ROBERT MCKEE - STORY
London Real
Brian Rose
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
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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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Chapters:
00:00 Trailer.
02:17 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
05:04 Brian’s introduction.
05:59 A love affair with London since the 1960s.
09:55 The need for good roles for fine actors.
16:30 New era of the long form story.
20:44 Moral conflict is a compelling fascination.
22:51 How the reader or viewer may empathise with a particular character.
27:33 Story is character and character is story.
30:41 Story is a metaphor for life and equipment for living.
35:16 Trump is a bullshitter.
37:26 Why Robert chooses to write encompassing the mediums of page, stage and screen.
40:43 The challenges for emerging authors, screen and play writers.
44:51 What Stanislavski meant by ‘The art of themselves or themselves and the art.’
49:51 The misconception of Holywood.
51:32 What people are looking for in attending Robert’s 3 day teaching marathon seminar.
57:41 Does the creative personality need nurturing or to be given realistic truths?
1:00:41 How writers can help humanity in today’s confusing world.
1:04:20 What motivates Robert’s pace of work.
1:10:35 How close was Brian Cox’ portrayal of Robin in Adaption?
1:13:37 The new TV and Web series that excite Robert and give hope for the future of writing.
1:21:33 Robert’s words of advice from his experience.
1:22:47 Brian’s summing up.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:18.0 | And that the deepest pleasure of the theater |
| 0:21.0 | is learning without being taught. |
| 0:24.0 | What makes a great screenwriter, |
| 0:31.0 | somebody was something to say. |
| 0:34.0 | But you have to make sense out of life. |
| 0:37.0 | And this is why most people can't do it, |
| 0:39.0 | because they can't make that sense out of life, let alone make sense out of life |
| 0:42.0 | and then express it in writing. |
| 0:45.0 | Telling story beautifully is meaningful because it makes life a little less painful. |
| 0:56.8 | It makes life just a little more livable. So people 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 |
| 1:15.3 | them life would be unlivable. |
| 1:18.8 | I noticed your mug here it says journey journey is a euphemism for the struggle of, life is an uphill battle, it's Sisyphus pushing that rock, okay? |
| 1:38.0 | It's not a journey. And the I'm going to do. This week on the show we have Robert McKee who is a legend in Hollywood. |
| 2:23.2 | He's been teaching people how to write screenplays |
| 2:26.0 | for the past 30 years. |
| 2:27.7 | 50,000 students, over 60 of them |
| 2:30.4 | have won Academy Awards. |
| 2:32.1 | Over 140 of them have won Academy Awards. Over 140 of them have won Emmy Awards. |
| 2:35.0 | He really is the godfather of this business |
| 2:38.0 | with people like Peter Jackson of The Hobbit, |
| 2:40.0 | Kirk Douglas and the entire Pixar team saying that he is the man. |
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