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Variety is reporting that M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie will be an R-rated apocalyptic film titled The Happening.

Shyamalan + apocalypse + rated-R sounds great to me. I’ve liked everything the guy has done (though I haven’t seen Lady in the Water). I like this part of the article:

Tom felt strongly about making this my first R-rated picture,” Shyamalan said. “We talked about trying to get the kind of intensity that is present in ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ and the kind that Guillermo del Toro got in `Pan’s Labyrinth.’ The impact of the beautiful things in that movie wouldn’t have landed as strongly if the film had not been R rated.”

Sounds great. And he’s right: Guillermo rocks. See Pan’s Labyrinth if you haven’t already.

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I went to see Pan’s Labyrinth last week. The main reason I wanted to watch it was because it’s supposed to have a strong antifascist message. It has one, but it’s a basic don’t blindly follow authority or society will become horribly violent and oppressive. It was a good movie but today while watching Monty Python’s The Search for the Holy Grail I noticed that Python’s anti-authoritarian message was a lot more clever and it only took about two minutes. Sure Pan was a well made movie but I think too much has been made of the fact that it’s anti fascist - I think that’s a minor plot detail in the film.

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