castle of illusion

In The Happening, the idea that malevolent plants can be defeated by true love is subtext. In The Green Effect [Shyamalan’s original script], it’s just … text. At script’s climax, Mark Wahlberg’s heroic science teacher realizes that the film’s evil plants can’t kill you with their suicide-causing neurotoxins if they think you’re a good person (actual line of dialogue: “This is the final trigger, Alma! They’re weeding out our energy! They’ve become a mood ring. When they see a color they don’t like, it sets them off”). In Shyamalan’s original vision, the plants kill mean old religious fanatics, but they spare Marky Mark because he and his unfaithful wife still have a marriage worth saving