Interview with M. Night Shyamalan on The Last Airbender - Part 2

Part 2 of a new interview with M. Night Shyamalan in which he talks about his movie "The Last Airbender". He goes into detail:

1. On how he approaches technology in film making
2. On the difference between shooting this film, versus his previous work
3. On what was cut out for length
4. On how he chose to shoot the fight scenes
5. On his approach to scripting the film
6. On the involvement of the original creators
7. On regaining his motivation which he lost during the production of the film
8. On racebending

It should also be noted that this interview was made after the New York City premiere and after the reviews surfaced.

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[PUFFYsaidgo]

@miangel24 OMGZ WTF?? lolololo brb kthx OMG

[plokkr123]

"The most culturally diverse movie of all time" ---facepalm

[Wharwulif]

He speaks has if he says things...yet all I see is :

"That movie was crap,but I got money for it!,so fuck everyone!"

Well...the series kinda warned in advance for the movie(The play on Ember island)

[DominoJ20]

@bellaafoxx, this was an iconic cartoon and the best that nickelodeon has and will ever come up with. This mans job, in our perspective, was to bring the story to a more realistic scale. We have every right to complain, he butchered it so badly that the main characters name wasn't even pronounced correctly! Don't bash us, we're just upset that such an incredible cartoon, with fantastic characters and an enjoyable story line was destroyed so completely.

[enscionnicholas]

wow...you should have never made it your own.....

[kfki]

The sad thing about the man was that he thought he made an epic movie where the rest of the world hates it!

[purpleoctopus923]

Newsflash M. Knight: If the features in the anime are too "ambiguous" for you then why don't you try LOOKING AT THEIR CLOTHING! When I was watching the show I could tell looking at their clothing from which Asian culture it originated. The show has Tibetan style clothing, Chinese style clothing, Japanese styles, even Korean style clothing. Take a look past the face of the person and you may see something worthwhile M. Night. Besides that some characters like Azula did have Asian like eyes.

[bellaafoxx]

Dude, all you complain and talk so much shit. Keep to your cartoons then, whiny little babies.

[r0b0tj0n3s]

me watching this: "....bullshit....no...no they weren't....yeah that means they were like, don't fucking do that......yeah try REALLY fucking lost.....what?....what?....r u high?...fuck this video i can't handle this...*2.04*

[nodoctoryet]

LOL I didnt even watch the whole movie. the first 20 min were painful to watch so I skipped abit in and it got EVEN worse.

You should be suied for desecrating this wonderful story.

btw, "Ong" real name is "A-ng" and Katara and Sokka are not Caucasian......

AND ffs Fire nation are not Iranian......did you even bother to watch the show????

[riderstein]

He wants a bravo. Shyamalan, you're name will go down in history as the funniest director who ever directed serious films.