"Mr. Glass" is the final chapter of the "Supernatural Trilogy" directed by director M. Night Shyamalan, the first two are "Unbreakable" and "Split" ( Split). In 2000, when "Undead" was released, Shyamalan already had the idea of making this series into a trilogy. Although the quality of the film was remarkable, the box office of the harvest was unexpectedly bleak, so much so Malan eventually shelved the plan.
What followed was Shyamalan's dramatic ups and downs as a director, dubbed "Hollywood's most erratic director" who never made a film as good as "The Sixth Sense." , and after he tried a series of other style of the film, but did not cause waves, but every movie shot more or less cause some negative effects, also known as the "six major Hollywood film companies bring down Director" , "Hollywood Studios Six Kills" .
It was not until the emergence of the hit "Split" in 2016 that Shyamalan's original hope of shooting a trilogy was rekindled.
"Undead" focuses on a man who is the only survivor of a train accident and struggles with doubts about his superpowers; "Split" is about a beast who is schizophrenic due to childhood trauma In the third film "Mr. Glass", the film proposes a deeper reflection: Is human beings an objective existence, or is it a physical reaction shaped by thought? Do you think you are a superhero, so you are a superhero?
Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the final chapter of this offbeat superhero movie, along with some fun facts about the set.
1. James McAvoy said that the inspiration for the performance of one of his characters (23 in total) was Saoirse Ronan , since they both met in 2007. When he was young, he collaborated on Atonement.
2. At the end of the film, Casey Cooke goes to the comic book store, which is the same as the childhood Samuel L. The bookstore that buys comic books is the same store, with Bostin Christopher returning to play the owner.
3. When director M. Knight Shyamalan talked about the representative colors of the three protagonists of the film, he said that Bruce Willis played David Dunn, who is never hurt and can perceive people's past. Dunn's representative color is green, because green represents life, and David is the protector of life; and James McAvoy's representative color of The Beast with 23 personalities is dark yellow, because deep Yellow is associated with religious beliefs (Buddhism, Hinduism), and the beast itself is a similar setting for evangelists; and Samuel L. Jackson plays Elijah Price, who has a super-intelligence but suffers from brittle bone disease. Price) is purple, because purple is the representative of dignified, noble and great, and Elijah believes that he has always been the protagonist in the comics.
4. Joseph Dunn, played by Spencer Treat Clark, found the colors of the Villains and Heroes comics in comic book stores that correspond to Eli The purple represented by Ya and the green represented by David.
5. At the end of the film, the three characters are also dressed according to Shyamalan's tonal definition, David's son Joseph in a dark green jacket, and Elijah's mother, Mrs. Price, in a purple coat, who was imprisoned by the beast Casey, who is wearing a dark yellow lining.
5. Rarely, the first installment in the series, "Undead," was distributed by Touchstone Pictures, part of The Walt Disney Company, and the second film, "Split," was distributed by Universal Pictures (Universal Pictures), and the distributor and copyright of the third film are shared by the two major film and television companies. This is also the first film that the long-term rivals Disney and Universal have cooperated with; although the two giants have films However, M. Knight Shyamalan still owns the sequel rights to the film, so the filming process of the third film started smoothly. Shyamalan mortgaged his house to shoot the final chapter.
6. The Myth of Ageless Samuel L. Jackson was five years older than Charlayne Woodard, who played his mother, Mrs. Price.
7. In the Beast's cell, there are scenes where many toothbrushes can be seen at the same time, implying that each personality has its own toothbrush.
8. The original script for The Undead ended with David vs. The Beast, but Shyamalan thought he couldn't tell the origin story of the three characters well in just one film, so in the end the Beast got its own standalone film, And David's climax against the Beast was placed at the end of the third installment.
9. The original rough cut of Glass was three and a half novels long, and Shyamalan ended up removing three of the Beast's personalities from the film in order to shorten the length .
10. The three films "Undead", "Split" and "Mr. Glass" are actually very closely related, with David appearing in the finale of "Split" and Shyamalan in the three films Both have cameo roles, and the cameo roles in "Undead Robbery" and "Mr. Glass" are the same role.
11. When David was brought into the mental hospital, the watermark of the surveillance camera had the words "H2O", and David's weakness was water, which indicated that the mental hospital was a very dangerous place.
12. James McAvoy showed only 9 of the 23 personalities in "Split", while in "Mr. Glass" he showed 20 different personalities.
13. This is James McAvoy's third film to have his head shaved, after X-Men: Apocalypse and Split .
14. Most of the actors in the film have a history of shooting superhero comics, which is enough to show how much comics make up the movie market; for example, Bruce Willis once starred in "Sin City". City), "Red" (Red), etc., Spencer Treat Clark starred in the American drama "Agents of SHIELD Season 5" (Agents of SHIELD Season 5); James McAvoy starred in "Agents of SHIELD Season 5" Wanted, the X-Men film franchise; and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ); Sarah Paulson in The Spirit; Anya Taylor-Joy in this year’s X-Men: The New Mutants New Mutants).
15. In the credits at the end of the credits, the character names corresponding to James McAvoy are the names of all the characters on the screen.
Epilogue
It's hard to define where Shyamalan's "powerful trilogy" fits in today's superhero movies because it's unlike any we've seen; but these three works bring three very personalities Charismatic superhero characters: spirits with immortal bodies, beasts with split personalities, and brittle people with high IQ; "Mr. Glass" explores many different issues, the difference between comics and real superheroes, and the difference between humans and aliens. the conflict between so on, it is definitely not a typical superhero movie, or that it is not a superhero movie, but it has a unique charm belonging Shyamalan.
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