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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I love negative endings, and even just somewhat bad endings. Good endings are fine too, but some storylines get compromised in order to make everything happily ever after.
[spoiler]I'm still really mad that Batman didn't die in DKR.[/spoiler]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BWJC]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-03T23:18:43Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I like endings where something is left to be desired out of the story. If you can achieve this with a negative ending, go for it.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Blue Phoenix]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-03T23:01:05Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Tragedies were classically written to make spectators feel better about their own lives ("I may have things bad but at least I'm not Oedipus Rex!") while comedies were written for the opposite reason.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[HoldingOurOwn]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-03T18:16:37Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Squid]
Despite my love for happy endings, I've been really wanting to have something be extremely fun and lighthearted but end with a twisted tragic ending involving every single good character being murdered by the antagonist.
The problem is, everyone would probably hate me, and I'd probably hate myself, but I still want to do it.[/quote]
[spoiler]that kind of sounds like Dr. Horrible to me. [/spoiler]]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[topit]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/2995/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-30T23:28:10Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I don't a bad ending is better than a happy ending, I just want to see the ending the movie deserves and/or needs.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MPfist0]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/452/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-30T20:16:48Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[So I decided to look back on all the films I've made when I realised that only three have a clearly happy ending (one of them is an interactive game though, so there is a 'good' ending and a 'bad ending). 

Most of my films concern characters that aren't bad people, but don't really deserve happy endings - so the ending is usually about things going wrong for them in either a hilarious or tragic way. 

Yeah, this all probably reflects terribly on me as a person...]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Max Butcher]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/239/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-19T09:03:14Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=jstudios]I love you.[/quote]

This. :lol:]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/3007/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-19T01:42:16Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I love you.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jstudios]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1081/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-18T23:30:43Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The ending of Zach's video-game thread was negative but it was also pretty funny.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Onion]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1769/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-18T23:29:51Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=FlyingMinifig][quote=Squid]Despite my love for happy endings, I've been really wanting to have something be extremely fun and lighthearted but end with a twisted tragic ending involving every single good character being murdered by the antagonist.
The problem is, everyone would probably hate me, and I'd probably hate myself, but I still want to do it.[/quote]

Well, that's what's great about brickfilming--you can make several films, and experiment around as much as you like.  [/quote]

The thing is, I want it too be relatively long, like a much bigger story than I could ever do in a brickfilm so people would really care about all of the characters.
It's not as awful if it's just a short film, they need to love the characters so that the audience can suffer.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Squid]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/3704/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-18T21:49:29Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I know I've posted here several times already but I'd really like to see more of these in brickfilms.

I really love negative endings, hell, Spec Ops The Line has the most depressing ending in anything I've ever seen and it's my favourite video game of all time.

[i]Spoilers for people who haven't played the game but really should[/i]
[spoiler]You unwittingly fire white phosphorus onto a group of civilians, end up dooming the entire population of Dubai to a slow death, and depending on your actions, you commit suicide after the realisation of all the horrible things that you've done.[/spoiler]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jstudios]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1081/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-18T21:45:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Squid]Despite my love for happy endings, I've been really wanting to have something be extremely fun and lighthearted but end with a twisted tragic ending involving every single good character being murdered by the antagonist.
The problem is, everyone would probably hate me, and I'd probably hate myself, but I still want to do it.[/quote]

Well, that's what's great about brickfilming--you can make several films, and experiment around as much as you like.  I've considered having an unhappy ending in one of my future brickfilms myself, though there's nothing concrete at this point.  Still, it would be fun to make a happy film with a horrible ending in which everyone dies just to see the reactions of everyone else... *[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sObyG9bTf5A]evil cackle[/url]*]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mr Vertigo]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/127487/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2013-08-18T21:38:48Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I've watched a few endings of [i]The Twilight Zone[/i], Walter. The endings are negative, yet they have interesting--somewhat confusing--touches.

[i]Gone With the Wind[/i] is one of my favorite negative endings. It tells a great war story from the perspective of the white slave-masters before, during, and after the Civil War. [spoiler]Scarlett O'Hara's family is happily content with their black slaves. But, when the Civil War comes around, she believes she can never be happy ever again.[/spoiler]]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			</author>
			<updated>2013-08-18T19:43:41Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[One show that had great negative endings was [i]The Twilight Zone[/i]. Sometimes the endings would be happy, but generally the episodes were cautionary tales with negative endings. I always liked how each episode had it's own story, with a moral or meaning that made you think. 

I really need to go back and re-watch that series now. :)]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Walter Benson]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/129762/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-08-18T18:27:08Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: View on negative endings?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I am very happy that negative endings exist.

If they didn't, then there wouldn't be as much tension as the viewer dreads the possibility that the thing they are watching/reading might be tragic.

Star Trek shows commonly have episodes that end rather badly.  Of course, the ship usually survives, and so do the main characters, and they usually do solve the problem, but often times they are extremely sad because some guest character dies or leaves.

I've used a negative ending only once to my memory, that was with Sharks and Clowns.  It's not meant to be sad, really, more funny in a kinda dark way.
Though, I've decided to change it because I want to have more stories about sharks and clowns in Riigo-Faloo, so instead of everyone dying, a clown goes of to fight a spirit of chaos to make the war stop.

Despite my love for happy endings, I've been really wanting to have something be extremely fun and lighthearted but end with a twisted tragic ending involving every single good character being murdered by the antagonist.
The problem is, everyone would probably hate me, and I'd probably hate myself, but I still want to do it.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Squid]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/3704/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2013-08-18T17:48:59Z</updated>
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