Bad Guys Close In (55-75): Your goal is being overshadowed by the antagonist's journey to beating you.You have the same goal but a new way to get there. Fun and Games (30-55): This is where you deliver the "promise of the premise." All the scenes of exploration and wonder that fit the genre.B Story (30): What else is happening? Any other storylines we're following?.Break into Two (25): The decision to act is made.Debate (12-25): This is where the character decides to do something about it.Catalyst (12): What happens to change the course of events from normal?.Set-Up (1-10): Meet the characters, understand the stakes, live in the world.Theme Stated (5): What's the driving force behind your story?.Opening Image (1): How does your story open? What are we looking at?.The number after the heading is where you theoretically should be within the page count of your story when you hit this juncture. Oh and although the author makes it clear from the start that this is mostly about Hollywood movies, it's a bit annoying that a lot of the things he says are so specific to the more superficial/commercial type of movies and not generalizeable.These are based on the idea that you're writing a 110-page screenplay. You can't have a categorisation without specifying the criterion according to which you are creating these categories, is it according to the type of hero, the type of story, the type of conflict.? Sure all movies can have one or more of these elements that he posits (an institution or an ordinary dude with extraordinary problems) but loads of movies are primarily about something other than these elements. His movie categorisation is all about dudes.ģ) His movie "genre" categorisation that he is so proud of is completely unprincipled/unsystematic and lacks references to actual storytelling archetypes (which have been analysed to death by literary scholars, semioticians, and anthropologists). I'm a third of the way through (I'll update my post later) but I have a few initial criticisms:Ģ) There is zero mention of female protagonists in movies. I started reading "Save the cat" having seen it mentioned a lot around here as an enjoyable read (mostly). No Sale of Copyrighted Material or Sharing of Confidential Material Posts Made by ( u/deleted) Accounts are Subject to Removal Observe Dedicated Weekly Threads for Loglines, Memes, Etc
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