I love the ending of the Matrix. 1) It "calls" back to the very beginning, the machines listening through the phoneline. 2) It sums up the new status quo, The One is here, and things are going to be different now, and 3) It creates a wonderful stand-alone ending (that probably should have been left at that) but leaves so much room for the future of the characters and world.
The theatrical version of Terminator 2's ending always struck a chord with me. Not the one with old Sarah and grown up John but the one with a voice over on a dark road. "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope."
Sarah Connor: The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
Loved that ending and the story as a whole when I was a kid, but as an adult understanding story structure, I realized the film did a great job turning a souless machine into the best father figure John needed to become who he was destined to be.
Favorite ending dialogue is from "Gone With the Wind." Scarlet pleads with Rhett asking "What shall I do? Where shall I go?" and he responds "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." I also like the last moment from the original "Back to the Future". Marty tells Doc there isn't enough road to get to 88 mph and Doc calmly replies "Where we're going we don't need roads."
I've never watched this movie but there is this song (Funky Sundays - Adhesive Wombat), where the only "lyric" is exactly the sentence from your comment obviously sampled, 35 seconds into the song. Thank you for posting this comment, it just made the song way better than it already was (I recommend anyone to check it btw).
The thing that made the Lord of The Rings trilogy great was that nobody else could have wrote it. Each of the Characters in the series was a personality that Tolkien knew from his time in the trenches. Frodo represented his struggle with ptsd, Sam the undying bond and selflessness of fellow soldiers, Aragorn a Leader that kept the men together and their fear at bay, Boromir the soldier who honored his oath and fought against all odds. There is so much from Tolkiens experience in WW1 written into tha characters that I understand now after my service than when I read it as a child that was so far over my head. Tolkien was fleshing many of his own demons out in that story and it resonated because although it was fiction, it was grounded in a dark reality.
Except Tolkien explicitly said that his work was not an allegory and especially not an allegory of the world wars.Except Tolkien explicitly said that his work was not an allegory and especially not an allegory of the world wars. Tolkien preferred what he called "applicability", the power of the reader to interpret. An allegory is fixed and has one meaning, but using the process of applicability allows the reader to create sense with their own understanding. Which is what you did, you put sense into the story, but Tolkien never wrote his book with the intention of making it a depiction of the world war. Tolkien was first and foremost inspired by ancient sagas and epics, and his whole legendarium is voluntarily archaic and old-fashioned.
Minor spoiler warning for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl": Johnny Depp's recitation of the pirate song lines at the end of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a favorite bit of ending dialogue of mine because it establishes a sort of "Everything's finally good now, on to new adventures!" vibe.
{Spoilers for anyone who wants to watch Godzilla planet eater} The ending words conveyed by Haruo the main character of the Netflix Godzilla trilogy I thought were fantastic, in the end Haruo realized that he could not kill Godzilla. So he decided that if he could not kill him he would charge at him with the only operational vulture (a type of Mecha) and end his part of the long crusade of suffering Godzilla had caused him.
@TheStinkyPoopooHeadz Yeah, knowing your ending helps. Still, it's hard to come up with an ending that's clever and satisfying if you haven't figured out the rest of the story. Writing. What a nightmare.
I love how the first Godfather ended. The dialogue between Michael and Kay shows how much the characters and their relationship have changed. It's both heartbreaking and chilling.
Oh gosh I have to say James Cameron's AVATAR (1) has a brilliant tribal song & ritual calling to their deity to accept the protagonist's body into his new one. Even before that was a clever line about 'birthdays' because he would essentially be killed and reborn if the ritual works. My favourite movie hands down. Endings are quite emotional it makes you love and hate writing them.
Great vlog, Brandon! Very helpful information - not only for the ending of one's novel - but also for the endings of individual chapters. I love it when the protagonist's (or narrator's) words leave the audience wondering "what's going to happen next?"
It’s going to take a day for all this to sink in. Great material by the way. End it by a “what’s next ?” type of scenario, leaving the audience guessing and thinking 🤔 💭 This is what I need to wrap up this movie idea 🎥 💡 I am working on about politics and multiverses.
Dredd: "She's a pass." Concludes the hero's journey for both Dredd and Anderson, shows how he has changed due to the adventure and gives a glimpse into the new future where she's a judge and he's less, well, judgmental, lol. Awesome movie, awesome ending. Edit: I realized it's not that good an example. The last words of the movie are some voiceover narration about the city and the work of the judges. The "She's a pass" dialogue wouldn't work as final words, I guess because they're still part of the story. They create the new situation rather than commenting on it. The narration adds some buffer between the story and the closing credits without which the ending would be too abrupt.
