Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: For beginners only, then discard

This is the cheesiest screenwriting cookbook out there, filled with "rules" that are nowhere to be found in countless great films but you can spot them very clearly in Hollywood's February releases. It offers a very shallow understanding of how dramatic stories work. For example, the opening image is apparently something REALLY IMPORTANT. What was the opening image in The Godfather? I forget. Who cares? What was important was the characters. Then pages 30-55 are "Fun and Games". Yeah, okay. Then there's the "bad guys close in" section - I suppose you can rent The Graduate and find this section followed to a T.FACE FACTS: The top screenwriters in Hollywood don't follow this formula any more than an NBA player practices his jump shot on one of those little baskets you hang over the door in your bedroom.If you want to write a first script, try his method. If nothing else, it's one way to try and write. But as you get better, you will realize this is grade school stuff.