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before we get started I want to say one thing
I respect the hell out of em night Shyamalan.
He's made a ton of movies. I really enjoy..
The Sixth Sense, split
Unbreakable, Stuart Little that's right and m night shamalan on wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little
and be honest I'm not that big of a fan of Stuart Little
I just think that's an interesting fact M. Knight also writes all his own movies
so that puts him in a class with filmmakers like Tarantino and Kevin Smith
who make the movies they want to make their way as
as far away from the Hollywood studio process as you can possibly be
he also financed glass all by himself so we could have complete creative control.
That's really cool
especially
These days when a couple of big studios controlled pretty much all of Hollywood
with unbreakable M night was also way ahead of the curve
on movies about comic books and comic book characters
unbreakable came out way before the MCU before the Nolan Batman movies
even before the Sam Raimi spider-man movies
M night appreciates those stories and helped to introduce them to a modern audience
if I ever became a filmmaker M Night is exactly the kind of filmmaker. I would want to be
and I wanted to love glass like I said
I dug split and unbreakable the idea of a cinematic universe built around original characters was interesting
and the idea of a movie that psycho analyzes superheroes in this setting had a lot of potential
...
that being said
boy did glass not work for me
from the writing to the plot to some of the acting
glass was an Unbelievable disappointment
that will probably go down as one of my least favorite movies of 2019 and if you love glass that is great
I'm genuinely glad and I'm not trying to take anything away from you
Although I think you kind of got to admit that the twist at the end of the movie makes zero sense
like if dr Staple is trying to convince David that he does not have superpowers.
Why does she put him in a room filled with water jets?
I couldn nitpick this movie all day and I did on my podcast mostly nitpicking.
Listen. Go back to the glass episode
It might be my favorite one,
but glass has a ton of issues
And in my opinion the biggest issue the one around which all of the other issues coalesce
Is that brew Willis's character?
David is an incredibly passive protagonist
Now a protagonist who isn't calling all the shots isn't always a bad thing
there needs to be a certain amount of chaos
And the protagonists environment and they can be pushed and pulled by the world
But eventually that chaos forces the protagonists to take control and make choices,
but completely passive usually does not work
They need to have some agency
If not at the beginning and middle of the story certainly by the end
and while David makes some choices
He's more or less told what to do by other characters and he just follows them
David has no wants he's just there. He doesn't ask questions attempt to learn more about his situation
He doesn't try to leave or maybe he does
one Scene begins with the end of what is effectively a waterboarding
We don't see what David did to get into that position
Maybe that would have been worth showing us movie!
and I believe I have one legitimately tiny change that can address that issue
So I'm going to explain the issue a little more take you through the scene that I would change and explain my thinking
So glass is all about David's identity
Who does he want to be and what space will he occupy throughout glass, David is presented with two choices
doctor staple believes that David is delusional
He does not have superpowers and is just living out a power fantasy because of his past trauma
His surviving the train crash as a fluke
and his superpowers
Don't add up to anything besides a good immune system
above average strength and intuition
Now we learn that staple is part of a secretOrganization that for 10,000 years has blah blah blah
She knew he had powers all along and was just trying to convince David
That he didn't.
which makes less sense the longer you think about it in the context of the rest of the movie
But let's take staple from the first two acts of the movie at face value since that's all David knows at that point
She believes he is delusional. He does not have superpowers
He is not a superhero. Staple wants David to accept that reality and move on.
which again, Hey David, guess why say we're wrong and you don't have superpowers as far as we know they'll just let you go
Maybe it's unclear. So that's choice one reject your powers
choice two comes from Elijah Pryce aka. Mr Glass
just like an unbreakable Elijah wants David to embrace his identity as theoverseer
he believes comic books are a form of true mythology and every so often actual humans show up
whose purpose is to Be a savior of humanity and fight evil forces and blah blah blah
Elijah believes David needs to embrace his heroic destiny and become the overseer
So David is in the middle of those two choices
Either he is a delusional security guard
or he is a mythic hero
and both of those choices come with some pretty serious issues
Let's start with staple. This is the easy one as an audience. We have seen unbreakable.
