What do you want the audience to feel…

…when they walk out of the theater at the end of your movie?

“Casablanca” (1942)

Or you can re-frame the question this way: What do you want a reader to feel when they finish your script? With regard to screenwriting, these questions lie at the heart of the denouement.

The Oxford dictionary defines it this way: the end of a story, in which everything is explained, or the end result of a…