I also know that ticket sales have been diminishing year after year. True, no? Yeah 2006 was a little better than 2005 - perhaps thanks to POTC2. But overall, ticket sales are still soft.
And ironically... POTC2 has a twist ending.
"So I guess big parts of our youth are supposed to suck. Otherwise we'd get too attached and wake up one day trapped on a hamster wheel that used to look like a merri-go-round." - Hal Sparks
Good twists are discovered by hours and hours of writing going through countless drafts. If you try to build your story around a twist from the start, then people will see it coming a mile away.
Good twists are discovered by hours and hours of writing going through countless drafts. If you try to build your story around a twist from the start, then people will see it coming a mile away.
Very true. I had a script I had rewritten so many times and yet when I'd get to the end I felt something was missing - then I just rewrote it again and one of the characters came to me with a huge twist in the conclusion I never would of thought of.
Of course I then had to rewrite again to make the twist more logical, but I never would of thought of it initially, so when it happens it's surprising, yet makes sense.
The script I just completed was basically first outlined and drafted around a twist. Then I realized that even though the story was good, the twist was becoming a crutch in a way and the writing becoming forced. What I ended up doing is taking a ten page treatment of this "no one'll guess twist", condensing it down to 15 pages of script and making it the set up of the story... Then I turned plot direction on the protag, gave him some f-ed up decisions to make, and let the characters take over. The twist ended up being the hook.
Story ended up 100% better. Took six months to get it all out but it was worth it.
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