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Robert McKee is a creative writing instructor who is widely admired for his popular "Story Seminars," 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. Many of Hollywood's active screenwriters claim him as an inspiration. Rather than simply handling "mechanical" aspects of fiction technique such as plot or dialogue taken individually, the book examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes the story compelling or not. This could work equally as well as an analysis of any other genre or form of narrative, whether in screenplay or any other form and could also encompass nonfiction works as long as they attempt to "tell a story". The seminars are frequently held in Los Angeles, New York, London, Toronto and Tel Aviv. McKee is often quoted * to say that Casablanca (1942) is the greatest screenplay of all time. Several critics tackle this by saying that Casablanca actually had no tight script, or hardly any script. A line in the IMDb trivia article on Casablanca states that: "No one knew right up until the filming of the last scene whether Ilsa would end up with Rick or Laszlo. During the course of the picture, when Ingrid Bergman asked director Michael Curtiz with which man her character was in love, she was told to "play it in between". Since the ending was not the final scene shot, there are some scenes where she
World Travels and other Anecdotes Other Mentioning in movies In the Charlie Kaufman-penned movie Adaptation., McKee was portrayed by Brian Cox, who was McKee's personal choice for the role. | ||||||||
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