Endings and Beginnings

Posted on by David Bordwell

How do we know that a movie is ending? How does a movie draw us in, at the start? Here (click link) are some reflections on that question, presented at the close of last year’s SCSMI conference in Roanoke, Virginia, from my blog.

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One Response to Endings and Beginnings

  1. jesteban says:

    I always remember the “no ending” of Blair witch project. As it was supposed to be a “real life documentary”, the camera stopped recording while we were right in the middle of the climax, when the cameramen war murdered.

    I felt myself fooled, and looked to the projeciontist asking for the next minutes of film!

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