Last minute rescue

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Last-Minute-Rescue (English for: rescue in the last minute ), more rarely also: Last-Second-Rescue (English for: rescue in the last second ) is a dramaturgical concept in the film , according to which an arc of tension at its climax through a redeeming and saving event is resolved.

David Wark Griffith first used this concept when he was one of the first film directors to use parallel montage as a suspenseful dramaturgical element in his films at the beginning of the 20th century . In his film The Lonely Villa (1909), for example, a young woman and her children protect themselves from burglars by barricading themselves in their bedroom. Her husband can save the family at the last minute when the burglars are about to break the door.

Griffith cuts back and forth between the locations in an ever faster rhythm until the tension is finally discharged through the rescue.

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