Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

Because liking the person we go on a journey with is the single most important element in drawing us into the story.

I call it the “Save the Cat” scene. They don’t put it into movies anymore. And it’s basic. It’s the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something — like saving a cat — that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.