An Avatar:TLA fan's thoughts on M Night Shyamalan

[kempermentor]

The live action movie of Avatar: the Last Airbender has got me
thinking about M Night.
The cast, all white, show an M Night that struggles with his
culture/identity.

It's obvious, now, based on the young cast, but the evidence presented
itself prior to his latest project. It is most evident in Unbreakable.
Bruce Willis plays David Dunn an everyman who learns he's a hero. Not
just any hero, a superhero with the power of strength and psychometry.
David discovers that his nemesis is Mr Glass, an enemy who expresses
that he was born to be the villain, an enemy who is black.

With the exception of Lady in the Water, Unbreakable is one of his
only movie with a relevant person of color. There are few relevant
people of color in any of his movies. Though, one person of color in
all his movies except Wide Awake is, of course, him.

In Lady in the Water, he is an amazing writer. It is less a cameo and
more a character. He is a person of color in an apartment complex
where there are many people of color. It is the main character, a
white man, who leads the people of color into protecting and
eventually healing the wet white girl.

More telling and less obvious are his cameos.

In The Sixth Sense, he plays a doctor who is being a dick to
HJOsment's mom. And to make sure the audience understands that the
doctor's a dick, M Night as the screenwriter has Cole's mom call him,
the non-white doctor, a dick.
In Unbreakable, he plays a suspected drug dealer.
In Signs, he plays the drunk @$$hole who kills Mel Gibson's wife.
In The Village (of white people), he plays a guard in the modern world
who likes his job because it's 'real easy'. The only person of color
in the entire movie is saying that he's lazy.
In The Happening, he plays the voice on the phone. His character is
having an affair with the female lead who's married to Marky Mark's
character. His name is Joey; he's a home wrecker... or would be if it
wasn't for the Happening.

That M Night! Here we Avatar fans were expecting a pigmented cast
when, as he does so often on film, he throws in a little twist. We
should have seen it coming!!! Like a good writer, he sowed the seeds
of his self-hate early on in his career but we, the audience, missed
it. What fools we are to expect something different. 

M Night Shyamalan loves white people!

Kemper, just making observations and knowing he might be mostly wrong,
mostly...