4.1 Save the Cat!
Not only the title of this series but a great principle of storytelling. When we meet the hero, he must do something that makes us like him. Save a cat and we will!
An adjunct to Save the Cat would be: “A screenwriter must be mindful of getting the audience ‘in sync’ with the plight of the hero from the very start.”
The Immutable Laws of Screenplay Physics tell us that when you have a semi-bad guy as your hero — just make his antagonist worse!!
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