{"id":18,"date":"2013-04-30T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:45:16","slug":"storming-the-castle-inverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Storming the Castle, Inverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a free six-week trial subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickflix.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quickflix<\/a> recently, and&nbsp;the new Bond movie, <em>Skyfall<\/em>, was the last disc they sent out.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t go in quite the direction I thought they were going to go, but it was still a great ride&#8211; and what&nbsp;a great song by Adele!<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that stood out for me, structurally,&nbsp;was <em>Skyfall<\/em>&#8216;s ending.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Snyder likens the&nbsp;finale of a story to &#8216;storming the castle.&#8217;&nbsp;<em>Skyfall<\/em> did a great inversion of that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of storming an enemy&nbsp;&#8216;castle&#8217;, Bond&nbsp;must protect his&nbsp;own &#8216;castle&#8217; from being stormed.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet gone through to see how it hits the five parts to that beat Blake talks about, but it was a&nbsp;gripping finale to an enjoyable movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a free six-week trial subscription to Quickflix recently, and&nbsp;the new Bond movie, Skyfall, was the last disc they sent out. It didn&#8217;t go in quite the direction I thought they were going to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skyfall","category-storming-the-castle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}