'The Happening' Video

'The Happening' Video Transcript

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>> The new movie "The Happening" focuses on the pandemic threat that begins in New York City. It opens Friday, June 13. Writer-Director M. Night Shyamalan and the film's casts spoke with CNET about whether human impact on the environment can make what happens in the film a reality.

>> We lost contact.

>> With whom?

>> Everyone.

>> Do you feel that there's this need for address to change in a way that humans are interacting with the environment and were there any underlying messages that you hope to instill on the viewers that watch the film.

>> You know, we're getting our report card right now for the last whatever it is since industrialization has began and half the people are deciding whether they believe it or not and half the people are going, oh, my god! ^M00:00:46 [ Siren ] ^M00:00:48

>> This is our generation's chance to crack the trajectory of where we're going, you know. We can't just keep taking, taking, taking without any repercussion, so it's something that was on my mind and on the minds of everybody in my generation.

>> Considering the gigantic role that the environment plays in this film, were there any decisions or steps that you've taken or encouraged other people to take prior to shooting the film to be more green-friendly or...

>> How can you not and I'm not going crazy, you know, 'cause, you know I still drive a big car, you know, I got things that I got to work on, but certainly doing my own part at home. Turning the lights off when I walk out the door, certainly, instilling that to my children. The only thing I hope 'cause I'm an avid golfer and I always hit a bad shot and take a big chunk of [inaudible] and I hope that -- hope mother nature's okay with golf 'cause I do have a huge appreciation for nature when I'm out there.

>> We did do the little things, you know. Almost all the cars in the movie that we use were hybrids and we did like, you know, small thing, you know like the crew gift was a recyclable plastic water container that everybody had on their hips while they were making the movie instead of having 75 bottles of Evian water and keep on turning the plastic bottles that you know, we refresh it from a tank.

>> It's interesting the small things that you can do. It's not as if you need to like, take giant leaps and bounds to make a huge difference. If everyone just did little things.

>> Right, right. You just got to watch your...

>> It's just like -- yeah.

>> [Inaudible] footprints, just to make it as small...

>> Yeah.

>> As possible. Instead of like tossing everything in the garbage all the time, make everything reusable. That's ideal -- my acting.

>> Yeah.

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