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Film Authorship In The Sixth Sense

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Film authorship refers to the directors who permeated their films with their distinctive personal vision and uniqueness through the use of film style. The value of a film is said to be determined according to what the director produce and his personal style. In film authorship, the influence of the director can be seen throughout all his work. Ideally, a person can watch a film without previously knowing its director and be able to identify the person who directed the film just by analyzing the film style. The audience are often given signs and information throughout the play of the film to know the producer of the film. The film ‘the sixth sense’ directed by M. Night Shyamalan is a psychological horror from the 1990. The characterization of the film is known to carry supernatural and paranormal aspects which has a dramatic tension that reflected on the audience. M. Night Shyamalan earned his auteur reputation for his film productions; such as “the sixth sense”, “unbreakable”, and “sign” etc. He is known for his fictional film production that carry unbelievable events and being well known in his style which focus on most of his stories on supernatural events, spirituality, …show more content…

For instance, Cole was seen collecting Christian icons in his red tent in order to use them to pray and make his condition better and stop seeing dead people that frightened him by their appearance. Cole sees the appearance of ghosts as an attack, but they only appear because of past lack of communication and understanding between the characters. For instance, Malcolm wants to convince his wife that he never neglected her because of his work, the girl that appeared in Cole’s tent was trying to save her little sister from the danger that was surrounding her, and Cole’s grandmother was trying to tell her daughter that she saw her dance. The dead do not see themselves as dead people but “they only see what they want to

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