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Journey's End

By r.c. sherriff.

• Journey's End Summary

The play begins on March 18, 1918. In the dugout officers' quarters of the British trenches, less than a hundred yards from the German trenches, Hardy dries his sock over a candle flame before he hands off duties to C Company's Osborne. The two talk about an impending major German offensive attack. Hardy goes over vital information, maps and logistical details, and some situational report topics. They joke about the miserable conditions and poor-quality rations. Hardy then gossips about Captain Stanhope , Osborne's superior and the Commanding Officer of C Company. He speaks negatively of Stanhope's heavy drinking, his youth, and his mercurial temperament. He suggests that Osborne should command C Company. Osborne rejects the notion and defends Stanhope, whom he says he loves. Hardy leaves.

Raleigh, an 18-year-old officer, reports for the first time to Osborne. Raleigh reveals that he wanted to join the company because his sister is engaged to Stanhope. Osborne detects Raleigh's idolization of Stanhope and gently cautions him that life on the front lines has a habit of changing men.

Stanhope and Trotter enter. Stanhope is dazed at the sight of Raleigh. After dinner, Stanhope has Raleigh join Trotter on duty to get him fully acquainted. Hibbert comes off watch duty and enters, complaining of neuralgia pains. He refuses dinner and turns in to bed early. Stanhope tells Osborne that he doesn't believe Hibbert is ill and they talk about Raleigh's connection to, and hero-worshipping of, Stanhope, as well as his relationship with Raleigh's sister. Stanhope is not pleased and tells Osborne he'll censor any letters Raleigh writes; he would like Raleigh's sister to continue thinking he is a war hero, and wishes to conceal any information related to his constant drinking. Osborne tucks an exhausted and angry Stanhope into bed.

The front lines are quieter than usual. Word comes down from the Colonel to Stanhope that a major attack is planned for dawn in two days' time. Stanhope orders preparations to hold their ground, wishing to line the sides of their position with barbed wire so that the platoon cannot run away but must hold position and fight.

In the lead up to the attack, the Colonel returns and tells Stanhope to immediately plan a raid across no man's land to capture a German soldier. Osborne and Raleigh are chosen to lead the capture raid, though Stanhope is reluctant to carry it out given the likelihood that they will suffer casualties. The raid is successful in that Raleigh captures a young German soldier who is immediately questioned by the Colonel; however, Osborne dies by grenade during the raid. The news leaves Stanhope grief-stricken and Raleigh shell-shocked.

Before dawn the day of the attack, the men prepare and take their positions on the line. Stanhope stays in the dugout making his own final preparations as he listens to the sound of bombs and gunfire growing louder and closer. The Sergeant-Major reports to Stanhope that Raleigh has been paralyzed by a shell fragment that broke his spine. Stanhope orders that Raleigh be brought to him immediately. Raleigh wakes up on Osborne's old bed with only Stanhope in the room. They speak for a while, addressing each other by their first names. Raleigh asks for a candle to be able to see in the dark, and by the time Stanhope returns with it, Raleigh has died. The Sergeant-Major comes in with a dire message from Trotter, asking for Stanhope. Stanhope walks stiffly out of the dugout, leaving Raleigh alone. A shell falls on the roof and snuffs out the candle flame. The sandbags and wooden beams holding up the entrance fall in, entombing Raleigh's body. The play ends with the muffled sound of intensifying warfare outside.

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How does Sherriff create tension in the duologue between Osborne and Stanhope at the end of Act 1?

Stanhope meets the revelation that Raleigh has joined his company with unease. The presence of Raleigh introduces a new conflict to the play that involves the themes of heroism, alcoholism, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Stanhope knows...

What are Trotter's quotes showing his emotions?

From the text:

Trotter (throwing his spoon with a clatter into the plate) : Oh, I say, but dam!

Trotter : Well, boys ! ’Ere we are for six days again. Six bloomin’ eternal days. {He makes a calculation on the table.)

Trotter comes down the steps,...

How Sherriff presents the true horrors of was through the character of Raleigh?

The difference between the fantasy of war and its true, horrific and demoralizing nature is one of the play's major themes. The theme is most overtly revealed through Raleigh's character arc. When Raleigh first arrives, his boyish excitement at...

