
Tom Reed
Tom Reed's entertainment career started in the circus: Dumbo's Circus, a Disney cable show where he juggled art department and stage manager duties. And juggled. He leapt from production to executive positions at grindhouse shop Cinetel Films, the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, and Imagine Entertainment before settling on the toughest art department of all... the writer's room. When not writing, he's probing the grand mysteries of story, a cat never far from his side.
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 methodology.