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

by Blake Snyder

The opening image is also an opportunity to give us the starting point of the hero.

Presumably, if the screenwriter has done his job, there will also be an “after” snapshot to show how things have changed.

In many ways a good screenplay is an argument posed by the screenwriter, the pros and cons of living a particular kind of life, or pursuing a particular goal.

The set-up is also the place where,

I make sure I’ve introduced or hinted at introducing every character in the A story.

The first 10 pages is also where we start to plant every character tic,

the act break is the moment where we leave the old world,

It is where most of the trailer moments of a movie are found.

“All Is Lost,”

“false defeat.”

It’s never as good as it seems to be at the midpoint

it’s never as bad as it seems at the All Is Lost