I felt I have a personal connection with Save the Cat since I first read it. This is why: when I was in film school in London – end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s – I used to pay my rent writing articles for the Spanish press about film and theatre in London. This…
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,…
Peter Suderman in his article Save the Movie on Slate.com blames Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat for the mediocrity of today’s Hollywood films! It’s a fantastic read, with a very clever, revealing twist at the end. Now, Stephanie Palmer from Goodinaroom strikes back in “Blake Snyder And The Real Reason Hollywood Makes Bad Movies”. “Movies are bad because…
Are these your favourite Top 10 Screenwriting books? A few in this list would make it in mine too. What about you? Thanks to Goodinaroom.com.
Scripts demand causality. One event causes another event and so on. But then, is there room for coincidence? Has chance a role to play? Oh, yes! Basically one coincidence is acceptable per film. But there are exceptions. There are always exceptions. Sometimes, coincidence is used as the Inciting Incident (Field and McKee concept) that makes…
