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Don’t Abuse Structure This structure, and probably any other one, can easily be abused. A blunt and technical insertion of an element into your story will only make your script worse. This isn’t a to-do list where you must check off items. These are useful elements to be implemented with care. Don’t force a “bonding process” into your script if it
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The first 10 pages of the script, or first dozen pages at most, is called the “set-up.”
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
Try to have a beginning, middle and end in your key scenes (use of “threes,” like three acts), and end on a surprise.
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Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
“The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.”
Carson Reeves • Scriptshadow Secrets (500 Screenwriting Secrets Hidden Inside 50 Great Movies)
Darabont makes all of these men so unbearably evil that we will not rest until we see our hero defeat them.