CHAPTER SEVEN: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Despite everything, you’ve written 110 pages of nada - How to get back on track by using 6 fast double-checks on your work: The Hero Leads Make The Bad Guy Badder Turn, Turn, Turn The Emotional Color Wheel “Hi How Are You I’m Fine” Take A Step Back - all ironclad and proven rules for script repair.

Black Vet, Watch Out for That Glacier!, and Covenant of the Arc. the BS2 - An in-depth discussion of each of the 15 beats found in a successful movie as found in the BS2 - How the beats apply to Miss Congeniality.ĬHAPTER FIVE: BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST Putting it up on the board - Sectioning off four horizontal rows, one for each section of the movie - 40 index cards and 40 only! - Troubleshooting based on the layout - How a screenplay is like a business plan and how you can create one that sells.ĬHAPTER SIX: THE IMMUTABLE LAWS OF SCREENPLAY PHYSICS Common sense rules of screenwriting based on experience in the trenches of Hollywood, such as: Save the Cat, The Pope in the Pool, Double Mumbo Jumbo, Laying Pipe, Too Much Marzipan a.k.a. CHAPTER FOUR: LET’S BEAT IT OUT! The beats of a movie as defined by the official “Blake Snyder Beat Sheet” a.k.a. The subject is the hero - Why the hero must serve the idea - How to adjust the hero to make your movie idea work better - The myth of casting your movie - Jungian archetypes and why we need ‘em. ONLY DIFFERENT! All about genre - The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by - How genre is important to you and your movie - Plus ways to peg every movie’s type. VII FOREWORDTaylor, producer of the Save the Catexecutive The official stamp of approval method from Sheila Hanahan and developmentįor Zide/Perry (American Pie, Final Destination, Hellboy) INTRODUCTION XIauthoranother screenwriting book? - Somewhat does the Why background on the and the reason for the book - And phrase “Save the Cat” mean anyway? CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS IT? The importance of “the idea” - What is a “logline” and what are the four requirements to creating a better one? - What is “high concept” and why is it still relevant? - Test pitching your movie for fun and profit - Plus five games to jump-start your idea-creating skills. The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need

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