Product Description

He's made millions of dollars selling screenplays to Hollywood and now screenwriter Blake Snyder tells all. "Save the Cat" is just one of Snyder's many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketablle and your script more satisfying - and saleable, including:

* The four elements of every winning logline
* The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics
* The ten genres and why they're important to your movie
* Why your Hero must serve your idea
* How to get back on track with ironclad and proven rules for script repair

This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by an industry veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17055 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 195 pages

About the Author
By Blake Snyder

Customer Reviews

Thanks Blake!
I have a vague idea about Structure. This helped to explain easily and helpfully. It also made me question and think about certain ideas and how to use them. You have to know the rules in order to break them. This has helped me no end.
Thanks Blake. Keep em coming!

Funny and enlightening!
If you're serious about becoming a screenwriter, I can't recomment this book enough!

The notes on 'True Genre' alone are worth the asking price, but the 'Immutable Laws of Screenplay Physics' are also a real eye-opener.

'Save the Cat!' is funny, incisive and enlightening - it is easily up there with the works of Bill Martell, Elliott Grove and Chris Vogler.

I certainly wasn't disappointed and I don't think you will be, either.

Purrrrfect Pitch!
Ah you're wrong, wrong, wrong, get with the fifteen beats Manfred, man. Never been moved to write a review before, but anyone anywhere interested in writing a successful screenplay MUST read this one. It IS a simple read - but movies aren't rocket-science. They have rules. Just takes someone to point them out. And sure the movies Blake critiques here could be described as bubble-gum movies, but the fifteen rule Beat Sheets apply to all well-constructed movies - from Alien to Zelig (as Blake shows to brilliant effect in Save The Cat Goes To The Movies). There's one easy way to see if these rules work and could help with your screenplay - read the book, then watch your favourite movie. See? It works!