Creating Meaning From Clichés
Robert teaches how writers can layer subtext underneath a cliché in order to make the line work.
Robert teaches how writers can layer subtext underneath a cliché in order to make the line work.
Robert McKee teaches how to create and use backstory to turn scenes through revelation.
Robert teaches how adapting novels, and the dialogue within, for screen is a matter of reinvention.
Robert McKee on how to deal with dialogue when planning out your story beats and turning points in a treatment.
Robert McKee teaches the relationship between image systems and empathy.
Robert McKee explains the purpose of subtext, and the difference between manipulation and tactics.
Robert McKee explains the benefits of combining genres as a tool to aid your construction of an original story.
Robert McKee explains how sympathy for a villain risks audience excitement, and why writers must be careful when introducing detailed backstories for their antagonists.
Robert explains how writers can avoid an anticlimax when placing the Mercy Scene at the beginning of their stories.
Robert McKee teaches the role empathy should play in your story, and when it might be appropriate for your audience to empathize with your antagonist.
Robert McKee discusses the psychology every writer must understand in order to write a compelling villain.
Robert McKee teaches writers how to treat character arcs within the action genre, and details which action subgenre allows room for greater complexity of conflict.