Chapter 40 Should Shyamalan persist?

Before the age of thirty, I always remembered the teachings in inspirational magazines: "Persevere yourself!" After the age of thirty, I have doubts, insist on myself?How do you know that you are right, so right that you have to stick to it?For example, M. Night Shyamalan's insistence on himself made the onlookers tremble with fear.His latest "stick to yourself" effort is the new film.Within a month after the film was released in North America, it received the following comments from mainstream media: "The disaster film is a disaster", "Shiyamalan is standing on the edge of Hollywood's cliff!", "As if admiring the Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock's work after suffering from Alzheimer's!" But on the North American box office list on the last weekend of June that year, the cumulative box office still reached 59.06 million US dollars—— It is luck, and it is also a fluke.

He is a model of sticking to himself, insisting that he is suitable for making movies, resolutely maintaining his persistence in supernatural and supernatural themes, insisting on shooting scenes in his hometown of Philadelphia, and insisting on playing various small roles in his movies.Like his idol Hitchcock, he also proved that his persistence was correct.His "The Sixth Sense," "Undead," and "Omen" have collectively grossed $1.3 billion worldwide.But in his most glorious days, some people already think that his movies have a single plot, often self-replicating, and after extravagant suspense, they often come up with a weak explanation, and even a long, bluff so-called thinking about life , which is disturbing.But he insisted that those who don’t understand his movies are idiots. Disney had objections to his script of “Nyx,” and he would rather bring it to Warner Bros., but Warner, which invested $75 million, only got back the $75 million. 42 million.

Therefore, Twentieth Century Fox, the producer, carefully made plans for themselves. They sold the distribution rights of the film in India to Bollywood, allowing them to bear half of the investment budget.It turns out that a person who insists on himself to the point of paranoia is just like an elephant breaking into a china shop, putting himself and everything around him in a dangerous and embarrassing situation. Persisting in yourself, thinking about it, is already the most extravagant thing, not to mention doing it yourself, insisting on making the movies you want to make, insisting on writing the articles you want to write, insisting on being with your partner in your mind, "persisting" one by one, They all weigh several thousand kilograms.Before you persist, you must have enough capital, and after you persist, you must have the courage to bear it.As long as you want to "persist", it already has the meaning of disobedience and disobedience, and the final result always has an ominous atmosphere.

Most importantly, as a mortal, how do you know that your persistence must be right?What's more, after persisting, you have to spare your strength to bear your own regrets and introspections. People must be strong enough, strong enough to know that they are right, and strong enough to bear the consequences of their persistence before they can persist.Therefore, every time I see someone saying stick to himself, I always feel that he is a bit self-respecting as a god, and Nate Shyamalan should have a line of subtitles for each of his persistence: "Dangerous operation, please do not imitate."