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Mention UTV who paid for 50% of the film. Source: Bollywoodistan.com > UTV Motion Pictures
Undid some dumb vandalism, better watch this page. -XClaudiox (talk) 02:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Me too...-Saltyseawater (talk) 20:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.45.139.193 (talk)
I know this is WIKIPEDIA and so nobody who wants to stay clueless re. surprises in films should expect to remain that way after visiting here, but how about ONLY including in the article stuff that is revealed in publicly-available common media, i.e. pre-release just the TRAILER! The "3 stages" is *not* in the trailer, it must be from other pre-release communications. Actually it is in some trailers and not in others depends which one you see, there's also a red banner one that shows some of the methods people kill themselves by. Ditto for the "plants" element, as mentioned in the Shyamalan article. Again, I know this is an "encyclopedia", but a lot of this kind of "unrevealed to most people" info presented on these 2 pages is not cited, and is either a) crap that somebody made up, or b) real factual info that should not be revealed to moviegoers who don't expect to see it on the encyclopedia article BEFORE the movie has even been released! Yeesh, it's like for Cloverfield, saying that all the characters die in the end, or the monster lives ... if the Wikipedia article mentioned all this BEFORE the movie came out. :sigh: IMDB is way worse, in this case, but at least there's a Spoiler Warning on the link before it's all in front of your eyes... 199.214.26.41 (talk) 19:05, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Its a page about a movie so use common sense and expect spoilers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.34.244.213 (talk • contribs) 20:45, May 30, 2008
The plant thing is a major spoiler that gives away the film's primary surprise. Generally speaking, when a phrase begins with "It turns out", that is a spoiler. Lots of people would just come here to get links, reviews, general synopsis, etc. They don't expect to see the full plot of a movie that has yet to be released. --Vcalzone (talk) 02:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
The section is titled plot, so the entire plot should be listed. At worst, just point a spoiler warning at the top of the article. There's a template for it, but I don't remember what it is exactly. If that's not enough for someone to figure it out, then they deserve to have the plot ruined for them. 66.190.141.46 (talk) 04:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
why no mention the final stage is people committing suicide? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.49.22 (talk • contribs) 01:13, June 3, 2008
1. freezing- people stop moving, then take a few steps back 2. confusion- people restate something they already asked 3. death- the person commits suicide without a second thought and without fear.
Just want to know if its okay if we add this. Darthan the destroyer (talk) 22:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I kind of want to point something out. Technically no one is committing suicide. They are killing themselves against their own normal will. They are infact being forced to kill themselves which would be the fault of the plants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IdentityS (talk • contribs) 08:38, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I have removed the section 'plot' as it has been vandalized several times. Can somebody recreate this section with the relevant details? Chamal (talk) 13:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
The current quote "in order to survive while the world goes into a violent whirlwind of self destruction" would be more accurate if it just said "in order to survive" (I have seen the film). Bingggo (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The plot description says that the end is in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. But it's quite obviously the garden/park of the Luxembourg Palace, also in Paris. Changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.247.226.39 (talk) 01:49, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme reviewed the happening during its june 10th broadcast, reactions were not exactly positive, with lawson describing the film as "more cock than hitchcock" http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/past_programmes.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.164.70 (talk) 18:28, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I really think this page should be locked for a bit. It's unreleased so the spoilers should be left out til thenStuthomas4 (talk) 23:12, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
umm no. Darthan the destroyer (talk) 22:23, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
There is a mistake, the film will only bear the french name in the french-speaking part of belgium. In the dutch speaking part of belgium it is just 'The Happening' Would be great if sombody veryfied that and changed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.198.178.131 (talk) 07:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I recommend implementing reviews from film critics that are published in newspapers and magazines, which generally have wide circulation. I discourage reviews that only exist on websites as they may not have the best credibility. A good rule of thumb is that if the work or its publisher has a Wikipedia article that has been around a while, then it's appropriate to use reviews from these works. I would also suggest expanding on the reviews from the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Newsday. Saying that these reviews gave the film two stars does not seem enough; the reasoning should be provided for the sake of clarity. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I have posted a suggested reversion to the early reviews discussion re Cinephilia and The Age. One of the Cinephilia writers is credited on the AFCA site as secretary. I agree that whoever posted the other reviews could have expanded them, but I didn't have time other than to draw out a point from Hunters re the cinematographer. Bingggo (talk) 00:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Why isn't Ebert's review mentioned, his was one of the few positive reviews, and seeing as how he's the most famous critic in America, it would probably be a better example than one from Cinephilia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmwalles (talk • contribs) 04:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate those who've been around a lot longer than me, doing very fine work on film pages here, but unless there's a strange official policy that reviewers should predominantly come from the country the film is shot in (as I note The Happening is a USA/India coproduction, yet there is no mention that Indian reviewers should be highlighted) then I think verifiable, reliable reviewers from outside the USA are clearly relevant. Otherwise, there is a very strange USA-centrism going on. If the film had been shot in Australia, why shouldn't Ebert review it, for example.So I reinstated elements of the early critical reception section that were deleted without explanation. Bingggo (talk) 12:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I think that once this page has been unlocked that someone should type the whole movie plot. One of the sole reasons i use wikipedia is to find out what happens in films that i did not want to see and to prevent this from being allowed to happen annoys me. This movie came out in australia today (friday 13th June) so i came to this page to see what happened in the film and now i see that it is locked, this frustrates me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.131.58 (talk) 08:05, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I have added key information, as preventing such information is in direct violation of Wikipedia:Spoiler. Oddly enough, this same information (the plants are causing it) had been added on several other occasions over the past months, but was not cited. --Bobak (talk) 14:42, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
