This would have been the perfect ending scene to a Hollywood movie, if not for the disgusting puddle of water that I was then kneeling in.
We joked a whole bunch about an end scene that would take place in the jungles of Brazil, à la "The Boys From Brazil," where the Soup Nazi [Larry Thomas] would return to the other Nazis — the actual former Nazi war criminals — with his soup recipes.
Everything else? Gone!" End scene.
Train of Thought started "As I Am" with the last note from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence with the title track, which in turn started with the noise that ended Scenes from a Memory at the end of "Finally Free".
And it was a wonderful, simple solution to a problem we'd been having about finding an ending to a scene.
It's at this point that the film finally gets going – which makes it all the more frustrating when the damp squib of an ending arrives a few scenes later.
The Internet video, posted last week, has a quirky ending – the scene of Mr. Block blowing smoke is followed by one of Mr. Cain breaking into a slow grin — and it has already been viewed by close to 1 million people.
Enter a scene late and end a scene early.
Screenwriting is less about the beautiful details and more about ending a scene early to give the viewer a reason to keep watching.
He is followed by Mr. Martin's deus ex machina ending, a scene stolen by the showiest of Jess Goldstein's fine costumes.
The performance chugged along at an energetic clip, ending with a scene involving a security guard booth on a platform at 125th Street.
