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The Happening

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The Happening is a 2008 American thriller film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that follows a man and his family as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. The plot revolves around a mysterious neurotoxin that causes any person coming into contact with it to commit suicide. The protagonist, a science teacher named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), attempts to escape from the substance with his wife and friends as hysteria grips the East Coast of the United States. This film was released in the United Kingdom in 2008 on the 13th june and was disrtubuted by The 20th century fox. The budget of The happening film was $60 million and had a gross venue of $ 64,506,874. when it finally got to the box office the film was at a ranking of 3, it was a massive hit and a Total gross for that weekend was $62.7 million. The Happening was has received mostly negative reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that only 18%, based on 168 reviews, gave positive appraisals. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 34, based on 38 reviews. The film was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor (Mark Wahlberg, along with his performance in Max Payne and Worst Director (M. Night Shyamalan) at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards; it lost in the former three categories to The Love Guru, while the Worst Director prize went to Uwe Boll.




Audience

The audience for happening was aimed at 15 + which means it is advisable to be over the age to watch this film as it contains violent and disturbing images. The genre of this film is a thriller / Sci-Fi. This film got a total of 5 stars out of a possible 10. My personally opinion of this film is that it is not as good as when you read the plot, this is because it sounds far more intense and very edgy. The comments that were left for his film was rather negative there was one comment that caught my eye by MEL J from SCOTLAND “When I first saw the trailer for 'The Happening', I was quite excited at the prospect of another film by M. Night Shyamalan. After all, I enjoyed all his previous films, save 'Lady in the Lake', and was sure he would deliver another breath-taking blockbuster. Sadly, I was wrong and while the film was not a turkey, it was not of the excellence I had expected.” Another comment that caught my eye was left by a anonymous person “Not brilliant but it was worth a look” as you can see these are negative reviews. These reviews were taken from the IMBD website as they give precious reviews.


Technology

Throughout the film there is an amazing source of technology used as there is different effect used throughout. These effects are used in different ways as they show many people committing suicide which they have to perform these acts with great caution. When editing the film there were a few transitions used to change the scene personally this makes it more intense and nail biting. Within this film there is a deadly mist that is making people do unnatural things, this mean there is different software used to create the effect of the mist and people torturing themselves.

Thriller genre

The Happening is an SCI-FI / DRAMA thriller as it involves a deadly chemical. BY looking at this genre you can be very stereotypical as you would immediately think it is the more upper class people how ever this is being very stereotypical, as from my view I class these types of genres as technological enhanced.

Mise en scene

In this film my favourite camera angle is the clip shown in the photograph beside this text .
I really think this is effective as it shows all the different expressions on the characters faces which really makes you feel the same expression as they do.
In this film there is a range of different effects as they show a natural disaster as The plot revolves around a mysterious neurotoxin that causes any person coming into contact with it to commit suicide.