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[geebs]

Actually, I had an idea about why the Village felt so passe.

I think its because the whole "twist" wasn't that big a deal at all. Sixth Sense, you had Bruce Willis being a ghost. Unbreakable, Sam Jackson was evil and responsible for all those disasters. Signs, which didn't really have a twist had the whole, Mel Gibson's wife's last words helped him and his family out in the end. But as clevemire said, all it is is that they're the equivalent of Amish people, its just everyone but the elders are ignorant the existence of modern society! When the movie started, and I was thinking what the twist would be, that was my first guess, that it really wasn't 1897, it was modern day, they just acted like it was 1897. I even correctly theorized that the elders knew this and everything was staged just to keep everyone else in the village. So once you find that out they're just a bunch of people hanging out in a "wildlife preserve" to hide from the horrors of the world and trying to create a new society free of that moral corruption by acting like they were in simpler times, its like a boring reality show that's not actually being televised!

I mean, they could even pitch it as, let's have six or seven jaded people pull the wool over the eyes of their children and make them think they're living in the 1890s! See the hilarity that ensues! Its kinda like The Truman Show meets Survivor meets Scare Tactics. Of course, it wouldn't be a very exciting show, given people from that era would be prudes, and there's like no TV, so all they have to do is play lame games where they dance around lamely. Now that I think about it though, it makes perfect sense they would send the blind girl, and had her companions not pussied out, would have had to wait by the road. That way, she couldn't see that crazy modern society with their automobiles and such. I also got the impression M Night's character was privy to the whole situation, but some people disagree with me. I thought his conversation with that one guard implied that he knows about what's going on there and has had to help cover it up before. And I still say the core elders sure must have had a shitload of kids given how many people where at the banquets, but again, as the GMA said, what else are they gonna do there?

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[clevemire.livejournal.com]

All the movie was missing was William Hurt, under the threat of attack from Those We Do Not Speak Of, saying "My people are farmers, we are not trained to fight!"

[geebs.livejournal.com]

What movie reference is that?

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

All of them? Off the top of my head: Blazing Saddles, Three Amigos, an episode of Brisco County Jr, Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven, and an episode of DS9. (they might not have had the exact quote, but the basic gist)