How to End a Movie with an Epilogue - 8 Techniques Behind the Best Film Endings

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

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  • @StudioBinder
    @StudioBinder  2 года назад +21

    Chapters:
    00:00 - Introduction to Epilogues
    00:52 - Epilogue Definition & History
    03:27 - Epilogue Types & Functions
    08:24 - Creative Exceptions
    11:02 - Takeaways

    • @markhenzel4637
      @markhenzel4637 2 года назад +1

      Please do Michael Bay Directing Style please? I hope to learn it

  • @AtotheDamn
    @AtotheDamn Год назад +47

    "when you're ready to write the next great screenplay..." I love how encouraging StudioBinder has been and remains towards the ambitions of those interested in all aspects of film.

  • @blurryface616
    @blurryface616 2 года назад +96

    Schindler's List has one of greatest epilogues in cinematic history. Very emotional.

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 2 года назад +9

      can't watch it without crying

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +11

      An amazing one for sure

    • @thewhitewolf58
      @thewhitewolf58 2 года назад +2

      It shits on the drama and ruins the pace.

  • @joaquinhernandez6940
    @joaquinhernandez6940 2 года назад +96

    The epilogue of Martin Scorsese's "Casino" shows Ace's voiceover of how he laments modern Vegas, while the old casinos are demolished and replaced with the new ones we recognize today, which he describes as Disneyland before the final image shows him looking at the audience, breaking the 4th wall non-verbally.

  • @hii9918
    @hii9918 2 года назад +63

    I agree , not every story demands an epilogue. However, for story based on real life, real events , epilogue is as important as the climax of the scene. As the story based on real events, often narrates a particular event, epilogue plays an important aspect to cover the remaining part.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +7

      Agreed, either way execution has to be perfect!

  • @cjtrules1
    @cjtrules1 Год назад +21

    Just watching the few seconds of Schindler's List epilogue got me in tears. That's when you know it's truly incredible.

  • @spinsandneedles
    @spinsandneedles 2 года назад +11

    Unforgiven has a beautiful epilogue as William Munny disappears from his prairie home to Clint Eastwood's moving score. Thank you for all the great scenes but mostly - thank you filmmakers!

  • @uuuuuuuuuhhhhhh
    @uuuuuuuuuhhhhhh 2 года назад +15

    This channel is so amazingly quality and consistent, the amount of information you can gather from watching, and not just this video but the archive StudioBinder has created is immense. This can be a huge in the creation of something that I am very passionate about. Hats of to you.

  • @asherphoenix75
    @asherphoenix75 2 года назад +11

    A few of my favorite epilogues are found in Fanny and Alexander (1984), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Sacrifice (1986), Hard to Be a God (2013), and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

  • @jonathangriffin8060
    @jonathangriffin8060 2 года назад +25

    Excellent video!! I have written a high school comedy involving eight nerd characters and described the future of all eight nerds using the "on-screen text" epilogue as an homage to my favorite films "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "Can't Hardly Wait" that also use this form of the video's title.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +2

      Congrats on finishing the script!

  • @chriswright4677
    @chriswright4677 2 года назад +3

    Cous-cous, roast peppers, chicken and a brand new Studio Binder episode? Class, as always. Thank you.

  • @Ayogenius67
    @Ayogenius67 2 года назад +5

    This is the only RUclips channel I watch while noting 📖down,am an indie film maker in🇺🇬we have no film schools ,the day u drop a video it’s wen my lesson begins. Thanks studio binder u have gained a part in my life, I shall to about wen every time I will win any award to even oscars 💪🏿only greatness to drop more and more videos,I complete my semester

  • @achuthh5286
    @achuthh5286 2 года назад +16

    Thank you for the amazing content.
    Wishing Studio Binder all the success ahead.

  • @snehitm3516
    @snehitm3516 Год назад +3

    Epilogues can make the audience thirsty for more story, provide closure or leave them with utter confusion. I really wish 'American Psycho' had an epilogue. I still don't understand what happened at the end. Great video by the way. Thoroughly enjoy the movie examples and narration is top notch. Thank you StudioBinder.

  • @Lotsolov4u
    @Lotsolov4u 2 года назад +10

    A video describing the different film genres and film types (such as road movie, hiest film, buddy film etc) would be very appreciated

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +4

      Thanks for the suggestion!