Hearing at ~9:54 "the fellowship started as a group of 10" was like nails on a chalkboard to me. haha. There was a lot of significance to the number 9 throughout the books and movies.
I’d like to see you do a good and bad for specifically dialogue ending reveals. The sixth sense is a good example of just the right amount of talking to give you the reveals without overdoing it. Everyone knows Show don’t tell. But for a reveal, a certain amount of telling is often needed. The Shawshank redemption is one example of a movie that had a very successful reveal that involved a lot of talking in its ending. So I’d like you to go in detail about what works. Why do some movie reveals still work with a lot of talking? If you know of any, Show some examples of how action might have substituted for more obvious explaining moments where there was an in-depth reveal. Show what keeps a good reveal from sounding too much like exposition or too on the nose. For my money it’s emotion and surprise of the unexpected. But I’d like to see your examples how best to deliver on those two things or anything else that works…And what kind of mistakes we should avoid. - and on the subject of Shawshank, When is narration a good idea or a bad idea?
First, there was NEVER anything wrong with Narration. It's just when it gets over used, leaned on like a crutch, or done poorly that creates problems... Good Narration delivers insight that you're just NOT going to get elsewhere or otherwise. When moving from a Novel to a Movie, it's how you put the intangible thoughts and emotional context to a scene where it's legitimately impossible to do better than "ambiguous reference" in the visual medium. This is NOT a crutch on which you can support piss poor acting and/or directing! 1984 "Dune", did it both well and poorly. If you read the book, the Narration helped "keep it true" but was practically unnecessary noise. If you hadn't, it was only occasionally as important as they employed it... AND on both accounts, whispering the thoughts as "bad voice over" had its own dubious effect on the whole thing. It was particularly off-set because you were invited into the thoughts of certain characters and utterly detached from others, regardless of their importance through the movie... BUT that's as much a Style question as a Quality question... Shawshank did it well, peppering in entirely Red's thoughts as he was assigned to tell the story. It didn't seem to rely on the Narration, and if left out it wouldn't suddenly become a worse movie for it, just a little less insightful or interesting. The whole rest of the aspects of cinema were employed just as well, BUT it DID contribute those insights, becoming a ubiquitous and thereby acceptable part of the film's palette. You (the audience) got a little more than was even possible to present on the screen... like Andy's occasional victories among defeats against "The Sisters"... Boggs never walking or eating solid food after his beating... and proposing the question/hope of the Warden wondering how Andy got the better of him just before he shot himself... and then the background for all that... The early hey-day of detective and spy movies in Film Noire is arguably peppered with Narration that goes both ways. It's part of the charm that we frequently parody or mock outright about the genre. Some examples help explain how the Detective-protagonist thinks, or offers insights to the villain's operations and motivation... Others use cheesy expletives and jargon more to sound like you're getting nuance or insight, but largely just adds the Narration because "that's what detective and spy movies have"... AND "The Peeper" (which WAS intended as parody) is a great example of exactly that... adding more comedy than anything... SO I'd hazard that IF you're doing a reveal that's fairly straight forward, and you don't really need any nuance to be explained... say, a betrayal for old fashioned greed, for example... THEN you don't really need any narration for it. If you have something more intense BUT requires some kind of presentation of thoughts or emotional context, then Narration can save you and the audience time and ambiguity... like all the little nuances that would've required some kind of montage EACH throughout Shawshank... Context is important and all, but it always takes time to build that Context, and time can be a very precious resource. You just want to be careful as you work it out, one way or the other, that you're not substituting the Narrative insights for something you COULD show more effectively another way... Otherwise, just remember, you're NOT going to please Everybody... someone's always going to find a flaw. ;o)
I always loved the last scene of Patton. The script originally called for a shot of Patton's grave in Luxembourg, with a camera pulling out to reveal him laid to rest with thousands of his soldiers. They wisely abandoned that instead for a shot of the General walking off into the countryside, telling the story of how Roman emperors returned from the wars, taking part in triumphal parades, clad in ceremonial robes, with a slave on the chariot with him, whispering the warning to him that "all glory is fleeting."
I don't recall the precise verbage, but the ending of Die Hard, when Godenov bursts through the door and takes everyone off-guard, 'gun-shy' Al just puts a bullet into him, surprising even himself. This solidified the bond between Al and McClain who, had only been voices on the radios.
