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| - thumb|Dit is M. Night Shyamalan|300px M. Night Shyamalan (Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan) is de regiseur van de triologie over Avatar. Hij regiseert deel 1, en als ze worden goedgekeurd 2 en 3.
- M. Night Shyamalan's name is verbally impossible to pronounce. A famous director whose titles include popular movies such as "The Sixth Sense", "The Village", and in 2006, "The Lady in the Water". Shyamalan frequently casts himself in his own movies. He is rumored to have a large ego, one that must have been hurt due to the disappointing opening of his last film, the aforementioned "The Lady in the Water".
- M. Night Shyamalan, meglio conosciuto come Höfuðbo Rgarsvæðið o anche Влаидимири Иьчил Уоялньв, è un regista di culto del filone fanta-thriller. Nato a Disneyland da un rapporto tra Gandhi e la fattucchiera Amelia nel 1921, purtroppo per noi è ancora in vita.
- M. Night Shyamalan first appeared in the Season Eleven episode, "Imaginationland".
- M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots including The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), The Happening (2008) and Devil (2010). He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Most of Shyamalan's commercially successful films were co-produced by Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.
- M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American film writer, director, producer, and - in a shocking plot twist - he's been dead for his entire career. Shyamalan was born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan. If you meet a one-eyed gypsy woman on a Tuesday in Philadelphia that speaks the secret language that his mysterious name comes from, she might just let you in the the SHOCKING hidden meaning of his name. SPOILER ALERT: One of his names means "pretentious." The other one, "twi--- No! Wait! I have said too much! Damn. TWIST ALERT: I am the one-eyed gypsy woman! __TOC__
- Ohhhhh, M. Night Shyamalan (born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan). Once considered amongst the most promising directors in Hollywood, famous predominantly for his twist endings, in recent years seems to be rapidly falling to the same level as the likes of Uwe Boll and Seltzer & Friedberg -- if the critics are anything to go by. High hopes were pinned on the director. Unfortunately, according to popular opinion, the rest of his filmography is just one long decline.
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| - thumb|Dit is M. Night Shyamalan|300px M. Night Shyamalan (Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan) is de regiseur van de triologie over Avatar. Hij regiseert deel 1, en als ze worden goedgekeurd 2 en 3.
- Ohhhhh, M. Night Shyamalan (born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan). Once considered amongst the most promising directors in Hollywood, famous predominantly for his twist endings, in recent years seems to be rapidly falling to the same level as the likes of Uwe Boll and Seltzer & Friedberg -- if the critics are anything to go by. Born in India, he was raised in Philadelphia, and most of his movies are set and filmed there. M. Night Shyamalan's first few feature films were Praying With Anger in 1992 and Wide Awake in 1998, both with heavy religious themes and were modestly received but not overtly successful. He ended up writing a screenplay inspired by an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, a Nickelodeon show. Shopping this script around, it became famous for a bidding war and being snatched up by a Disney representative for an obscene amount of money without consulting his executives. This movie became the surprise mega-hit The Sixth Sense (1999), which featured a well-planned Twist Ending that was so widely talked-about that everyone knows it now. High hopes were pinned on the director. Unfortunately, according to popular opinion, the rest of his filmography is just one long decline. His follow-up film, Unbreakable (2000), is often overlooked in discussions as it's not the mega-hit that his first film was, though it was still well-received. Although it likely started the "realistic" comic book films years before The Dark Knight, it was viewed as low-key and "normal", to the point that many people are unaware of him being the director. This film also had a Twist Ending, and may have started the pattern for his movies to follow, which ended up creating a very negative Hype Backlash with every movie to follow. Signs (2002) is the first of his films to receive extensive mockery, centering around the now patented Twist Ending. Despite this, it was still very popular in cinemas and was his second-most-successful movie at the box-office. It was also the last of his films to not be universally savaged by critics; had he stopped there, he probably would've been looked upon as a skilled filmmaker whose fondness for a formula was simply a trademark or style that didn't stop him from delivering three good films. Then there was The Village (2004). And Lady in the Water (2006). And The