Salon.com > Big Think http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 10:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Screenwriting guru tells all http://www.salon.com/2010/04/21/robert_mckee_big_think_interview/ http://www.salon.com/2010/04/21/robert_mckee_big_think_interview/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/04/21/robert_mckee_big_think_interview 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." (McKee describes what it feels like to see a version of himself on-screen in the interview.)

McKee discusses the human need to structure experience through stories, screenwriting lessons for businesspeople and why his own scripts haven't been turned into films. Visit Big Think to see the video interview in full.

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