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (c) 1953 --> Ending lines: He spoke quietly into the receiver. "This is 007 speaking. This is an open line. It's an emergency. Can you hear me? ...Pass this on at once: 3030 was a double, working for Redland... Yes, dammit, I said "was." The bitch is dead now."
Thank you for the tips. I am writing ✍️ a script about politics and multiverses. I go from Facebook to MeWe on all kinds of political topics and science fiction so in essence it’s like going to 2 online universes which inspired me to write ✍️ such a movie 🎥 in the first place. Despite all the great ideas 💡 from both apps and contributors on both, I have been unable to conclude my story. I will re-read your tips and use it as a guideline to conclude my story. Multiversal stories aren’t new, political stories aren’t new either, but a sci-fi story about politics in multiverses…. could just be the original story lines needed to get the entertainment industry back on track. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you so much for making this video for me! It’s really helped considering I’m in the editing phase, of my book. I’ve never had someone make a video help me so much, so it really does help!🙂 The ending words for my book was given by the protagonist of my story, it was to convey that she no longer wanted to just avenge the people of her kingdom who died. But she now wanted to make sure “Epilism” the antagonist understood that she was sorry that the past generation of rulers on her planet kept waging war with Epilism’s planet. When the end finally did happen both my protagonist and antagonist died in a very poetic way. The antagonist “Epilism” confessed in her mind that she felt happiness once again, and “Kaguya” the protagonist confessed in her mind that it no longer felt like she was suffering but rather it felt like she finally attained freedom. There was some other stuff about the story that made the two’s end in the story seem even more interesting, but I’ve already revealed too much so I’ll stop sharing details here🙂
How, you forgot Blade runner Roy Batty death monologue. and my second best ending is from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, from Oshima Nagisha. A masterpiece!
@9:55 : "They started as a group of 10" - really? Well the 10th member must've been the invisible man lol because we only saw 9 people comprising the Fellowship of the Ring.
Not sure how it fits into your rules, but I think my favourite ending lines are... ".... As little as possible" "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown". ... though in fairness I needed a little bit of explanation from the director to fully appreciate it...
''Captain's log final entry (...) and to a next generation we entrust to boldly go where no man, or no one, has gone before.'' Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country)
I think you could consider John Wick 2's ending a midpoint if you consider Chapter 2 part of a larger story. Therefore John Wick shooting someone on company grounds represents a shift in the direction of the story as well as a significant turning point in the character's journey.
@@WriterBrandonMcNulty It's from Judgment at Nuremberg, which is excellent and depressingly relevant today. It's not every day you get a film with Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, and Colonel Klink & Captain Kirk.
@@jpiccone1 Never heard of it. I'll add it to my list
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In Arthur Penn´s "Four Friends", at the end they're all at the beach, burning down Danilo's trunk, that we have seen the whole movie through. Then Georgia ask him: "Do you know what we haven't done yet?" - "Everything"
The final scene of the Last Samurai completes 5 distinct character arcs and reinforces the theme using poetic language. Emperor: I have dreamed of a unified Japan. Of a country strong, independent, and modern. And now we have railroads, and cannons, and western clothing. But…we cannot forget who we are. Or where we come from.
Kahlan rubbed his lower back. "How are you feeling?" "I'm fine. Now that you're with me, I couldn't feel better." Kahlan laughed, then. "As long as I don't run you through?" Richard's laugh fell in easily with hers. "You know, when we tell our children how their mother ran their father through with a sword, it's going to look pretty bad for you." "Are we going to have children, Richard?" "Yes, we are." "Then I'll risk the tale." From Terry Goodkind's "Faith of the Fallen"
Another one is the ending of his "Into Darkness" and the ending for his "Confessor" and "Warheart" and "Heart of Black Ice." Most people underestimate Goodkind.
The best ending(I prefer payoff) is bk to the future. It wouldn't be the same film without it. This is number 2 of the story circle. Getting bk is the exterior, the plot. Character transformation, number 2, completes the process. Another example. Adventures in baby sitting. Chris Parker and the other characters have to get home intact and without mr.and Mrs. Anderson finding out. Plot. Number two, romance denied, becomes romance fulfilled. Number 8 is equillbrium plus.
I like stories that acknowledge the weight of what the character experienced. Frodo isn't going to grey havens as a reward. He's going because it's the only place he can survive the wound from the morgal blade. It's not a reward it's a hospice. When the characters go through hell ending a story on an upnote, or even worse a joke, i think it undermines the story. Have the courage to show the audience the character facing a lifetime with those memories. I apprechite a writer that does that for the story.
