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What is Save the Cat?

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Save the Cat! is a popular screenwriting book (and book series) by Blake Snyder, which breaks down screenplays into 15 beats (and further into 40) that all screenplays should contain.

The title comes from the idea that a film’s hero should do something nice the first time we meet him — ie save a cat — that will make it easy for the audience to like and root for him.

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