Movie breakdowns
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
I’ve realized it would be pretty helpful to have a single page for movie breakdowns that I can link to for easy access, so I’m building that here.
Both workbooks, Stealing Hollywood and Writing Love, have ten full story breakdowns of well-known movies in lots of genres that hit every element of every Sequence and Act. There are also shorter Act and Sequence breakdowns of others.
I’ve broken down more movies on Substack here: (in progress)
3. More useful movie/TV discussions (in progress)
Saltburn and others
See the Table of Contents for a page of links following the format of the workbooks, chapter by chapter, in order, with links to expanded posts and videos.
You can use it with one of the workbooks or without the books.
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