Assignment 17- Leighanne

The director I have chosen is M. Night Shyamalan. His work has fascinated me ever since I was little. It started when I saw Lady In the Water at the age of about eight. In the movie, a strange girl appears in the pool of an apartment complex. The groundskeeper of the complex notices small disruptions at first, like splashes late at night or footprints, and later discovers the girl cowering in a corner. Throughout the movie, there is an air of mystery. Dialogue is brief, lighting is dark. This is one of my favorite aspects of M. Night Shyamalans movies, the mystery. The movies seem to me like they are directed as books if that makes any sense. Like in a book, not everything is described. In movie remakes of books, the directors often take artistic freedom and add in details to fill the screen. Shyamalan allows many details to remain shrouded in mystery. He really gets a bad name from movie-goers who are used to the normal Hollywood experience but I find his work beautiful, especially Lady in the Water and the Village. Two of my all-time favorite movies.