The Happening: Garden-variety Horror

  by Jim Eagan  |  August 13th, 2008  |  Published in All, Environment


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ScienCentral interviews the cast and crew of The Happening, as well as a plant toxicologist from New York University, about toxic plants, religion vs. science, and the challenges of making this enviro-horror film.

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Interviewees: M Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo.
Produced by James Eagan — Edited by Charles Young
Copyright © ScienCentral, Inc., with additional footage courtesy 20th Century Fox Pictures.

Director M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) and the cast of The Happening sat down with ScienCentral to discuss their experience making the film. Mark Wahlberg talks about a personal conflict of faith and science, Shyamalan wonders if the movie will do for gardening what Jaws did for swimming, and John Leguizamo says there’s actually some humor beneath the horror.

For more, check out ScienCentral News’ original story on toxic plants, “The Happening and Plant Science.”


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Responses

  1. Gary says:

    August 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am (#)

    Looks kind of cheesy. Max Payne should be awesome though.

  2. Mediamama says:

    August 14th, 2008 at 10:30 am (#)

    Shhh. The plants are listening.

  3. fuzzyleaves says:

    August 19th, 2008 at 11:32 pm (#)

    Movies that add science in them can be helpful to the people who watch them. When you watch a science-fiction movie and the edit a few things so what happening can't really happen in science, it can still make people learn more about science.

  4. fuzzyleaves says:

    August 19th, 2008 at 11:32 pm (#)

    They watching too!

  5. Environmental Themes in "The Day The Earth Stood Still" | ScienCentral | Science Videos | Science News says:

    December 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm (#)

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