The facts of the actual strike are jettisoned in favour of a ticking-clock climax whereby Scargill/Pacino must race to parliament on a motorbike and make a tear-jerking speech before the miners blow up Sellafield.
Even during the tense climax, he keeps things light, combining smiley walkout with stinging kicker: "It's getting a little Diane Sawyer in here," referencing the famously intrusive interviewer.
These murders, in effect reprisals against local Maoist guerrillas, who have also killed many, reached a bloody climax with the deaths of 58 men, women and children with no connection to extremism in the village of Lakshman Bathe in 1998.
BillyMills again: It's interesting that the Spanish chapter, which is not at all about flying, is the climax of the book; his experience of war seems to have moved his position a bit away from the solitary and towards the communal, and that is evidenced by the sheer number of other people who inhabit, indeed dominate, that chapter.
Antony and Constantine toured the streets and clubs, recruiting downtown characters to perform in their theatrical extravaganzas, which would always climax in a song by Antony.
Back in Barry, the series arc rumbles along toward a climax we still can't predict.
London will host a "week of football" at the climax of a tournament that will be played across 13 countries from the Republic of Ireland in the west to Azerbaijan in the east.
Deliberately structured like a western, American Sniper's climax pits Kyle against Mustafa, an Iraqi sniper who does not utter a single word throughout the entire film.
Instead we are being divided and conquered by this terrorism scaremongering and half the world, including most of America, is tied up in patriarchal religions that believes apocalypse is the climax of what we are waiting for".
So, when I hit my "climax by" date, what the hell is going to happen?
A crisis that started with an EU summit fiasco three months ago may reach its climax on Thursday with an EU summit failure as Putin's short-term hard power collides with European longer-term soft power and leaves the EU looking weak and feckless.
