The impression that Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat® e book sequence has had on Hollywood screenwriting is incalculable. Rarely does a e book change the best way screenwriters method story and construction. In his best-selling e book, Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter’s Guide to Every Story Ever Told
Now his scholar, screenwriter and novelist Salva Rubio applies Blake’s ideas to 50 unbiased, auteur, European, and cult movies (once more with 5 beat sheets for every of Blake’s 10 genres within the e book Save the Cat!® Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters
If you’re a moviegoer, you’ll uncover a language to investigate movie and perceive how filmmakers can successfully attain audiences.
If you’re a author, this e book reveals how those that got here earlier than you tackled the identical challenges you’re going through with the movies you wish to write. 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 extra to see how Linklater and Krizan, David Hare, and Kechiche and Lacroix structured their movies.
Scripting a horror movie? Read the “Monster in the House” part and uncover how 28 Days Later and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are the identical film – and what you have to do to put in writing a scary story that retains audiences on the sting of their seats.
Want to execute an excellent thriller? Go to the “Whydunit” chapter and be taught in regards to the “dark turn” that’s important to the heroes of The Big Lebowski, The French Connection, and Michael Clayton.
Want your protagonist to go up towards an evil “institution”? Consider how Mamet dealt with Glengarry Glen Ross and Tarantino’s famed Pulp Fiction.
Writing a “Superhero” story? See how Susannah Grant structured Erin Brockovich, Anderson & Baumbach labored out Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Gilliam & Stoppard & McKeown laid the muse for Brazil.
With these 50 beat sheets, you’ll see how “hitting the beats” creates tales that resonate the world over for these excellent writers—and how one can observe of their footsteps.
Salva Rubio is a novelist, screenwriter, and creator. He has been nominated on the Spanish Goya Awards for Best Animation Feature. As a graphic novel author, a few of his works have been printed in America, together with Monet, Itinerant of Light (nominated for an Eisner Award), and The Photographer of Mauthausen. Salva is an affiliate member of the WGAW (Writers Guild of America, West) and a member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España.
Enjoy my dialog with Salva Rubio.
