantic movies usually one of the couple is a protagonist and the other is the antagonist. The antagonist gets the protagonist to act. In this movie Elijah gets Bruce Willis's character to act as a hero.
Not evil but they do need to be in opposition of the protagonists goals.
I don't think movie had a definitive one, nor needs one.
Idk enough romantic movies but id argue most rom coms the antagonist is the main character himself/herself.
Antagonists being against protagonists and overcoming them is what delivers the end goals..
Sometimes external sometimes internal forces.
I don't think 'getting hero to act' makes an antagonist... I mean who would that make the antagonist of lion king? Nala, rafiki, or ghost Mustafa.. it's def not scar who gets simba to act right
@@beesmitty3435I do agree that movies don't need to follow the typical Syd Field style 3 act structure. And I think a lot of bad film criticism stems from people demanding that every film does it, even if they don't need to.
Absolutely. The primary role of the antagonist is to provide conflict for the protagonist. They don't have to be evil or even working against the protagonist, they simply create conflict in the story. In Unbreakable, Elijah is trying to make the world a better place by finding heroes and he is willing to cross any number of lines to achieve it. He is a monster, but he is not David's enemy.
@@StormhavenGamingAnd he'd be the antagonist even if he had nothing to do with the tragedies. Structurally it would barely change the movie.
@@algi1 Yeah, exactly. The conflict is internal to David but introduced by Elijah. Elijah just has to put the idea into David's head and he does the rest. The fact that Elijah also casued the trageides is utterly incidental.
Five-O is definitely from the tv Show Hawaii Five-O. It was a police procedural set in Hawaii, which is the 50th state. At the time of the original series’ start, Hawaii had only been a state for 9 years and this was supposedly a task force set up to handle special crimes in the absence of a longstanding U.S. regulated police force to handle crimes that were not just day-to-day petty crimes.
No, this is a 90s gangster rap term. They called them 5 0 because of their cars, Mustang 5.0.
5-0 was also radio code for a patrolman/patrol car though they changed the code every few years to keep criminals from knowing what was said on police scanners (I think these days cops don't bother using them anymore cause there were issues with different departments using different codes and it causing confusion when they had to work together.
@@jasonrd316 Right, so the TV executives in the 60s and 70s were naming their cop shows after the ganster rapper's slang from 25 years in the future? You're not friends with logic are you?
@@psycho42069 Aside from the tv show, is there a place I can find an example of people using the term 5-0 prior to the late 80s, before the Mustangs and Crown Vics?
The show is named after Hawaii, the 50th state. The slang comes from the cars. They are independent of one another, even if the show has police in it.
Yep. 100 percent correct.
14:05 Now they have to watch Over the Top (1987).
I love how this is the first act of any other superhero movie, but expanded to be an entire movie.
It's JUST the hero discovering their powers and thwarting their first crime.
Definitely watch Split. It was the movie that revitalized his career and features an incredible James MacAvoy performance. It was a dark period for his career between Lady in the Water and Last Airbender.
Although if you want some fun unintentional laughs, watch The Happening. That’s practically a comedy in all the wrong ways.
I only watched The Happening a few years ago, and I'm convinced Shyamalan meant it to be an absurdist comedy but forgot to tell anyone else. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
What I've was that Unbreakable was always intended to be part of a trilogy, but when it bombed at the box office, no chance of a sequel existed. Then M. Night had an entire series of movies that tanked, but once he started to redeem his reputation, he did the second movie - Split. Which did quite well, enabling him to complete the trilogy with Glass.
This is the main problem about watching movies years after they come out. Back in the day when Split came out it was 100% unknown that it was a “sequel“ and it actually really is not. But now they’re automatically clumped together and it ruins the absolute mind blowing surprise of the connection. Because THAT was the twist.
Yep. What a shame. When I first saw Simone and George had reacted to Sixth Sense I was hoping they wouldn't look ahead too much and take some hints to just watch them in order of release and be surprised at what they'd be surprised with. Now that's out the window.
