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I'd say yes. That first idea is a "Hope Spot", where the audience is led to believe things might work out after all, only for them not to. It's a fairly common technique (obligatory TV Tropes warni...
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2019-12-12T21:42:32Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T09:43:50Z (about 5 years ago)
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I'd say yes. That first idea is a "Hope Spot", where the audience is led to believe things might work out after all, only for them not to. [It's a fairly common technique](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HopeSpot) (obligatory TV Tropes warning). However, I feel like making the resolution a montage sequence is a bad idea. You're making us watch the heroes lose twice, and then not showing us how they win! So I'd do it the opposite way round: don't show the first idea's failure. Show the character saying, "I've got an idea, we can still make this work!", then smash cut to the end of the fight, where they've just been defeated again. You can still have your scene of them being hopeless and despairing, and then you can use the time you saved to show the resolution in more detail.
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-09-02T08:08:52Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 6