by Helen Jacey
Intolerable Cruelty (U.S./2003)
Iris (U.K., U.S./2001)
It’s Complicated (U.S./2009)
I’ve Loved You So Long (France, Germany/2008)**
International Velvet (U.S./1978)
Jackie Brown (U.S./1997)
Jennifer’s Body (U.S./2009)
Julie and Julia (U.S./2009)**
Juno (U.S., Canada/2007)**
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (U.S./2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (U.S./2004)
Lady Vengeance (South Korea/2005)
The Last Mistress (France, Italy/2007)
La Vie en Rose (France, U.K., Czech Republic/2007)**
Legally Blonde (U.S./2001)**
Lost in Translation (U.S., Japan/2003)
Mamma Mia! (U.K., U.S., Germany/2008)**
Maria Full of Grace (Columbia, Ecuador, U.S./2004)**
Marley and Me (U.S./2008)
Matilda (U.S./1996)
Memoirs of a Geisha (U.S./2005)
Mermaids (U.S./1990)
The Milk of Sorrow (Spain, Peru/2009)**
Miss Congeniality (U.S., Australia/2000)**
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (U.S./1994)
Mona Lisa Smile (U.S./2003)**
Monster (U.S., Germany/2003)
Monsters vs Aliens (U.S./2009)**
The Mother (U.K./2003)
Moulin Rouge (Australia, U.S./2001)
My House in Umbria (U.K., Italy/2003)
My Life Without Me (Spain, Canada/2003)**
My Summer of Love (U.K./2004)**
The Nanny Diaries (U.S./2007)**
Nanny McPhee (U.S., U.K., France/2005)**
National Velvet (U.S./1944)
Nine (U.S., Italy/2009)
North Country (U.S./2005)**
New Moon (U.S./2009)
The Other Boleyn Girl (U.K, U.S./2008)
Overboard (U.S./1987)
The Painted Veil (China, U.S./2006)**
Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain, Mexico, U.S./2006)**
The Piano (Australia, New Zealand, France/1993)**
Pineapple Express (U.S./2008)
Precious (U.S./2009)**
Pretty Woman (U.S./1990)
Pride and Prejudice (France, U.K./2005)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (U.K./1969)
The Princess and the Frog (U.S./2009)
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (U.S./2009)**
The Proposal (U.S./2009)**
The Queen (U.K., France, Italy/2006)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia/2002)**
Reds (U.S./1981)**
Rendition (U.S./2007)
Romance (France/1999)**
Saint Trinian’s (U.K./2007)**
Secretary (U.S./2002)**
The Secret Life of Bees (U.S., 2008)**
Sex and the City: The Movie (U.S./2008)
She, A Chinese (U.K., France, Germany/2009)
SherryBaby (U.S./2006)
Shirley Valentine (U.K., U.S./1989)
Shrek (U.S./2001)
The Silence of the Lambs (U.S./1991)
Silkwood (U.S./1983)
A Single Man (U.S./2009)
Sister Act (U.S./1992)**
Slumdog Millionaire (U.K./2008)
Some Like It Hot (U.S./1959)
Something’s Gotta Give (U.S./2003)**
Sophie’s Choice (U.K., U.S./1982)**
Stepmom (U.S./1998)**
Sylvia (U.K./2003)
Tea with Mussolini (Italy, U.K./1999)
There Will Be Blood (U.S./2007)
10 Things I Hate About You (U.S./1999)
Terminator Salvation (U.S., Germany, U.K., Italy/2009)
Thelma and Louise (U.S., France/1991)**
Thirteen (U.S./2003)
Titanic (U.S./1997)**
Transamerica (U.S./2005)**
TranSylvania (France/2006)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (U.S./1996)
Tumbleweeds (U.S./1999)
Twilight (U.S./2008)**
Two Days In Paris (France, Germany/2007)
Under the Skin (U.K./1997)
Under the Tuscan Sun (U.S., Italy/2003)
The Upside of Anger (U.S., Germany, U.K./2005)
Vera Drake (U.K., France, New Zealand/2004)**
Villa Amalia (France, Switzerland/2009)**
The Virgin Suicides (U.S./1999)
Volver (Spain/2006)**
Waiting to Exhale (U.S./1995)
Waitress (U.S./2007)**
Water (Canada, India/2005)**
Whale Rider (New Zealand, Germany/2002)
What Happens in Vegas (U.S./2008)
What Lies Beneath (U.S./2000)
When Harry Met Sally (U.S./1989)
The Young Victoria (U.K., U.S./2009)
TELEVISION
Army Wives (U.S./2007)
Brothers and Sisters (U.S./2006)
Criminal Minds (U.S./2005)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (U.S./2000)
Damages (U.S./2007)
Desperate Housewives (U.S./2004)
Entourage (U.S./2004)
The Gilmour Girls (U.S./2000)
The Good Wife (U.S./2009)
House M.D. (U.S./2004)
Medium (U.S./2005)
Mistresses (U.K./2008)
No Angels (U.K./2004)
Sex and the City (U.S./1998)
Ugly Betty (U.S./2006)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HELEN JACEY is a screenwriter, screen-writing teacher, and story consultant.