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• Full Title: Journey’s End
• When Published: Journey’s End was first produced on December 9th, 1928
• Literary Period: Modernism
• Genre: Drama, Realism
• Setting: A military dugout in the British trenches of St. Quentin, France during World War I.
• Climax: After days of mounting tension and anticipation, the Germans finally stage a massive attack on the British trenches, seriously overwhelming Stanhope’s infantry and fatally wounding Raleigh.
• Antagonist: The Germans are the most obvious antagonists in Journey’s End , but they hardly ever actually appear in the play. Because of this, the threat they pose—the sense of doom that hovers over the British dugout—becomes the true antagonistic force.

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Rowing Club. R.C. Sherriff composed and staged his first play in order to raise money for Kingston Rowing Club so that the organization could purchase a new boat.

The Big Screen. Since it first premiered, Journey’s End has been staged many, many times. In 2018, though, it was adapted as a feature film for the first time.

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Journey’s End review – handsome first world war drama

T his taut, handsome historical drama about a British battalion in northern France is adapted from RC Sherriff’s 1928 play. With all the action confined to a few days in a trench circa 1918, it feels a little stagey in parts. That said, the film’s focus on characters rather than action offers a contrast to the sheer in-the-moment spectacle of a wartime feature such as Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk .

Journey’s End is an ensemble affair, with Toby Jones’s grumpy cook channelling Rowan Atkinson’s Blackadder, and Asa Butterfield ( The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , Hugo ) as Raleigh, a bug-eyed recruit whose boyish wonderment is unable to protect him from the inevitable. Sam Claflin is particularly good as the boozy, brooding Captain Stanhope, whose intensity, belligerence and self-loathing flesh out what might in less capable hands have been a cliched, shell-shocked soldier.

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Plot summary - Edexcel

The play is set in the vicious trench warfare of World War One. The action begins on the evening of Monday 18 March 1918 and continues over three days.

Characters - Edexcel

Captain Dennis Stanhope is a flawed hero and the main character in this anti-war play. The play portrays soldiers with a variety of different backgrounds and character traits.

Themes - Edexcel

Sherriff uses World War One to explore a variety of themes - including the futility of war, class differences, courage and comradeship.

Form, structure and language - Edexcel

Journey's End is a dramatic play which mimics real life. Sherriff uses dialogue and structure to convey the realism of trench warfare and to create tension.

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An intelligent, meticulously crafted drama about British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, “Journey’s End” is the latest cinematic rendition of a play by a war veteran, R.C. Sheriff, which premiered in England in 1928 with Laurence Olivier in a lead role. While the play was a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and has proved an admirably durable theatrical staple (I saw the hit Broadway revival of 2007), one might wonder why it would be made into a movie in the present day.

An obvious one-word answer: “ Dunkirk .” Although they concern different wars, the two movies plumb the innate drama, tedium and terror of soldiers on foreign soil bracing for an onslaught by overwhelming enemy forces. Intimate and verbal, though, Saul Dibb ’s film provides a satisfying antithesis to Christopher Nolan ’s macrocosmic, hyper-sensory view of war: it gives close and sustained attention to a handful of soldiers facing both an implacable foe and their own mortality.

Since its debut, Sheriff’s play has been praised for its precise, flavorful realism and avoidance of cliches and rhetoric. Unlike many literary and cinematic treatments that would come later, it’s neither staunchly “patriotic” nor polemically “anti-war.” Leaving aside the war’s political causes (aside from one character’s statement that it should never have happened), it focuses squarely on the certain individuals and their ways of dealing with a situation of impending catastrophe.

Simon Reade ’s script for the film preserves the play’s virtues while opening its action outward in appropriate and judicious ways: While most of the drama remains in the bunkers of the British forces, when the soldiers leap out of the trenches onto the battlefield, we see that, too.

The tale takes place in the spring of 1918 near St. Quentin, France. The war has already dragged out for nearly four years, with millions killed; it will grind on for more than a half-year longer, snuffing out countless lives as it does. There is, in other words, nothing either strategically or historically significant about the episode we witness; it’s just another horror in a seemingly endless succession of them.

