A profoundly moving ending depends first on building tension. But how you release that tension is just as critical.| Cracking Yarns
While your audience will generally want your hero to gain something, for a truly great ending you’ll also have to make sure your protagonist loses something very dear.| Cracking Yarns
If you want to end your film on an affecting up beat, you’re going to need to precede that with a very significant down beat. (Or vice versa).| Cracking Yarns
In the great endings the hero typically does in the final act what they could not have done at the beginning, and this shift seems to be fundamental if you want to profoundly move your audience.| Cracking Yarns
Most screenplays suffer because the resolution comes too easily. You must make it really hard for your hero - and that doesn't mean making the antagonist 6 inches taller or 40 IQ points smarter.| Cracking Yarns