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1. BLANK CHECK SCREENPLAY SAVE THE CATE HOW TO
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BLANK CHECK SCREENPLAY SAVE THE CATE HOW TO

Blake Snyder Can Show You How To Sell It. And so are writers with impressive track records. But genuinely good scripts are incredibly rare. A good script is gold in Hollywood. The truth is, “great ideas” in Hollywood are a dime a dozen. It had better make them believe in it so strongly that they’d put their own reputation, and their own hard earned money, on the line to make it. Joe just has his script. If Joe is going to convince anyone to take a chance on him, that script had better be good. Tarantino has a whole track record to point to. And if you don’t believe me, just answer this question: Whose next script is more likely to make you money on your investment: Quentin Tarantino’s or Joe Smith’s? You don’t even know what the script is about, but you already know the answer. This may seem like an unfair double standard. And in that case nobody who is anybody is going to take a chance on your bad script. Hollywood is filled with writers who sell bad screenplays with great premises, and make a lot of money doing it. And you can too. That is, if you already happen to be a big time writer. The problem is, if you’re like most writers, it probably means that you don’t have a multi-million dollar hit in your back pocket. A living, breathing advertising device that looks so irresistible that audiences can’t help but see it, and producers can’t help but buy it, whether it’s any good or not. Sounds like a pretty good idea, right? Except that it’s not going to work for you. That’s because, unless you happen to be born into a Hollywood family (Snyder’s father was producer Kenneth Snyder) or already have a multi-million dollar hit in your back pocket, nobody who is anybody is going to take a chance on your crappy script. The Save The Cat! approach is to basically turn your script into a giant sales pitch.

BLANK CHECK SCREENPLAY SAVE THE CATE MOVIE

And once they’re in the theater, you’ve got to out-do the promise you’ve made to your audience, so that they can go and talk to their friends about how cool your movie was and drive even more butts to the theatre. That means you need a great premise, that grabs the audience’s attention and makes them want to see your movie. No one is going to go see your movie unless the producer knows how to sell it. Because no one is ever going to see it. And that’s where Blake Snyder is right. And no matter how brilliant your artistic vision, it’s not going to change the world, make anybody laugh, cry or buy an overpriced barrel of popcorn. When a producer invests in your movie, he or she is investing in one thing: the chance that your movie is going to put butts in seats. Without butts in seats, your movie is going to lose money. That’s because they couldn’t care less about your artistic vision, the integrity of your writing, or how your script is going to change the world. They tend to make writers pretty darn angry. And that means you’re going to need to convince people that they should put their own hard earned money behind your production. We call these people producers. Or the next incarnation of Avatar. Unless you are ridiculously wealthy, or have a generous uncle waiting with a check in his hand, making your movie is probably going to take more money than you have. That’s true whether you are writing a tiny independent film that you are going to shoot in your backyard. You’re going to need a lot of money to turn your script into a movie. They are. Blake Snyder is dangerous because he doesn’t teach you how to be a writer. He’s not dangerous because his ideas about how to build a script around a great premise aren’t brilliant.

BLANK CHECK SCREENPLAY SAVE THE CATE SERIES