The film escorts us into the battle zone following fresh-faced teenaged Second Lieutenant Raleigh ( Asa Butterfield ), who could have done his service in a safer place but instead has gone to some trouble to get assigned to the command of Captain Stanhope ( Sam Claflin ). Before the war, Stanhope was a senior boy at Raleigh’s school and enamored of his sister; the three spent holidays happily wandering England’s countryside, the younger man recalls.

The early scene where Raleigh encounters Stanhope for the first time in the unit’s underground HQ is one of the film’s most memorable. Instead of the warm welcome he expected from his admired older pal, Raleigh finds a changed man. Though respected by his soldiers, Stanhope is a stiff and troubled officer and hardcore alcoholic. Naturally he doesn’t like Raleigh seeing him like this, and fears the reports he might send his sister.

Stanhope (the role that launched Olivier) is the pivotal figure in this drama. The other main character, gentlemanly, bookish Lieutenant Osborne ( Paul Bettany ), has joined the unit just recently but seems to have already formed a solid bond with Stanhope, who obviously needs his steadying, sane friendship.

A side note: The first film version of “Journey’s End” was directed in 1930 by James Whale , who would direct “Frankenstein” the following year and whose troubled psychic life as a gay WWI veteran is the subject of Bill Condon ’s “ Gods and Monsters .” While rights issues have kept Whale’s “Journey’s End” long out of circulation, a friend who’s seen it told me it’s rife with homosexual subtext. Apart perhaps from a poignant scene where a drunken Stanhope implores Osborne to tuck him into bed, that’s not the case here.

Instead, the drama describes the tensions, anxieties and sustaining camaraderie that unite these men and their fellows—including stalwart cook Mason ( Toby Jones ) and battle-hardened Trotter ( Stephen Graham ) and Hibbert ( Tom Sturridge )—as they begin a week when they’ve learned a massive German offensive is expected to begin. All know that they will be neither be evacuated nor reinforced. They are simply sacrificial lambs of the most basic strategic sort, their deaths meant only to momentarily slow the advancing enemy.

A crucial turn at the film’s dramatic apex comes when the Brits’ commanders send down an order that the unit mount a party of two officers and ten men to dash across no-man’s-land in the face of enemy fire, grab any German soldier they can, and bring him back in hopes of extracting intelligence about the upcoming attack. Raleigh and Osborne are the officers chosen for the detail. The mission is almost assuredly suicidal, just as it is inevitably futile, since it can do little or nothing to affect the impending slaughter.

Dibbs does a fine job bringing a nuanced, realistic visual style to this venerable tale of war’s cruel and colossal wastes, and his actors are all first-rate, with Bettany a special stand-out. But though it proves the timelessness of Sheriff’s drama, the film doesn’t make a particularly strong case for why, “Dunkirk” apart, it should be considered more-than-usually relevant today.

Godfrey Cheshire

Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. He has written for The New York Times, Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice, Interview, Cineaste and other publications.

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Journey's End (2018)

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Sam Claflin as Captain Stanhope

Asa Butterfield as Raleigh

Paul Bettany as Osborne

Tom Sturridge as Hibbert

Toby Jones as Mason

Stephen Graham as Trotter

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Journey's End brings R.C. Sherriff's 90-year-old play to the screen with thrilling power, thanks to director Saul Dibb's hard-hitting urgency and brilliant work from a talented cast.

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• 1 Mechanics
• 2.1 Survivor
• 3.1.1 Gourmand
• 3.1.2 Survivor
• 3.2 Artificer - 12th Council Pillar, the House of Braids
• 3.3 Rivulet - Looks to the Moon
• 3.4 Spearmaster - Communications Array
• 3.5.1 Artificer
• 3.5.2 Saint - Rubicon
• 3.5.3 Other

After any ending, the Slugcat selection screen changes to reflect the nature of the ending, including any variations within an ending. For Hunter, Artificer, and Saint, Ascension renders a file unplayable, as the 'Continue' button is replaced by the 'Statistics' button, and their save file must be restarted to play as them again. [1] Other endings allow Slugcat to continue after the events of the ending. Waking up immediately after an ending is treated as a save point, similarly to the beginning of a campaign.

• ↑ Restarting Saint's save file after ascending carries over Saint's stored stomach item, and their ending artwork on the selection screen remains.

Awards the achievement Ascension .

