Robert McKee began his show business career at age nine playing the title role in a community theatre production of MARTIN THE SHOEMAKER. He continued acting as a teenager in theatre productions in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Upon receiving the Evans Scholarship, he attended the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. While an undergraduate, he acted in and directed over thirty productions. McKee's creative writing professor was the noted Kenneth Rowe whose former students include Arthur Miller and Lawrence Kasdan.
After completing his B.A., McKee toured with the APA (Association of Producing Artists) Repertory Company, appearing on Broadway with such luminaries as Helen Hayes, Rosemary Harris and Will Geer. He then received the Professional Theatre Fellowship and returned to Ann Arbor, Michigan to earn his Master's Degree in Theatre Arts.
Upon graduating, McKee directed the Toledo Repertory Company, acted with the American Drama Festival, and became Artistic Director of the Aaron Deroy Theatre. From there he traveled to London to accept the position of Artist-In-Residence at the National Theatre where he studied Shakespearean production at the Old Vic. He then returned to New York and spent the next seven years as an actor/director in various Off-Broadway, repertory and stock companies.
After deciding to move his career to film, McKee attended Cinema School at the University of Michigan. While there, he directed two short films - A DAY OFF, which he also wrote, and TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. These two films won the Cine Eagle Award, awards at the Brussels and Grenoble Film Festivals, and various prizes at the Delta, Rochester, Chicago and Baltimore Film Festivals.
In 1979, McKee moved to Los Angeles, California where he began to write screenplays and work as a story analyst for United Artists and NBC. He sold his first screenplay, DEAD FILES, to AVCO/Embassy Films, after which he joined the WGA (Writers Guild of America). His next screenplay, HARD KNOCKS, won the National Screenwriting Contest, and since then McKee has had over eight feature film screenplays purchased or optioned, including the feature film script TROPHY for Warner Bros. In addition to his screenplays, McKee has had a number of scripts produced for such critically acclaimed dramatic television series as QUINCY, M.D. (starring Jack Klugman), COLUMBO (starring Peter Falk), SPENSER: FOR HIRE and KOJAK (starring Telly Savalas).
In 1983, McKee, a Fulbright Scholar, joined the faculty of the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California (USC), where he began offering his now famous STORY SEMINAR class. A year later, McKee opened the course to the public and he now teaches the 3-day, 30-hour STORY SEMINAR to sold-out audiences around the world. From Los Angeles (where his course is only taught two times a year) to New York (two times a year) to Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco, Helsinki, Oslo, Munich, Singapore, Barcelona and 12 other film capitals around the world, more than 50,000 students have taken the course over the last 15+ years.
Through it all, McKee continues to be a project consultant to major film and television production companies, as well major software firms (Microsoft, etc.), news departments (ABC, etc.) and more. In addition, several companies such as ABC, Disney, Miramax, PBS, Nickelodeon and Paramount regularly send their entire creative and writing staffs to his lectures.
In 2000, McKee won the prestigious 1999 International Moving Image Book Award for his best-selling book STORY (Regan Books/HarperCollins). The book, currently in its 32nd printing in the U.S. and its 19th printing in the U.K., has become required reading for film and cinema schools at such top Universities as Harvard, Yale, UCLA, and USC, and was on the LOS ANGELES TIMES best-seller list for 20 weeks.
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.
在读过十数本关于虚构文学的创意写作参考书籍之后,我终于可以宣布,未来的读者们只要买上其中的两本就足够了。甚至,对于时间紧迫的人,只要一本就足够了。对,仅一本足矣。 当然这些书还不是完全相同,其中异类如斯蒂芬金的《写作这回事》,完全是他一个人沾沾自喜的絮叨,...
评分讲述故事,感动听众 Storytelling That Moves People 说服是商务活动的中心。要让客户购买你们公司的产品和服务,你必须说服他们;要在公司实行新的战略计划和重组,你必须说服员工和同事;要让投资者购买(或是不出售)你们的股票,你必须说服他们;要合伙人签下一单合...
评分 评分许多观点竟然和我讲课时候的想法不谋而合~(@^_^@)~但这是人家是十几二十年前的看法啦…… 1.每一次电影技术的革新(比如从无声到有声从黑白到彩色)都伴随着讲故事方式退步。(那么这回儿我们就处于3D技术成熟带来的电影叙事的固步自封阶段) 2.大师必须是精通经典形式,这是...
评分1.大预算=大情节=大量观众,反之亦然。大情节,即惊奇历险故事,好莱坞型。故想要有众多观众多半需要大预算。 2. 先锋脱胎于经典形式,要先锋必先完全理解经典形式。 3. 让人物活起来的方法:研究写作人自己的记忆、想象、事实(包括书影),其他人与你的生活的差异也可以带来...
中文版翻阅无数次了 但是翻译之烂有些地方真的别扭到狗屁不通 直接导致我无法理解mckee先生的见地啊!! 那天iask上看到了英文原版 果断dang之 又极厌电子版 又破费将之打印 现在摸着还温热的400页心里那个激动!!
评分有些很漂亮的解剖,对于叙事本身的教学也没问题。只是我不认为narrative是电影的核心,也不认为narrative是表现人物的唯一途径。
评分非常棒的剧本入门书籍,尤其开篇,遣词用句很是享受,目测至少要再看一遍,画一张思维导图才好用于应用。阅读初心是希望可以帮助自己了解做做叙事性游戏,而游戏中的叙事,和书籍和电影的交集十分微妙,每当看到作者阐述其观点时,总是在想,作者如果了解游戏,他会在这段论述中如何摆放游戏、文学、影视三者的关系,偶尔像是和作者在交流。唯一遗憾是书中作者举例的很多作品都没看过,影响了自己的理解性,希望未来能补看附录电影后二刷此书。
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评分走马观花地看了一遍,可谓电影工业剧本套路手册,剧本分析很多,take home message是一个好故事就是一连串节奏恰好令人信服的冲突和矛盾相互映衬对比而成的集合体,尊重又不完全取悦观众
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