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Story Resolution and Closure

in this video we will talk about the day new moi the Dana moi is the last part of the order of the play that actually deals with the storyline itself we've talked about conflict and the climax building that storyline up to his highest point of tension and then the previous video we talked about a gunfighter who was hired to come in and save the town and we got all the way through to the to the gunfight on Main Street where we realize that he has won the fight and the townspeople are all looking around and happy to see that the bad guy is dead and they're cheering and I asked USA are we happy if if a movie ends there and you end no we're not there are loose ends to our storyline that needs to be tied up and put together you know we had a sidekick we called a whippersnapper what's going to happen to y'all most importantly with our main storyline what's going to happen with the widow who had fallen in love with him but refused to be at that gun fight so let's go back we have the gun shot we see the smoking barrel the camera goes up the side of the arm and we see that it's our hero who has survived the fight and now all the townspeople are cheering and they're gathering around our hero and they're shaking his hand and all of this kind of stuff and all is good and while the hero is looking at everybody shaking their hands his eyes can't just catch somebody through the crowd around the corner of a building that he didn't realize that with who that was there and that's the widowed woman the pretty woman that he had fallen in love with that has the little boy she did show up she says she wasn't but she did show up and he sees her she sees him she has to tear our faces she comes running to his arms and he holds her really tight and you know you know he picks her up by the chin and brushes that tear away well guess what we are now entering the Dane moon why it's a French word that we use that we substitute with the word resolve we are now starting to put all the loose and together guess what she does love you they are still an item they are still a couple he lifts her chin up she wipes that tear from her eyes as the music is playing and and he embraces her and as he does he looks over her shoulder and there's that little seven-year-old boy it's kind of hokey but this is the way the westerns work and he's holding two fishing poles yeah you get the picture right he moves the woman aside and he does this the little boy who comes walking up to him he undoes his gun belt and he drops the gun belt right in the middle of Main Street he's no longer going to be a bounty hunter he's gonna be a daddy to this little boy he trades his gun in for two fishing poles and the three of them together are forming a family and now everybody's cheering yeah that's a happy ending but guess what the town still has no authority no no sheriff nobody in town well who's it gonna be it's not gonna be our hero he's giving that up let's go be a whippersnapper some banker says look I think we need a sheriff and I know who it's gonna be I'm gonna bankroll his campaign it's gonna be this young man right here I vote for whippersnapper all right whippersnappers like yay and he's not even gonna get an opponent because everybody in the town is on board with that well whippersnapper is up there you know waving at everybody like I'll accept this job I'll be the sheriff and so forth that old gal who's been chasing him all over the movie catches them and guess what it happens to be Sadie Hawkins day if you know anything about old tradition in the Wild West that was the one day of the year when oh if the girl catches you she can propose to you and you have to say yes and marry her boom she's got him now they're going to be a couple yeah and all the pieces have now been put together the the bad guys are gone the town is at peace they have a sheriff and our our two leads are going to get married in this little boy gonna have a father and all this is going on you see the thugs you know riding off from behind with a cloud of dust behind their horses okay they're not a threat anymore and as the music starts to to hit and the credits start to rise our hero takes the young lady by the hand and they walk and little boy gets on the other with a fishing pole over his shoulder and they walk off into the sunset as one happy family now the credits start to roll up and all of our issues are resolved that's why we use the word resolved but actually what you just saw unfold is the Dayton walk now the reason I used such a cheesy version of the Dana noix is because we don't recognize them unless they're poorly put together and those old westerns that you know you watch two hours of a movie only to have all of the side line issues wrapped up in a matter of two minutes it's like we watched all that and it took two minutes to solve it that's the way Dana and woz often used to work especially in the old movies and the own three act plays it's like okay main storyline is over and we didn't wrap them up and there's always some little revelation and they tie up all the loose ends right there on the spot playwrights today understand that we as audience members are far more sophisticated they want those Dane and wah are those sight issues I should say to solve themselves as the climactic point of the story is taking place we don't want to be so obvious we want whoot to get to that climactic moment maybe a couple of line items of dialogue and as the credits roll up you realize all the issues are done we like that we're more sophisticated we understand the format therefore we obligate our writers to do a better job at it by the way the same thing holds true for exposition at hosts with Dana moi you only recognize the expositions that are poorly formatted you know when you can tell that you're being educated on the relationships between these characters and you and you recognize that they're being obvious and pointing out the settings and how we're going to play a role in the storyline that's not good I just use those as examples because if the bad ones that we recognize the real good playwrights or real good screenwriters know how to make the exposition and the Damian wah very entertaining they know how to sneak all the the background information on us without being aware of it and they know how to resolve all the issues without being so obvious about that as well and once you've experienced the day in one the play the story is over doesn't mean your evening is over doesn't mean the the play experience is over you know we've closed the play with the date and want now the people in a theater have to close your evening you know give closure to your theatrical experience and that will be discussed in the upcoming videos we want to talk about curtain call and aftermath thank you