Survivor floating before a glowing Slugtree

This was a bug prior to 1.9, however, it became an intended mechanic in the Downpour DLC.

Monk reaching towards Survivor

Hunter falling in the Void Sea. Dark tendrils spill from their chest, surrounded by small green sparks.

Hunter's final scene, cupped in the hands of No Significant Harassment .

Slugtree - Journey's End

Upon reaching Journey's End, Gourmand finds several Slugcats heading in the same direction. The player loses control of Gourmand as they approach the base of the Slugtree, where they stand for a moment before triggering the ending cutscene.

Awards the achievement Migration .

Food quest completed

Selection screen

Selection screen with food quest completed

Completing Gourmand 's campaign permanently unlocks the Outer Expanse Karma Gate for both Survivor and Monk, allowing them to reach Journey's End to achieve the following endings.

Ditto with 1 Slugpup

Ditto with 2 Slugpups

Menu Selection

Monk finds Survivor in the Slugtree along with two Slugpups, regardless of whether Survivor's campaign has been completed or how many Slugpups they had.

Artificer - 12th Council Pillar, the House of Braids

The Scavenger Chieftain is initially neutral and only turns to follow and react to Artificer's movements or points to the exit. A maroon Citizen ID Drone, presumably belonging to the Chieftain, intermittently flashes the Danger symbol while pointing at Artificer.

Upon attempting to gift or antagonize the Chieftain, they become aggressive and jump off the throne. Artificer must knock off their plated armor and kill them while avoiding their attacks, as well as those of the Scavengers that spawn throughout the fight. Once the Chieftain has been killed, their mask may be picked up, triggering the ending cutscene.

Awards the achievement Closure .

Artificer gazes over the Chieftain's corpse at a crowd of Scavengers.

Dead Scavengers surround Artificer and Sofanthiel, their Citizen ID Drone.

Menu selection

Rivulet - Looks to the Moon

Awards the achievement An Old Friend .

Unlocks the Rarefaction Cell in Sandbox mode.

• ↑ This is the only way out of Bitter Aerie without Passaging. If the player Passages out of Bitter Aerie and enters Looks to the Moon from the left pipe, they still trigger the ending but are unable to move from the entrance and cannot see her projections.

Spearmaster - Communications Array

Awards the achievement Messenger .

Ascension - Depths

At the point where identical Slugcats usually join the player’s journey, Artificer remains alone. Golden tendrils begin to sprout and trail from them, dissolving the lower part of their body. The ending cutscene triggers while Artificer is still swimming, with no sign of the light that other Slugcats see in their Ascensions.

Reaching this ending is listed as "Acceptance" instead of the usual "Ascended" in the final score screen.

On the menu selection screen, Artificer appears a dull red, despite their disappearance during the final scene. Unique to Artificer, two faint lights can be seen behind them, one green and one light blue.

Artificer swimming alone through the Void Sea. Note the trailing golden tendrils and lack of glowing light.

Artificer encountering the silhouettes of their two Slugpups.

Artificer hugging their Slugpups close.

Artificer disappears, leaving golden tendrils and the ghosts of their Slugpups behind.

Saint - Rubicon

Saint has 2 endings: In The Cycle, Saint becomes an Echo and restarts.

The second, Heartbreak, is an Easter Egg that requires a 100% save file of another game, Fez. There is a hidden room in Rubicon in the top left pipe of the room HR_LAYERS_OF_REALITY. After entering this room, the player must exit it in this sequence: down, any, left right or up, right, and down. Then, Saint must perform an Ascension attack and exit on the left. This spawns a heart in the center of the room, which is filled if there is a fully completed Fez file on the same device. Once the heart is ascended, the game returns to the title screen and the player cannot get this ending again. [1] [2]

Completing Saint awards the achievement The Cycle . Unlocks Firebug , Fire Egg , and Fire Spear in Sandbox mode.

Spearmaster

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• ↑ Easter Eggs

'Frieren Beyond Journey’s End' Ending Explained

• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is a twist on traditional tropes and follows Frieren, an immortal elf mage, after the defeat of the Demon King.
• In the finale, Fern passes the First-Class Mage exams, but Frieren fails due to differing views on magic.
• The anime leaves the door open for more stories after the group leaves Äuberst, suggesting there is more story to tell in the future.

