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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Bad Guys Close In Beat Oct 24, 2014

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What is your antagonist's goal?

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: How to Handle Your Hero’s Wants & Needs Oct 03, 2014

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What are your hero's needs?

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: How to Make Your Midpoint Masterful Sep 12, 2014

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What's the right halfway point for your story? What is the signal that the Fun and Games are over?

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: Moving the Beats Sep 05, 2014

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Can the sequence of the beats be changed?

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Power of Value-Added Tension Aug 01, 2014

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Discover a way to raise the stakes for your hero.

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Theme Stated Beat of Little Miss Sunshine Jul 25, 2014

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How characters can resonate.

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Bad Guys Close In Beat of Nebraska Jun 06, 2014

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How set-ups can really pay off.

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Opening and Final Image Beats of Dallas Buyers Club May 30, 2014

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If the Opening and Final Images show the true transformation of a hero, the story will really resonate. A powerful example comes from Jean-Marc Vallée’s fact-based drama, Dallas Buyers Club, and the changes we see in Ron Woodroof as played by Oscar®-winning Best Actor Matthew McConaughey....

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: What Is the Genre of Captain America: The Winter Soldier? May 16, 2014

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Can a Superhero be in a Whydunit… and if so, why? That’s the question Master Cat! Jose Silerio tackles in this podcast that considers what makes this big box-office hit resonate. Listen to Jose and Guy Thompson talk about Blake Snyder’s genres and this Marvel-ous...

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Opening and Final Image Beats of Frozen Apr 25, 2014

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Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Opening and Final Images in this year’s Best Animated Picture Oscar® winner do exactly what they should, contrasting the world at the beginning of the story with the world at the end, and emphasizing the transformation of the...

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