{"id":6271,"date":"2010-07-22T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6271"},"modified":"2010-07-24T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:31:09","slug":"somebodys_feeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/somebodys_feeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody&#8217;s feeling a little snippy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/006240.html\">all of the recent criticism<\/a> of his work has gotten to the notoriously sensitive M. Night Shyamalan.  At the Mexico City press conference promoting <em>The Last Airbender<\/em>, Shyamalan <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.gawker.com\/5592015\/m-night-shyamalan-angrily-defends-his-record-at-press-conference\">went on the defensive<\/a> after a questioner pointedly noted that &#8220;the audience has lost its faith in [his] work&#8221; and asked whether <em>Airbender<\/em> was his attempt to reinvigorate his career.<\/p>\n\n<p>Shyamalan&#8217;s response? &#8220;If I thought like you I&#8217;d kill myself&#8230; Your impression of my career is not my impression of my career.  It&#8217;s something you read on Google.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>He goes on to make the dubious claims that <em>Unbreakable<\/em> was a better film than The Sixth Sense and that his favorite film was <em>The Village<\/em>. (Editorial note: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/village\/\">The Village<\/a><\/em>?! Really, Night? Really?)<\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the whole clip below:<\/p>\n\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_C76QBg2p78&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_C76QBg2p78&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p>Perhaps worst of all for Shyamalan is the fact that this isn&#8217;t the worst story that&#8217;s come out about him this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/news\/2010\/07\/moviegoers-now-audibly-recoili.php\">IFC reports that<\/a> moviegoers have been &#8220;audibly recoiling&#8221; at the sight of the filmmaker&#8217;s name during the trailers for the movie <em>Devil<\/em>, which is due out this fall. (<em>Devil<\/em> is directed by Drew and John Erick Dowdle, but the plot comes &#8220;from the mind&#8221; of Shyamalan.)<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like all of the recent criticism of his work has gotten to the notoriously sensitive M. Night Shyamalan. At the Mexico City press conference promoting The Last Airbender, Shyamalan went on the defensive after a questioner pointedly noted that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/somebodys_feeli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}