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Challengers (2024)

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DZ-114: Climaxes in CHALLENGERS

How does ending your story on the climax affect audience experience?

While Stu is on show, Mel and Chas sit down to analyse the meaning behind the ending of 2024’s CHALLENGERS, especially when - upon reading the script - the most impactful moment of the ending on screen (for Chas in particular) is not written on the page… →

⏱ 1h 17m

29 NOV 2024

Character · Structure · Theme

Listen to understand how withholding resolution can make your story great!

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Films: Challengers (2024)

Character: Character Motivation , Final Choice , Character Agency , Choices and Decisions

Structure: Climax , Endings , Emotional Event

Theme: Theme , Narrative Aesthetics

"There’s a big difference between they could have just stayed on Tashi, right? Because the script is saying stays on Tashi. Literally, it does say the ball goes into the net, but we stay on Tashi. We don’t know who won the point, even as the crowd cheers and Tashi leaps to her feet."

— chas | DZ-114: Climaxes in CHALLENGERS