How Hollywood Killed Death
A Slate article from last year argued that Snyder’s formula has increasingly become dogma in Hollywood, rendering all blockbusters alike. Whether “Save the Cat!” is actually used by screenwriters or merely draws from the repetitive architecture of today’s tent poles is difficult to say. But it doesn’t matter. Filmmakers don’t seem to realize that plot mechanics are no shortcut to pathos.
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