More than one way to skin a cat

● THE SCREENWRITER BLAKE SNYDER, who died in 2009, was one of those creatives who taught more successfully than he did. He’s credited with writing just two films, of which the most successful is 1992’s cop comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. This is famous only because Arnold Schwarzenegger judged d the script dreadful but, in an effort to sabotage Sylvester Stallone’s career, pretended to be interested so that his rival would go for it. But Snyder’s 2005 book about how to structure a film, Save The Cat, is one of the most successful and influential screenwriting manuals ever written. It laid out a precise structure for a successful film, right down to saying which page of the script should feature which elements. There are other books on story…

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