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

This guide to scriptwriting provides answers to most questions that arise when creating a script. The author describes techniques that help create a script with good commercial potential, vivid characters, and a memorable title.

In addition, the well-known screenwriter shares his own ideas: a classification of genres that differs from the generally accepted one (in which a film always belongs to a single genre and there are no action movies with elements of a thriller, drama, and adventure) and the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet—a structure of scripts that describes the majority of successful films.

And what does a cat have to do with it? Saving the cat is a technique described by the author. If you want to make the audience sympathize with your hero, that person should do some action that earns approval and respect—for example, to take a kitten down from a tree.

The book is written in simple, understandable language, and the author’s ideas are illustrated with examples.

A huge number of positive reviews for a specialized book. The book has been sold since 2005, but it still holds a very high position in Amazon’s overall sales ranking.