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When he\u2019s on form, there\u2019s nobody quite like M Night Shyamalan<\/a>. Everyone who saw The Sixth Sense when it first came out remembers how they felt when that insane twist was first revealed, and he\u2019s been able to follow that up with great stuff like Unbreakable, Split, and The Visit. Unfortunately, he\u2019s also responsible for some complete and utter garbage, as anyone who saw his abysmal take on The Last Airbender will attest to.\u00a0<\/p>\n Apart from his trademark plot swerves, Shyamalan is known for dipping into the supernatural to tell his stories. As well as the aforementioned Sixth Sense and The Visit, he\u2019s taken on all sorts of otherworldly stuff, from a nomadic water sprite (Lady in the Water) to, infamously, a beach that makes you old (Old). They don\u2019t always hit home, but it\u2019s clear from his vast array of spooky creations that the Indian-born director has a fondness for the unusual. <\/p>\n This was confirmed when he gave an interview to Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> detailing his five favourite films. Alongside Steven Spielberg\u2019s Jaws, William Friedkin\u2019s The Exorcist, and the classic answer of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s The Godfather, Shyamalan spoke about his love for a more obscure piece, Hal Ashby\u2019s 1979 satirical drama Being There.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWas this a comedy, straight drama, fantasy? I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s so incredible,\u201d he gushed. \u201cThis has one of my favourite endings to a movie, just incredible. When he walked on the water, my jaw dropped, I just freaked out, freaked out, that we were making fun of him the whole time, we thought he was an idiot the whole time, thought he was like this mentally handicapped person, and all he was was simple. The things that were happening, and the people that were following him, and the potential future for him, makes sense when you just turn your perspective that way.\u00a0 Bold, bold, bold genre-breaking filmmaking, and will always be kind of a beacon of originality for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Being There stars Peter Sellers as a man named Chance. Having spent his entire life cooped up in a massive house, Chance is forced to step out into the real world once the elderly owner passes away. As Chance has only seen the world through television, he attempts to interact with it in the same way, including trying to click a mugger out of existence with a remote. The movie ends<\/a> with Chance walking across water, a not-so-subtle nod to Jesus\u2019 miracle of the same nature.<\/p>\n That ending clearly impacted Shyamalan\u2019s storytelling. He is the modern king of the twist ending, which is precisely what Being There offers. The juxtaposition of the ordinary with the supernatural is another regular feature of the modern director\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/p>\n