What happens when the party of heroes defeats the invincible villain, peace is restored to the world again, and the adventure is over? Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End , one of the best newcomers to the anime scene , twists traditional narrative tropes by telling the life after the story! The anime follows Frieren ( Atsumi Tanezaki ), an immortal elf mage, who decides to leave the royal capital, after defeating the Demon King beside her friends Himmel the Hero ( Nobuhiko Okamoto ), drunken priest Heiter ( Hiroki Tōchi ), and dwarf warrior Eisen ( Yōji Ueda ), in search for a new meaning of life and spells.

Based on Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe 's award-winning manga , the slice-of-life series has gained worldwide popularity, proving that its one-of-a-kind storytelling approach to lore and magic is redefining the genre. Sadly, Season 1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End ended on March 22 after a 6-month run. Episode 28, "It Would Be Embarrassing When We Meet Again" is packed with bittersweet goodbyes as the results of the First Class Mage Exam are revealed and Frieren's party takes their leave of the majestic city of Äuberst to continue their journey north.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

An elf and her friends defeat a demon king in a great war. But the war is over, and the elf must search for a new way of life.

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The First-Class Mage Exams Are Both Challenging and Tiresome

The main purpose of Frieren's jounrey north is to follow the advice of her late master, Flamme ( Atsuko Tanaka ) the Great Mage, who had an inkling her apprentice would want to seek out the soul of a dead friend. After bringing an era of peace to the world and experiencing Himmel's death, Frieren feels guilty for disregarding the precious time she spent with her dear friend . Her regrets inspire her to return to the Demon King's palace, Heaven, where the souls of the dead reside. Frieren takes her young apprentice Fern ( Kana Ichinose ) and Eisen's warrior apprentice Stark ( Chiaki Kobayashi ) with her on the adventure.

Through several years, the rag-tag trio travels northward, stopping to help others in need. The gang runs into all sorts of mischief as they encounter beastly creatures, conniving demons, a mysterious elf, royals, and long-time friends. Towards the end of Season 1, Frieren, Fern, and Stark have reached the crossing point to the northern lands, but the lands have had repeated attacks from violent demons. To cross, the Continental Magic Association requires all mages to be the highest rank possible — a First-Class Mage. Luckily for Frieren, the exams take place every three years, and it just so happens that the exams are set to take place very soon.

The group arrives in Äuberst, the magic capital, and Frieren and Fern register for First-Class Mage exam. Competing against fifty-two incredible mages, the first stage requires teams of three to capture a meteoric iron bird called the Stille. The second stage leveled up the stakes by challenging the examinees to reach the center of a labyrinth dungeon, Ruins of the King's Tomb, filled with lethal replicas of themselves. Although this conclusion feels like a tedious ending for the series, the "exam period" is a typical arc seen throughout the anime industry, like My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen . But the final stage demands the surviving mages to pass an interview with the judgmental head of the Continental Magic Association, allowing fans to reconnect again with the greatness of Frieren's character.

Fern Passes, but Frieren Fails the Exams Because of Her Views on Magic

The head of the Continental Magic Association is the Great Mage Serie ( Mariya Ise ), who used to be the master of Flamme. Serie couldn't be any different from her gentle apprentice, but she shares the common personality traits of a cold, expressionless elf like Frieren. When it all comes down to the third stage of the exam, Serie fails Frieren almost instantly and Frieren expected just as much. Serie simply views magic as a tool for killing, whereas Frieren strongly believes the greatest enjoyment of magic comes only during the pursuit of it .

Serie harshly criticizes the exam takers, evaluating their worth based on their reaction to her mana, personalities, and stance on magic. With five other mages, Fern passes the exam solely because she rejects Serie's invitation to become her apprentice . Fern's loyalty and confidence in Frieren impresses Serie, and Fern is granted the "Privilege" spell upon obtaining a First-Class Mage qualification. In the market, Frieren runs into one of the passing mages, Wirbel ( Kishô Taniyama ). The two exchange a heartwarming moment as Wirbel shares that he was inspired to become a mage from the stories he heard growing up about Frieren's humble journeys with the Party of Heroes. But what moved him the most was Himmel's passion for helping others and the small deeds that made him a legendary hero

On the day of the Privilege ceremony, Fern invites Frieren and Stark to be her guests, but Serie forbids Frieren to attend. Frieren and Stark wait outside the hall, boasting about Fern's growth. Moments later, Lernen ( Atsushi Mitauchi ), a First-Class Mage and Serie’s apprentice, threatens to kill Frieren on a whim. He believes Serie is lonely without an apprentice she can remember and without one who can go down in history. Lernen demands a duel and attacks Frieren across the shoulder , although she quickly denies the fight.

