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BEAT SHEET: The Karate Kid (2010)

January 31, 2011January 31, 2011analysis, Beat Sheet, Karate Kid, structure

Genre: Of the ten genres outlined in Save the Cat! I classified this as a Rite of Passage. It is about a boy dealing with significant life change (an adolescent passage) and how he adapts

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Toy Story 3 and Act Structure

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010act, Save the Cat, structure, Toy Story 3

Not only does a closer examination of Toy Story 3 provide good insight into genre conventions, it is also a very good example of the act structure that Blake wrote about in Save the Cat! He

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Story Structure and Formula One

July 12, 2010July 12, 2010design, formula, formulaic, structure, The Moral Premise

So, Mark Webber won the British Grand Prix the other day – despite having to give up part of his car to teammate Sebastian Vettel. The drama of the F1 circuit. Wait a minute! Drama.

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Terminated!

May 27, 2010May 27, 2010Debate, Save the Cat, screenwriting, structure

My beautiful wife just bought me Save the Cat! Strikes Back, the last of Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! trilogy, and it got me to thinking about the whole structure ‘argument’ again. Surely it can’t be that

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