@@BrandonBlume Exactly.
M Night's The Village has a great cast and some wonderful performances, even if the "twist" at the end was rather easy to guess. Still a good flick. Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Phoenix both kill it.
He needs to learn not every film needs a twist. If the Village had just been like the first two thirds it would have been a brilliant folk horror.
@@Pengi_SMILES I agree; I suspected the twist fairly early in the film but I kept hoping it wouldn’t actually happen. Then it did and I was just kind of disappointed because I thought it was pretty great up until then, and would have been more compelling without the twist.
I really don't care about the twist (which I randomly guessed during the very first scene). I still think it's a wonderful movie.
Amazing cinematography
James Howard Newton did the music for all of M. Night’s early movies, and did a great job with each, but The Village is on a completely other level. It’s also a well-directed and visually cool movie. And yes, great cast … there’s also Sigorney Weaver, William Hurt, Judy Greer and Adrien Brody in there. That said, there are two twists, and they’re both disappointing. Still worth a watch, just don’t expect anything mind blowing at the end 🤣
You guys should definitely watch Split if it's not on the list already
Split has had some backlash since its release due to its handling of mental illness. That being said, I am one of the folks who really enjoyed it as it has a couple of really good performances, highlighted by James McAvoy. Another thing to be aware of with it is to not expect a full-on sequel out of it as no one knew it had any ties to Unbreakable until seeing the final couple minutes of the film. Its very much its own story until that point and then GLASS brings it all together.
I think the backlash is more due to the fact people are way too sensitive about every little thing not how they handled the subject matter. It was a great movie
@@Chriswallace0405 It's not about sensitivity, it's about it not representing a mental illness in the way that it actually is and people who do have that condition being even more stigmatised and hurt (as friends, family, peers and colleagues are gonna see that and are most probably not gonna want to try to understad what that condition actually entails). And it's also just more of: the people who do not fit the societal archetype of "normal" being portrayed as monsters or villans.
@@personwithoutabody3236 It's a movie.
@@personwithoutabody3236 Tell me who has a condition that transform them into a being that can withstand gunshots and climb walls? It's not the multiple personality disorder of day to day life, it's a comic book version that it's completely different from the real life version, and people are just idiots and want to feel offended and victimized.
If they are offended by the girl self harm and depression than it's even worst, because there's unlimited ways those conditions work varying from people to people.
@@ThrashCommand There was an actor who was in one of those Melrose Place/Beverly Hills 90210 style shows. His character was an abusive prick.
People couldn't separate the man from the character and it ended his career.
So there are real world examples of people thinking what they see on a TV show for film is real.
This movie is kind of jarring because it has all these wholesome old school themes in it that really work. It's about a kid whose dad literally becomes a superhero. Dads are supposed to be absentee losers, buffoons, or villains. I actually think this is Shyamalan's best film. He's always trying to do this magical realist drama thing, but he usually misses the mark and it just comes off as absurd or awkward; he nailed it in this movie though. Unbreakable kind of gives you a way of understanding what he was trying to do in all his other films but could never quite pull it off.
If you ever get a chance, watch the deleted scenes... there's one in particular where it's Bruce Willis' character bench pressing some insane amount of weight in front of the football athletes he protects.
It would've great if he had kept that in the movie.
I wouldn't say it's an insane amount of weight. He benches 495 in the deleted scene. Now, don't get me wrong, that's a lot of weight for a regular guy. But it's definitely not "super strength." The big thing is we obviously don't see the theoretical upper limits of his strength in this movie. If he weight trained, could he double that? Triple it? More?
@@robertcampbell8070 How do you know it's 495?
@@rantman4521 By the amount of plates? He's got 5 45's on either side plus the 45 pound bar. 10 45's is 450 plus the 45 pound bar. 495.
@robertcampbell8070 Thanks. I just now rewatched it and you're right. I think you're right about him maybe doubling or tripling that if trained harder.