It's not just because of the Morgul blade, it's because he, like Bilbo, carried the ring. The ring burdened them to such extent that they could no longer bear it. And also it indeed is a reward for carrying the ring. The Undying Lands are described like heaven where only the elves as well as the worthy can go to
Not my favourite but i enjoyed predator 2 from Harrigan, something like "dont worry asshole, you'll get another chance". As hes holding a flintlock pistol.
I am confused as to why you say there were 10 members of the fellowship of the ring. Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli makes only 9 members (to counter the 9 black riders, the nazgul). Do you count Gollum as a member of the fellowship? He only joined well after the fellowship broke up, and he is not a willing participant in the quest even though he has a pivotal role in it. The one person that arguably should have been a member of the fellowship is Glorfindel. He was, like Gandalf, a wielder of the flame of Anor. But his aura shone bright as a flame in the spirit world the nazgul inhabited, so he could have compromised the fellowship by being easy to spot.
I'm surprised you didn't include the ending of BATMAN BEGINS. In my opinion, it's one of the best endings in cinema history. Then again, it's just my opinion.
@@ShinGallon Sorry, I didn't express myself correctly. I meant the dialogue between Batman and Gordon after the scene this video analyses; the very final ending of the movie.
Two of my favourite movie endings are RoboCop and Halloween. They each wrap up within seconds of the antagonist being taken down, with succint dialogue, and wrap up the main characters' arcs.
I don't like when content creators put deliberate mistakes in to raise engagement by corrective comments This nearly got a thumbs down from me for it on what otherwise would be a useful video
The ending of _The Dark Knight_ is a complete absurdity that almost ruined the movie. It's illogical and they didn't even try to come up with a justification. For comparison, _The Green Hornet (2011)_ used similar plot device but did it _properly._ _The Terminator (1984)_ has great ending and ending dialogues.
"Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park. So have I." You're right, that whole ending checks all the boxes!
I love the ending of the Matrix. 1) It "calls" back to the very beginning, the machines listening through the phoneline. 2) It sums up the new status quo, The One is here, and things are going to be different now, and 3) It creates a wonderful stand-alone ending (that probably should have been left at that) but leaves so much room for the future of the characters and world.
The theatrical version of Terminator 2's ending always struck a chord with me. Not the one with old Sarah and grown up John but the one with a voice over on a dark road. "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope."
Sarah Connor: The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
Loved that ending and the story as a whole when I was a kid, but as an adult understanding story structure, I realized the film did a great job turning a souless machine into the best father figure John needed to become who he was destined to be.
“James… you made me happy.”
Silent Hill 2 is just such a great story, that simple line always chokes me up.
Favorite ending dialogue is from "Gone With the Wind." Scarlet pleads with Rhett asking "What shall I do? Where shall I go?" and he responds "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." I also like the last moment from the original "Back to the Future". Marty tells Doc there isn't enough road to get to 88 mph and Doc calmly replies "Where we're going we don't need roads."
Haven’t seen it but I need to.
@@WriterBrandonMcNulty Also "Casablanca." "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
@@ellennewth6305 Classic.
I've never watched this movie but there is this song (Funky Sundays - Adhesive Wombat), where the only "lyric" is exactly the sentence from your comment obviously sampled, 35 seconds into the song. Thank you for posting this comment, it just made the song way better than it already was (I recommend anyone to check it btw).
The thing that made the Lord of The Rings trilogy great was that nobody else could have wrote it. Each of the Characters in the series was a personality that Tolkien knew from his time in the trenches. Frodo represented his struggle with ptsd, Sam the undying bond and selflessness of fellow soldiers, Aragorn a Leader that kept the men together and their fear at bay, Boromir the soldier who honored his oath and fought against all odds. There is so much from Tolkiens experience in WW1 written into tha characters that I understand now after my service than when I read it as a child that was so far over my head. Tolkien was fleshing many of his own demons out in that story and it resonated because although it was fiction, it was grounded in a dark reality.
That was poetic af my guy.
You write?
@@Crowelephant I dabble a bit.
Except Tolkien explicitly said that his work was not an allegory and especially not an allegory of the world wars.Except Tolkien explicitly said that his work was not an allegory and especially not an allegory of the world wars.
