End It Well: Good Movies Ruined by Poor Endings
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So, for all those budding screen writers and the film makers that keep committing cardinal sins when wrapping up films, here are some tips.
Don’t rush the end but know when to leave it alone – we don’t want to know what the character did for the rest of their life just the end of the story you’re telling us. Don’t make it too confusing, if you can’t explain it clearly don’t attempt to be clever – for every The Usual Suspects there’s a Revolver.
Don’t make your main character to something completely against grain and nature just to wrap things up or attempt a twist – “oh he turned out to be evil” is not a twist.
Give the audience a payoff, they’ve spent upwards of two hours on an uncomfortable chair watching this story they don’t want to see someone merely shrug the events off as an attempt at a symbolic gesture and
