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Florestan
Since: May, 2015
Scorpion451
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2024-09-16 09:06:28
See also The Hero's Journey, which doesn't care about acts but stages and cycles. This sort of thing can be a feature of a few different stages, like a Post-Climax Confrontation at the Return Threshold, or The Final Temptation of a hero to take a self-serving or incomplete resolution.

Many films follow a Three-Act Structure. But sometimes, after what seems to be a resolution, it looks like the protagonists are safe and can go home, and the film should be almost over.
But something new happens: a threat comes up or the protagonists remember they still have an important thing to do, causing new action scenes to follow.