Tolkien preferred what he called "applicability", the power of the reader to interpret. An allegory is fixed and has one meaning, but using the process of applicability allows the reader to create sense with their own understanding. Which is what you did, you put sense into the story, but Tolkien never wrote his book with the intention of making it a depiction of the world war. Tolkien was first and foremost inspired by ancient sagas and epics, and his whole legendarium is voluntarily archaic and old-fashioned.
Minor spoiler warning for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl":
Johnny Depp's recitation of the pirate song lines at the end of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a favorite bit of ending dialogue of mine because it establishes a sort of "Everything's finally good now, on to new adventures!" vibe.
That first film is so good from start to finish. Lightning in a Bottle.
Such an awesome movie
OMG that's exactly what I needed right now ! I'll watch it right before writing.
Awesome, hope it helps!
What's your favorite dialogue exchange from a movie's ending? Let us know, and be sure to mark for SPOILERS!
@TheStinkyPoopooHeadz Haha BURN!!
{Spoilers for anyone who wants to watch Godzilla planet eater}
The ending words conveyed by Haruo the main character of the Netflix Godzilla trilogy I thought were fantastic, in the end Haruo realized that he could not kill Godzilla. So he decided that if he could not kill him he would charge at him with the only operational vulture (a type of Mecha) and end his part of the long crusade of suffering Godzilla had caused him.
@TheStinkyPoopooHeadz Endings are tough. Oftentimes writing an ending feels like guessing at the solution to a math problem
@TheStinkyPoopooHeadz Yeah, knowing your ending helps. Still, it's hard to come up with an ending that's clever and satisfying if you haven't figured out the rest of the story.
Writing. What a nightmare.
Batman Begins:
Commisioner Gordon: 'I didn't say thank you.'
Batman: 'And you'll never have to.'
"Bond, James Bond" from Casino Royale. That was badass🤟😊
Poetic AND establishing his identity. Love it.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship! 😉
Absolute classic ending line
I love how the first Godfather ended. The dialogue between Michael and Kay shows how much the characters and their relationship have changed. It's both heartbreaking and chilling.
Oh gosh I have to say James Cameron's AVATAR (1) has a brilliant tribal song & ritual calling to their deity to accept the protagonist's body into his new one. Even before that was a clever line about 'birthdays' because he would essentially be killed and reborn if the ritual works. My favourite movie hands down. Endings are quite emotional it makes you love and hate writing them.
Roads.... where we're going we don't need roads. Perfect ending dialogue from Back to the Future.
Concise, relevant advice. I'd expect this to have more views, definitely underrated. I hope this comment helps video to get traction.
Thanks! Tell other writers about the channel
Endings hint at new problems to come - very interesting
Great vlog, Brandon! Very helpful information - not only for the ending of one's novel - but also for the endings of individual chapters. I love it when the protagonist's (or narrator's) words leave the audience wondering "what's going to happen next?"
I'm big fan of verbal cliffhangers as well
It’s going to take a day for all this to sink in.
Great material by the way.
End it by a “what’s next ?” type of scenario, leaving the audience guessing and thinking 🤔 💭
This is what I need to wrap up this movie idea 🎥 💡 I am working on about politics and multiverses.
My favorite ending dialogue is from the Dark Knight. Glad to see it featured in this video!
Dredd: "She's a pass."
Concludes the hero's journey for both Dredd and Anderson, shows how he has changed due to the adventure and gives a glimpse into the new future where she's a judge and he's less, well, judgmental, lol. Awesome movie, awesome ending.
Edit: I realized it's not that good an example. The last words of the movie are some voiceover narration about the city and the work of the judges. The "She's a pass" dialogue wouldn't work as final words, I guess because they're still part of the story. They create the new situation rather than commenting on it. The narration adds some buffer between the story and the closing credits without which the ending would be too abrupt.
Hearing at ~9:54 "the fellowship started as a group of 10" was like nails on a chalkboard to me. haha. There was a lot of significance to the number 9 throughout the books and movies.
I’d like to see you do a good and bad for specifically dialogue ending reveals. The sixth sense is a good example of just the right amount of talking to give you the reveals without overdoing it. Everyone knows Show don’t tell. But for a reveal, a certain amount of telling is often needed. The Shawshank redemption is one example of a movie that had a very successful reveal that involved a lot of talking in its ending. So I’d like you to go in detail about what works. Why do some movie reveals still work with a lot of talking? If you know of any, Show some examples of how action might have substituted for more obvious explaining moments where there was an in-depth reveal. Show what keeps a good reveal from sounding too much like exposition or too on the nose. For my money it’s emotion and surprise of the unexpected. But I’d like to see your examples how best to deliver on those two things or anything else that works…And what kind of mistakes we should avoid. - and on the subject of Shawshank, When is narration a good idea or a bad idea?
