Writing + formula = formulaic writing. Thanks for this refreshing piece. As a novelist I found “Save the Cat Writes a Novel” about as appealing as a rusted cookie cutter. Things I never need to see in another movie include the “DO YOU TRUST ME? YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME!” scene, the “I love/forgive you/here’s a picture of my small child/wife’s ultrasound” scene that inevitably means that character will die in the next scene, and the scene where a character sets up an explosion then turns his back and saunters away from the firestorm to show how cool he is. Hollywood desperately needs fresh ideas, not more regurgitated regurgitations.