出生于印度的导演奈特·沙马兰是当代好莱坞的一个外来者。然而,他不仅成功进入好莱坞体制,还具有强烈的个人风格。以其前期最重要的四部作品为例,挖掘类型电影的成规和作者的表达以及两者对话、融合、共生的方式,肯定了类型电影对作者创作产生的积极作用,并反观个人在类型电影中自身表达的空间及其价值所在。同时,在发展类型电影是民族电影市场化出路的时代背景中,如何在文本层面兼顾电影的商业性和艺术性,沙马兰的创作经验也能给人以启示。
India-born American auteur M. Night Shyamalan is an intruder in contemporary Hollywood. However, he is well-established not only in the Hollywood system, but also with strong personal style. Based on the research into his four most important early films, the paper probes into the underlying rules of his genre films, auteur expressions as well as the ways of dialogue, convergence and symbiosis between the two, affirms the positive effect that "genre" has exerted on "auteur", and verifies the space of an auteur's personal expressions and its values in genre films. Shyamalan sets up a successful example of a young migrant entering Hollywood. On top of that, in the era that the development of genre film is a promising outlet of the marketization of national films, Shyamalan's experience sheds light on how to balance commercial and artistic values at the textual level.