The Happening

The Happening

  • Director: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Countries of origin: United States, India
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: June 13, 2008
  • Runtime: 1h 31min
  • Sound mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Green Planet
  • "The Happening" is a science fiction film produced by 20th Century Fox Argentina. The film was directed by M·M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg , Zo, etc., and was released on June 13, 2008.
    The film tells the story of a family struggling to survive in a situation where the global ecological environment crisis is increasingly threatening the survival of mankind. The Mother Nature in the movie has become intolerable for our environmental pollution and decided to drive humans out of the earth. As a result, an invisible neurotoxin was released into the air, causing humans to continue to commit suicide. 

    Details

    • Release date June 13, 2008
    • Filming locations G-Lodge Diner - 1371 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Production companies Twentieth Century Fox, UTV Motion Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $48,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $64,506,874

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $30,517,109

    Gross worldwide

    $163,403,799

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dolores 2022-06-23 13:06:42

      "The Happening"--Puzzling Story Logic

      The subject of death is somewhat novel!

      Human beings are most afraid of death.

      When I was taking a shower just now, I was thinking,

      Since people are so afraid of losing their physical bodies,

    • By Daphnee 2022-06-23 12:26:22

      The Happening--The Story Of A Family Struggling To Survive

      I'm not a kid who likes to talk about lofty ideas.

      I'm just chasing Xiaoqing Xiaoai for fun.

      Disaster is spreading like little red dots at the beginning of a rash.

      What a disaster.

    • By Athena 2022-04-21 09:01:36

      Suicide voluntarily, voluntary suicide.

      "Fear comes from the heart of man."

      Does this sentence make sense? Maybe.

      To say the point, no nonsense is my favorite way of existence recently.

      Well, let me recall the suicide process again and again in the movie. In


      the first individual suicide incident

      , the girl held the book in her right hand and muttered to herself "what page did I see". Then she took off the hairpin in

      her left hand , Poke in the side, we can see the tip...

    • By Effie 2022-04-21 09:01:36

      Maybe it's because I don't quite accept the expression in this film form.

      Samaran's films have few interesting scripts to talk about, and the films are very unentertaining, of course, I mean to say that Yi promotes nature conservation under the guise of disaster films, and unscrupulously deceives many fans of Hollywood commercials, I love this.
        As far as the film itself is concerned, there is no other element of the film itself except the shock of the naked death scene, and the constant metaphors and weakened references are almost impossible for people who do...

    • By Fay 2022-04-21 09:01:36

      the real end of the world

      Tsk tsk tsk, I was quite shocked when I watched this film. Under the apocalypse, the human nature shown by people is not like the "ugly side" described in many films, but the feeling of weakness that is powerless to fate has always strongly affected me watching the film. Speaking of which, if something like this happens in real life, what will people do? (囧) I think people who don’t pay attention to environmental protection and ecological awareness must be forced to watch this film and see if...

    User comments

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    • By Dwight 2023-09-13 08:49:23

      Practice has proved that the trailer cannot be...

    • By Elfrieda 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      Wahlberg + Zoe Deschanel, in addition to the powerful actors, viral disaster films with empty atmosphere and no soul are not worth...

    • By Henri 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      All kinds of inexplicable, the story is very...

    • By Elizabeth 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      Suicide is fine. . . Others are weird. ....

    • By Miles 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      The screenwriter and director must...

    Movie plot

    Every corner of the major cities in the United States was filled with weird and terrifying breath of death in an instant, completely destroying the self-control ability of human behavior, human beings could not guess its transmission method, and people were panicked for a while.
    A teacher at a high school in Philadelphia, Elliot Moore ( Mark Wahlberg ornaments ) and his wife Alma ( Zoe Mitchell Dance ornaments) are in marital crisis,...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    When M. Knight Shamaran wrote the script, he used Mark Wahlberg as the imaginary male protagonist.
    "The Disaster of the End", this film is the first film by M. Knight Shamaran to be rated as R by the MPAA.
    85% of the film’s story takes place outdoors.
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    Evaluation action

    In the film, Shamaran successfully rendered the weird tense atmosphere and the horrifying signs that the audience couldn't help but horrify. But the exciting and thrilling atmosphere in the film soon disappeared. The screenwriter and director Shamaran accidentally led the audience to follow Mark Wahlberg and Zoe Danscher into an ultimate boring and naive ecological warning world. legend. (Netease Entertainment Review) 
    This film is the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Elliot Moore: You're not interested in what happened to the bees?

      [Jake shakes his head]

      Elliot Moore: You should be more interested in science, Jake. You know why? Because your face is perfect. The problem is, your face is perfect at 15. Now if you were interested in science, you would know facts like the human nose and ears grow a fraction of an inch each year. So a perfect balance of features now might not look so perfect five years from now, and might look down right whack ten years from now.

      [students laugh]

      Elliot Moore: Come on, buddy. Take an interest in science. What could be the reason bees have vanished?

      Jake: [after a long pause] An act of nature, and we'll never fully understand it.

      Elliot Moore: Nice answer, Jake. He's right. Science will come up with some reason to put in the books, but in the end it'll be just a theory. I mean, we will fail to acknowledge that there are forces at work beyond our understanding. To be a scientist, you must have a respectful awe for the laws of nature.

      [Jake raises his hand]

      Elliot Moore: Jake?

      Jake: How much does the human nose grow each year?

      Elliot Moore: It's miniscule, buddy. Okay? Don't worry about it. You're going to be a heartthrob your whole life. I was just messing with you.

    • Principal: [to concerned teachers] Alright, there appears to be an event happening. Central Park was just hit by what seems to be a terrorist attack. They're not clear on the scale yet. It's some kind of airborne chemical toxin that's been released in and around the park. They said to watch for warning signs. The first stage is confused speech. The second stage is physical disorientation, loss of direction. The third stage... is fatal.

    • Julian: Hey, I'm going to tell you something that you should never tell your best friend.

      Elliot Moore: Why is everybody saying that?

      Julian: [referring to Alma] I saw her on your wedding day.

      Elliot Moore: Again with the wedding. What?

      Julian: I walked into her waiting room by mistake, and she was crying. She looked up and I saw her face. She wasn't ready to jump in, Elliot. That's not who she is. She's never going to jump in when you need her, man.