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I hypothesize that one of the possible reasons that we movie lovers continue to give M. Night movies another chance despite being repeatedly let down is because we’re subconsciously aware that this is the guy who made The Sixth Sense and maybe, just maybe, he will finally return to that caliber of filmmaking once again.
Everything is temporaryGreatness can’t last forever, and I’ve learned to not expect it.
That’s very good. I understand all of that perfectlyA deep dive into M Nights attention to detail and his masterful story telling techniques from his early films. From unbreakable:
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Every time we are reintroduced to Elijah Price, it’s through his reflection in glass.
Our first scene with Elijah, shortly after his birth, is a single long take of a department store dressing room mirror, with the entire scene playing out in its reflection.
In fact, the very first shot of the film goes one step further and is shot through TWO mirrors.
The camera is pointed at the dressing room mirror, which is reflecting a second mirror outside, through which we see the doctor approach Elijah.
(First mirror outlined in blue, second in yellow)
The second time we are reintroduced to Elijah, it is through his reflection in a glass television screen.
The reflection is warped, distorted, a fun-house mirror that captures his own warped self-image.
The screen is turned off. Elijah can only see someone like himself on TV when he stops watching.
Finally, we are reintroduced to an adult Elijah through the reflection of a glass frame over comic art.
To us, Elijah is also within the glass, framed with comic book heroes and villains. This is his world.
When David Dunn is first contacted by Elijah, it’s through a calling card first seen through a glass windshield.
Elijah’s connections with people are often done through glass.
When Elijah discovers the gunman at the football game, he sees him through the reflection of his rear view mirror.
When Elijah falls down the stairs and breaks his leg we dissolve from his eye to glass signage (that looks like an eye), and then rack focus to the woman Elijah is looking at (Robin Wright).
Again, through the glass.
At the end of the film, Elijah Price adopts the moniker of “Mr. Glass,” a name given to him by the kids at school who used to tease him because he “broke like glass.”
But these shots give his name a different meaning. Elijah lived a life of loneliness and alienation. Trapped behind glass, always able to see the world but never touch it.
Like Alice through her looking glass, Elijah became trapped and lost in that world.
A deep dive into M Nights attention to detail and his masterful story telling techniques from his early films. From unbreakable:
.
.
.
.
Every time we are reintroduced to Elijah Price, it’s through his reflection in glass.
Our first scene with Elijah, shortly after his birth, is a single long take of a department store dressing room mirror, with the entire scene playing out in its reflection.
In fact, the very first shot of the film goes one step further and is shot through TWO mirrors.
The camera is pointed at the dressing room mirror, which is reflecting a second mirror outside, through which we see the doctor approach Elijah.
(First mirror outlined in blue, second in yellow)
The second time we are reintroduced to Elijah, it is through his reflection in a glass television screen.
The reflection is warped, distorted, a fun-house mirror that captures his own warped self-image.
The screen is turned off. Elijah can only see someone like himself on TV when he stops watching.
Finally, we are reintroduced to an adult Elijah through the reflection of a glass frame over comic art.
To us, Elijah is also within the glass, framed with comic book heroes and villains. This is his world.
When David Dunn is first contacted by Elijah, it’s through a calling card first seen through a glass windshield.
Elijah’s connections with people are often done through glass.
When Elijah discovers the gunman at the football game, he sees him through the reflection of his rear view mirror.
When Elijah falls down the stairs and breaks his leg we dissolve from his eye to glass signage (that looks like an eye), and then rack focus to the woman Elijah is looking at (Robin Wright).
Again, through the glass.
At the end of the film, Elijah Price adopts the moniker of “Mr. Glass,” a name given to him by the kids at school who used to tease him because he “broke like glass.”
But these shots give his name a different meaning. Elijah lived a life of loneliness and alienation. Trapped behind glass, always able to see the world but never touch it.
Like Alice through her looking glass, Elijah became trapped and lost in that world.
Child's Play 2 is excellent and may be the best movie in the series.