Hell-bent for the end. We’re at the edge, hoping and fearing - if the hero turns left, all is well, but if she turns right, the world as we know it ends. Clarity is key. It’s not that we don’t have complex emotions or ideas about what it all amounts to – what’s the underlying message or theme – but at this point we crave CLARITY. Will he get the girl, defuse the bomb, kill his evil twin, and escape from the sinking boat surrounded by sharks? This is the OBLIGATORY SCENE: the final showdown between good and evil, and the moment we’ve been waiting for, where the hero…

No one ever really sets out to create an icon. Be it a film's character, a camera movement, a specific score, or a line of dialogue, there is no formula for creating the everlasting. Those who try to create the iconic, often fail and those who succeed, often didn't intend to. Scorsese's long take in Goodfellas, Han Solo's "I know" from The Empire Strikes Back, and Indy's bringing a gun to a sword fight in Raiders of the Lost Ark were never planned; they were all improvisations, moments born out of their filmmakers' quick thinking brought on by creative or logistical…