Five-oh has been slang for the police since the 1968 series Hawaii Five-O about a police squad in Hawaii. The name Five-O was selected because Hawaii was the 50th state and at the time of the series had only been a state 9 years. And so they basically used that as some fictional concept of the police department designation as kind of a double meaning. It’s assumed it was probably lifted off some article or something about the state of Hawaii and someone decided it sounded catchy.
Bench pressing 350lbs is not record breaking, but for a person Bruce Willis’s size and age it would be an indicator of being very dedicated to strength training. You would typically expect such a person to clearly appear muscular or of a larger build like an American football linebacker.
I believe a handful of Shyamalan's films are masterpieces, including Sixth Sense, The Village, Signs, and this. They are frequently assessed or experienced literally, about superheroes, aliens, ghosts, etc., but the deeper meanings are about the limitations of humans. I know you watched Signs--which is really about the tendency of people to fill in the blanks of what they can't know, because we need to make meaning. If you watch that movie again, you'll notice that the aliens never attack humans. You only see humans attacking the aliens. Even the gas that goes into the kid's nose at the end, which is interpreted as "thank god his asthma blocked the poison," but which could have actually saved the kid's life. I would highly recommend watching The Village if you like his films and are curious to dig into them/
This is one of my favorite movies, specially being a superhero/comic book aficionado. It's so underrated and flew under the radar for so many. Its unique, serious and quasi-realistic take on the superhero gripped me so hard all the way back when it came out.
Great reaction❤️ Cant wait for "Split" and "Glass". You are going to LOVE James McAvoy 🙌🏻
I love that all the scenes in the movie are filmed to make them look like comic book panels.
From google ' “5-0” (pronounced five-oh) became a popular nickname after the television show Hawaii Five-O which aired from 1968 to 1980. “Five-o” referred to the Hawaiian police force in the show, based on Hawaii being the fiftieth state to join the union.'
@6:37 In a deleted scene, the minister who spoke at the memorial for the train disaster expresses hostility towards David when David reveals he was the sole survivor and asks him for guidance.
@25:45 As the movie progresses, his poncho gets longer until it becomes cape-like.
So glad you reacted to this one. It's my favorite M. Night Shamylan movie.
Young Simone and Young George, it became popular to call the police " 5-0 " due to the popularity of the original Hawaii 5-0 tv show, that ran from 1968 - 1980.
Great show too.
Book 'em, Danno.@@ravissary79
I heard the reboot was pretty good too. Same with Magnum. Shows you need to really let some time pass between iterations for a reboot to find a new audience I guess.
"Nuns don't work on Sunday"
The term 5.0 actually comes from the fastest car available to most cops at the time, the Mustang 5.0 police Interceptor.
I KNEW a lot of young people didn't get the "5-0" reference. There was a TV show called "Hawai'i 5-0", a police show, since it was the 50th state, the state police were called Hawai'i 5-0, often shortened to just 5-0. The show was popular enough that "5-0" became another name for any police force, hence "if you do that again, I'm calling 5-0'. the other famous quote from the show is "Book 'im, Dano. murder one."
And probably the best theme music EVER!
With which they must become familiar before they ever watch The Dish 😂
And speaking of theme music, if you notice the music in "Unbreakable" has a hero theme, you only get parts or snippets of it played throughout the early movie, you only get the full theme played as Bruce Willis' character is rising from the pool.
George wondered whether comic sales have gone up or down since those statistics...as I understand it, the sales of all comics went up and up for a long time, but have begun to fall steadily since 2016 nor 2017. The exception to that has been Manga and other Japanese comics, which have been hugely popular with rising sales that have only gotten better as US published comic book series are selling less and less.
Oh...and "a pint is a pound the world around"...at least that is how I learned how to remember how much a pint of water weighs. And since there are 16 pints in each gallon, each of those paint cans weighed at least 16 pounds...assuming they were full...and then add the weight of the can, and add however much heavier that paint is compared to water. LOL
Comic sales had crashed before 2001. In the 90s they were much higher than they have been at any point since.
