![]() Scripting a horror film? Read the “Monster in the House” section and discover how 28 Days Later and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are the same movie – and what you need to do to write a scary story that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats. Writing a “rom-com”? Check out the “Buddy Love” chapter for a “beat for beat” dissection of Before Sunrise, The Reader, Blue Is the Warmest Color, and more to see how Linklater and Krizan, David Hare, and Kechiche and Lacroix structured their films. If you’re a writer, this book reveals how those who came before you tackled the same challenges you are facing with the films you want to write. ![]() If you’re a moviegoer, you’ll discover a language to analyze film and understand how filmmakers can effectively reach audiences. Now his student, screenwriter and novelist Salva Rubio applies Blake’s principles to 50 independent, auteur, European, and cult films (again with 5 beat sheets for each of Blake’s 10 genres in the book Save the Cat!® Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters. In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter’s Guide to Every Story Ever Told, Blake Snyder provided 50 “beat sheets” to 50 films, mostly studio-made. ![]() ![]() Rarely does a book change the way screenwriters approach story and structure. The impact that Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat® book series has had on Hollywood screenwriting is incalculable. ![]()
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