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Lest you thought that literally everyone with access to a modem was piling on the ever-accelerating M. Night Shyamalan/Happening Backlash-Wagon, we have found one defender of the faith — one deeply committed Shyamaphile whose allegiance to the beleaguered filmmaker manifests itself today in a pro-Manoj screed so penetrating it could cut glass. Or maybe lick the glass. But don't take our word for it; after the jump, Brad Brevet has what may be the final word on the myriad misunderstandings trailing The Happening to its June 13 release.

THE CRITICS DON'T GET HIM: [I]f my last film was Lady in the Water and it was unfairly judged before it was even screened for critics I would be a little pissed. If it then received a 29% [Rotten Tomatoes] rating and several of the reviews included the words on par with "ego" and "pretentious" I would be even more upset. This would tell me that the people reviewing the film didn't even give the film a chance. ... Just because it is an M. Night film doesn't mean he is trying to scare you James from Sci-Fi Movie Page!

THE FANBOYS DON'T GET HIM: [T]he "lackluster work" part is a matter of opinion so I will let them have that. However, hating how the film is presented as the next "big movie" is not his fault. He doesn't handle marketing, you critiquing the studio in this case, not the movie or the director. When this person then says we know to "expect a slow pace, lots of emotionalism, experimental camera angles, possibly a cameo of Shyamalan himself, and a twist ending" I am trying to figure out where the problem is. Then to say there is nothing "ground-breaking" tells me that this person is expecting Shyamalan to be the second coming, something he then goes on to say he most certainly isn't. Well, guess what, he is just a guy making movies.

HELL, NOBODY GETS HIM: The final argument against Night is that he is egotistical. ... Let's say Night thinks he is the greatest director of all-time. First off, what does that hurt? How does it hurt his films? A commenter at IMDb believes Lady in the Water is to be taken literally and believes Night is trying to say "he's the WRITER THAT WILL SAVE THE WORLD!!!" Then again, by that logic Clint Eastwood believes he is a Wild West gunslinger as well as a bad ass San Francisco cop. To that I must ask Clint to make a decision, you can't have both.

From this brain we're promised a whole week of reintroductions to "all five of Night's previous films," starting Sunday with The Sixth Sense — which, of course, was actually the director's third film after 1992's Praying With Anger and 1998's Wide Awake. Leave it to a true fan to prove his idol's forgettability.

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