
Tom Reed
Tom Reed's entertainment career began in the circus: Dumbo's Circus, a Disney cable show where he worked his way from the Art Department to Stage Manager. A studio career came later with executive positions at Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, Lansdowne Films, and Imagine Entertainment. He headed up the film division at the computer game company Interplay Entertainment and recently wrote and directed a short comedy called Chasing Times that premiered at the Burbank International Film Festival. Probing the grand mysteries of story is a passion that never fades.
A Fool’s Passage: The Buoyant Braininess of Barbie
Barbie's premise sounds impossibly heavy, political, and adult, but the story's executed with such insight and humor, buoyance and brilliance that it proves ideal.
Mank: The Hollywood Fool and His Fun and Games
nderstand how the film "Mank" fits the Save the Cat! Fool Triumphant genre, while "Citizen Kane" is a Superhero.
Singing, Dancing, and Flamethrowing: The Parallels Between Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and La La Land
Blake Snyder's methods of investigating narrative never fail to illuminate fundamental laws of storytelling.
Poetry As Storytelling – An STC! Analysis of Billy Collins’ Forgetfulness
See how a poem hits the beats.
Inside Llewyn Davis Beat Sheet
Thanks to Tom Reed for this brilliant analysis, available as a downloadable pdf.
The Save the Cat! Interview: Gaz Alazraki, Writer/Director of Nosotros Los Nobles
Last week’s blog from screenwriter/director Gaz Alazraki generated a lot of interest in hearing more about the process of creating a box office record-setting feature film, especially one that so consciously employed STC! principles. Master Cat! Tom Reed sat down with Gaz to examine his...