PODCAST Top 5 Cliffhanger Endings Preview – newsdubai

The rise of pre-planned franchises has had a mix of good and bad effects, one of which (you tell us if it’s good or bad) is that it has enabled filmmakers to tell their stories as open chapters in a ongoing narrative. For our next installment, Patreon supporter Carl Beasley has asked us to take a closer look at such unresolved endings (and they’re not all from the modern era, of course)—specifically, the phenomenon of the cliffhanger ending, in which a story ends at a moment of greatest tension and excitement the better to ensure we are good and excited for the next contribution. A beloved chestnut of television since someone unseen shot JR Ewing in 1980, the cliffhanger ending is considerably less common in the movies, which makes the examples we’re going to look at all the more interesting. Share your own picks for the top 5 cliffhanger endings for a chance to win a free Amazon movie rental, and you can also choose a podcast topic along with several other perks by signing up as a Patreon subscriber!