    • @FallRiverFlint
      @FallRiverFlint Год назад

      Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/rDVVE8ZHJ3o/видео.html

  • @lokesh6734
    @lokesh6734 2 года назад +2

    Once upon a time in Hollywood epilogue cigarette add is one of my favourite

  • @disisfunny88
    @disisfunny88 Год назад +1

    Could we see the legend behind this amazing voice

  • @kyisoethaungmust2414
    @kyisoethaungmust2414 2 года назад +5

    I can't thank you enough for your great effort and good will to share such valuable knowledge.

  • @zunaidparker
    @zunaidparker Год назад +30

    Surprised you left out Lord of the Rings Return of the King which famously had like 6 endings.

    • @cjtrules1
      @cjtrules1 Год назад +8

      Yeah that is when an epilogue is done wrong, which is no fault of Peter Jackson IMO. The book just had so many plot points to wrap up at the end.

    • @nathangoedeke694
      @nathangoedeke694 Год назад +1

      @@cjtrules1 Ironically Peter Jackson CUT OUT part of the ending when Saruman took over the Shire and had to be defeated again

    • @cjtrules1
      @cjtrules1 Год назад +1

      @@nathangoedeke694 I know. The Scouring of the Shire really has no narrative significance, especially when you are at the end of such a long movie already. All the other ending scenes were more important.

  • @ablazedark
    @ablazedark 2 года назад +3

    the epilogues of "gomorra" and "lord of war" were pretty chilling and memorable, for me.

  • @jorgetisera22
    @jorgetisera22 2 года назад +6

    Greatest 33 seconds of my life

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +1

      just 33 seconds?

    • @jorgetisera22
      @jorgetisera22 2 года назад

      @@StudioBinder I commented when you just released the video. I wanted to comment something hahah

  • @vicentecampos2893
    @vicentecampos2893 Год назад +1

    I must say I love epilogues. Great video again.

  • @idreamofgenie2599
    @idreamofgenie2599 2 года назад +2

    "Blood Debts": Best epilogue ever! :D

  • @inglizlan
    @inglizlan 6 месяцев назад

    The epilogue of "Memories of Murder" was one of the best I've seen.

  • @TheWrathfulSlayer
    @TheWrathfulSlayer 2 года назад +4

    To do a good epilogue is that there is an impact to what the epilogue means but more importantly what it represents!! This could be words or images used in a symbolic manner!!

  • @tturnquest1
    @tturnquest1 2 года назад +2

    Hellboy (2019) is a perfect example of how you do an epilogue wrong. But every movies in the video are great examples of how you do an epilogue right.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +1

      Got to study the good and the bad!

  • @MorningThief_
    @MorningThief_ Год назад +1

    it's no a movie -- but my favourite epilogue was with Band of Brothers.
    you've spent 8 episodes hearing these old men telling stories of the war & what it was like thinking they were just the other characters in Easy Company -- only to find that THEY WERE the characters in the show.
    i very much look forward to watching that final episode, as much i always look forward to watching Band of Brothers once a year during the holidays. (a personal tradition of mine) -- then i put on Saving Private Ryan straight after.

  • @jtmmprints.r.l3529
    @jtmmprints.r.l3529 2 года назад +1

    The epilogue of Intouchables (2011), the first time I saw the movie, I was very surprised, i did not expect it

  • @Chronic102
    @Chronic102 2 года назад +7

    Top notch! As always. Thanks a lot. Your videos are so inspiring! And does it mean that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has a twisted Epilogue? Because we know the real outcome to the story. Or is it a different thing?

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      Don't know if there's an official term for OUATIH ending, but overall we can call the film a revisionist history film, like a lot of Tarantino's work

  • @backbenchers3547
    @backbenchers3547 2 года назад +2

    hey!! StudioBinder it's a reminder , please start your podcast channel as we are ready for some long epilogues now!!😅😅

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      we'll let everyone know if it happens ;)

  • @MagneticDonut
    @MagneticDonut 2 года назад +4

    Thank you guys as always

  • @bigbrainsupreme8106
    @bigbrainsupreme8106 2 года назад +2

    You spoiled absolutely loads of movies with this one, I'm impressed

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      haha that's why we listed them all first

  • @afrosymphony8207
    @afrosymphony8207 Год назад

    i was today years old when i found out bladerunner had an epilogue lool. when i saw the scene you showed i was like wait wtf i've watched that movie about 5 times now and i never saw that end scene. i mean the fact that ridley decided to remove it from the remastered director's cut which is what i watched reallly shows how endings can completely elevate an entire movie. i mean my gaud, ridley's ending reallly makes the movie, its sooo damn good.

