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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the "magic" of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.
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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173 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Invaluable Resource
This is the only book on screenwriting I have read thus far, and, frankly, it would take a lot for me to read another. I have gained invaluable understanding of the screenwriting process with this book. I reference it continuously and am not...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
Beware of the Snake Oil Salesman
I'm sorry but I find it almost insulting that someone would stand up on an orange box and preach about a subject that he knows NOTHING about. To me that's the definition of a scam artist.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 06, 2008 Type: User Review |
Let me tell you a Story
Fantastic content and narrative! McGee's book is awesome however the Audio CD really brings it all to life. Candidly, I'm surprised Robert is also so talented narrating the audio - this is a must-have purchase, even if you've already bought is...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
Bible for screenwriting
Mckee's book is famous and hardly needs someone like me to review it. This is the bible of screenwriting. With that said, there are a lot of basics in here that advanced screenwriters always follow, but are beyond. It is a quick and interesting...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
The best book on crafting a story
By far the best book about the crafting of stories. McKee provides insights into story development that I haven't found in any other volume on screenwriting. Helped me immensely to be able to recognize viable plot lines, and understand why some...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 05, 2008 Type: User Review |
If you want a straight forward approach to script writing order now.
While most everyone who works in Screenplay is familiar with Syd Field. Robert McKee I have found has a much less wordy and practical approach to understanding writing not only in movies which is the best use for this text but novels as well....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
A bible for screen-writers.
Some spots of this text can be long and some subjects can be kind of confusing. But this text is very good in detail about what things good screen writers should do and some things that they shouldn't do when writing screenplays. The...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Just a Couple of Points for the People Who Didn't Get It!!!
There is no need to repeat any of the comments about how truly great this book is, but I do want to say something about the few negative reviews of this book. Namely, that it was written w/ a huge dose of ego, and that it is a hard read. To put...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
Breathtaking and Inspirational
Screenwriter Robert McKee is an infectious evangelist on the importance of story in people's lives. His understanding is almost biblical in his perception on how humans are wired (e.g. the stories of the Old Testament, the parables of Jesus)....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
Something right, something wrong.
The first thing you must know about Robert Mckee is: this man has never sold a movie script to a producer, never!. This guru has only written 3 TV scripts. The book of Mckee has some very interesting ideas, but you must be careful. Mckee has a...
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