I recently saw The Village. Although the plot is preposterously untenable, I must confess I enjoyed it. Towards the end of the movie, a young security guard working for the company charged with safeguarding the village from the outside is speaking with his superior. According to the credits, this small role was played by the film’s director, M. Night Shyamalan. However, the entire time he is speaking his face is obscured. Does anyone know if this was because Mr. Shyamalan thought that it would seem incongruous to have an Indian-appearing security officer speaking with a Philadelphia area accent (which of and in itself would be logical as the movie is set in the Philadelphia area)? Mr. Shyamalan was raised almost entirely in the Philadelphia area (where he still resides) where I have lived all my life, so it's easy for me to tell he’s one of us by his Philly accent. Or rather, is this a Hitchcock-like trademark of Mr. Shyamalan; i.e. , does he appear likewise in all of his films? The only other one of his films that I recall having seen is The Sixth Sense, and I can’t remember if he likewise appeared in that.
Thanks to all.
Thanks to all.
Last edited by Don Schneider; 01-18-17 at 03:07 PM.