In a flashback during the final exam, Frieren notices the garden surrounding them was cast with a spell to create a field of flowers — Flamme's favorite. Serie confesses she never regrets that her apprentices haven't surpassed her in power, and she appreciates every mage she teaches despite their failures. Frieren explains this to Lernen, relieving his worries. As the trio says their last goodbyes to the fellow mages in Äuberst, Fern reveals she chose the Privilege spell to make clothes clean and spotless . Frieren couldn't be more proud, and this heartfelt moment shows how much Fern has fallen in the footsteps of her simple-minded master.

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How does 'frieren: beyond journey's end' follow life after the story.

Having earned the credentials, the end of Episode 28, "It Would Be Embarrassing When We Meet Again", shows Frieren, Fern, and Stark crossing their way toward the northern lands . Frieren reflects on a time Himmel always said short goodbyes to the people they met throughout their journey. He tells her tearful goodbyes would be embarrassing later if you happened to meet that someone again. With the conclusion of its smash-hit first season, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End demonstrates the power of brilliant pacing paired with characters who are just as easy to connect with as they are humbling. By using a fusion of non-linear storytelling , the show has re-imagined how to tell a magical, medieval story that is unique in the animated world.

Frieren's journey is an important game changer because of its unique deconstruction that follows life after the story where your typical anime focuses on the pursuit to slay a greater evil. Frieren has already won the day, and this dynamic makes the series stand apart from other fantasy anime like Jobless Reincarnation (2021) and Delicious in Dungeon (2024). Season 2 has not been confirmed yet for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End . However, judging from the after-credits, the journey is far from over.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is available to stream now on Crunchyroll in the U.S.

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Journey's End

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

• Simon Reade
• R.C. Sherriff
• Vernon Bartlett
• Paul Bettany
• Sam Claflin
• Stephen Graham
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• 4 wins & 3 nominations

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• Trivia Playwright R.C. Sherriff had seen first-hand the effect of years of war on his friends and knew the fear and terror of waiting for an impending attack, waiting for his journey's end. The characters in the play are a reflection of the men Sherriff had served with in the 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment.
• Goofs A common misconception is the myth about having your chinstrap unbuckled. It is mainly an American thing that was spread in WW2. Fact is, if the concussion was strong enough to hurt your neck or face because your chinstrap was buckled, the force of the same concussion would more than likely kill you. Having your strap undone just meant you would spend a lot of time holding your helmet on while moving fast.

Lieutenant Osborne : Every little noise up there, makes me feel sick.

• Connections Featured in Projector: Journey's End (2018)
• Soundtracks Elevation Written and performed by Hildur Guðnadóttir

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• Mar 18, 2018

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• Runtime 1 hour 47 minutes

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Predicting the ending of all 13 fast & furious characters in fast 11.

The Fast Saga is set to conclude with Fast & Furious 11 – or Fast X 2 – but how will Dom Toretto and his family's stories come to a definitive end?

• Dom will likely sacrifice himself for his family, mirroring Iron Man's fate in Avengers: Endgame.
• Brian and Mia will finally get a proper sendoff in Fast 11, bringing closure to their story.
• Letty may assume leadership of Dom's family if he dies, ensuring the saga ends on a fitting note.

The Fast Saga is set to conclude with Fast & Furious 11 – the second volume of Fast X – but how will Dominic Toretto and his family’s stories come to a definitive end? Throughout its entire run, the Fast & Furious franchise’s M.O. has been to keep going indefinitely. The mainline series is 10 movies deep and seems to still be going strong, but the plan is to conclude the saga with Fast 11 . Fast X was intended to function as the first part of a two-part finale, Avengers -style, and Fast 11 will be the final chapter of Dom’s cinematic journey.