First, there was NEVER anything wrong with Narration. It's just when it gets over used, leaned on like a crutch, or done poorly that creates problems...
Good Narration delivers insight that you're just NOT going to get elsewhere or otherwise. When moving from a Novel to a Movie, it's how you put the intangible thoughts and emotional context to a scene where it's legitimately impossible to do better than "ambiguous reference" in the visual medium. This is NOT a crutch on which you can support piss poor acting and/or directing!
1984 "Dune", did it both well and poorly. If you read the book, the Narration helped "keep it true" but was practically unnecessary noise. If you hadn't, it was only occasionally as important as they employed it... AND on both accounts, whispering the thoughts as "bad voice over" had its own dubious effect on the whole thing. It was particularly off-set because you were invited into the thoughts of certain characters and utterly detached from others, regardless of their importance through the movie... BUT that's as much a Style question as a Quality question...
Shawshank did it well, peppering in entirely Red's thoughts as he was assigned to tell the story. It didn't seem to rely on the Narration, and if left out it wouldn't suddenly become a worse movie for it, just a little less insightful or interesting. The whole rest of the aspects of cinema were employed just as well, BUT it DID contribute those insights, becoming a ubiquitous and thereby acceptable part of the film's palette. You (the audience) got a little more than was even possible to present on the screen... like Andy's occasional victories among defeats against "The Sisters"... Boggs never walking or eating solid food after his beating... and proposing the question/hope of the Warden wondering how Andy got the better of him just before he shot himself... and then the background for all that...
The early hey-day of detective and spy movies in Film Noire is arguably peppered with Narration that goes both ways. It's part of the charm that we frequently parody or mock outright about the genre. Some examples help explain how the Detective-protagonist thinks, or offers insights to the villain's operations and motivation... Others use cheesy expletives and jargon more to sound like you're getting nuance or insight, but largely just adds the Narration because "that's what detective and spy movies have"... AND "The Peeper" (which WAS intended as parody) is a great example of exactly that... adding more comedy than anything...
SO I'd hazard that IF you're doing a reveal that's fairly straight forward, and you don't really need any nuance to be explained... say, a betrayal for old fashioned greed, for example... THEN you don't really need any narration for it. If you have something more intense BUT requires some kind of presentation of thoughts or emotional context, then Narration can save you and the audience time and ambiguity... like all the little nuances that would've required some kind of montage EACH throughout Shawshank... Context is important and all, but it always takes time to build that Context, and time can be a very precious resource.
You just want to be careful as you work it out, one way or the other, that you're not substituting the Narrative insights for something you COULD show more effectively another way... Otherwise, just remember, you're NOT going to please Everybody... someone's always going to find a flaw. ;o)
Great video as always. Keep up the good work!
Thanks man!
I always loved the last scene of Patton. The script originally called for a shot of Patton's grave in Luxembourg, with a camera pulling out to reveal him laid to rest with thousands of his soldiers. They wisely abandoned that instead for a shot of the General walking off into the countryside, telling the story of how Roman emperors returned from the wars, taking part in triumphal parades, clad in ceremonial robes, with a slave on the chariot with him, whispering the warning to him that "all glory is fleeting."
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I don't recall the precise verbage, but the ending of Die Hard, when Godenov bursts through the door and takes everyone off-guard, 'gun-shy' Al just puts a bullet into him, surprising even himself. This solidified the bond between Al and McClain who, had only been voices on the radios.
Amazing content!
Thank you!
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (c) 1953 --> Ending lines: He spoke quietly into the receiver. "This is 007 speaking. This is an open line. It's an emergency. Can you hear me? ...Pass this on at once: 3030 was a double, working for Redland... Yes, dammit, I said "was." The bitch is dead now."
One of my favorites is from the Dark Knight Rises. When Batman tells Gordon who is his it feels like the story of that Batman was truly full circle.
Thank you for the tips.
I am writing ✍️ a script about politics and multiverses.
I go from Facebook to MeWe on all kinds of political topics and science fiction so in essence it’s like going to 2 online universes which inspired me to write ✍️ such a movie 🎥 in the first place.
Despite all the great ideas 💡 from both apps and contributors on both, I have been unable to conclude my story.
I will re-read your tips and use it as a guideline to conclude my story.
