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Robert McKee - Story - TRAILER

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🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Robert McKee is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible" called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. Online, McKee has a blog and a writers' resource website called "Storylogue".

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0:00.0

A story is a metaphor for life. It's teaching us what life is to prepare us, to equip us, and that the deepest pleasure

0:20.0

of the theater is learning without being taught.

0:25.0

What makes a great screenwriter,

0:31.0

somebody was something to say. But you have to make sense out of life and

0:37.1

this is why most people can't do it because they can't make that sense out of life

0:40.6

let alone make sense out of life and then express it in in writing.

0:47.5

Telling story beautifully is meaningful because it makes life a little less painful.

0:56.7

It makes life just a little more livable. So people who want to write, I'm their champion and I would do my best to help them understand what they're up to because I know that without them life would be unlivable.

1:20.0

I noticed your mug here it says journey journey is a euphemism for the struggle of life

1:32.4

life is an uphill battle, it's Sissophus pushing that rock, okay?

1:38.0

It's not a journey. You're going to be.

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