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Superhero – This isn’t just about the obvious tales you’d think of, like Superman and Batman, but also includes Dracula, Frankenstein, even Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.
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who comes up against the others the hardest, and who grows the most?
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
he must transform his world in order to truly be great.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
The chief source of “the problem” — a person or thing — must be dispatched completely for the new world order to exist.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Rites Of Passage – Every change-of-life story from 10 to Ordinary People to Days of Wine and Roses makes this category.
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stories of “me and my best friend” will always resonate.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Monster in the House – Of which Jaws, Tremors, Alien, The Exorcist, Fatal Attraction, and Panic Room are examples.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
By the time we’re done, you’ll have 40 of these — count ’em, 40 — and no more.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
In a sense, stories are about change. And the measuring stick that tells us who succeeds and who doesn’t is seen in the ability to change.