The Sixth Sense

LessON PLAN by Alejandro Porras

INTRO

One of the most celebrated films in the genre to be released in the couple decades is M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999). The film focuses on a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who has the incredibly unique and terrifying ability to see dead people. He ends up coming into contact with a child psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him deal with his “gift."

To begin, the storyline is original and engaging—something that seems to be harder and harder to come by nowadays. As is required of any film, the first scene is particularly engaging and attention-grabbing: a child psychologist named "Dr. Malcolm Crowe" (Willis) comes home with his wife to discover an intruder named "Vincent" (an old patient of Crowe’s) accusing him of failing to help him with his problem of hallucinations. Vincent then shoots Crowe in the abdomen, then kills himself. The film shifts to a year later, where Crowe starts working with a new patient, nine year old Cole Sear (Osment), who seems to have the same issue Vincent had. Due to his failure with Vincent, Crowe is reluctant to help, but nevertheless decides to pursue Cole’s issue and work with him.

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Film

The Sixth Sense (vocabulary)

Gasp

Humming

Sobbing

Phone buzzing off the hook

Single parent family

Scream

Mood disorder

Rustling

10

Cope with

Sniffle

11

Freak

Prescription drug

12

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The Sixth Sense (vocabulary)

Chuckle

Cursed

19

13

Bumblebee pendant

Groaning

20

14

Creak

Whispering

21

15

Panting

Giggle

16

22

Squealing

Chatter

23

17

Clatter

Stutter

24

18

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Quotes from The Sixth Sense

Do you know why you're afraid when you are alone?

Don't you know me, hero?

I don't want to be afraid no more.

You failed me!

I see dead people. (...) All the time

Cole File

#3

#2

#1

Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Sixth Sense

All of the clothes Malcolm wears during the film are items he wore or touched the evening before his death, which included his overcoat, his blue rowing sweatshirt and the different layers of his suit.

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Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Sixth Sense

Notice how the the camera zooms slowly towards Malcolm's face after Cole says, "I see dead people" here. The filmmakers initially feared this would be too much of a giveaway as to Malcolm's erm, state, but they decided to leave it in after none of the audiences in the test screenings picked up on it.

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Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Sixth Sense

Willis practiced writing with his right hand (he's actually a southpaw) for a scene in which a close up shows him scribbling away. The reason? He didn't want to reveal that his wedding band was missing (as is worn on the left, traditionally). The wedding band is, of course, a vital part of the climactic ending and is dropped by his wife as she falls asleep, showing it was taken off when he died and presumably given to her. Chronologically it is last seen on Malcolm as he lies bleeding, in this late scene, pictured..

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Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Sixth Sense

The temperature drops only when a ghost gets upset. The only time Willis gets worked up is at the end, which is why Olivia Williams' breath gets frosty.

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CHARACTERS

Dr. Malcolm Crowe

Cole's mother

Cole Sear

RALPH KINGSTON

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