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.
故事 By 罗伯特·麦基 主控思想:围绕一个明确的思想构建故事。能够用一句话表述:生活如何以及为何会变化。价值+原因。高悬在打字机上方。 人性是永不过时的主题。 故事设计:是何人,想要什么,为什么,如何获取,障碍,后果。人们如何以及为何做要做的事。 预期与结果的...
评分罗伯特麦基是世界公认的银幕剧作教学大师,虽然有遍撒网好打渔的嫌疑,但也足以证实他在剧作界的教父地位.教师不必然能产出优秀经典的电影作品,但他对于电影结构和制作的理解确实是精到而颇有启发. 师傅领进门,修行在个人.麦基是一个纯粹的老师,他通篇都在强调一种常识,...
评分(全文7100字,慎入!《故事》精华全在此了。) 罗伯特·麦基(Robert McKee)的《故事》一书,主要是针对电影编剧而写的,是他数十年开办、教授“故事”培训班的经验结集。 罗伯特·麦基,1941年1月30日出生于底特律,编剧。从小热爱戏剧,早年做过演员。1981年,麦基受美国南...
评分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,...
评分罗伯特麦基是世界公认的银幕剧作教学大师,虽然有遍撒网好打渔的嫌疑,但也足以证实他在剧作界的教父地位.教师不必然能产出优秀经典的电影作品,但他对于电影结构和制作的理解确实是精到而颇有启发. 师傅领进门,修行在个人.麦基是一个纯粹的老师,他通篇都在强调一种常识,...
simply awesome book
评分果然是hardcover半价,里面订上了。
评分神一般的老头,文笔无比好
评分超好的。不过还是无法同卖基老师一样坚信“故事的重要性”。
评分经典之作
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