Multiversal stories aren’t new, political stories aren’t new either, but a sci-fi story about politics in multiverses…. could just be the original story lines needed to get the entertainment industry back on track.
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Thank you so much for making this video for me! It’s really helped considering I’m in the editing phase, of my book.
I’ve never had someone make a video help me so much, so it really does help!🙂
The ending words for my book was given by the protagonist of my story, it was to convey that she no longer wanted to just avenge the people of her kingdom who died. But she now wanted to make sure “Epilism” the antagonist understood that she was sorry that the past generation of rulers on her planet kept waging war with Epilism’s planet.
When the end finally did happen both my protagonist and antagonist died in a very poetic way. The antagonist “Epilism” confessed in her mind that she felt happiness once again, and “Kaguya” the protagonist confessed in her mind that it no longer felt like she was suffering but rather it felt like she finally attained freedom.
There was some other stuff about the story that made the two’s end in the story seem even more interesting, but I’ve already revealed too much so I’ll stop sharing details here🙂
Happy to help! Thanks for the request---I actually had a lot of fun making this video
The ending phone call in the Bourne Supremacy, and Clive Owen’s monologue from the Inside Man
Feb video with useful info, thanks. It's not a movie, but I think the Murder She Wrote episodes had good ending dialogue.
Thanks for watching!
Favorite ending line, showing transformation: “Don Corleone” from The Godfather. Marking Michael’s full ascension to the throne.
Favorite ending dialogue by far is Rutger Hauer's in Bladerunner.
"I don't have to see it, Dotty. I LIVED it..." you sure did PW. RIP
How, you forgot Blade runner Roy Batty death monologue.
and my second best ending is from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, from Oshima Nagisha. A masterpiece!
I'll (unalive) them...
I'll (unalive) them all.
Oof! Chills broski, chills. By this point, you believe him.
Imagine if he said “and not just the men but the women and the children too” that would’ve been hilarious 🤣 (attack of the clones reference btw)
Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it to me again tomorrow?
As you wish.
@9:55 : "They started as a group of 10" - really? Well the 10th member must've been the invisible man lol because we only saw 9 people comprising the Fellowship of the Ring.
Hard question; no answer. But I'll definitely use this on my ending. THANKS!
Sweet, best of luck!
Not sure how it fits into your rules, but I think my favourite ending lines are...
".... As little as possible"
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown".
... though in fairness I needed a little bit of explanation from the director to fully appreciate it...
The end of Secondhand Lions. "So the men from great-grandfather's stories really lived?" ---- "Yeah. They really lived."
''Captain's log final entry (...) and to a next generation we entrust to boldly go where no man, or no one, has gone before.'' Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country)
I think you could consider John Wick 2's ending a midpoint if you consider Chapter 2 part of a larger story. Therefore John Wick shooting someone on company grounds represents a shift in the direction of the story as well as a significant turning point in the character's journey.
For sure. Within the context of a series, a major decision like that can act as a big-picture midpoint and a standalone ending
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
“My friends.. you bow to no one.”
Love it.
Not joking I literally get of my couch and bow to the screen sometimes
"Don Corleone."
"It came to that the first time you sentenced to death a man you knew to be innocent."
The first one I definitely recognize (and it's GREAT). The second one, I'm not sure, and I'm afraid to look it up for fear of spoilers.
@@WriterBrandonMcNulty It's from Judgment at Nuremberg, which is excellent and depressingly relevant today. It's not every day you get a film with Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, and Colonel Klink & Captain Kirk.
@@jpiccone1 Never heard of it. I'll add it to my list
@@jpiccone1 Never heard of it. I'll add it to my list
In Arthur Penn´s "Four Friends", at the end they're all at the beach, burning down Danilo's trunk, that we have seen the whole movie through. Then Georgia ask him: "Do you know what we haven't done yet?"
- "Everything"
My favorite ending dialog is the one I am planning to write!
The final scene of the Last Samurai completes 5 distinct character arcs and reinforces the theme using poetic language.
Emperor: I have dreamed of a unified Japan. Of a country strong, independent, and modern. And now we have railroads, and cannons, and western clothing. But…we cannot forget who we are. Or where we come from.
In what universe is the Fellowship composed of 10 numbers??
Sorry Lol had to point it out. Love your videos!
Edit: spelling
Kahlan rubbed his lower back. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine. Now that you're with me, I couldn't feel better."
Kahlan laughed, then. "As long as I don't run you through?"
