# Please spoil THE VILLAGE for me.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451 "2004-07-29T16:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/1 "2004-07-29T16:04:04Z")
I’ve seen speculations on this film’s twist; so somebody please give me the true plot twist; I never get to see movies in the theatre anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/2 "2004-07-29T16:28:47Z")
The “monsters” are really the elders dressed up in costumes but that’s only part of the twist. The rest is that the village really exists in modern tomes in a secluded part of the woods. The elders use the monster costumes to scare them ut of exploring the woods and finding the outside world. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/3 "2004-07-29T16:33:30Z")
“You aren’t a number. You’re a free man!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/4 "2004-07-29T16:39:40Z")
Soylent Green is People! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/5 "2004-07-29T16:40:25Z")
**Cynic** , are you serious? That sounds like a rejected script from “Scooby Doo”! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/6 "2004-07-29T16:43:52Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > **Cynic** , are you serious? That sounds like a rejected script from “Scooby Doo”! :rolleyes: Well, the plan would have worked if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/7 "2004-07-29T19:52:17Z")
Haven’t seen the movie, but now I wonder [spoiler]…how the village dealt with airplanes and helicopters flying overhead. And what about when members of the village grow up? Do they get let in on the secret as well?[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/8 "2004-07-29T21:01:33Z")
Do we know for sure that that’s the real ending? I had an idea what the twist would be just from seeing the first teaser trailer. Then a few months ago people who claimed to know the ending started talking about how lame it was, and my curiosity got the better of me; I read the spoilers. Sure enough, the twist I guessed is apparently the real one. And it is lame. So please, somebody tell me it’s **not** true, and that Shymalamalamalamalan is just pulling another hoax on us, like that cheesy Sci-Fi Channel biography. I’ve liked all his other movies, flawed though they were, and I’m rooting for him on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/9 "2004-07-29T21:22:37Z")
If that is indeed the twist, then what’s the deal with the color red? The trailers says that the “monsters” are attracted to the color red. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/10 "2004-07-29T21:54:18Z")
I’m getting this stuff from internet sites like AICN, so take it with a grain of salt: The village was started by a group of people who had lost loved ones to violent crimes. One of them was a billionaire. They bribed Air Traffic Controllors to direct planes away from what they claimed was a “nature preserve.” These became the elders, who use the monster costumes to keep the kids from running away. Red is shunned because of the fear that it will attract the attention of outsiders. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/11 "2004-07-29T23:09:25Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Well, the plan would have worked if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids. And that Dog! Previous threads on the subject have also mentioned the possibility that the villagers are actually trees. The marks on the doors are there to tell the crew what trees to cut down. Anyhoo my sixth sense gives this unshakable, unbreakable feeling that this movie will suck. I asked my magic 8 ball if it would. All signs point to yes. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/12 "2004-07-29T23:43:45Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > And that Dog! > > Previous threads on the subject have also mentioned the possibility that the villagers are actually trees. The marks on the doors are there to tell the crew what trees to cut down. Movie geek scuttlebutt is that there are loggers in the woods who have discovered the village and believed it was deserted (while the villagers were hiding from the “monsters”) and that they’ve marked the houses for demolition. Mysterious yellow ribbons around trees are supposedly marking trees pegged for lumber. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/13 "2004-07-30T12:47:12Z")
If all the spoilers I’ve read here are true, then it beggars the imagination to think how stupid this film must be. I guess Shyamalan only had one good movie in him. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/14 "2004-07-30T12:59:44Z")
Poop!!! I was going to see this movie tonite with the wifey. We’ve got a sitter all lined up for the three little ones. NOW WHAT??? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/15 "2004-07-30T12:59:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I guess Shyamalan only had one good movie in him. That’s odd, because his last three movies have been really good. I’ll see _The Village_ tomorrow. Ebert, who’s liked Shyamalan’s previous films, gave _The Village_ a single star, so I’m prepared for disappointment. Even good writers and directors don’t bat 1.000 in the long run; Hitchcock made some stinkers too. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/16 "2004-07-30T13:06:40Z")
I’ve seen about fifty different spoilers for this movie, which suggests to me that all of them are sheer guesses. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/17 "2004-07-30T13:54:36Z")
Well? Notwithstanding **DtC** ’s valiant attempts at leading us astra…ahem…spoiling the movie for us, how does the story go? You see, I _need_ to know. I’m one of those utterly useless horror-movie wimps who just cannot watch anything suspenseful without wanting to be dead. If you put Britney Spears in a white dress on TV, gave her a marginally mournful soundtrack, and asked her to say “Boo”, I’d jump out of my skin and fall over. That’s how pathetic I am. However - and this is the bane of my existence - I have a morbid fascination with horror and suspense. It’s just so darn interesting and involving, no? So I have to find out what happens. I’ll probably never watch the movie, but I’ll feel immensely happier for having known the story (however silly it might eventually turn out to be). So help me? Spoilers? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/18 "2004-07-30T14:32:26Z")
**aankh** This movie is nothing to be scared of. The fact that a gift somebody gave you years ago was cursed, and that all this time your reflection has slowly been getting stronger, and that soon it will claw its way out of the mirror and kill you so that it can finally be free, the fact that it gets stronger everytime you see your reflection whether in a mirror, a window, a pool of water, or anything else, the fact that one day, one day soon, it will have the strength to escape the mirror and come for you, _that_ is something to be scared of. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/19 "2004-07-30T14:42:05Z")
Well, [Ebert](http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-village30f.html) says that the twist is extremely lame: > [@](#): > > Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It’s a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It’s so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don’t know the secret anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451/20 "2004-07-30T14:44:40Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Insert ghastly chimera. :eek: You sick, evil bastard! I got goose bumps reading that! ::adds name **DocCathode** to head of list of people to be haunted if evil reflection gets me.:: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-the-village-for-me/257451.md?page=2)