"The concern is that wherever you drop the curtain, so to speak, you'll kill the narrative structure, but this doesn't need to be the case with careful planning - arguably people getting up midway through a film causes more disruption," he says.

Elizabeth turns her head toward me, and I quickly drop the curtain.

Starving them of the oxygen of publicity is the best way to drop the curtain on this kind of political scam.

I drop the curtain, certain my intense staring drew her gaze, in a psychic kind of way.

He was about to drop the curtain when he saw her come into the circle of light.