In one of his last big roles, action star Bruce Willis gave M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero trilogy a great finale with Glass. Today the film is on TV.
Bruce Willis is considered one of the biggest stars of action cinema thanks to films like Die Hard. His contributions to the superhero genre are sometimes almost forgotten. After all, since Unbreakable, he has played a unique superhero in M. Night Shyamalan’s (The Sixth Sense) trilogy of the same name. Today, her final part Glass is on TV.
On TV: Marvel can take a cue from Bruce Willis’ last big role
As in the predecessors Unbreakable and Split, Willis embodies the everyman David Dunn in the film, who discovers his proverbial unbreakability after a catastrophe. In Glass, he goes up against the punished Kevin (James McAvoy) with 23 different personalities, who is also joined by Dunn’s arch-nemesis Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson returns.
Willis, in his last major role before career exit, shows DC and Marvel once again where the superhero:in hammer hangs. Dunn is a broken role model and glorious normal citizen all in one. He suffers from his otherness but accepts his burden with a great sense of duty and equally great vulnerability.
Without Willis’ Unbreakable role model, hero:inside characters like Christopher Nolan’s Batman would hardly be possible. And many a too shallow Marvel fighter could do with a touch of Dunn’s character depth. He will probably never return, but Glass is a worthy memorial to him. As well as to the talent of Bruce Willis.