OK, since the film has come out I've unlocked the page. I am aware of the Wikipedia:Spoiler terms but I felt that for a film that hadn't opened yet it was outside the bounds of that guideline. Stuthomas4 (talk) 15:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Stuthomas4: regarding your edit at 22:02, 13 June 2008: "never saw "math" as a plural before. My guess is NOT". Both 'math' and 'maths' are acceptable words, see the end of the Etymology section here: Mathematics - Ian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.162.14 (talk)
Someone mention that the theatrical version of the film is heavily cut and doesn't actually show any of the deaths. Well dissapointing considering what the red band trailer and M.Night promised. Ruined the whole film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.60.21 (talk) 01:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
No, the thing the film didn't show was the person bleeding out. Stabbing in neck didn't show a lot of blood, mainly the lion ripping off the guys arms and the lawnmower running over the guy was really blood filled. Darthan the destroyer (talk) 22:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Saw the UK release the other week and after reading the comments here about the "red band" trailer I was intrigued so I checked on YouTube. They cut a lot of the graphic detail out of the version I saw - the start of the film cut before we actually see the girl stabbing herself, the part in the lion enclosure cut before we actually saw any dismemberment (the camera on the video seemed to move up as soon as the lions attacked); the part with Julian's suicide seemed to be shot from a much further distance than shown in the trailer; and as I recall there wasn't really much blood if any in the lawnmower part (although it did show it completely running over him). We do get the blood pulsing from the head wound, which is absent in the regular trailer though. Thepineapplehead (talk) 10:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I was reading over the page and i think the section under "Production" that says, "In January 2007, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan traveled from Philadelphia to Hollywood to prepare the live-action film based on Avatar: The Last Airbender. " should read out like this: "In January 2007, when writer-director M. Night Shyamalan traveled from Philadelphia to Hollywood to prepare the live-action film based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Shyamalan submitted a spec script entitled The Green Effect to various studios, but none expressed enough interest to purchase the script." because the first way makes it sound like "The Happening" is based on "Avatar: The Last Airbender".
Just add the word "when" after "2007".
I think it reads better.
Thanks for reading.
Dude7324 (talk) 06:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Dude7324 (talk) 04:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Does anything exist on the internet to explain the presence of a sound boom visible on screen in nearly every scene? Was this intentional, or was the editing really that bad? I really don't know how to take this film and I think clearing this issue up with help a little bit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.113.200 (talk) 07:04, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that too! I'm assuming it's just crappy editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.155.138.234 (talk) 08:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I read around the internet that it's a common feature in his other films, particuluary The Village and Lady in the Water. I haven't seen The Village in years, and I didn't see the theatre version. I also didn't see Lady in the Water at all. Other websites mentioned the possiblity that it was a formatting error on the projectionist's fault. I think a letterbox was supposed to cut out the booms. If not, the film is too... Poorly done to be taken seriously, it seems. It's ridiculous that that many errors should get past editing. 12.181.11.241 (talk) 11:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Those would definitely be formatting errors by the projectionist. Stuthomas4 (talk) 14:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to add to the last comment - its the theatres job to frame the film correctly. Whenever you see boom mikes like that - yell at the theater. Dtolman (talk) 19:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
A rumor exists that there are up to 4 different endings including the "shymalanian" twist being that indeed the "effect" is caused by an American biological nerve agent. Supposedly, the ending scene was to show uniformed people around a Boardroom table, and a male voice saying "the agent is confirmed as losing potency after 24 hours, and is approved for future use." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lasvegastroy (talk • contribs) 05:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Just wondering, why do they commit suicide? Is it like,
I never got it. → C Teng [talk] 14:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
its like the third version, only without talking Darthan the destroyer (talk) 22:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I say get the weedwacker and the John Deer out and show those plants who's boss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.47.15.38 (talk) 16:18, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
It seems like there are a couple of references to Doctor Who in this movie. Is that worth noting? -Unknownwarrior33 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:59, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Mark walshberg seemed like the doctor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.26.144 (talk) 20:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
This sentence makes little sense to me: "Elliot, Alma, Jess, and two boys stay together, making their way towards an small enough community that they hope not to trigger a release of the toxin." It seems pretty convoluted with a missing verb and the article "an" used in fornt of a consonant. How about ""Elliot, Alma, Jess, and two boys stay together, making their way toward a community that they hope is so small that it will not trigger a release of the toxin." Alexandrothegreat (talk) 17:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Here's another bad sentence with some sort of sentence fragment tacked on at the end: "Once Julian and the family reach Princeton, however, they find that the town has already been affected, many people hanging from trees." How about: "Once Julian and the family reach Princeton, however, they discover people hanging from trees, showing that the town has already been affected." Alexandrothegreat (talk) 17:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed that a lot of edits for this article were inclusions of unnecessary details, some of them detailing the methodology of suicides used in the film. I haven't got time at the moment but perhaps, it might be useful if I (or someone else who beats me to it) make a new section that describes just that: how people killed themselves.
