Thursday, April 22, 2010
Screenwriting guru tells all
Salon.com: Earlier this week, Big Think sat down with legendary screenwriting guru Robert McKee, to talk about the state of storytelling in an age where television is regaining our respect and any group of friends with a computer and a YouTube account between them can release their homemade movie to a worldwide audience. If you aren't familiar with McKee and his message, you must never have harbored any ambitions to become a screenwriter, since he's the most famous teacher of the craft in the business. You may, however, remember a foulmouthed Brian Cox portraying him in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's "Adaptation."
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This was very interesting to read. Even though it's directed at writers, the importance of story telling for all of us is there. I thought the literary emphasis in the video interview was surprising to hear. The fact that he had to actually discuss the importance of being able to communicate clearly is kind of sad.
Wow, this article really hit a lot of key points. I love that even though he didn't deny that his chosen form of Art may be depleting, that art on a whole is not. There are certainly applications for business people to use story telling. It's a bit unsettling that a lot of people today have the state of mind that he mention: My shit is better than their shit" Why can't they just make Art instead?
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