Movies with Bruce Willis have one feature - they are always interesting to watch. The huge talent and amazing charisma of the actor make the paintings with his participation memorable and fascinating. If you choose which tapes in the filmography of Bruce Willis are the best, then the mystical thriller The Sixth Sense will be included in this list. The film was a huge success with the audience and was nominated for six Academy Awards. Critics consider the role of child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe to be the best work of Bruce Willis. The actors ("Sixth Sense"), who starred in the film, created a harmonious team, which gave the thriller even more convincing.
History of the painting
“The Sixth Sense” is a film of Indian director M. Knight Shyamalan. It is known to viewers in such films as “Signs”, “Mysterious Forest”, “After Our Era”, “Visit” and the series “Pines”. The director prefers to work in the genre of the mystical thriller, although among his films there is also the family melodrama Stuart Little, which, incidentally, was released on the screens in the same year as The Sixth Sense.
Plot
“They see only what they want to see” - the words of the nine-year-old boy Cole hide the clue to the film, but viewers can only guess about it at the very end, in the last 10 minutes of screen time. The Sixth Sense is a movie with an unpredictable denouement, one that completely changes the meaning of the story told in it. The finale is so overwhelming that many people re-watch the film to see it from a different perspective. That's when many moments that are almost impossible to see at the first viewing begin to catch the eye. The Sixth Sense turns out to be a double-bottom painting, which makes it so interesting and attractive to the audience.
The actors (The Sixth Sense) are selected surprisingly harmoniously, which gives the film a convincing realism.
Once, a former adult patient bursts into the home of a child psychiatrist, Malcolm Crowe, who has just received an award for outstanding achievements. In all his troubles and failures, he blames the doctor, and then shoots him.
A year later, Crowe became interested in the case of nine-year-old Cole, whose disease symptoms repeat the history of the patient who shot him. The psychiatrist is not only trying to help the boy, but also to understand what he made a mistake when working with Vincent Gray, who attacked him.
Cole's problem is that he sees dead people. Peers consider the boy strange and harass him, and a mother, frightened by her son’s visions, is trying to help. Throughout the film, Crowe is next to the boy and hopes that this time he can find the cause of Cole's fears and help his little patient. In the last 10 minutes, the viewer will receive an exhaustive answer about some of the film’s oddities and the inhibition of the immersed and mortally scared boy.
Characters and performers of the film
Actors (The Sixth Sense) were selected carefully. Many of them had to make an effort to play their roles. So, left-hander Bruce Willis needed to learn how to write with his right hand so that the audience would not notice the absence of a wedding ring on his left hand. Donny Wahlberg was even worse - for the role of a psychopath, a former patient of Malcolm Crowe, he lost a lot of weight.
Bruce willis
The role of the children's psychiatrist in the film The Sixth Sense brought the declining career of the actor to a new round of popularity. The picture also helped to fix the financial situation - for this role, Willis received $ 100 million.
Tony collette
The Australian actress played in the film Lynn Sear, the mother of young Cole. This role earned her an Academy Award nomination. The last of Tony Collett’s works in the movie is the horror Krampus, in which she played the mother of a family hosting relatives at Christmas at her home.
Olivia Williams performed in the mystical thriller “The Sixth Sense” the role of the wife of Malcolm Crowe, Anna. Her character is silent throughout the entire film, but plays a very important role in understanding what is happening with the main character. Looking at the thriller for the second time, many moments related to Crowe and his wife become clear. The last of the actress's work is participation in the fantasy action movie "The Seventh Son." Of the most interesting films in which Olivia Williams was shot, it is worth noting the political thriller "Ghost".
Misha Barton played in the thriller episodic, but one of the most terrible and memorable scenes - the ghost of the girl Kira Collins, who comes to Cole.
Trevor Morgan, like Haley Joel Osment, starred in The Sixth Sense at a very young age. He already had a good shooting experience. In the thriller, Trevor Morgan played a very small role - the school friend of the protagonist, Tommy Tammisimo. Cole briefly mentions about him in a conversation with a psychiatrist.
The most famous works of the actor were the paintings "Jurassic Park 3" and the thriller "Glass House".
Donald Wahlberg played in the thriller The Sixth Sense by Vincent Gray, a former patient of Dr. Crowe. The audience is known for his role as detective Eric Matthews in several films from the horror series “Saw”. Another famous work by Wahlberg is the role of the alien Daddits, who arrived on Earth to save her from being conquered by other aliens. Donald is the elder brother of Mark Wahlberg, who succeeded more in his acting career.
Haley Joel Osment is a young actor who has high expectations
Appearing in an ad at the age of 5, Haley was spotted by director Robert Zemeckis. He invited the boy to participate in the film Forrest Gump. After such a start, the young actor began to receive numerous offers, but he fully revealed his outstanding acting talent in such films as The Sixth Sense, Pay For Another, and Artificial Mind. Osment approached the casting for the role of Cole very seriously - he completely read the script of the picture three times and appeared for audition in a tie.
Growing up did not affect the actor in the best way. After “Artificial Intelligence”, he starred in 8 more films that did not cause much interest from the audience.
Film perception
The film inspired critics so much that it was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, but as a result did not receive a single figurine. Nevertheless, the film is one of the best thrillers and continues to delight new viewers with its stunning ending and filigree script, in which there are only a few frightening moments, but the film holds all two hours of screen time in suspense.
An important role was played by the actors selected for the thriller. The Sixth Sense is a magnificent duo of Bruce Willis, who has departed from the usual role of superheroes and looks tired in his baggy clothes and then-young Hailey Joel Osment, who played perfectly to the death of a frightened child.
The Sixth Sense and the 2000 Oscars
The film was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and was nominated for six Oscars. Although the film never received a cherished figurine, The Sixth Sense is among the ten best mystical thrillers of all time and people and invariably leads in the ranking of paintings with an unexpected outcome.
The 2000 Oscar in the Best Film nomination went to the film American Beauty. However, at the awards ceremony, actor Michael Kane, who won the Best Supporting Actor nomination, spoke very warmly about his young rival, Hailey Joel Osment, noting the latter's undoubted talent.
Interesting fact: who voiced Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense?
The famous actor in Russian dubbing most often speaks in the voice of Vadim Andreev. But few people know that in the thriller The Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis was voiced by another eminent Russian actor, Mikhail Porechenkov.
Conclusion
Despite the lengthy narrative and lack of dynamics, The Sixth Sense is one of the best psychological thrillers filmed in the last 20 years. The film is watched in one breath, and the unexpected ending, explaining the essence of what is happening throughout the whole picture, is a masterpiece.