  • @Deep-Travel
    @Deep-Travel 2 года назад +1

    As usual the best film education in the youtubesphere.

  • @filmstuff6781
    @filmstuff6781 Год назад +2

    Additional information at the end of a film
    Types-
    i) on screen-text
    ii) voice over
    iii) montage
    iv)one final scene
    v) add closure
    vi) set up sequel

  • @cacomartin
    @cacomartin 2 года назад +2

    Brilliant as always 👏👏👏👏

  • @firemanmediagroup568
    @firemanmediagroup568 2 года назад +3

    Great channel ever

  • @nicl.715
    @nicl.715 Год назад +3

    Would you count the newsreel after the wedding in „The Incredibles“ as an epilogue? It is quite early in the film but it seperates two time periods and wraps up the era of heros. It also ends with the phrase „Where are they now?“ so this seems to me very much like an epilogue even though it happens very early.

  • @Aziz_reports
    @Aziz_reports 2 года назад +1

    Thanks so much from Algeria 🇩🇿

  • @daudiiCreates
    @daudiiCreates 2 года назад +3

    loving the "We will be spoling the following movies"😂😂
    But I believe majority have been watched by cine fans,only discovering ones we didn't know off

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      just being responsible content creators haha

  • @kalakritistudios
    @kalakritistudios 2 года назад +1

    0:45 You spoiled Morbius for me! You morb'd me of its ending!!

  • @imageofimagination3079
    @imageofimagination3079 2 года назад +3

    Please make a video on sound effects and how they designed The sound in the movie TENET
    I think more than INCEPTION , TENET is full of sound EFFECTS. A major job is done by sound in storytelling

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      we go over sound in our analysis of tenet's fight scenes in this video! ruclips.net/video/3OYR2suViVY/видео.html

  • @evangelinecubias2209
    @evangelinecubias2209 Год назад

    Can you please please please do a video on the cinematography of Severance?? It’s so good I would love a video from you guys

  • @2099Ai
    @2099Ai 2 года назад +4

    This was hilarious and inspiring. It would be great to make a movie

  • @SandyinYoutube
    @SandyinYoutube Год назад

    Avengers Endgame's epilogue, is the best!! ❤️

  • @Not_So_Slim_Shady
    @Not_So_Slim_Shady Год назад

    I got really excited when I head Dewy Cox start playing

  • @mashmallowx
    @mashmallowx Год назад

    Great video. All I can think of is squid game's final scene epilogue! Hooked even till the last minute.

  • @AdriOfTheDead
    @AdriOfTheDead Год назад

    That five second post-credits bit with Bruce Campbell was better than the entirety of Multiverse of Madness

  • @mixbard1108
    @mixbard1108 2 года назад +2

    I love your videos.

  • @jesusbravo6858
    @jesusbravo6858 2 года назад +1

    Stand by me's epilogue killed me

  • @leonmayne797
    @leonmayne797 2 года назад +1

    Love the post credit scene of the Abraham Lincoln biopic when he wakes up in 2012. They definitely thought they were getting a sequel.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад

      haha

    • @samuelbarber6177
      @samuelbarber6177 Год назад

      What did you expect? He became immortal when he started fighting the vampires.

  • @clausvergara9702
    @clausvergara9702 2 года назад +1

    Fantastic!!!

  • @SanthoshKumar-bv1pu
    @SanthoshKumar-bv1pu Год назад

    Please explain about claustrophobic framing.

  • @soylentgreen4033
    @soylentgreen4033 2 года назад +1

    you made it again, i have to watch movies agin i have mist everuthing

  • @prann9212
    @prann9212 Год назад

    great information superb

  • @milovarquiel
    @milovarquiel 2 года назад +1

    That RedLetterMedia callout was gold!!

  • @bollywoodfightactionreacti9189
    @bollywoodfightactionreacti9189 2 года назад +1

    Superb video I like it 😊

  • @deep_bhai_94
    @deep_bhai_94 2 года назад +1

    ✨SIR ✨⚡ VIDEO ke starting mai Jo studio binder present Animation aata hai use kaise creat kare please guide...

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад

      Definitely plan on making a vid on animation!

  • @taybeats997mw
    @taybeats997mw 2 года назад +1

    You Just updated my brain

  • @jermeycombs3602
    @jermeycombs3602 2 года назад +1

    Can you Guys make 2 Videos on Camara Movement and the reason behind such as building a emotional tension, realease tension and Dramatic tension. Also, Motivational and Unmotivated Camara Movement.

