Action Book Ends
11-13-08
What are Action Book Ends?
Book ends hold books on a shelf together and are rooted at each side with something solid and secure.
Action is a portion of a story that draws the reader to the material and can enhance and develop characters if done right. Each tome between the Book Ends of Action are like chapters of a novel or scenes in a movie. Usually action between the Book Ends of Action, will not compete with these two action sequences.
Therefore, Action Book Ends are how good writers start their stories with a bang and then finish their stories with even bigger climactic action sequences.
Warning Spoiler Alert:
In IRONMAN, the protagonist Tony Stark is in Afghanistan riding in the Fun-Humvee until explosions and action cause him to be captured by terrorists. This introduces the main character in a great way and we see the type of person he is by the way he reacts to the situation he finds himself in. Reacting to action.
At the end of the movie, Ironman is fighting WAR MACHINE, which is a bigger, more powerful and deadlier armored type robot suit. This climactic end sequence is crammed with more action than the opening sequence (which is the standard in action films). The story reveals even more character of both the protagonist, love interest and the antagonist. That is until the story is wrapped up in the resolution scenes and the lights come up in the theater.
Even though this important Marvel character’s life is in jeopardy, (inside we all know they would never kill him off), but you just never know until the film is over. This tension is heightened by action that may harm the protagonist.
Is this brand too valuable to terminate it’s lead character? Other characters have died (Superman, Captain America, etc) which may surprise their followers at the time but due to the effort and money allocated to building such brands, it doesn’t make financial sense to stop the continued brand development process. Plus, we all know characters can be brought back from the dead at any time the creators/writers desire.
Conflict develops character. So use the Action Book Ends to spice up your stories and attract audiences. Your writing career and entertainment project depends on it.
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