After the open-ended cliffhanger in the final scene of Fast X , the sky is the limit for Fast 11 ’s finale. From Dom to Brian to Letty to Hobbs and Shaw, there are a lot of characters whose stories need to be wrapped up in the final Fast & Furious movie. Dom could die, Hobbs could ride off into the sunset, and Roman and Tej could be set up for a spin-off series – there are plenty of theories for the Fast & Furious series’ long-awaited ending. Here are some predictions for how the characters’ endings will shake out in Fast 11 .

10 Dominic Toretto Will Sacrifice Himself For His Family

Dom will be the iron man of fast & furious' endgame.

If Fast 11 is being modeled after Avengers: Endgame as the big finale of an action-packed cinematic saga, then one of the heroes is likely to die in the final battle – and it’ll probably be Dom. If Fast 11 is Fast & Furious ’ Endgame , then Dom is its Iron Man. Dom’s entire character has been defined by his undying love for his family and his willingness to do whatever it takes to keep them safe.

In that spirit, it would make sense for Dom to make the ultimate sacrifice for his family in Fast 11 . The franchise’s penchant for keeping the story going for as long as possible has resulted in a lack of stakes and consequences. No characters in this series stay dead. Killing off Dom would be a heartbreaking way to end this saga with some bittersweet finality.

9 Brian O'Conner & Mia Toretto Will Properly Settle Down

Brian and mia have been settled down for a while, but they need a proper ending.

Ever since Paul Walker passed away, Brian O’Conner – and, by extension, his love interest Mia Toretto – have been kept off-screen. They’ve been mentioned in passing, usually to say that they’ve settled down with their family. Vin Diesel has already teased that Fast 11 will give Brian a proper goodbye . This is a good sign, because Brian deserves a true farewell, and the final movie has to acknowledge him.

This could mean that Walker’s brothers, Caleb and Cody Walker, who stood in for him in Furious 7 , could return to give Brian one last Fast & Furious scene. It’s one thing to say that Brian and Mia have settled down, but it needs to be shown on-screen. For Fast 11 to feel like a conclusive ending to the saga, audiences need to see Brian and Mia at peace, enjoying their life together, even if it’s just for a second.

8 Letty Ortiz Will Assume Leadership Of Dom's Found Family

If dom dies, letty will take his place as the head of the family.

If Dom does make the ultimate sacrifice and die to save his family in Fast 11 , then it’s likely that his wife Letty Ortiz will take up his mantle. With Dom out of the picture, someone else will have to become the head of his found family. Since Letty is Dom’s closest ally and his partner-in-life as well as his partner-in-crime, she would be the best candidate to lead the family in his absence.

This would mean that the franchise could continue with a new chapter – this time, led by Letty – and Michelle Rodriguez has the movie star chops to assume franchise leadership after Diesel’s departure. Even if the franchise doesn’t carry on after Fast 11 , making Letty the new leader would leave the family in safe hands. It would be a fitting ending to this long-running story.

7 Roman Pearce & Tej Parker Will Go Off On Their Own Solo Adventures

Roman and tej are primed for their own spin-off series.

Just because the mainline Fast & Furious series is ending with Fast 11 , it doesn’t mean that Universal is done making money from Fast & Furious movies. Fast 11 is likely to set up a couple of spin-offs to give the franchise a second life after the end of Dom’s journey. Two characters who are primed for the spin-off treatment are Roman Pearce and Tej Parker, who could headline a series of great “buddy cop” actioners.

Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris have shared terrific on-screen chemistry throughout their entire Fast & Furious tenure. It feels like their dynamic is being underutilized with supporting roles in these films. Their chemistry is strong enough to support an entire movie franchise of its own. After Fast 11 , a series of Roman and Tej movies could be on the cards.

6 Han Lue & Gisele Yashar Will Be Reunited

After gisele's return, she has to be reunited with han.

Han Lue was killed off as far back as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift , then reappeared in the next three movies, which all took place before Tokyo Drift , before the series finally caught up with his death in Fast & Furious 6 . In both the post-credits scene of Fast & Furious 6 and flashbacks in Furious 7 , Han’s death was shown again to remind viewers of what happened to him. This was just after Han lost the love of his life, Gisele Yashar, who sacrificed herself to save him in Fast & Furious 6 ’s final battle.

