Save The Cat! Softcover Book - Screenwriting Guide for Hollywood Movies | Perfect for Aspiring Writers & Film Students

Product Description

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

• He’s made millions of dollars selling screenplays. Now “one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters,” tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. 

• Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying and saleable, including:

• The four elements of every winning logline.
• The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics

• The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by and why they’re important to your script
• Why 

• your hero must serve your Idea
• Mastering the beats
• Creating 

• the “perfect beast” by using… ‘The Board’
• And 

• how to get back on track with proven rules for script repair

• This ultimate insider’s guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a showbiz veteran who’s proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.

Pages: 195

Published: May 2005

Size (cm): 16 x 23 x 1.5

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