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"Best screenwriting book", Over the years I feared that I'd become a professional reader of "How to write a screenplay" books. This book when read and studied in conjunction with Mr. Snyder's first Save the Cat book cured me. These two truly are the only books you'll need to learn the ropes AND maintain screenwriting skills.

While Save the Cat is a no punches pulled, tight read on structure, story and plot, etc., "Goes to the Movies" takes these arts a giant step further. GTM breaks down genres and tells the writer what to look for, how to plot, and how to structure each type of SP. And Mr. Snyder uses popular movie examples to illustrate his points. Another plus because I'm sick of reading a How-tos that serve as advertisements for the author's unproduced SPs.

Unlike the vast majority of other How-to's, Mr. Snyder trims the pork and the "There I was" filler anecdotes and delivers in 280 pages what it would take others to convey in 450 pages. Just the facts, ma'am. Highly recommended!

"A powerful examination of film and it's form!", This is the best book about screenwriting I have ever read!
I own and have read dozens of books about screenwriting!
Nothing I say can do justice to this book in a short review.

While other books cover the essential basic information needed to become a screenwriter,
This one book cover areas no other book even come close to mastering.

It doesn't tell you how to write, so much as it explains how to "think" like a writer and see the true shape of every film ever written! I have struggled for years to see the landscape in front of me and Blake provides a much needed map of how to get from here to there.

Some people have reviewed this book and missed the fact that while his books may seem casual and simple - they are far from it. His style masks the depth of the subject matter he is presenting. Like watching the Sixth Sense and missing the things set right in front of you!

Don't get lost in debating terminology and definitions and miss the big picture.
There are some extremely important treasures in this wonderful book.
Just because the book is not overly complicated does not mean it is not complex.

The great accessibility of this book can be deceptive. Don't let that keep you from taking it very seriously and getting everything you can from it. There's some really original and useful material in this book.

Whether you call it genre or categories or plot, he presents the contexts of every known form you could possibly find useful, to help see what kind of film you really are trying to write.

This might not be the first book you get about screenwriting,
but it should be the one you use most often! I only wish I had this book years ago.

I have five books about screenwriting on my desk that I use everyday!
I have every other book available about screenwriting on my bookcase, and while I do use them all at various times, the five books I use almost every day are:

Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Save the Cat - goes to the movies by Blake Snyder
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby
Screenplay by Sid Field
The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier

Thanks for writing this book Blake.

John Bradt

"Snyder Gives Up the Keys to the Kingdom", You demanded a book on screenwriting by a working, successful screenwriter; better yet, someone who has sold not one, not two, but dozens of scripts to Hollywood. You got it with Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat" where he reveals the "secrets" he used to write and sell those screenplays, including two that sold for $1 mil a piece.

Then you wanted more proof that his guidelines worked in other films as well. In "Save the Cat Goes to the Movies" he shows you that your favorite movies from the past and present used these very same storytelling elements, which have been around since ancient times when people told tales around the fire.

In his first book, he spilled the beans on how he became a successful screenwriter; in this sequel, he shows how other successful screenwriters have been using the same bag of beans in your favorite movies, you just didn't know it.

Moviegoers know if they liked a movie or not; but they couldn't tell you all the reasons why. Snyder does, in a very readable format where all you have to do is add your great idea and some elbow grease and you will have a script that has a fighting chance for success.

Good writing!


"Helpful & better than I originally thought. Give it 3 stars.", Adds little to the ideas in the original book but what there is is helpful. I originally gave this two stars but having read more, I would give it three. The book is most helpful in elucidating sub-genre but you still need the original STC.

Many of the movies analyzed I admittedly find distasteful, would never watch, and am greatful I didn't write; that's just my personal opinion and does not effect the book's value.

Remember that the author's approach is not cut-and-paste. Snyder's suggestions are just suggestions. Even with the original I had to rewrite both this book and the original to make them fit my writing style. Again, you still need the original and IMO you still need to edit both books heavily to make them your own. Even so, these books are not the whole. They are about conceptualizing before you write and neither will help much with the actual writing or marketing.

"A new way to explain movies", I love going to the movies and people know it. So there is always someone asking me about them. After reading this book now I can go beyond this is an action movie or a suspense movie. Who knew that Lethal Weapon and the Black Stallion were the same kind of stories.

