For centuries, across multiple cultures and different mediums of storytelling, prophecies have been considered as sacred, unbreakable truths. I mean, that’s the idea anyway, isn’t it?When an audience buys into a movie or TV show’s prophecy, it views the entire story through the lens of that prophecy. It acts like a binding force and a singular certainty.Yet, some stories play the one card nobody expects – the possibility that the prophecy itself was never true at all. The entire foundation of the story becomes a well-cloaked deception that successfully lured you into believing in something that was, in essence, a lie.Let’s look closer at how the prophecy twist actually works so that next time, “the ultimate truth” doesn’t fool us so easily!What Exactly Is The Prophecy Twist?As we’ve discussed, a prophecy twist occurs when a prophecy, presented as the ultimate truth, turns out to be false. In movies and television, the twist hits hardest when large-scale events are at stake, or have already happened, based on the prophecy’s belief system.Imagine a war and the deaths of multiple prominent characters, only for the audience to find out that it was all for nothing. There are many ways in which a prophecy can reveal its falsities. It could be a mistranslation of some kind, deliberate manipulation, or context that was previously hidden.Unlike a typical plot twist (though a prophecy twist can behave as one), this one attacks the very concept of fate, maybe the idea of the chosen one, or something so...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 25 November