Script writing, like all creativity, is largely instinctive, and many film professionals believe that artistic freedom and analysis are incompatible. William Indick strongly disagrees. Analyzing the theories of psychoanalysis - from Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson to Maureen Murdoch and Rollo May, the author reinforces the concepts of famous scientists with examples from famous films with their eternal themes: love and sex, death and destruction, fear and anger, revenge and hatred. Considering the motives, hidden desires, complexes that move the characters, Indik evaluates the victories and miscalculations of the authors, which ultimately cannot be hidden from the viewer. After all, the viewer empathizes with the hero, identifies with him, goes along with him the path of transformation and reaches catharsis.