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Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
by Blake Snyder
funny
informative
fast-paced
Snyder is as cocky as he could possibly be. All of the time. He knows stuff cause he's made a lot of money, you see.
Everything is a simple dichotomy to him. Some things are good. Somethings are bad. You must do some things. You must not do others.
Also film references are almost entirely within the 90s, when I was not alive and therefore not watching movies. I also find his worldview is overly naturalistic.
Story, theme, and architype, in Snyder's view, are never representations of anything spiritual or transcendent, only primal desires hard-wired into our monkey-brains.
However, I can't deny that his ten plots cover pretty much any wide-appeal movie ever made, and that his beat sheet makes good movies. His methods are worth employing if you want to be a professional screenwriter. Though the medium of film is very different than it was in Snyder's day. The internet is changing everything, and we don't exactly know where the industry will go next.
Everything is a simple dichotomy to him. Some things are good. Somethings are bad. You must do some things. You must not do others.
Also film references are almost entirely within the 90s, when I was not alive and therefore not watching movies. I also find his worldview is overly naturalistic.
Story, theme, and architype, in Snyder's view, are never representations of anything spiritual or transcendent, only primal desires hard-wired into our monkey-brains.
However, I can't deny that his ten plots cover pretty much any wide-appeal movie ever made, and that his beat sheet makes good movies. His methods are worth employing if you want to be a professional screenwriter. Though the medium of film is very different than it was in Snyder's day. The internet is changing everything, and we don't exactly know where the industry will go next.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual content