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• M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay with Mark Wahlberg specifically in mind for the lead role.
  
  
• M. Night Shyamalan's first film to have an R rating.
  
  
• According to director M. Night Shyamalan, 85% of this movie takes place outside.
  
  
• The film took 44 days to shoot, which began on August 6, 2007. This is exactly eight years to the day since the start of production of The Sixth Sense (1999).
  
  
• The movie was shot completely in sequence.
  
  
• Bystander Apathy is an actual psychological phenomenon with a strong theoretical and evidential base.
  
  
• Pyrethrins are a neurotoxin derived from the Chrysanthemum plants, specifically those native to Australia. This toxin is commonly found in common organic insecticides to eradicate pests. At one point Elliot talks about primordial bacteria in Australia killing off fishermen. Pyrethrins are highly toxic to bees.
  
  
• The answer to Julian's math riddle, with the average month having 30 days, is $10,737,418.23.
  
  
• 7 out of 9 named characters starts with "J".
  
  
• After the climax of this film, just after Alma reads the result of her pregnancy test the camera goes to her face. Looking closely at her camera left eye you can see that it appears to be in the shape of a heart. However, if you zoom in you see that an overhead light is reflecting off her eye giving the heart shape appearance. If you zoom in on her other eye you see that it takes the shape of a heart right before the next scene - but you also see the overhead light.
  
  
• After the students' hypotheses about the bee disappearance: global warming and atomic/bio/chemical contamination. The nuclear and greenhouse "plants" are symbolic of these theories - literally facing one another in Filbert, PA.
  
  
• This is the first film by M. Night Shyamalan in which he does not physically appear for a cameo; instead he is the voice of 'Joey', who calls Alma a couple times throughout the movie but we never actually see him or learn of his fate.
  
  

• SPOILER: At the end, Jess is shown putting on a The Last Airbender (2010) backpack and her school bus has the number 2010 written on the front, references to M. Night Shyamalan's next movie.
  
  

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