20 Things You Didn't Know About The Sixth Sense

18. The Original Profession Of Malcolm

The Sixth Sense
Buena Vista

Clearly, the key element of The Sixth Sense is the relationship between Malcolm Crowe and young Cole Sear.

Cole is an extremely troubled child whose mother is struggling to handle him, and it’s Bruce Willis’ Malcolm who ultimately swoops in to save the day by trying to connect with Cole and find out what’s really tormenting him.

To establish this relationship between Malcolm and Cole, the Malcolm character is a child psychologist. But that wasn’t always the case.

In the early drafts of The Sixth Sense, Malcolm Crowe was actually a crime scene photographer. Making him a child psychologist, of course, makes the ties to Cole far more logical than if Malcolm was indeed snapping pictures at crime scenes.

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