  • @tavishmankash1888
    @tavishmankash1888 2 года назад +1

    Have a great day!

  • @yassinebenyamina4861
    @yassinebenyamina4861 2 года назад +1

    Can't believe Studio Binder didn't warn us about the Bohemian Rhapsody spoilers 😤😤

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад

      Sorry!

    • @Malik-Ibi
      @Malik-Ibi Год назад

      Is it a joke? It is based on real events and on Freddy Mercury

    • @yassinebenyamina4861
      @yassinebenyamina4861 Год назад

      @@Malik-Ibi yeah I'm being sarcastic lol

    • @Malik-Ibi
      @Malik-Ibi Год назад

      @@yassinebenyamina4861 on your mind, not on writing

  • @kalakritistudios
    @kalakritistudios 2 года назад +3

    6:54 I keep forgetting that Robert Downey Jr. is still alive.😂

  • @Xyabra
    @Xyabra Год назад

    Best epilogue:
    Titanfall series
    After fighting a bad between your team
    and the other team
    whoever lose has to escape on the ship before it leaves.
    No grunts around, no more respawns, just one final thing before ending the game.
    Either stay alive, escape the battlefield, destroy the escape ship or kill the remaining soldiers with the resources available.
    It's the clearest ways of knowing that the game has ended, and like the old phare goes
    "the fight is not over" because that is war

  • @Osmone_Everony
    @Osmone_Everony 2 года назад +1

    Oh btw, are you going to make an episode about the prolog, too? What are the pros and cons about a prolog?

  • @Lonelyeco
    @Lonelyeco 2 года назад +4

    Almost every Black film in the 90's had an epilogue. And accompanied with music.

  • @cinemanuggets24
    @cinemanuggets24 2 года назад +1

    How do u differentiate between an epilogue and a denouement?

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      They're different parts of the story, we directly address the distinction in our article! www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-an-epilogue-definition/

  • @user-pc8tb7hg1lHandlesRDumb
    @user-pc8tb7hg1lHandlesRDumb Год назад

    great video, great examples. blood debts XD

  • @carlosamfabila4858
    @carlosamfabila4858 2 года назад +1

    2:09 Best scene in cinema history

    • @RanchHog
      @RanchHog 2 года назад +2

      7:09 best ending to a movie I’ve ever seen

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад

      iconic

  • @SonyEnthusiast
    @SonyEnthusiast 2 года назад +6

    Blade Runner 💪

  • @FallRiverFlint
    @FallRiverFlint Год назад

    ...and Goodfellas epilogue 🙌

  • @CelebritySoulakaZeeshan
    @CelebritySoulakaZeeshan 2 года назад +1

    Watching from Pakistan

  • @linuxtuxfriend9155
    @linuxtuxfriend9155 Год назад

    I think there were bloopers in the epilogue of some movies, but I can't come up with movies that have them right now.

  • @ocyetnot491
    @ocyetnot491 2 года назад +1

    Araraga koyomi from #monogatari series taught me what an epilogue is.....

  • @Osmone_Everony
    @Osmone_Everony 2 года назад +2

    Now I wonder how many epilogs I may have missed, because I always stop watching a movie when the credits roll in. 🤔

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +1

      we've all probably missed a few

  • @manningup4851
    @manningup4851 Год назад

    Difference with and ending and an epilogue? Always thought epilogue meant before the ending. Like joker hanging off from Batman and making his speech, then goes on to the ending

  • @markhenzel4637
    @markhenzel4637 2 года назад +1

    Please do Michael Bay Directing Style please? I hope to learn it

  • @NucleusMediaMalayalam
    @NucleusMediaMalayalam Год назад

    Sir big fan of your works🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @itstonycia
    @itstonycia 2 года назад +1

    I’m thinking of all the black family movies that love a feel-good epilogue lol

  • @samuelbarber6177
    @samuelbarber6177 Год назад

    I always get a little annoyed whenever I see a textual epilogue in a biopic. It’s just such a cliché to me now. The best one I’ve seen is probably Schindler’s List, because that actually felt in-keeping with the rest of the film, and the final sequence is probably my favourite scene in the whole movie. It does work, but a lot of movies really didn’t need them, Elvis for instance, and I’m glad that movies like Oppenheimer, The Irishman and some other biopics don’t use them.
    Some of my favourite epilogues include: Goodfellas, Casino, The Avengers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather Part II, and Zodiac.