@@ApesAmongUsfor context the comic boom in the 90s was due to speculation. Comics themselves are not a big money making industry so sales always look bad. Character licensing is where the big bucks live.
@@gapsule2326 Except in the 90s, they hadn't really started the marketing to collectors the way they have now. They weren't doing 2 dozen alternate covers and they weren't restarting the same book 4-5 times. Yes, the collectors increased the market back then, but the more they have focused on the collectors, the worse they have done.
And you cannot discount the effect of things like Image comics. Not that it stole market share, but more to the point that the big 2 changed the structure of the business to prevent something like that from happening again, leading to a move away from the big polymath talents whose names sold comics.
Mr. Glass and The Unbreakable Man, the villain and his super hero nemesis. This was by far my favorite Shyamalan film, probably because of the superhero angle.
I actually love the trilogy
Man, the fact that you guys already know that Split is a part of the same universe is a huge spoiler. Nobody knew at the time, I thought it was just about a crazy guy. Then there's a HUGE reveal that blew everybody's mind.
This is my favourite superhero origin film, it’s about as realistic a portrayal as a real life superhero you can get, it’s not someone that’s came from outer space, just someone that’s really strong somehow and has good instincts about things.
I mean, you're definitely understating his abilities quite a bit but it is a good example of a more 'realistic' take on the idea of a superhuman.
Was so much fun watching you two figure the ending out in the first ten minutes, and the talking yourselves out of it for the next hour and a half.
James McAvoy's acting in Split is phenomenal. I also love Anya Taylor- Joy's performance.
George, I think the text at the end was always there, because it was a parody of the old school Batman comics, where Joker would end up at the "Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane" at the end of the comic. You noticed earlier that "Mr. Glass" was dressed like The Joker, you just didn't finish putting it together.
Imagine if all the Marvel movies had been this good.
I wish Marvel's Phase 4 had scaled back and made more gritty and down-to-earth comic book movies. That would've been alot more interesting than just throwing CGI money at the screen and giving us mediocre stories.
Deadpool is the antidote to those money-grab flicks.
I love the look om the kids face when he comes down for breakfast a mix of confusion and then hope very talented young actor
It's not his most popular, but I always liked Lady in the Water.
Yeah, people really hated it when it came out, but I loved it. I like most of his movies actually. Enjoyed the heck out of the village, even liked the happening.
Re: the text at the end. You were exactly correct. I saw this movie in the theater and the text wasn't there. It was apparently added in some of the overseas theatrical showings and then on the home video version.
This movie was so underrated...
Is it?
Yeah, when it first came out a lot o people felt disappointed with it. I remember being excited for it when it came out on DVD and nobody I knew at the time was really looking forward to it lol It's definitely more popular now than when it was first released.@@kuhpunkt
I love the scene were he goes looking for people who have done something wrong. Everyone is dressed in like greys, except the people who he has visions of. The lady in the red jacket, the guy with the green jacket, and then the final guy in his orange jumpsuit.
_🔥Shyamalan's Trilogy🔥_
★ - *Unbreakable* (2000) | _Bruce Willis_
★ - *Split* (2016) | _James McAvoy_
★ - *Glass* (2019) | _Samuel L Jackson_
The slow burn on the reveal of Glass as the supervillain was so good in this movie.
I am not sure he really nailed these films but the concept is really interesting and it's worth watching all three. Split is surprisingly good and Glass does bring them together.
Hello guys! Now you must watch the other two movies.....are WORTH watching
I never understand Simone’s opening remarks?? 🤷🏻♀️
Okay, you seriously cracked me up when you said "here's my twist" at 0:58! And that Sixth Sense pun.....hats off to you! Also, you two always have a lot of wit. DEFINITELY watch the other two movies. Amazing acting!
You two will LOVE Split. No doubt
One thing I like about this film is how it looks at the dark side of destiny. If someone is destined or created to do good, then someone is destined or created to horrible things. Elijah finds out he is destined to be a villain, but he's happy because he has found his purpose.
