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#95 - John Wick (2014)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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How to Write a Save the Cat Beat Sheet

In some ways he's always in control, but he's doing clever things that kind of show us Marty is as opposed to just bang, bang, bang. But what I was going to say with the structuring thing is, and this goes back to the club scene. If you're approaching these kind of big action sequences, I think you could actually write a beat sheet for it. And whether or not you do a Save the Cat Beat sheet, there's some nuances you'd have to do with the Save the Cat beat sheet, my opinion, that are kind of like television. Do I already have my setup? Am I in act two? Do I end before break?

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