Author Blake Snyder Tells How to Write a Screenplay(3/3)

He says Hollywood screenplays like his often describe a journey, a theme that goes back as far as the ancient Greek story of Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.

"It's about a journey, it's about a trip, Jason has been assigned to go get the Golden Fleece, so he gets together a team of guys and off they go on these many adventures. At the end of the journey, there's a twist. It wasn't really about the Golden Fleece. It was about how Jason became a leader of men."

War films such as Saving Private Ryan or The Dirty Dozen follow this pattern. So does the heist film Ocean's Eleven and the fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

There are films that describe friendship that follow predictable plot lines, stories of fools who triumph, and of detectives who get too close to the evil they are pursuing.

Snyder says film-goers are like children who love to hear the same stories again and again, as long as the stories are told in a new and fresh way.

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他说，好莱坞的剧本包括他自己写的，常常描述一种历险，一个可追溯到古希腊杰森寻找金羊毛的故事主题。

"这是关于历险关于旅程的故事，杰森被指派去获得金羊毛，所以他聚集起一个小组，去经历冒险。在旅程的终结，故事有个扭转。这并不是真的有关金羊毛，而是杰森如何成为领袖人物的故事" 。

战争电影如《拯救大兵瑞恩》或《12金刚》/《决死突击队》遵循这一模式。盗贼题材影片《十一罗汉》/《盗海豪情》以及魔幻三部曲《魔戒》也都如此。

有些电影描述情节可以预见的友谊，描述蠢人最终获胜，以及置身邪恶中追查的警探。

斯奈德说，电影观众就象孩子，他们喜欢一次又一次地听同样的故事，只要把故事用一个新鲜新奇的方式说出来。