{"id":25787,"date":"2023-09-08T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2023-09-08T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T21:22:50","slug":"the-last-line-of-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25787","title":{"rendered":"The last line of the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched me Barbie movie, which I liked very much. I was struck by how succinctly the dramatic arc of Gerwig and Bombach&#8217;s story was encapsulated by the very last line of dialogue in the film.<\/p>\n<p>This is true of other great scripts as well. One obvious example is Robert Towne&#8217;s screenplay for Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many films can be described in this way: The last line of dialogue neatly encapsulates the arc of its hero&#8217;s journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched me Barbie movie, which I liked very much. I was struck by how succinctly the dramatic arc of Gerwig and Bombach&#8217;s story was encapsulated by the very last line of dialogue in the film. This is true of other great scripts as well. One obvious example is Robert Towne&#8217;s screenplay for Chinatown. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The last line of the movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25788,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions\/25788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}