Another good movie and heck yeah for Ted Lasso season 2!
The thing about Split is, it was not marketed as anything to do with Unbreakable. Most people saw it as a stand alone film and had no idea about Unbreakable. I was one of those.. I was like.. "WTF is happening?" and had to watch Unbreakable to get it. Other people who had seen unbreakable and forgotten about it were super excited
Yeah, put me in the camp of you guys loving Split. This trilogy may not be a tight trilogy as following the same set of people equally throughout all three movies but I consider Unbreakable and Split two of M. Night’s best films.
The soundtrack is so underrated! I love it so much. Bruce is my favorite actor and this is my favorite movie - he did such a great job here and this has become my comfort movie.
I think it's kinda sad that the fact that Split is a "sequel" is out there because it technically isn't, and you don't even find out until the very, very end. Finding out that way was such a wonderful surprise that is now forever ruined because the movies are listed as a trilogy.
"They called me Mr. Glass." Most powerful line in the movie.
This movie was so far ahead of its time. It came out before Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and barely after X-Men. It did meta-commentary on comic books in an era when comic book movies were taken so not seriously that they had to put a text card at the beginning to explain that comics can be serious.
Split is worth a watch, it was quite enjoyable. It was actually a "surprise sequel": they didn't advertise that it had any relation to Unbreakable before hand.
Glass wasn't quite as good unfortunately.
Why would you spoil that for them?
@@Chriswallace0405 What am I spoiling to people who already know it's a sequel?
20:48: "If you do that again, I'm calling 5-0" -- George got it! Yep, it's pop-slang in the US to refer to police, as a longstanding reference to an older cop show from the 70s and 80s called Hawaii 5-0, in which the police department was a precinct in Hawaii, and Hawaii was the fiftieth state to join the union. Thus, in the show, "Hawaii 5-0" was the name of the central Task Force around which the characters and story revolved. As such, it became a popular referential phrase for general "police".
"No shooting friends, Joeseph" is going on a coffee mug.
ALSO: Another (super) hero movie about a regular joe that is overlooked but well worth it is "Defendor" (2009) w/ Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas and more.
It’s so true about night and his characters slowly coming to the realization of the situations they’re in. It took the characters in the movie “Old” years literally to realize they were aging really fast lol
Such an underrated gem. Bruce Willis' best performance. He should of been nominated for this movie.
The part where Elijah (Jackson) fell down the stairs, broke his bones but was able to see the gun matched David’s (Willis) mental vision, I wanted him to look at the camera while choking on pain and say “worth it”
I love the way you guys are like "he could go to the cops" and not "he could become a cop."
This movie is still amazing. This is the definition of "graphic novel". This is a standalone film that later turned into a trilogy (by MKS decision, nobody asked him anything). I guess when you watch the next one you'll figure that out. This was made way before the comic book movies era and I don't think it was very popular at the time, cause it's pretty much a cult classic today. Back then all of us watched it without even knowing what it was and, finding out that it was a superheroe movie was such a great surprise, cause the genre died out some time ago after Batman Forever. I think I remember reading the synopsis at the theatre describing this film as a "psychological thriller" even, not realising that the events were supposed to be taken seriously.
So, when Split was released, we didn't know it was a sequel to Unbreakable. That was a reveal during the film.
Yes, there are two more follow up movies. I think I read that this movie was shot so that the ending could have gone either way. Anyway I like how Glass didn't kill just to kill. He was looking for his opposite, Unbreakable. And as Glass said "I finally know who I am, why I'm here." Great reaction. Thank you.
Mr.Night is director known as Mr.twist. Split was his twist to audience when this was shot in quietly and the twist was that these two movies have the same universe.
Him taking out the "Maintenance Man" was such a powerful scene i have chills watching it to to this day.
Hawaii Five-0 was the most popular cop show for 12 years from 1968-1980 and was rebooted in 2010-2020 for 10 more years with new actors.
