Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder
Here’s what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that’s been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. “Save the Cat” is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, including: The four elements of every winning logline The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by ― and why they’re important to your script Why your Hero must serve your Idea Mastering the 15 Beats Creating the “Perfect Beast” by using The Board to map 40 scenes with conflict and emotional change How to get back on track with proven rules for script repair This ultimate insider’s guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a showbiz veteran who’s proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.
Publication Year: 2005
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0 0"Save the Cat!" proclaims that it's "The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need". This may come as a shock, but it's really not.
There are two things you need to remember when reading this book; this is for breaking into Hollywood. This is how to write a classic Hollywood-blockbuster, not your avant-garde, slice of life-story that you've been dreaming about. This book gives you tips, tricks, orders and notes on your title, logline, structure, rewriting, screenplay and the business.
With the tips in this book, you can easily be inspired and/or enraged, but at the end it becomes clear that Snyder loves to be entertained. That's all he's learning you to do - entertain, in the classic formula. He's all for being original and experimenting, though that's not the way you're going to break in, or stay, in Hollywood. Just remember that.
"Save the Cat!" isn't the last book on screenwriting you'll ever need, but it's a pretty good place to start, especially if you're planning on writing classic, typical and entertaining Hollywood-movies.
(further reading would include Robert McKee's "Story" and J. Michael Straczynski's "The Complete Book of Screenwriting".
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