Prior to screenwriting, Helen spent many years working for international aid agencies to provide psychological support services for women and children. She has also taught creativity and self-development courses to hundreds of women.
Helen graduated with an M.A. in Screenwriting at the London Institute in2001. She wrote her first screenplay in 1999 and has either sold or optioned every screenplay she has written. Helen’s interest in the stories of heroines led her to undertake a Ph.D. in Screenwriting at the University of the Arts London.
Her two-day seminar, Helen Jacey’s Writing the Heroine’s Story, has helped many international screenwriters think about the real differences when the hero is a heroine. She also lectures on screenwriting at many leading universities.
Helen spends her time in the U.K. and Los Angeles.
For further information about screenwriting, training, consultancy, lecturing, or Helen Jacey’s Writing the Heroine’s Story seminar, please visit www.helenjacey.com
You can contact Helen at: [email protected]
THE VIRGIN’S PROMISE
WRITING STORIES OF FEMININE CREATIVE, SPIRITUAL, AND SEXUAL AWAKENING
KIM HUDSON
FOREWORD BY CHRISTOPHER VOGLER, AUTHOR OF THE WRITER’S JOURNEY 3RD EDITION
The Virgin’s Promise demystifies the complexities of archetypes and clearly outlines the steps of a Virgin’s Journey to realize her dream. Audiences need to see more than brave, self-sacrificing heroes. They need to see Virgins who bring their talents and self-fulfilling joys to life. The Virgin’s Promise describes this journey with beats that feel incredibly familiar but have not been illustrated in any other screenwriting book. It explores the yin and yang of the Virgin and hero journeys to take up their power as individuals, and includes a practical guide to putting this new theory into action.
• 13 distinct beats that do for the Virgin what Vogler did for the hero.
• Easy-to-use tables to demystify the nature of archetypes.
• Filmographies with beat descriptions for 21 Virgin and 10 hero films including ever After, Bend it Like Beckham, Billy Elliot, Brokeback Mountain, wedding Crashers, Blood diamond, and the Bourne identity.
• Clear explanations of how the Virgin works with the hero.
“For a work as thought provoking and even profound as this, the Virgin’s Promise is thankfully accessible and not for a minute esoteric during its read. The icing on the cake is Hudson’s style and use of language. At once simple and yet complex. The Vi
rgin’s Promise is a bit like the perfect haiku: sparse and philosophical”
— Deepa Mehta, screenwriter/producer of Fire, earth, water and Bollywood/Hollywood
“A story well told can change the world. Hudson unlocks the secret to writing stories of self-fulfillment in this lovely and inspiring book. A must read for all storytellers and screenwriters.”
— Mireille Soria, producer of ever After
KIM HUDSON’S personal journey and scholarly inquiry combined to develop this theory of the Virgin’s archetypal structure. over the past four years Kim has given workshops and classes in the Vancouver area on the Virgin’s Promise.
