David strangles the janitor to death, but not before the janitor kills the mother.
The janitor pushes him into a swimming pool where he nearly drowns, but is rescued by the children. David, wearing a raincoat as a disguise, follows the janitor to the victims' house and frees the children. He finds one criminal he can confront: a sadistic janitor who has invaded a family home, killed the father, and is now holding his wife and two children captive. As people bump into him in a crowd, he senses the crimes they have perpetrated such as theft, assault, and rape. Consciously honing this ability, David discovers that touch contact with people brings him visions of criminal acts they have committed. Under Elijah's influence, David realizes that his "intuition" for picking out dangerous people during security checks is actually extrasensory perception. He feigned injury from the crash to quit football because Audrey disliked the violence of the sport. Elijah suggests that this is merely his weakness, as David recalls the car accident that ended his athletic career, in which he had been unharmed and ripped off the car door with his bare hands to rescue his girlfriend, Audrey. Joseph idolizes his father, believing him to be a superhero, although David maintains that he is an ordinary man.ĭavid challenges Elijah's theory with an incident from his childhood when he almost drowned later and contracted pneumonia. David is unsettled and leaves when Elijah admits that he believes superheroes are real, but later finds he can bench press 350 pounds, well above his expectations. Elijah explains his theory that his own physical frailty must be matched by someone on the other end of the spectrum who cannot be "broken". David realizes that he has indeed never been ill, with a single exception, and goes with Joseph to meet Elijah, who suffers from brittle bone disease. David wakes up at the hospital, everyone shocked that he survived, uninjured.Īfter a memorial service for the victims, David finds a note on his car windshield asking how long he has been ill and inviting him to "Limited Edition", an art gallery operated by comic book expert, Elijah Price. As his son Joseph watches news coverage of a train crash, he realizes that it's the train David was on. ĭavid Dunn is a college football stadium security guard and former star quarterback who boards Eastrail 177, which suddenly speeds up, derails and crashes. After the financial and critical success of Split, Shyamalan immediately began working on a third film, titled Glass, which was released January 18, 2019, thus making Unbreakable the first installment in the Unbreakable film series. Īfter years of development on a follow-up film, a thematic sequel, Split, with Willis reprising his role as David Dunn in a cameo role, was released in January 2017. Quentin Tarantino also included it on his list of the top 20 films released since 1992. In 2011, Time listed it as one of the top ten superhero films of all time, ranking it number four.
A realistic vision of the superhero genre, it is regarded by many as one of Shyamalan's best films and one of the best superhero films. The film has subsequently gained a strong cult following. It received generally positive reviews, praise for Shyamalan's direction, screenplay, its aesthetics, the performances, the emotional weight of the story, cinematography, and the score by James Newton Howard. Unbreakable was released on November 21, 2000. Filming began in April 2000 and was completed in July. After settling on the origin story, Shyamalan wrote the screenplay as a speculative screenplay with Willis already set to star in the film and Jackson in mind to portray Elijah Price. Shyamalan organized the narrative of Unbreakable to parallel a comic book's traditional three-part story structure.
As he begins to grapple with this discovery, he comes to the attention of disabled comic book store owner Elijah Price (Jackson), who manipulates David in order to understand him. In Unbreakable, David Dunn (Willis) survives a train crash with no injuries, leading to the realization that he harbors superhuman abilities. It is the first installment in the Unbreakable film series. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, and Charlayne Woodard.
Night Shyamalan, and starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Unbreakable is a 2000 American superhero thriller film written, produced, and directed by M.
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