Movie  2006
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The Lady: Do you wish to know your future?
The Lady: A boy, in the midwest of this land, will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This boy will become leader of this country and begin a movement of great change. He will speak of you and your words and your book will be the seeds of many of his great thoughts. They will be the seeds of change.
Mr. Leeds: Does man kind deserved to be saved?
Cleveland Heep: What?
Mr. Leeds: Man?
Cleveland Heep: [pauses] Yes
Vick: Am I gonna die, because I wrote this?
The Lady: Yes.
Cleveland Heep: [to Story] Thank you for saving my life.
Harry Farber: Hello? Is the bathroom on this level working? A dog inside the building! Go! Shoo! Why you're not a dog at all. My god, this is like a moment from a horror movie. This is precisely the moment where the mutation or beast will attempt to kill an unlikable side character. But, in stories where there has been no prior cursing, violence, nudity or death, such as in a family film, the unlikable character will escape his encounter, and be referenced later in the story, having learned valuable lessons. He may even be given a humorous moment to allow the audience to feel good about him. This is where I turn to run. You will leap for me, I will shut the door, and you will land a fraction of a second too late.
[Turns to run, is killed by wolf]
Young-Soon Choi: Mr. Heep, my mom told me more of the story before she threw a cushion at me.
Young-Soon Choi: [repeatedly] Goodbye Mr Heep.
Long Haired Smoker: Baby's on the half tip!
Mrs. Bell: My God, you have an animal's eyes.
Cleveland Heep: When I saw your faces, they reminded me of God...
Mrs. Bubchik: He's
[Mr. Bubchik]
Mrs. Bubchik: probably looking in the mirror. He has this growth on his ass! Don't tell him I told ya.
Cleveland Heep: H-how was the movie?
Harry Farber: Sucked
Cleveland Heep: Oh... what a shame.
Harry Farber: Characters were walking around, saying their thoughts out loud. Who does that? And in a typical romance where the couple finally tell each other they love one another in the rain. Why does everyonelike to stand around and talk in the rain in movies?
Cleveland Heep: Um... well maybe it's a metaphor for purification; starting new.
Harry Farber: No, it's not!
Anna Ran: He's hearing the voice of God through a crossword puzzle!
The Lady: [to Cleveland on the walkie talkie] Cleveland, Run!
Cleveland Heep: I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. Oh, I should have been there, I am always going to regret... just not being there. I miss your faces. They remind me of God. I'm so lost without you guys. I met this very nice lady, and her name's Story. I think you would have liked her. I think she might be... an Angel, she has to go home. I love you all, I love you all so much.
Cleveland Heep: [When confronting scrunt] neferum more-a
Story: Your sister will have seven children. You will live to see the first two.
Young-Soon Choi: Mr. Heep, it's time we show them that some stories are real!
The Lady: It's about to get very dangerous
Mr. Dury: What kind of person would be so arrogant as to presume the intention of another human being?
The Lady: Thank you for letting me wear your beautiful shirt.
Anna Ran: Mr. Heep is a playa!
Joey Dury: The pictures on the cereal box are supposed to make you feel happy. But I feel sad, like the time you forgot to pick me up at school.

Vick: I don't know who you are, but you did something to me... to my thoughts
Harry Farber: This is like a scene out of a horror movie
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

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Or, if you prefer, I See Wet People. M. Night Shyamalan's attempt at a newfangled mythology--about a depressed apartment superintendent (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a sea-nymph (Bryce Dallas Howard) who may hold the key to humanity's hopeful future--is intriguing enough to capture the imaginations of children and adults who haven't lost sight of their innocent sense of wonder. Cynics, on the other hand, will likely scoff at Shyamalan's awkward fantasy, which includes one victim--a film critic--widely interpreted as Shyamalan's revenge against reviewers who panned The Village. Shyamalan originally improvised this melancholy fantasy as a bedtime story for his children; unfortunately, it still feels mostly half-baked and ultimately ineffective due to a number of plot holes and inconsistencies that a writer as talented as Shyamalan should've been able to avoid. For those wishing to learn more about the film's troubled history, and Shyamalan's petulant split from Disney studios, The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale is an interesting read. --Jeff Shannon