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Save the Movie! Is Blake Snyder to Blame?

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The 2005 Screenwriting Book That’s Taken Over Hollywood — And Made Every Movie Feel The Same

Is Blake Snyder‘s Save the Cat to blame for the mediocrity of many Hollywood films?

Known script blogger Erik Bork doesn’t think so. No wonder in the cloud tag of his blog Snyder’s name comes out so big.

But Peter Suderman seems to agree in his very interesting article Save the Movie on Slate.com! It’s a fantastic read, with a very clever, revealing twist at the end.  Is Suderman right?

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Enric Folch attained a Degree in Journalism at The Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona, Spain. Achieved Overall Distinction in “Art and Technique of Filmmaking” at The London International Film School. Enric has been a director of TV series and a writer and director of five fiction feature films made for television, like “El Mètode Grönholm” (“The Grönholm Method”, Director), based on the internationally acclaimed play; and the multi-awarded “Tempus Fugit” (Story, Co-Writer and Director), winner of a dozen prizes in international film and TV festivals. Enric's a teacher at ESCAC, the renowned Barcelona's film school, as well as in other film and acting schools. In 2018, he was the Director-On-Set on the Emmy-nominated Amazon documentary Series "All or Nothing: Manchester City". In 2019, he was the director-on-set of the first season of "Fernando", the documentary series about car-racer Fernando Alonso, for Amazon Prime Video. As we speak, he is giving the finishing touches to "The Devil on Wheels", a feature documentary about Steven Spielberg's first film "Duel" and the cult that surrounds it.