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Hans Van Harken @AlmightyHans

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M. Night is a Thief!

Posted by AlmightyHans - June 9th, 2008


SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!!

M. Night Shyamalan's new movie "The Happening" has too many similarities with this short film I made in Scotland during the summer of 2007. It won 'best picture' and 'best cinematography' in the course that summer. You can see it here on my site.

The happening is a horror/thriller/disaster movie, and it's about people killing themselves for some reason all over the world. Now here's the spoiler: apparently (get it? a parent) these people killing themselves is a chemical or spore in a plant that spreads throughout people and that's what makes them kill themselves.

In my movie instead of a plant, it's a parasite that grows in your brain and at full growth takes over your brain and makes you kill yourself.

one thing that struck me was when i made my movie, a goal i had was to give it a sort of traditional kind of feeling like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)".

Mr. M. Night mentioned a similar thing, that he wanted to make this a more traditional horror and used "The Invasion Of the Body Snatchers" example.

I guess it just kinda surprised me, and saddened me at the same time, because i tend to hate M. Night's movies, there are a few good or okay one's. But i hope he doesn't make a ridicule out of an idea i made and thought had potential. The thing about M. Night is that he has potential ideas, but they aren't at all engaging or captivating, and the conclusions of his movies are just like a 180 degree twist that when you are presented with it you find yourself facing back at the rest of the movie and realize how pointless all that build up was.

anyways. watch my movie so that you can understand the similarities between this and the Happening when you watch it.

M. Night is a Thief!


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that thief!!

The Sixth Sense had a good twist though.

was his only good movie really. Unbreakable was okay.

That sucks dude. I wanted to see that movie, because I remember watching a film (I believe Japanese) where people start suiciding. Im going to check out your film and see the similarities, but it really seems like M.Night did not pop out this Gem all his own. (If I can call it a Gem, I won't know until I see it)

Edit your flash movie and add "Copyright ----" somewhere, then contact the author of that movie, and claim he is being illegalz.

It's not illegal if you didn't copyright it. It's quite possible to be a coincidence, I mean, it's not really a complex idea, anyone could come up with it... even me!

HVH Productions IS copyrighted, and it was filmed under that name.

Haha that was cool you never showed me that.

I think the idea is kind of a simple one and his execution is probably going to be really different than yours. I know you're not accusing him seriously, if you are you shouldn't. I had an idea a long time ago about Earth being abandoned and attacked in order to make way for life in space stations and other planets and months later Titan AE came out and I was like wooooah.

yeah i'm not seriously considering that he saw my video and directly copied it. I just find it odd how the preproduction took place later in the same month i aired it and put it on the web. the teacher at my school also had some connection with him and i dunno, maybe he was inspired from it and such. point is, i don't really care i just felt like pointing it out.

Speaking of Titan AE, I hope Don Bluth is able to make that Dragon's Lair movie before he dies.

actually Don Bluth came to our school for a speech with his partner and aid they've been working on one for a long time. it was great meeting those guys in person.

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Coincidence?! I think YES! Sorry pal. Things like these happen all the time. I wanted to create a platformer where you'd jump from planet to planet and the gravitation would change as you jump on each planet. Along came Super Mario Galaxy. I wanted to make an epic game set in high school where your mother would leave you and you'd do be able to do all the fun stuff and complete missions. Along came Bully.

I hate when that happens. Execution is the key however. Cheers. <3

yeah i don't seriousely think he directly stole my shit or anything. i just felt like pointing this out.

lmfao people took this seriously.

Best M. Night movie - Unbreakable. I can't believe how poorly they mismarketed that movie. They turned a dark gritty superhero flick into a a cheap, bad, thriller with the simple act of making shitty trailers.

exactly, that's why i say that movie is "okay" because it could have been great.

Most of his movie plots are stolen, apparently.

The Village is almost exactly like some book from the 90's called "Running Out Of Time" or something like that.

And by almost exactly, I mean change some names, the time period they're acting, why the girl's leaving, and what's keeping them from leaving. Really.

Now you know how I feel when Age of War got front-paged and was #1 for a bit, it was my idea to begin with!
I have picture proof of nthe game layout and everything!

MARC M FOR LIFE! APPARENT!

Quickly, contact SqueakyToad. I smell another conspiracy!!

you honestly think he stole your idea?

no XD

I never liked syamalalalalamalan. all his movies en up in a twist. AND SIGNS was horrible. kudos to you for reveqaling this info

Damn dude that sucks!

he only tried to avoid the lawsuit by making it about plants and not bugs

EXACTLY!

I feel shame for the guy that made that family guy thing up there.

nehehehehehhehehe... boobs

What a twist!

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