A Conversation With M. Night Shyamalan & Guillermo del Toro at the 30th Philadelphia Film Festival

[@honestcomments8053]

Mr. Shyamalan is such a good human being. So kind and nice to others. He is the best and The Sixth Sense is my favorite movie!

[@msmegs93]

Love both of these filmakers. I remember being mesmerized by Pan's Labyrinth, and the Sixth Sense, right up to present day Servant and Nightmare Alley. Just hearing both of their passion for their art is facinating.

[@TTillman3]

The best two filmmakers working in genre today.

[@talbrott]

Old and Nightmare Alley were the most entertaining fiction features I've seen in ages. Memorable.

[@mcjansen]

Such a cool interview by two visionary and each unique movie makers. Can’t wait to see what they are coming up next with…

[@piticfilms]

Night LOVES saying ‘Guillermo’ and why not we all LOVE Guillermo. Guillermo’s funeral (Decades from now hopefully) will be the most mourned lost in the History of Cinema.

[@PolarisCastillo]

My two favorites 💜💜

[@sifatshams1113]

Unbreakable is my favorite film of all time!

[@inmaculadaconcepcion1600]

❤️‍🔥Love you Guillermo! ✨🔥✨What a Gift ✨💝 ✨THANK 🌷🌻🌹, both.✨🙏🏽💕💞💞💞

[@kimberlyburks]

this is a beautiful interview. keep going mr M. the more you learn the skills you will develop.

[@lucasa_0485]

Two of those who maintain the fantastic genre and sense alive!

[@jeffjefferson7384]

From the screengrab Guillermo looks like a giant kaiju, and M Night is lunch :)

[@sailingsam3815]

Guillermo is a master film maker...ultimate craftsman.

[@thefilmgame]

need more of this!!!

[@AH20XX]

Brilliant!!

[@BrainFitnessHawaii]

Self fulfilling prophecy & power of beliefs:” I was born a geek” it’s like a knife cut into my heart, so chilling

[@BrainFitnessHawaii]

The Best in a decade

[@legendcanibal9642]

Guillermo....viewers found their way into your movies later after viewers exhausted their video library .

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

The popular culture in the USA says we are supposed to dislike Shyamalan movies after Signs... If movies are not the biggest hits money-wise, the whole culture seems forced to dislike that movie. Everyone I talk to loves Hudson Hawk. It will forever be a classic, stood the test of time so far, but the popular perception is that it is a bad movie... Lady in the Water was sold to be a straight horror film to audiences in the USA. A lot of people did not get what they expected. An absolutely amazing movie that compares favorably with many quirky indie movies that get to be darlings of reviewers. The Happening was flawed, but which horror movies that came out that year were better?

[@TheEnnisfan]

I'm not a big M. Knight fan outside of his earlier films, but then he got repetitive, like Wes Anderson. Knight's schtick is the twist ending, which is no longer a surprise. That said, the guy is NOT a bad director, but he is a one trick pony. Guillermo is a true visionary. I don't like all his films, but you can't deny his genius. The man has a very unique and keen eye. He's a master.

[@TheSAINTWARRIOR]

Totally agree with your comment. Knight is not a seamless and impeccable director... He made his flops & bombs, and his style is a bit repetitive. But Del Toro, you're absolutely right there- you may not like all his movies, but you can't deny his original vision and unique voice.

[@TheEnnisfan]

@@TheSAINTWARRIOR Thanks, amigo. Nightmare Alley is an amazing piece of work. Saw it in color and B&W. I preferred the color version myself. I thought a lot of the colorful & beautiful set design was lost in the B&W version.

[@honestcomments8053]

I highly disagree with you. Mr. Shyamalan's stories are original even when he adopts a book, he updates it with his take to that story. His movies are never the same...they have twist and turns...which is his way of story telling. But his work is original and and no sequel or remake that you see so many other directors do. Also, more importantly...most of his fans love the anticipation of what type of mystery is untold in his next movie will have. In fact, they look for that surprise factor.

[@TheEnnisfan]

@@honestcomments8053 Yeah, that's called a one-trick pony, my friend. If you're anticipating cos you know it's coming then it's just predictable. Shama hasn't made a good movie since Sixth Sense. That was the last time he was UNpredictable. Since then, he's simply been repeating himself. I reject your hypothesis. 😂

[@matthewrocca4197]

@@TheEnnisfan Highly disagree on M Night (but props for the QT nod, love it! 🤣 ) I think categorizing his films as simply being about "twist endings" is a very superficial reading of what he does. Yeah, he has twists, but his films aren't simply *about* those twists. The best of his work is about character, theme, and atmosphere. The twists are just frosting on the cake. Calling M Night a "one trick pony" is like critics looking down at Hitchcock in that way, as simply a "genre moviemaker" rather than an artist, which was actually how many critics *did* view Hitchcock until the book Hitchcock/Truffaut published in 1966. One could certainly say that not all of M Night's movies are their cup of tea, that they're too out there, weird, etc and that's totally fine. But there are a lot of other layers to his filmography than simply "twist endings".

[@willytingles]

And here we see one of the most lauded film directors of all time seated, for some inexplicable reason, next to M. Night Shyamalan

[@purpleweedsmoke6822]

Hahahaha

[@purpleweedsmoke6822]

Shyamalan’s movies just keep getting worse and worse….

[@kimberlyburks]

@@purpleweedsmoke6822 so why do you keep watching them?

[@purpleweedsmoke6822]

@@kimberlyburks because his early films were so great. Duh. i just really didnt like the fast aging on a beach movie, it was an interesting concept but so stupid made as an actual film.

[@kimberlyburks]

@@purpleweedsmoke6822 well dont watch them anymore.

[@annamattison1988]

Why was M. Night there?

[@Gnadab]

M Night’s rationalisation on why he is failing as a film maker is absurd. He just sucks at making and writing movies, simple as that.

[@shermsmoke]

Shamalamadingdong

[@legendcanibal9642]

Shyamalan why don't you let you wife tell the audience that , if she lost your money ...she still happy. In addition, you must be her pet and she could be a millionaire therefore you hobby movie job is not the source of food on your table.