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Samuel L. Jackson talks M. Night Shyamalan

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I enjoyed Unbreakable.

So is that hard to maintain?
I'm not conscious of it. I try not to be conscious of it. And I don't choose roles because of it. And, sometimes, people will just attribute stuff to it. It's like Elijah [Price, Jackson's character] in "Unbreakable." You know, people say he's "cool." He's a fucking breakable nerd. And they go, "That fucking coat and your hair -- he's just cool." And I'm like, "Really?"

We're never going to see a sequel to that movie, are we?
There were supposed to be three. I don't know.

People liked "Unbreakable."
You'll have to ask the brilliant director who wrote it and didn't do the rest of them.

He moved on to "The Last Airbender."
I mean, he hasn't made a really good movie since then.

"Signs" was OK.
There's some issues. I didn't like that thing in the cornfield.

I thought it was OK.
I didn't see the Wahlberg one.

"The Happening”?
Yeah.

I haven't either. But wouldn't "Unbreakable 2" be a good career movie for him?
Yeah! Well, he suffered from what happened to Quentin when he made "Jackie Brown.” He didn't make "Pulp Fiction 2," he made "Jackie Brown" -- which is a wonderful fucking movie.

People love "Jackie Brown."
But it wasn't "Pulp Fiction 2." "Unbreakable" also didn't have the numbers of "I see dead people." That was a problem for him ... for his ego and the studio, also.

I don't remember Tarantino taking a critical hit for "Jackie Brown."
He felt like he did. He was hurt by the fact that people didn't love it. "Pulp Fiction" was loved.

But "Pulp Fiction" is a once-in-a-lifetime-type movie.
It's a standalone film.

It's hard to top.
People have been trying to do it and trying to do it. I saw some people try to do it just a week ago and failed miserably.

Which movie is this?
"Killing Them Softly." It didn't quite happen. And going nowhere! You can do that, but you've got to go somewhere. That's the marvelous thing about Quentin: his movies are talky as all hell, but it's shit you want to hear.

If M. Night announced tomorrow that "Unbreakable 2" is going to happen, it would be all over the Internet.
Everybody would be waiting for it, yeah. It would be crazy for it. It would trend through the roof now on Twitter. But, yeah, they would. But Quentin makes movies that Quentin wants to see. I don't think M. Night makes movies for the same reason. Quentin makes movies that are genres that he wants to see. "I like Spaghetti Westerns -- I'm going to write a Spaghetti Western. I like blaxploitation movies, too - so I'm going to make the protagonist black." So, he's got a blaxploitation western with Hong Kong undertones. The "Bullet Ballet" undertones. He wants to see it and I want to see it. I want to be in that kind of movie.

I think M. Night gets too caught up on having to have a twist.
Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, "I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie." Quentin's not that. He's just, "I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is fucking cool."
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Unbreakable 2 is up there with films I was dying to see get made but never was, now, given what M Night has become I find myself never wanting to see it, I do not trust him to recapture the films tone and not completely miss the point as to why its a great film.
 
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Sam Jackson is awesome. It's so refreshing to hear some actual thoughts and opinions in an interview, instead of just saying how wonderful everyone is, and how awesome their movies are.
 
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Jackie Brown was allright. It's not a particular amazing movie, but it's allright.

Shyamalan got high on his own fame after an absolutely amazing movie, and one that if nothing else, had amazing camera work and an intriguing concept.

Ever since then his ego has gotten in the way of him making another movie of the same quality.

Ein Bear said:
Sam Jackson is awesome. It's so refreshing to hear some actual thoughts and opinions in an interview, instead of just saying how wonderful everyone is, and how awesome their movies are.
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Samuel Jackson doesn't need to kiss ass to get roles though. A luxury few actors can afford.
 
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Am I the only one who figured out "I see dead people" in the first 10 minutes? I never knew what the big deal about that film was.

Sam Jackson is a unique flower. Hollywood needs him because he can fill certain roles that no one else can.
 
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He's not getting cast in another Shyamalan movie again, that's for sure!
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Sounds like he already thought he wasn't. Shymalan doesn't seem to do sequels or work with his actors again. Bruce Willis worked with him twice, and that's all I know. I think that's the rub of what Sam was getting at.