8:39 As a Philadelphian I hear "West Philadelphia" all the time and literally every time I finish it with "born and raised".
I also believe the raincoat represents a cape or costume of a super hero. It's passive in a way, no bright colours or symbols. As in the way this whole film is presented. It's calm and passive.
I love the concept of this movie. The idea that superheroes and supervillains could exist but not be “larger than life” is very clever. It is also a fairly sophisticated examination of how trauma can impact a person’s mental health.
the pinecone on a stick kid is adorable. "Here I am workin my life away. I wish I could just stop and go on a cruise."
12:08 I can’t believe you called that out. I had literally just watched a video essay the other day about how modern movies use too many cuts within scenes, to the point an average shot length is 3 seconds long. But the movie the essay talked about had less cuts and every scene was held a lot longer.
Guess what the film was.
Another connection to comic books and superheroes is actually in the sketch in the newspaper. It was illustrated by a well known comic book artist named Alex Ross.
3:02 The beauty on the train is Leslie Stefanson. She was fantastic opposite John Travolta in The General's Daughter 1999.
The amazing part about Split (other than the AMAZING performance by James McAvoy) is that it wasn't billed.or presented as a sequel. The realization of the connection was a shyamalan twist in itself.
It's been a long time since I watched the film (and the DVD extras) but I think you're right about the onscreen text about David leading the police to Elijah being added later. I think originally the film ended with Jackson revealing the truth and that's it, but either the studio or test screenings wanted some resolution of the plot so the film didn't end with the villain winning and "getting away".
Noooo you chopped up the best moment in the film 😅😆
The whole ending sequence and final line "They called me..." is cinematic perfection.
Get well soon, Simone!!!
Great reaction to a great film - remember seeing this the first time, and the twist really got me.
It's such a slow burn, well acted and directed.
There's a scene in the special features that was cut out where he also went to the Football team's gym and benched 405lbs and when he sat up, the players were all staring at him in complete silence with utter disbelief on their faces. It was cut because director said it was unnecessary since they already showed he was pretty strong when he was doing the bench with his kid.
It makes me so happy to see you guys reacting to this one. I love this movie! I think it gets overlooked so often.
Shyamalan said at the time this film was released that he was interested in doing a comic book movie (and this was 2000, long before the MCU) and realized they had a 3 act structure: first act was the hero's origin and discovering his powers, second act was the hero established as a hero and fighting crime, and third act was him fighting his arch-enemy. But when he was writing the movie he realized that he was only interested in the first act so he changed the movie to only be about that.
Split is a wonderful showcase of James McAvoy's acting range and is def worth a watch.
I'm not sure if M. Night Shyamalan has ever said so, so this might just be a total guess, but a director playing cameo roles in their own movies was a thing that Alfred Hitchcock used to do, and other directors have emulated since. So, my guess is that's why he does it.
This is also maybe a guess, but as I always understood it, the "5-0" expression in reference to police, comes from the fact that first, the California Highway Patrol asked Ford to make a custom car that would be lighter and faster than the large heavy sedans that had previously been used as cop cars, and Ford did create a specific model of the Mustang 5.0 (the 5.0 is a reference to the engine size, I think), that in the 80s and early 90s became very popular to be used by many law enforcement agencies across the US. So, in the ghetto, or whatever, "5-0" just became a way to refer to the police. The only problem with that theory, is that the original TV show "Hawaiian 5-0" existed long before that happened, and I believe the "5-O" in that case was a reference to Hawaii being the 50th US state, and was the name of the special team of police in the show, so I don't know?
*Exactly, Hitchcock did a cameo in almost every of his movies.* 🎭📀🎬
Yes it's a reference to the television show Hawaii 5-0. Which is about the state police in the 50th state. Early rap stars coined the phrase out of admiration for the catch phrase used at the end of each episode "Book 'em Dan-o". This movie, the first in a trilogy is essentially an origin story for a comic book.