{"id":8093,"date":"2015-06-02T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2015-06-02T07:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:31:36","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-surprise-ending-and-a-plot-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-surprise-ending-and-a-plot-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Difference Between a Surprise Ending and a Plot Twist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sUXok_qDXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert McKee explains why a surprise ending is less satisfying, and how a great turning point can provide insight. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Quotes of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he&#8217;s the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don&#8217;t like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; George R. R. Martin<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Character is plot, plot is character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stephen King<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee explains why a surprise ending is less satisfying, and how a great turning point can provide insight. &nbsp; Quotes of the Week &#8220;It&#8217;s really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}