Contrast that with Tarantino, who seems to have some actor loyalty, and frequently recasts from movie to movie.
 
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Messypandas said:
Lol, nobody would give a shit about Unbreakable 2 at this point, that time has passed.
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Yeh, it's a bit odd that both the interviewer and Jackson are acting like Unbreakable 2 is something everyone is desperate to see. Not to say Unbreakable isn't a good film.
 
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How is this interview real? These are the kind of quotes that I only dream can come from an actor. Shamalamadingdong got caught up in his own hype. People were calling him the next Hitchcock for crying out loud, and that's got to be tough for anyone... but he was supposed to strive to be worthy of those accolades and not go 'well I can do no wrong now'.

After The Village (which should have ended with Bryce Dallas Howard climbing that fence and getting hit by a car) I knew he was done. The Happening... good god. How did he not realize when it took him so long to sell that script? The utter stupidity of that film. It really is the work of someone who thinks they're smarter than everyone else, but who is actually a moron.

I guessed the twist in The Sixth Sense early on, mainly because I'd heard everyone go on about it having a massive twist, and there really wasn't anything else it could be, but the way he used the conventions of film making and story telling to make you fill in blanks with the wrong information showed an innate understanding of cinema. It really is a masterfully crafted twist. The only thing I would knock it for was forgetting to make it enjoyable for people who figured out the twist. If you want a great example of a film that plays really well whether or not you figure out the twist, check out Surveillance. It's a mystery unless you guess the twist, in which it turns into a nail biter of a thriller.

The Happening... it doesn't remotely hold together. It doesn't have an internal logic. It's just a bunch of bullshit. The trailer was great though.
 
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Here's comes Jackson with his words of truth!
I was really looking forward to Unbreakable being a franchise after seeing the first movie but that ship's sailed now:-(
I like this man, maybe I'm wrong but he seems like a stand up guy with a handle on his ego and a sense of perspective about his job as an actor.
I like Sam.
 
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fabricated backlash said:
Samuel Jackson doesn't need to kiss ass to get roles though. A luxury few actors can afford.
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Pretty much, the guy is not only rich as fuck but a big enough name that he can always work. Most people in film are relying on not falling out with anyone in case it hinders some golden opportunity.
 
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DKehoe said:
Yeh, it's a bit odd that both the interviewer and Jackson are acting like Unbreakable 2 is something everyone is desperate to see. Not to say Unbreakable isn't a good film.
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Unbreakable has a major cult following out in the fringes. It's not an "active" thing since the movie is a singular thing, but people fucking love that film.

Myself included.
 
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Reading that was super odd. It made me realise how rare an actor publicly speaking critically (not spitefully or inherently venomously, mind you) about his colleagues actually is.
 
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SteveWD40 said:
Pretty much, the guy is not only rich as fuck but a big enough name that he can always work. Most people in film are relying on not falling out with anyone in case it hinders some golden opportunity.
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I'm more impressed with the variety and breadth of characters he can play.

Villan, anti-hero, Morgan Freeman-help-white-people character, super spy director, musician
 
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Slayven said:
Nah, it would be all over the internet for about a week. But would it make money? Nope.
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I dunno, after all the trash he made since then? No one in their right mind would assume it's gonna be any good so people would either ignore or make fun of it.
 
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Samuel Jackson is right. Unbreakable is amazing and is shamalamadingdong's last good movie.

And people are stupid because Jackie Brown is amazing.
 
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Truant said:
Unbreakable has a major cult following out in the fringes. It's not an "active" thing since the movie is a singular thing, but people fucking love that film.

Myself included.
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I liked it, but I don't think it really needs sequels.

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And people are stupid because Jackie Brown is amazing.
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It was good, but I can see why it wasn't as well received in general. It's slower paced and not as flashy as something like Pulp Fiction.
 
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I think M. Night gets too caught up on having to have a twist.
Yeah, there's that. And there's, you know, "I'm smarter than everybody coming to watch my movie." Quentin's not that. He's just, "I want you to love my movie. I want you to love it and enjoy it because this is fucking cool."
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Dead on. How awesome is this man?
 
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