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THE WRITER’S JOURNEY – 3RD EDITION
MYTHIC STRUCTURE FOR WRITERS
CHRISTOPHER VOGLER
BEST SELLER
OVER 180,000 COPIES SOLD!
See why this book has become an international best seller and a true classic. The Writer’s Journey explores the powerful relationship between mythology and storytelling in a clear, concise style that’s made it required reading for movie executives, screenwriters, playwrights, scholars, and fans of pop culture all over the world.
Both fiction and nonfiction writers will discover a set of useful myth-inspired storytelling paradigms (i.e., “The Hero’s Journey”) and step-by-step guidelines to plot and character development. Based on the work of Joseph Campbell, The Writer’s Journey is a must for all writers interested in further developing their craft.
The updated and revised third edition provides new insights and observations from Vogler’s ongoing work on mythology’s influence on stories, movies, and man himself.
“This book is like having the smartest person in the story meeting come home with you and whisper what to do in your ear as you write a screenplay. Insight for insight, step for step, Chris Vogler takes us through the process of connecting theme to story and making a script come alive.”
– Lynda Obst, Producer, Sleepless in Seattle, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days; Author, Hello, He Lied
“This is a book about the stories we write, and perhaps more importantly, the stories we live. It is the most influential work I have yet encountered on the art, nature, and the very purpose of storytelling.”
– Bruce Joel Rubin, Screenwriter, Stuart Little 2, Deep Impact, Ghost, Jacob’s Ladder
CHRISTOPHER VOGLER is a veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and a respected teacher of filmmakers and writers around the globe. He has influenced the stories of movies from The Lion King to Fight Club to The Thin Red Line and most recently wrote the first installment of Ravenskull, a Japanese-style manga or graphic novel. He is the executive producer of the feature film P. S. Your Cat is Dead and writer of the animated feature Jester Till.
$26.95 • 448 PAGES • ORDER NUMBER 76RLS • ISBN: 9781932907360
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SAVE THE CAT!®
THE LAST BOOK ON
SCREENWRITING YOU’LL EVER NEED!
BLAKE SNYDER
He’s made millions of dollars selling screenplays to Hollywood and now screenwriter Blake Snyder tells all. “Save the Cat!®” is just one of Snyder’s many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying — and saleable, including:
• The four elements of every winning logline.
• The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics.
• The 10 genres and why they’re important to your movie.
• Why your Hero must serve your idea.
• Mastering the Beats.
• Mastering the Board to create the Perfect Beast.
• How to get back on track with ironclad and proven rules for script repair.
This ultimate insider’s guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who’s proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.
“Imagine what would happen in a town where more writers approached screenwriting the way Blake suggests? My weekend read would dramatically improve, both in sellable/producible content and in discovering new writers who understand the craft of storytelling and can be hired on assignment for ideas we already have in house.”
– From the Foreword by Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Vice President,Development at Zide/Perry Entertainment, whose films include American Pie, Cats and Dogs, Final Destination
“One of the most comprehensive and insightful how-to’s out there. Save the Cat!® is a must-read for both the novice and the professional screenwriter.”
– Todd Black, Producer, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, S.W.A.T, Alex and Emma, Antwone Fisher
“Want to know how to be a successful writer in Hollywood? The answers are here. Blake Snyder has written an insider’s book that’s informative — and funny, too.”
– David Hoberman, Producer, The Shaggy Dog (2005), Raising Helen, Walking Tall, Bringing Down the House, Monk (TV)
BLAKE SNYDER, besides selling million-dollar scripts to both Disney and Spielberg, was one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters. Blake’s vision continues on www.blakesnyder.com.
$19.95 • 216 PAGES • ORDER NUMBER 34RLS • ISBN: 9781932907001
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The essence of the Michael Wiese Productions (MWP) is empowering people who have the burning desire to express themselves creatively. We help them realize their dreams by putting the tools in their hands. We demystify the sometimes secretive worlds of screenwriting, directing, acting, producing, film financing, and other media crafts.
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