Unbreakable trailer // Superhero Version

M. Night Shyamalan disliked Touchstone's marketing campaign for the film, and wanted it marketed more as an unlikely superhero movie, as opposed to a "spooky thriller". I decided to edit a trailer for the film based on that. "In 2000, he was on a conference call with executives from Walt Disney Studios discussing 'Unbreakable,' the follow-up to his phenomenally successful movie 'The Sixth Sense.' He wanted to market “Unbreakable” as a comic-book movie — the tale of an unlikely superhero — but Disney executives insisted on portraying it as a spooky thriller, like 'The Sixth Sense.'" (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/bus...) I really think Unbreakable is one of the best Hollywood films since 2000, and definitely one of the most daring. It's a brilliant deconstruction of the superhero genre, and it even predates the current super hero trend. It had a grittier, more realistic feel than Nolan's Batman trilogy while featuring a character with even more spectacular powers. And yet it's still reverent to the comics from where it draws its mythology with things like the framing or the colors. Even Tarantino believes it's one of the best films since 1992 (he chose that year because he got his start with Reservoir Dogs that year), "In 2009, Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Unbreakable, and included it on his list of the top 20 films to be released since 1992, the year he became a director. Tarantino praised the film as a 'brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology.' He noted that he considers it to contain Bruce Willis' best performance and that the film would have been better marketed with the question 'what if Superman was here on earth, and didn't know he was Superman?'" I just think the film is a little under appreciated, and there's a compelling argument that it's Shyamalan's best film. It's a shame that Shyamalan's films aren't really noteworthy after Signs, but it shouldn't undermine how good his first few films were.