I'm not sure though if it is of any academic interest or if it is even encyclopedic information in the first place. So... I'd like to know what you people think Salamangkero (talk) 03:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Did they ever show him? D.Mandalore (talk) 05:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I rather suspect that the inspiration for this plot came from Saramago's "Blindness", about an mysterious pandemic of blindness that breaks out, quickly breaking down society and quite possibly threatening to end human life (or at least civilisation). It's true that "The Happening" is more violent and less cerebral than "Blindness", but that is what you'd expect from the American cinema.
"Blindness" is finally appearing in a movie version. Apparently 29th Century/Fox wanted a film to run against it.
Comments or verification?
--Philopedia (talk) 21:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
The first paragraph is misleading. If one person picks up someone else's gun, and uses it to shoot himself, and then another walks up, picks up the gun from the street, and repeats the same process, and the process continues until the gun is empty, that is not "committing suicide en masse" - rather, it is an unusual instance of many people committing suicide with whatever means is at their disposal. They are suiciding in sequence, rather than en masse. It's my understanding that en masse implies simultaneity, or at least a group effort towards a common end.
The first paragraph should be changed. It should not use the word "en masse" unless they all die simultaneously, rather than in sequence. By viewing the movie, you will see that each suicide was individually applied, towards an individual end. 198.177.27.19 (talk) 07:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
A RiffTrax will soon be available for this movie. Will this be mentioned in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.239.148.14 (talk) 06:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I just watched the movie "The Happening" just an hour or so ago and came on here to get some additional information and found that at a couple of points in the article, there is profanity and a general bashing of the film. The two incidents I noticed was the last paragraph under "Plot" and next to most of the cast members in the "Cast" section. I thought it should be brought to the attention of the Wikipedia Staff. Thank you.
Words Are Hard My Mouth Face (talk) 03:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I recently put in a quote by Charlie Brooker about the film from his guardian column and referenced it to the following link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/19/fooddrinks-foodanddrink. At the bottom of the column in what Charlie did this week is a relevant quote about the movie and Charlie is a respected reviewer. Yet it has been removed, why so? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.102.183 (talk) 19:46, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Why do Elliott and Alma have the same surname if she is just his girlfriend ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:38, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
At the beginning of the movie when the policeman commits suicide, the man who picks up his gun is played by actor and former rocker, Richard Edson. I looked on the credits and I don't see his name anywhere. I wonder why they did'nt credit him for the role. I am 98% sure that this is Richard Edson. Am I right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.171.37.139 (talk) 20:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
The "plants did it" has become part of the criticism of this movie, but that assumes that the quirky botanist's plant theory was meant to be correct. Eliot fits subsequent events into that theory. But they don't all fit, and the "happening" ends as inexplicably as it started. Maybe the point is, we take an unfamiliar event and try to explain it in terms of the familiar, resulting in a total misunderstanding of the event itself as well as its causes and implications, and our reaction to it. The happening was inexplicable. A character in the movie offered the plant theory, because that fit his background, botany. Naaman Brown (talk) 18:59, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Who knows? Who cares? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.20.223 (talk) 16:34, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I found a source that I'm pretty sure will probably satisfy you, NinjaRobotPirate. No offense but I'm getting really tired of having to find info on the production companies for this film that I've tried time and time again to prove to you they exist and it shouldn't have to be this way, you always deleting every single source that I find just because it's not reliable (how am I supposed to know they are?? I can't find a page that says they aren't and it's very unclear to use which part from where and what and everything else and it's so confusing). I've looked on the BFI, magazine websites and other sources, but you haven't budged and it's really irritating me. This source is from a book, so, here you go: [1]
I hope this is enough for you. I'm sorry if you think I'm being rude but I'm trying my best to prove something I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have to explain about. Tjdrum2000 (talk) 00:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
References
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And by the way, I really don't know why it has to be so complicated about adding these companies. If you look at a large image of the poster (http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/happening_xlg.jpg) and see the logos and the credits for them (which are there), that's how I know the companies being part of it are true. I'm a newcomer to this whole thing and I just use logic and observation most of the time. Tjdrum2000 (talk) 01:08, 27 June 2017 (UTC)