The Sixth Sense - Influence & Colour

Although the bulk of our inspiration has come from the film Missed, I'm very keen on using concepts that I have seen used by M. Night Shamylan in his cult classic, The Sixth Sense. 
 
(SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ ON IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE END OF THIS TRULY AWESOME FILM SPOILING FOR YOU!!! (UNLESS OFCOURSE YOU'RE AN OCR EXAMINER JUDGING MY COURSEWORK, IN WHICH CASE I'M SORRY I'VE SPOILED IT FOR YOU :/)

The Sixth Sense follows the story of child psychologist Dr Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis), who works closely with disturbed young child Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who claims he can "see dead people." Towards the end of the film it becomes apparant that Crowe has been dead the whole time, and has actualy only being interacting with Cole because he can talk to the deseased. 

This film is obviously of substancial interest to us, due to the shock ending of The Lost Ones which has similarities to Shamylan's film. 

Throughout The Sixth Sense, hints are dropped to the ending that we hope to try and replicate in our film. Firstly, throughout the film Willis never directly effects his suroundings. For instance, he will only ever talk to Cole and get a genuine responce, and if he sits down at a table, he will make sure he doesn't move the chair or allow the table to wobble. We hope to include this feature in our project, making sure that Violet doesn't ever touch her drink once she's sat down.

A red tent from 'The Sixth Sense'

The most interesting way that Shamylan dropped hints in this film, however, is through the use of colour. Red is used throughout the movie to show "anything in the real world that has been tainted by the other world" and to "connote extremely emotional moments and situations". We plan too use the colour blue (dress and drink) to show Violets heavenly presence and drop subtle hints.

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