Happening (2008). The Village had a few defenders and was quite profitable, but was still destroyed by critics mainly due the ending being too much of a curveball. Lady in the Water broke from the Twist Ending formula (being based on a bedtime story for his children), but became the point where he officially changed from "failing director" to "laughingstock". Casting none other than himself as a visionary but unrecognized author who becomes a martyr and savior while including a Straw Critic being killed in the film did not help. The movie bombed at the box office. A subsequent "making-of" book, The Man Who Heard Voices, inadvertently gave the impression that he was an egomaniac who surrounded himself with sycophants, and was roundly mocked in the press. His next film, The Happening, was supposed to be his Win Back the Crowd movie, an R-rated horror about an apocalyptic event. It was well marketed, and more successful commercially, but soon became more famous as a So Bad It's Good movie than as a straight-up horror due to its plot being about evil plants. His next film was The Last Airbender (2010), adapting the first season of ~Avatar: The Last Airbender~ (a show Shyamalan stated he was a great fan of) to the big screen. The previews to the movie caused some reservations (being live action, the stigma against Shyamalan on itself, and Race Lifting the main characters), but the trailers won over many of the skeptics. However, less than one week after the release of the film, it garnered a near-universal negative reaction from both fans and critics alike, currently holding at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's his highest-grossing film since Signs, but still not a big success because of its huge budget and marketing costs. Shyamalan still has an outstanding deal with Media Rights Capital to produce -- but not direct -- one film a year for the next three years. The first of these, The Night Chronicles: Devil, was released in September 2010. Trailers initially played up Shyamalan's involvement in the film, but due to negative reaction, this has reportedly been changed. His next film is a Will Smith vehicle called After Earth, implying that he's open to anything if it means a good paycheck. There are people who still like Shyamalan. One such person is Jonas Kyratzes, of Commentarium fame. You can find his reasoning for this, and his thoughts on why Shyamalan is now hated, in his review of The Happening, here There are those who wonder why Shyamalan has never made a sequel to Unbreakable, one of his more well-received hits; at the time, Shyamalan was insisting on his Auteur License to make only original works, not sequels. What Could Have Been...
- M. Night Shyamalan's name is verbally impossible to pronounce. A famous director whose titles include popular movies such as "The Sixth Sense", "The Village", and in 2006, "The Lady in the Water". Shyamalan frequently casts himself in his own movies. He is rumored to have a large ego, one that must have been hurt due to the disappointing opening of his last film, the aforementioned "The Lady in the Water".
- M. Night Shyamalan, meglio conosciuto come Höfuðbo Rgarsvæðið o anche Влаидимири Иьчил Уоялньв, è un regista di culto del filone fanta-thriller. Nato a Disneyland da un rapporto tra Gandhi e la fattucchiera Amelia nel 1921, purtroppo per noi è ancora in vita.
- M. Night Shyamalan first appeared in the Season Eleven episode, "Imaginationland".
- M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American film writer, director, producer, and - in a shocking plot twist - he's been dead for his entire career. Shyamalan was born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan. If you meet a one-eyed gypsy woman on a Tuesday in Philadelphia that speaks the secret language that his mysterious name comes from, she might just let you in the the SHOCKING hidden meaning of his name. SPOILER ALERT: One of his names means "pretentious." The other one, "twi--- No! Wait! I have said too much! Damn. TWIST ALERT: I am the one-eyed gypsy woman! Shyamalan is well known for writing scripts with a wide range of plot styles, which span the entire spectrum from an end with a twist to a surprise finale. He is also famous for spellbinding movie audiences with high-energy storytelling and rapid. Rhythmic. Staccato. Dialogue. Also known to everyone except Shyamalan himself is that his work is what you get when you throw lots of money at every other naive film school dipshit sitting in coffee shops all over Philly. But after I made that last piece-of-shit movie it really started to sink in just how contrived and... I mean! Nevermind. Shhh! No twist here. I am not Shyamalan... or am I? __TOC__
- M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots including The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), The Happening (2008) and Devil (2010). He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Most of Shyamalan's commercially successful films were co-produced by Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.
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