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"Highly recommended to anyone who's trying to break into Hollywood ", Everything there is to be done has been done before in some way. "Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told" is a guide to this strange claim to cover ten genre that the populace can't seem to get enough of, a through look at fifty of the biggest movies of the past three decades to cover everything about the modern movie script - and why originality isn't really dead when it seems to be - but it's really just taking on a new costume and appearance. Written by a Hollywood veteran with thirteen successful screenplay sales, "Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told" is highly recommended to anyone who's trying to break into Hollywood and for community library collections on the subject of film.


"Build me a story", Blake Snyder's sequel to his intriguing essay on script-writing "Save the Cat!", is entitled (logically enough) "Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told".
Snyder's new book enlarges on his basic premise that it's not so much the story that makes a successful movie, it's the way you tell it - and he then proceeds to illustrate his theory with many examples of movies that, while they may use the same basic ten stories, present them in new, different, yet creative ways. It is quite a revelation to read Snyder's analysis of the story similarities shared by, say, "Titanic" and "When Harry met Sally".
Snyder goes on to outline the basic structure of successful story-telling, even to the point of allocating the number of plot stages a successful script should have, and how many pages of script should be devoted to each beat of the story. Many may decry the idea of writing to a formula, but the fact remains that audiences subconsciously respond better to a logically constructed and (more importantly) well-paced movie than to one that is just a loosely connected string of events.
It's sort of analogous to building a house; the design of a solid basic framework uses fairly similar standard techniques; it is only when you begin to build the house around it that you can make the finished building uniquely different and (hopefully) better than that of your neighbours. And that's where the skill lies.
Any aspiring scriptwriter should read and re-read these two books, apply the principles that they propose - and then use their story-telling skills to hide the fact that they have done so! Go ahead - entertain us!




"Excellent Breakdown of 50 Popular Movies", In STC2, Blake Snyder puts into practice his theory that there are ten timeless story templates. He takes fifty diverse, well-known movies (from "The Lion King" to "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") and filters them through these story templates to show that all of these movies, whether commercial blockbuster or art house, hit similar marks structurally. And that those marks are important to a successful telling of the story. I wish I'd read this book earlier in my career. It would've saved me countless hours agonizing over structure.

I am a fan of both Blake Snyder books. They're not only an excellent synthesis of ideas in other screenwriting books, but he implements several fresh theories that he's formulated during his writing career. His unique gift is the ability to make subtle, even complex insights into the craft simple to understand. Like the original "Save The Cat", this book is an easy read without being shallow. And Blake's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious. I highly recommend it.

Mark Hentemann
Writer/Producer, "Family Guy"

"Oh no... not another Hollywood sequel!", Since "Save the Cat" was supposed to be "the last book on screenwriting you'll ever need", why buy the sequel?! Good question!

STC was indeed the best book yet written on screenwriting, but "STC Goes to the Movies" goes beyond... The basic principles covered in "STC" are retouched in "STC Goes to the Movies", but author Blake Snyder (a very successful screenwriter in his own right) goes one step farther in this second installment by actually breaking down dozens of past film scripts that illustrate his theories.

Because most of the topics covered in STC are revisited in the second book, it isn't necessary to read the first book before this one. On the other hand, they're both jam packed with great ideas, so I strongly suggest you read both. Thanks to Mr. Snyder's helpful techniques and models, writing processes that used to take me weeks now take hours.

If you want to know how to write a script that will sell, don't miss these 286 pages of time-tested wisdom.


"Understandable. Useful. Unique!", You won't find the traditional genres "action-adventure" or "romantic comedy" here. Synder swaps those for genre-predicaments like "Monster in the House" and "Dude with a Problem." He identifies ten of them as the engines of all hits. He then decomposes the plots of several blockbusters in each genre to show how that engine operates. His insights are fascinating because, without the distinction of genre as he defines it, you might assume that "Three Days of the Condor" and "Sleeping with the Enemy" are fundamentally different. By traditional definitions, one is a spy thriller and the other is a woman-jeopardy thriller. But in the gospel according to Blake, those two movies are twins. Knowing why will not only make you a better screenwriter but will also give you a better appreciation of the high art of crafting the blockbusters that almost never win the snob awards.

Do get this book if you are writing spec scripts. But if you are writing indies, proceed with caution--with any book of rules. Certainly the gurus will preach that the rules of structure can strengthen any story and that, at the very least, you should master the rules before you break them. True enough.

But you don't want to get so locked into the box of rules that you can't think outside of it. The goal in indies, in my humble opinion, should not be to make blockbusters on the cheap but to take risks and evolve the cinematic form in ways the studios won't.

Gerald Everett Jones is the author of My Inflatable Friend: The Confessions of Rollo Hemphill and several books on digital filmmaking, including 24P: Make Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood