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''Unbreakable'' is a 2000 American neo-noir superhero drama film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. The film tells the story of Philadelphia security guard David Dunn, who slowly discovers that he possesses superhuman powers. Shyamalan organized the narrative of ''Unbreakable'' to parallel a comic book's traditional three-part story structure. After settling on the origin story, Shyamalan wrote the screenplay as a speculative script with Willis already set to star in the film and Jackson in mind to portray Elijah Price. Filming for ''Unbreakable'' began in April 2000 and was completed by July. ''Unbreakable'' received generally positive reviews, praising the superhero theme, the acting performances and musical score by James Newton Howard. The film has subsequently gained a strong cult following. Many regard it as Shyamalan's best film, and ''Time'' listed the film as one of the top ten superhero movies of all time. ==Plot== Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) is born with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease in which bones break easily. As revealed later in flashbacks, Elijah draws a theory, based on the comic books he has read during his many hospital stays, that if he represents extreme human frailty, perhaps there is someone "unbreakable" at the opposite extreme. Years later, Philadelphia security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is also searching for meaning in his life. He had given up a promising football career to marry Audrey (Robin Wright) after they were involved in an auto accident. Now, however, their marriage is dissolving, to the distress of their young son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark). Returning from a job interview in New York, David is the sole survivor of a major train wreck that kills 131 passengers, sustaining no injuries himself. At the memorial for victims of the crash, he finds a card on his car's windshield, inviting him to Elijah's store. Elijah proposes to David that he is the kind of person after whom comic-book superheroes are modeled, and repeatedly pursues the issue with David and Audrey, trying to learn whether or not David was ill or injured during childhood. Although unsettled by Elijah, David begins to test himself. While lifting weights with Joseph, he bench presses 350 pounds, well above what he had thought he could do. Joseph begins to idolize his father and believes that he is a superhero, although David still maintains that he is "an ordinary man." David challenges Elijah with an incident from his childhood when he almost drowned. Elijah suggests that the incident highlights that superheroes in comic books often have one weakness, and in David's case it is water. While surveying the stored wreckage of the train crash that he survived, David recalls the car accident that ended his athletics career, remembering that he was unharmed and ripped a door off the car in order to save Audrey. David used the accident as an excuse to quit football, because Audrey did not like the sport. Under Elijah's influence, David develops what he thought was an unusual insight into human behavior into an extra-sensory perception by which he can glimpse criminal acts committed by the people he makes contact with. At Elijah's suggestion, David stands in the middle of a crowd in a Philadelphia railroad station. As people bump into him, he senses the crimes they perpetrated, and finds one he can act on: a sadistic janitor who invaded a home, killed the parents, and is holding the children prisoner. David follows the janitor to the victims' house and frees the children, but is ambushed by the janitor who pushes him off a balcony into a swimming pool. David nearly drowns, but is rescued by the children. He then attacks the janitor from behind and strangles him to death. That night, he reconciles with Audrey. The following morning, he secretly shows a newspaper article on this anonymous heroic act, depicting a sketch of David in his rain poncho, to his son, who recognizes the hero as his father. David attends an exhibition at Elijah's comic book art gallery and meets Elijah's mother (Charlayne Woodard), who explains the difference between villains who fight heroes with physical strength versus those who use their intelligence. Elijah brings David to the back room of his studio, extends his hand, and asks David to shake it. Upon doing so, David sees visions of Elijah orchestrating several fatal disasters, including perpetrating David's train accident, causing hundreds of deaths. David is horrified, but Elijah insists that the deaths were justified as a means to find him. Calling himself "Mr. Glass", he explains that his own purpose in life is to be David's antithesis. Since they are exact opposites, David being the hero means that Elijah must be the arch-villain, representing the intelligent villain who fights heroes with their mind. Screen captions reveal that David reported Elijah's actions to the police, and that Elijah was convicted of murder and terrorism, and committed to an institution for the criminally insane. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unbreakable (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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