.colinmarshall revisits the script guru Robert McKee’s popular guide to screenwriting, “Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting,” which was published more than 25 years ago.
,” was published more than twenty-five years ago.
McKee celebrates what he calls Classical Design: “Timeless and transcultural, fundamental to every earthly society,” stories of Classical Design are “built around an active protagonist who struggles against primarily external forces of antagonism to pursue his or her desire, through continuous time, within a consistent and causally connected fictional reality, to a closed ending of absolute, irreversible change.
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