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Whistle Stopper - Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
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Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.23
EAN: 9780060391683
ISBN: 0060391685
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1997-12-17
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: 1997-11-25
Studio: HarperEntertainment
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Summary: Let me tell you a Story
Comment: 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 book "Story".
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Summary: Bible for screenwriting
Comment: 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 read that you will benefit from. After reading it, pick up the film Adaptation and laugh out loud.
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Summary: The best book on crafting a story
Comment: 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 stories just don't work. This is not a book for the beginning writer; it doesn't deal with such 101 stuff as script formatting. Rather, it's a higher level text for writers who have some knowledge of the craft. I go back again and again to this book.
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Summary: If you want a straight forward approach to script writing order now.
Comment: 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. Must read for anyone who writes anything.
The world would have far better stories that abused the tried and true archetypes a lot less if people would just read this book.
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Summary: A bible for screen-writers.
Comment: 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 fundamentals about writing good solid stories and coming up with ideas to create characters and have empathy for all the characters one creates in their screenplays. This is a must ready for any person that wants to become a screen-writer.
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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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