The Villiage- So, what's the trick? (Spoilers for M. Night movies, guess on Villiage)

[Chad Bonin]

The Sixth Sense? Bruce Willis is dead
Unbrekable? Bruce Willis is unbreakable, Mr. Glass is... breakable

So, what do you think the secret in The Villiage will be?

I have a feeling he'll pull a Twilight Zone and have these people in The Villiage be against modern times; the "monsters" outside is just standard humanity, with office buildings and cars and such.

[Hurricane V1]

Was there a secret in Signs? I didn't fully watch Signs, I fell asleep. The theme seemed to be finding ways to let you know the aliens where there but never actually showing them, sort of like in the Blair Witch Project. But as for secrets, well I heard the ending resembled a famous novel about nearby aliens as well.

Cool theory you have there.

[Funkatron]

The secret to signs was
The son had asthma just so he would survive the Alien's Gas

[Youko Recca]

The secret to signs was
The son had asthma just so he would survive the Alien's Gas
You serious or what?

[Nick K.]

Adrien Brody is in this movie but he's yet to appear in any trailers. What's up with him??? ;)

[GL2k2]

Adrien did appear in the trailers but he's just at a table eating. He's wearing a beard I think too. Sigorney Weaver is more scant than anyone.

I like your theory "Knux". But I heard the monsters are supposed to be "evil fairies". except not like tinkerbelle. Folklore suggests some look like trolls and such.

[PaQ]

Interesting theory Knux. That would be a cool twist if that's what it came out to be. I've seen most of his movies.. just not Sign..

I'm sure this will be just as good, and intriguing. LIke GL2k2 mentioned, I also remembered seeing Adrien Brody.. just not much..

[Elf]

M.Night has a cameo at the end and says "Crazy white people." The F word is added in there as well.

[Eddie G.]

The secret to signs was
The son had asthma just so he would survive the Alien's GasYou're right, but to be more accurate, the ending is...That God has a plan and everything that happens, happens for a reason. The girl's tick with water actually leads to one aliens demise.

Knux is probably right,Those marks on the door are sort of similar to the marks on trees before they're cut.

Either that or their all dead or something. I just hope people don't just go, "The ending's stupid." It was like with Signs, people ignored what the ending was truly about and just called it dumb because it didn't shock them like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

[Kathy Kane]

Um... I already know the ending to the Village, and Knux and Elf are quite correct but it isn't the modern times that are the monsters.

the village elders are the monsters dressed up like trees to scare everybody, and yes, they are in modern times, but they don't know it.

[GL2k2]

Um... I already know the ending to the Village, and Knux and Elf are quite correct but it isn't the modern times that are the monsters.

the village elders are the monsters dressed up like trees to scare everybody, and yes, they are in modern times, but they don't know it. This is making much more sense to me now, because it seems a commentary on the Amish who are all over Pensylvania, where M. Night lives. Can't wait to see the reaction of my gf.

[Michael24]

I think THE VILLAGE has a great look to it, but otherwise will probably be a waste of time, just like Night's other movies. I was hardly impressed with THE SIXTH SENSE, and not just because I saw the "shock" ending coming ten miles away. Kind of hard to miss it after that opening scene. Really disliked SIGNS, too. Never thought I'd see a bad performance from Mel Gibson, but he seemed to be asleep the entire time. Best part was Joaquin Phoenix watching the footage on the news about the alien that crashed the birthday party. Now that was a creepy scene. I think Night is extremely overrated. Has some great atmosphere and cinematography in his films, but that's about it.

[GL2k2]

I liked the Sixth Sense, loved Unbreakable which is highly underrated, but Signs was terrible. The Village may or may not fit under Sixth Sense or Unbreakable for me.