  • @jeffryancarlson3273
    @jeffryancarlson3273 2 года назад +1

    Subtitle please. Thank you.

  • @mksharuentertainment7386
    @mksharuentertainment7386 2 года назад +1

    Studio binder please make a video on RRR 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @jananiganesh94
    @jananiganesh94 Год назад

    Wait, I just have a doubt. What's the difference between a denouement and an epilogue?

  • @InformantNet
    @InformantNet Год назад

    Thank you for telling us what movies you'll be spoiling! Other channels, like WhatCulture, just spring the spoilers out of nowhere! I have to watch them with my finger on the spacebar. So effing annoying.

  • @llIlllllIll
    @llIlllllIll 2 года назад +8

    finally an episode where I don't have to watch 5 movies first to not get it spoiled

    • @howardron543
      @howardron543 2 года назад

      Getting movies spoiled is the best way to decide if its worth watching or not

    • @llIlllllIll
      @llIlllllIll 2 года назад

      @@howardron543 some are not worth watching after being spoiled

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +1

      we do use a lot of examples haha

    • @llIlllllIll
      @llIlllllIll 2 года назад

      @@StudioBinder I probably watched like 20 films already just so I can watch all of your videos, I don't regret it :)

  • @unclemick-synths
    @unclemick-synths Год назад +1

    Yep, some epilogues are so meh. Sometimes the final shot of the dénouement merely showing that the hero(ine) survived/died is all that's needed.

  • @erikbihari3625
    @erikbihari3625 2 года назад +1

    I thought abe is the only one. Hellboy was seriously this confident?

  • @rangamech1394
    @rangamech1394 2 года назад +1

    0:54

  • @thewhitewolf58
    @thewhitewolf58 2 года назад +1

    Honestly i feel they rob us of the delious mysterious of what happens next. Thus murdering the film by taking away the drama. A great film ends by cutting mid sentance 1 word away from answering a great question in the film. Its simply delicous like a fine cooked mood.

  • @CarletonTorpin
    @CarletonTorpin 2 года назад +1

    3:59 - What’s a good name for when a director like Ron Howard outright lies with the text of their “true story” epilogue title card?

    • @canaisyoung3601
      @canaisyoung3601 2 года назад +2

      Lying? Artistic license? I don't know.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  2 года назад +1

      I don't think there's a term for that 😅

    • @CarletonTorpin
      @CarletonTorpin 2 года назад

      @@StudioBinder I'll go with Anti-Historical :)

  • @Shotty262
    @Shotty262 2 года назад +1

    Oh my god he moved to CANADA

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      who?

    • @Shotty262
      @Shotty262 Год назад

      @@StudioBinder in the somewhat sorrow epilogue for American Graffiti it states two of them died, one got a job and the other moved to Canada. Which is sorrowful in itself.

  • @mksharuentertainment7386
    @mksharuentertainment7386 2 года назад +1

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  • @Theweekndin
    @Theweekndin Год назад

    Lala land ✨💫

  • @connorsvoes6035
    @connorsvoes6035 Год назад

    In Weird Al Yankovich, the epilogue wasn't clear at all. It's very difficult to tell if it's true story or not

  • @AjaxDGonzo
    @AjaxDGonzo Год назад

    Is it wrong to think that generally prologues are better than epilogues? I’m genuinely asking.

  • @tobiaslooser
    @tobiaslooser 2 года назад

    This is an epilogue:
    ruclips.net/video/lga1_RLztFQ/видео.html

  • @humbertocellig
    @humbertocellig Год назад

    I don't why but always with Back to the Futute 3, I felt there was an open door for a 4th film. What do you think? guys

  • @captainjakemerica4579
    @captainjakemerica4579 2 года назад

    That epilogue in The Avengers wasn't bad horseshit

  • @huangjun_art
    @huangjun_art Год назад

    This, and especially the final point made in this video, are why I can't stand Marvel movies anymore.
    Just finish the damn story, instead of making people sit through 10 minutes of credits,
    to watch a scene they most of the times can only understand when they look up the 'post-credit scene explained' videos on RUclips.
    Like Nolan and Snyder say; Either put it in the movie, or don't put it on at all.

  • @harinarayanan9042
    @harinarayanan9042 2 года назад +1

    @studiobinder - can't see the subtitles 😒