Story Maps: 12 Great Screenplays

by Daniel P. Calvisi

STORY 12 Great Screenplays (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Up, Rocky, Sex and the City, X-Men, Black Swan, Juno, The Matrix) a.k.a. the "Booster Pack" is a companion book to Daniel Calvisi's best-seller "STORY How to Write a GREAT Screenplay." This ebook breaks down 12 GREAT MOVIES, primarily from the past decade, into the detailed but easy-to-follow structural analysis known as the Story Map. 95% of great movies follow the story map, so it follows that every serious screenwriter should study beat sheets of successful screenplays from master screenwriters."Story 12 Great Screenplays" analyzes these twelve hit Juno (Teen Comedy/Drama) 2007 The Social Network (Biopic) 2010 Hustle & Flow (Music Drama) 2007 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Action/Adventure) 1981 Black Swan (Thriller) 2010 Sex and the City (Romantic Comedy) 2008 Meet The Parents (Comedy) 2000 The Matrix (Sci-Fi Action) 1999 Rain Man (Drama) 1988 Rocky (Sports Drama) 1977 Up (Animated Comedy/Action) 2009 X-Men (Superhero “Origin” Action) 2000These hit movies are great examples of professional screenwriting and rock-solid story structure in many different genres and budget levels aimed at varied audiences. The author, a professional Story Analyst with major movie studio experience, stands by each title as a strong example of its genre and as a primer to learn the screenwriting craft at the level that you need to the “submission ready” tier that makes a good script into a GREAT SCRIPT. The purpose of learning to story map is to help you improve your craft and increase your odds of getting your script to impress a decision-maker in Hollywood. That's it.

Genres: Writing

81 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 13, 2012

Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I find it very helpful to analyze screenplays of movies I like to see how the writer made it work. I think it's going to be helpful to me in my own writing. There is a good variety here of screenplays. My personal favorite-- Juno.