In F9 , it was revealed that Han wasn’t really dead after all. And in Fast X , it was revealed that Gisele wasn’t really dead after all. In Fast 11 , these two lovebirds need to be reunited so they can resume their relationship.

5 Luke Hobbs Will Ride Off Into The Sunset After One Last Victory

Dwayne johnson has already teased how hobbs' journey will end.

The end of Luke Hobbs’ story isn’t just confined to Fast 11 ; he’s also taking center stage in a Hobbs-centric sequel to the Fast & Furious franchise’s first official spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw . Dwayne Johnson already teased how Hobbs’ story will end , promising that audiences will see him “ walk off into the sunset. ” This is the typical ending for notorious gunslingers in the western genre.

Hobbs was always an outlier in Dom’s family. He’s not as closely tied to the group as Letty or Brian; he’s a friend and ally who stops by to help them when they’re in a jam. Hobbs’ ending will likely see him as more of a lone wolf than a ride-or-die member of the family. After one last victory, he can finally hang up his hat and head off to lead a peaceful existence.

4 Deckard Shaw Will Continue His Mercenary Career For Good Causes

Shaw won't change his ways too much, but he has become more heroic.

By the end of the Fast & Furious saga, it’s unlikely that Deckard Shaw will change too much, because he’s very set in his ways. But he has gotten a lot more heroic since he saved Dom’s son and made peace with Dom’s family. Shaw will probably still be a mercenary for hire by the end of Fast 11 , but he might be taking jobs that hurt bad people and save innocent people, sort of like a vigilante.

Since Hobbs’ spin-off series is continuing without Shaw, Shaw could similarly go off on his own solo adventures. He could become the guy who does bad things for good people. If he becomes the kind of mercenary that Joaquin Phoenix played in You Were Never Really Here , it would set up a really exciting, really gritty Shaw solo series.

3 Ramsey Will Get A Cushy Government Job

Ramsey can put her hacking skills to good use with a government job.

Ramsey is a late addition to Dom’s family, but her skills as a hacker have been invaluable to the team’s exploits. The movies have demonstrated that Ramsey is so proficient at figuring out computer systems and cracking their security that she’s being underutilized as the I.T. technician of a mercenary squad. If Dom’s family disbands at the end of Fast 11 , Ramsey could take a cushy government position in the field of surveillance.

While most of Dom’s comrades are ne’er-do-wells who couldn’t hack it in a normal job, Ramsey is a good person. At the end of Fast 11 , following her final rubber-burning adventure with Dom and co., she might go legit. She’s always been a likable character, so it would be great to see her get a happy ending (with a steady government income).

2 Cipher Will Complete Her Transition From Villain To Hero

Cipher is in the midst of a redemption arc.

When Cipher was first introduced in The Fate of the Furious , she was the ultimate Fast & Furious villain. She managed to blackmail Dom into turning against his family, which is something that no Fast villain before her or since has been able to do. Cipher is a great character, so she’s continued to pop up in the subsequent movies, and in Fast X , she started a redemption arc.

In Fast X , Letty was locked up in a black-site prison in Antarctica and was surprised to find Cipher locked up in the same prison. Since they both faced a common enemy, they reluctantly joined forces to break out of there. Based on Cipher’s arc so far, it seems as though, at the end of Fast 11 , she’ll have completed her transition from villain to hero.

1 Dante Reyes Will Make Peace With Dom's Family

Dante will follow in the footsteps of every other fast & furious villain.

Dante Reyes is one of the only Fast & Furious villains whose tenure has extended beyond a single movie. Reyes’ revenge plot is so extravagant that Dom and co. aren’t even close to thwarting it by the end of Fast X , ending the movie on a cliffhanger to be resolved in Fast 11 . It might seem like Reyes is too far gone to be redeemed, but that’s the pattern followed by almost every past Fast & Furious villain.

From Shaw to Cipher, every villain who has sought vengeance against Dom’s family has eventually made peace with them and become an ally. If Reyes doesn’t do the same by the end of Fast 11 , it’ll be tough to get a real sense of closure on the Fast & Furious saga. Fast 11 could even set up Reyes for a future team-up.