Challengers (2024)

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

AI✦Uses the ending to explore how obscuring plot information–not knowing who won the point–forces the audience to confront what the film’s true subject is: the psychological and sexual entanglement between the characters, not the tennis itself.✦

⏱ 1h 17m

Character · Structure · Theme | 29 NOV 2024

Listen to understand how withholding resolution can become your story's greatest statement.

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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… →

Films: Challengers (2024)

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

Structure: Climax , Endings , Emotional Event

Theme: Theme , Narrative Aesthetics

"Art leaps up. He is going to absolutely pulverize this ball and Patrick sees Art and Art has like overjumped and he's going over the net and he's coming down literally on top of Patrick and Patrick drops his racket, catches Art, Patrick wraps him up and then they stay in that embrace and they hold each other, grip each other."

— chas | DZ-114: Climaxes in Challengers