{"id":8181,"date":"2015-06-30T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2015-06-30T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:53:08","slug":"whats-happened-to-film-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/whats-happened-to-film-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Happened to Film Endings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97-dC6sUTBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Several notable films like UP IN THE AIR and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN have &#8220;just ended.&#8221; Robert McKee explains why the endings of both films are satisfying and original, though unconventional.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Quotes of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love unhappy endings, I&#8217;m all about the unhappy ending. I will not give you what you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Gillian Flynn<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Joyce Carol Oates<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several notable films like UP IN THE AIR and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN have &#8220;just ended.&#8221; Robert McKee explains why the endings of both films are satisfying and original, though unconventional. &nbsp; Quotes of the Week &#8220;I love unhappy endings, I&#8217;m all about the unhappy ending. I will not give you what you want.&#8221; [&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-8181","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\/8181","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=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}