We knows that David has superpowers
He survives a car crash he can lift an abnormal amount of weight
and most importantly he can accurately read minds
as an audience member who is aware. That glass is a sequel to unbreakable
it seems pretty unlikely that this movie is going to
Not only recontextualize but pretty much invalidate all of unbreakable
Everything would have retro actively been a lie or a delusion and that just feels wrong
Like if anyone was going to make that kind of a choice
its Shyamalan
the twisted Unbreakable is actually none of it was real and everyone's imagining of the whole thing
and it's so twisty that it isn't even in this Movie
but still even with him that's pretty hard to believe
and even if we were assuming that everything and unbreakable was wrong in glass
We're shown that David is able to read minds
We see him get information from touching Kevin that can't be gleaned from just noticing that Kevin's shoes have clay on them
Which means unless we are willing to assume that EVERYTHING
We have seen in the previous movie. And the first half of this movie is wrong. Staple has to be incorrect
David is a superhuman
so that leaves us with Elijah and all the hero destiny stuff
the problem with David buying into Elijah's ideology
is that it would essentially
justify a bunch of mass murder
Like Elijah would really be the hero that he thinks he is
saving humanity by killing hundreds of people so he can find special people
and that just seems like a pretty unreasonable choice for David to make
he's a good person
It feels wrong for David's choice to validate Elijah's murders
And the way the movie gets over this choice is to make an even more evil force than Elijah
Elijah is not just causing disasters and killing people because Elijah wants to discover Superheroes
And validate his philosophy Elijah is fighting an actual evil Illuminati intent and suppressing all of the special people
But we know that Elijah is the bad guy like he's wrong
So David can't agree with Elijah either and at the beginning of the third act David makes a choice
He basically agrees with Elijah. He is a superhero. His purpose is to protect humanity
So David escapes from the asylum puts on his costume and battles the supervillain David validates everything
Elijah has done up until this point
and that's my issue
there needs to be some ideological difference between the hero and the villain
the protagonist needs to make some choices that set them apart from the antagonist
to show their growth
and you could say well maybe David isn't the protagonist which is an argument I could buy
but I definitely don't think Kevin is the protagonist and I also don't think that glass can be the protagonist
just because he's absent for so much of the movie
if you look at the way glass fits into a traditional story structured by all measures
David is the protagonist of this movie
so that brings us to the change we can start at the beginning of act 3 David is still in his cell
The Horde and Elijah have broken out of the asylum and are about to go commit another act of mass murder this time to show the world that
Superhumans exist Elijah comes on the loudspeaker in David's room and taunts him
We're gonna go to the tallest building in the city. The Horde is going to be revealed there
There are three floors that house a chemical company in that building
I'm going to blow up that building using their chemicals David. You might want to try and stop us today
Is your coming-out party at least you know what to wear I've turned off the water hoses in your room, David
There's only one door left Elijah
It's metal, but you can't get through it because people's bones break against metal and you're nothing special
A lot of people are going to die overseer if you don't get through that door
So David takes a breath thinks to himself and charges the door
He makes a dent he charges again and again and eventually knocks down the door
Then he runs down the hallway passes an equipment room. David looks in and sees his poncho
He thinks cut to the Beast doing something menacing tipping cop cars and hopefully a little faster to make it more unbelievable
And then we hear David say hey! Elijah smiles
Everyone looks over and sees David standing in the middle of the parking lot except and here's the change
David is not wearing the poncho. He's just wearing the uniform. He was in at the asylum
Elijah is disappointed overseer
This is the big showdown. What happened in your costume? I'm not playing your game. I'm not the overseer. I'm not a superhero
I'm just a man
Well can a man break down a steal door?
Apperently
Then what are you doing here David?
I'm gonna stop him and then I'm gonna make sure both of you go back in there and then I'm done
You can't just be done David. I can you can't and I'm done living in your fantasy world
It's not a fantasy David. You're proof that all this is real
No, I could take a punch and I've got a good sense for people. That's all
I'm not a god David turns his attention to the Beast
I don't know what he told you but you don't need to do this
You have a choice and then the Beast charges it David
That's the choice the choice that is staring David in the face for the entire movie embrace your superpowers
But reject the Destiny the destiny is the problem
The destiny is what convinced Elijah that causing the train accident was justified and what convinced the hordes that the Beast needed to be released
Maybe they aren't wrong about their abilities
But they are Delusional
fanatical David needs to prove that you can have superhuman abilities without believing that you're a god
You can just be a normal
Grounded reasonable person being born special doesn't make you better than everyone else.
This also addresses my second big issue
It's glass
I think this finale looks silly like these characters are not designed for a big fight outside in the light of day split worked because
It was a dimly lit horror movie that doesn't translate to this environment Well
even David knows when he looks intimidating and when he doesn't that's why he turns the lights off in this scene
The environment is especially important to these characters
the same way that it usually is to someone like Batman
But now the not great-looking ending does not break the movie
It's the point when you stop taking these guys seriously
They are ridiculous much of the coolness of how superheroes look comes from
Context if some guy runs around in tights and a cape. He looks silly
But if he's flying it doesn't really matter what he's wearing. It's cool by association
like Hercules his introduction in Thebes initially
No one takes him seriously
they mock him for his demeanor and his outfit but once it proves himself against the Hydra his persona is
accepted if at the climax of glass David rejects Elijah and the hordes personas and tells them they're just normal guys with
Superhuman abilities all this yelling and this monologuing looks goofy.
This coat looks like a Halloween costume the light of day and the real world
Recontextualized these characters and that rejection of the costume is so important to David's growth
because Elijah is so concerned with image
The heroes need to be marvels
He's always talking about what a hero and villain look like originally Elijah was an art curator
So by rejecting the image of the heroes David is taking that power away from Elijah
that's how he beats Elijah not by winning the fight but by
Ending it and I love that choice because names are so important to em night, right?
David is a biblical hero. Elijah is a prophet but now at the end of the movie
We and David realized that his last name is his real power his ability to be
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Horror x-men movie and then we didn't hear anything about it for a while
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So why would Disney?
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That's all I got. I'll see you next time
By the way up clover society just a tip if you guys want to convince someone that they don't have superpowers
It's probably a good idea that if that person is in a room with two other mass murderers
He probably should not be the only one change to the floor like
how