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Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ("As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ") In Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. (The long list of film and television projects that McKee's students have written, directed, or produced includes Air Force One, The Deer Hunter, E.R., A Fish Called Wanda, Forrest Gump, NYPD Blue, and Sleepless in Seattle.) Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. "No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers," he writes. "We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent." Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.--Jane Steinberg
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"... stimulating, innovative, refreshingly practical." -- -- Lawrence Kasdan, Director
"...the best guide on writing you can find." -- Laurence Chollet, The Record, Northern New Jersey
"In difficult periods of writing, I often turn to Robert McKee's wonderful book for guidance" -- -- Dominick Dunne, Novelist
"McKee is the Stanislavski of writing." -- -- Dennis Dugan, Writer, NYPD Blue
"[Story is]an excellent instruction manual on the craft of storytelling." -- Austin American-Statesman
Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ("As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ") In Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. (The long list of film and television projects that McKee's students have written, directed, or produced includes Air Force One, The Deer Hunter, E.R., A Fish Called Wanda, Forrest Gump, NYPD Blue, and Sleepless in Seattle.) Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. "No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers," he writes. "We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent." Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.--Jane Steinberg
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"... stimulating, innovative, refreshingly practical." -- -- Lawrence Kasdan, Director
"...the best guide on writing you can find." -- Laurence Chollet, The Record, Northern New Jersey
"In difficult periods of writing, I often turn to Robert McKee's wonderful book for guidance" -- -- Dominick Dunne, Novelist
"McKee is the Stanislavski of writing." -- -- Dennis Dugan, Writer, NYPD Blue
"[Story is]an excellent instruction manual on the craft of storytelling." -- Austin American-Statesman
"... stimulating, innovative, refreshingly practical." -- Lawrence Kasdan, Director
"In difficult periods of writing, I often turn to Robert McKee's wonderful book for guidance" -- Dominick Dunne, Novelist
"McKee is the Stanislavski of writing." -- Dennis Dugan, Writer, NYPD Blue
"to the people who write, direct and produce for Hollywood - or desperately wish they did - Bob McKee is a cross between E. F. Hutton and Sun Myung Moon. The man speaks, and people start to take furious notes - he is now the undisputed screenwriting king... for the legendary screenwriting boot camp that he runs. Thirty-thousand aspiring screenwriters have already taken McKee's 30-hour, three-day course..." -- Newsday
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Imagine, in one global day, the pages of prose turned, plays per , films screened, the unending stream of television comedy and drama, twenty-four-hour print and broadcast news, bedtime tales told to children, barroom bragging, back-fence Internet gossip, humankind's insatiable appetite for stories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inciting incident, central plot, controlling idea, story climax, disillusionment plot, maturation plot, sequence climax, narrative drive, setup subplot, irreconcilable goods, inconsistent realities, story triangle, act climax, sixty scenes, climactic action, scene objective, resolution scene, deep character, story talent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Love Story, Turning Points, Negation of the Negation, New York, Act Two, Dramatic Irony, Center of Good, Crisis Decision, Act One, Object of Desire, Obligatory Scene, Education Plot, Act Three, Political Drama, Image System, Los Angeles, Major Dramatic Question, Murder Mystery, Social Drama, Crime Story, Ingmar Bergman, Ida Sessions, Domestic Drama, Stream of Consciousness, Noah Cross New!
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Imagine, in one global day, the pages of prose turned, plays per , films screened, the unending stream of television comedy and drama, twenty-four-hour print and broadcast news, bedtime tales told to children, barroom bragging, back-fence Internet gossip, humankind's insatiable appetite for stories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inciting incident, central plot, controlling idea, story climax, disillusionment plot, maturation plot, sequence climax, narrative drive, setup subplot, irreconcilable goods, inconsistent realities, story triangle, act climax, sixty scenes, climactic action, scene objective, resolution scene, deep character, story talent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Love Story, Turning Points, Negation of the Negation, New York, Act Two, Dramatic Irony, Center of Good, Crisis Decision, Act One, Object of Desire, Obligatory Scene, Education Plot, Act Three, Political Drama, Image System, Los Angeles, Major Dramatic Question, Murder Mystery, Social Drama, Crime Story, Ingmar Bergman, Ida Sessions, Domestic Drama, Stream of Consciousness, Noah Cross New!
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