Richard's laugh fell in easily with hers. "You know, when we tell our children how their mother ran their father through with a sword, it's going to look pretty bad for you."
"Are we going to have children, Richard?"
"Yes, we are."
"Then I'll risk the tale."
From Terry Goodkind's "Faith of the Fallen"
Another one is the ending of his "Into Darkness" and the ending for his "Confessor" and "Warheart" and "Heart of Black Ice." Most people underestimate Goodkind.
Can the new status quo be WORSE than before?
Sure if you’re writing a tragedy
Isn't the dark knight a worst off status quo??
"Hold that hat!" Jimmy Cagney at the end of The Oklahoma Kid, just before he kisses the girl.
The best ending(I prefer payoff) is bk to the future. It wouldn't be the same film without it. This is number 2 of the story circle. Getting bk is the exterior, the plot. Character transformation, number 2, completes the process. Another example. Adventures in baby sitting. Chris Parker and the other characters have to get home intact and without mr.and Mrs. Anderson finding out. Plot. Number two, romance denied, becomes romance fulfilled. Number 8 is equillbrium plus.
I like stories that acknowledge the weight of what the character experienced. Frodo isn't going to grey havens as a reward. He's going because it's the only place he can survive the wound from the morgal blade. It's not a reward it's a hospice. When the characters go through hell ending a story on an upnote, or even worse a joke, i think it undermines the story. Have the courage to show the audience the character facing a lifetime with those memories. I apprechite a writer that does that for the story.
It's not just because of the Morgul blade, it's because he, like Bilbo, carried the ring. The ring burdened them to such extent that they could no longer bear it. And also it indeed is a reward for carrying the ring. The Undying Lands are described like heaven where only the elves as well as the worthy can go to
Not my favourite but i enjoyed predator 2 from Harrigan, something like "dont worry asshole, you'll get another chance". As hes holding a flintlock pistol.
I am confused as to why you say there were 10 members of the fellowship of the ring. Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli makes only 9 members (to counter the 9 black riders, the nazgul). Do you count Gollum as a member of the fellowship? He only joined well after the fellowship broke up, and he is not a willing participant in the quest even though he has a pivotal role in it. The one person that arguably should have been a member of the fellowship is Glorfindel. He was, like Gandalf, a wielder of the flame of Anor. But his aura shone bright as a flame in the spirit world the nazgul inhabited, so he could have compromised the fellowship by being easy to spot.
There Will be Blood. "I'm finished." So perfect. Focuses on the loss of his status rather than his morality after he beats a man to death
I notice that all your examples come from action movies. Do you think the same five points hold for other genres?
You think LotR is a mere action movie?
Kind of cheating, because it's from a series rather than a movie, but Angel's "Let's get to work." perfectly sums up the themes of that series.
I feel like the ending of the original Matrix does all of these excellently.
"Noooooooooooo!" Darth vader Episode 3
by ending he means Denouement, which means "untying"
I'm surprised you didn't include the ending of BATMAN BEGINS. In my opinion, it's one of the best endings in cinema history. Then again, it's just my opinion.
He did, though? 5:07 in the video
@@ShinGallon Sorry, I didn't express myself correctly. I meant the dialogue between Batman and Gordon after the scene this video analyses; the very final ending of the movie.
@@arturoalvarezkawai6773 Ah, gotcha. Yeah that was a good scene as well.
There were only nine members in the Fellowship of the Ring. You mistakenly said ten.
I can't believe that nobody mentioned The Matrix
Halo original trilogy ending dialogues were good
Two of my favourite movie endings are RoboCop and Halloween. They each wrap up within seconds of the antagonist being taken down, with succint dialogue, and wrap up the main characters' arcs.
Winston is not John WIck's "boss" LOL.
The fellowship had 9 members, not 10...
They should make batman shrieking instead of talking, and then the listen er begins to understand.
In semi binge watching your channel. Could U turn it up a few Ds please?
The Fellowship was only 9. #nerdalert
I don't like when content creators put deliberate mistakes in to raise engagement by corrective comments
This nearly got a thumbs down from me for it on what otherwise would be a useful video
The ending of _The Dark Knight_ is a complete absurdity that almost ruined the movie. It's illogical and they didn't even try to come up with a justification. For comparison, _The Green Hornet (2011)_ used similar plot device but did it _properly._
_The Terminator (1984)_ has great ending and ending dialogues.
I always loved Sarah's monologue at the end of T2, like a diary entry.
End of Pulp Fiction, in the diner..