[Squall]

I just hope people don't just go, "The ending's stupid." It was like with Signs, people ignored what the ending was truly about and just called it dumb because it didn't shock them like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I loved "The Sixth Sense" (haven't seen "Unbreakable") but thought that "Signs" was stupid. What was the ending of "Signs" truly about?
:confused:
This is what I got out of "Signs" -- aliens who can travel through insterstellar space, but apparently don't have electronic communications, use crop circles for that purpose. Also, they want to take over Earth and make it a colony planet of theirs, but -- and here's the hilarious part -- water is like poision to them. That's right, plain old water. Never mind the fact that our atmosphere contains tons of water at any given time, and that 75% of the planet's surface is covered in water! Bottom line -- these are really stupid aliens. :p

[Hurricane V1]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute...how would some of you guys know the ending to The Village when it hasn't been released yet? Is it based on a book or something? I'm dying to know.

[GL2k2]

Signs was stupid because M. Night forgot the #1 use of a suspense, less is more. He should have never, ever showed the aliens. By showing the aliens he cheapened the film. That has nothing to do with his little TZ ending gimmick, it has to do with a good movie, and that's why it isn't a good movie. IMHO his best film truly is Unbreakable in every way, direction, actors, and story.

[ClockStomper]

I think the secret is a mix of the proposed theories...I believe the Village is a giant expairament, with the myth of creatures being the control method to keep the villagers in check. Then, as Knux proposed, "Leaf" Phoenix's character will discover the outside world. Adrien Brody may be involved with the expairament, or someone who poses as a "creature", perhaps?

A distorted voice in the commercials says "Do your best not to scream", perhaps it's Brody who's prepping Leaf for seeing the real world?

[Paul_Cousins]

I think the secret is a mix of the proposed theories...I believe the Village is a giant expairament, with the myth of creatures being the control method to keep the villagers in check. Then, as Knux proposed, "Leaf" Phoenix's character will discover the outside world. Adrien Brody may be involved with the expairament, or someone who poses as a "creature", perhaps?

A distorted voice in the commercials says "Do your best not to scream", perhaps it's Brody who's prepping Leaf for seeing the real world?
What if it is Reality TV taken to the Extreme, E.I. The Truman Show.

[SSJPabs]

I never liked Sixth Sense, and never bothered to see Signs. I really did enjoy Unbreakable just because it made me think how desperate some people are to have a Purpose in life, but all in all I am not really that impressed with M. Night.

The "scariest" alien thing I ever saw was called "Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County." It was on UPN many years ago and produced by Dick Clark (!). The gimmick was, that the family was abducted over the course of Thanksgiving night and the teenage son was filming the family gathering and ended up filming a record of the "abduction" itself. Over the course of the night, things get creepy, lights go on and off, something lands in the woods outside the house, the family bust out the guns (Minnesota rural family of COURSE they're going to be hunters) some disappear, reappear, slowly the aliens intensify the pressure and one by one the family vanishes until only the cameraman remains and finally he is abducted and you catch a glimpse of a shadowy alien a second before the camera goes dark.

What made the film so frightening was that the reactions of the various family members to the lights, sounds and things that happened to them (missing time, nosebleeds etc.) were almost all you ever saw. Other than that, all you could see was lights in the distance, or on the other side of a door.

All in all an excellent example of less is more done well, and it seems similar to "Signs" so maybe M. Night was inspired by this film. This film predates Blair Witch by about a year and the original version UFO Abduction was distributed in 1989. The tale of how it got re-made (http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/a/alienabductionII.html) is pretty intersting in and of itself.

[ClockStomper]

Here's a spoilerific link, with some info and pictures that'll help clear some things up-suffice to say, the pictures prove it's not as simple as we think.

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%22the+village%22+spoilers&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss&u=www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php%3Fs%3Dc1171ea775fb9280e93ad9cc86ad4439%26goto%3Dlastpost%26forumid%3D31&w=%22the+village%22+spoilers&d=5B1AB61751&icp=1

[GL2k2]

Well, the evil fairy theory I heard may be true after all. I'm staying out of here, so I will be at least somewhat surprised of the ending. PEACE out.