With details of upcoming seminars and a review of I, Tonya and Molly's Game:
"We often put off doing
something for as long as possible, then as we finally make the decision and
step into the action, we're surprised by its relative ease. We're left to
wonder why we dreaded it."
Robert McKee
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Hello McKee Tribe,
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As writers, it's
easy to fear rejection, forgetting it accounts for so much of our profession.
But now is the time to take action.
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We are proud to
partner with Scriptapalooza for this great writing competition. Step into the
action. Write the truth. Be fearless.
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Good luck!
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The
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Don't miss the only LA and NYC seminars this year.
Robert McKee Returns to the US and UK in
Spring 2018
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"'Good
story' means something worth telling that the world wants
to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,
of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and
creative gifts is still not enough.
Your goal must be a good story well told."
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If you're a writer and haven't attended a McKee seminar,
right now could be a defining
moment in your professional career. Get mentored by the
last-standing great storytelling teacher of our time and give your passion a spine.
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In March 2018, McKee is back by popular demand, returning to
LA (March 23-25)
with his essential STORY Seminar.
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Tickets are already limited, so please book soon to avoid
missing out!
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In April, McKee brings the STORY Seminar to the state of art
lecture hall, Loreto Theater, at Sheen Center for Thought and Culture NYC (April 12-14).
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This is the only STORY Seminar in NYC this year. Don't miss
it.
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McKee also delivers a deep dive into the codes and
conventions of longform storytelling in the sought-after TV Day (April 15).
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Writers also have the unique opportunity to master the genre
McKee calls "the angry art" at his Comedy Genre Day (May 20).
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SAVE $50 on the STORY SEMINAR
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to new registrations only and cannot be combined with any other seminar
discount. Valid through March 19, 2018.
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Year after year, McKee Alumni are recognised
as the best
artists in the business.
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With over 65 Oscars, 250 Emmys, 60 DGA and 150 WGA wins
between them, the growing collective of successful STORY attendees is
becoming a Who's Who of the filmmaking world. Peter Jackson, the Pixar Team
and John Cleese all find themselves among this growing collective of
industry masters.
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Take advantage of a lifetime of narrative insight and master
the principles of story form with the teacher Hollywood legend Quincy Jones
calls "the
Aristotle of our time."
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What others are saying about McKee Seminars:
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"His
great insight into storytelling is unparalleled
and
his knowledge vast."
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THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
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"The
Universal Master."
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THE BBC
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"McKee
is a tireless, passionate advocate of Story arts. I wish I had taken his
seminar before I started writing 'CUT TO' for a living."
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McKee's
Works / Doesn't Work Film Review
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I, TONYA / MOLLY'S GAME
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The inciting incident opens the
telling by radically upsetting the protagonist's life. For better or worse,
sooner or later, balance must be restored, so out there in the future
climatic turning points wait to happen. These events reach back to us, as
it were, grip our curiosity and sweep us through time toward an unknown yet
to come.
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In the classic Thriller, for
example, the magnetism of no less than three massive question marks pull us
toward the future: (1) Who is the criminal? (2) How will he be caught? (3)
How will he be punished?
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Sometimes, however, a writer uses
the opposite technique and calls on the power of the past to push the
storytelling forward through time...
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Don't miss these upcoming McKee Seminars!
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LOS
ANGELES
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In March 2018, McKee is
back by popular demand, returning to LA
(March 23-25) with his essential STORY Seminar.
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With the seminar
4 weeks away, this year's only
LA STORY is already showing signs of being sold out.
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NEW
YORK
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In April, McKee brings
the STORY Seminar and sought-after TV GENRE Day to New York (April 12-15).
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This is the only STORY
Seminar in NYC this year. Don't miss it.
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LONDON
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In May, McKee brings
the legendary STORY Seminar and Comedy GENRE Day to London (May 17-20).
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A
study of exemplary stories pushed from the past.
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I, TONYA / MOLLY'S GAME: They Work! (Spoiler Alert!)
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Two Oscar-nominated
biopics-cum-crime dramas start with their female protagonists busted for
and presumably guilty of a crime. The storytelling then flashes back to
their youth to dramatize their motivations, the hows and whys of life that
ran both of them afoul of the FBI. { More uncanny coincidences: In real
life both protagonists began as winter sports athletes (figure skating and
freestyle skiing) with fierce disciplinarian parents and Olympic dreams. }
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I, TONYA
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Screenwriter Steven Rogers starts
the film as a documentary based on face-to-camera interviews, then turns it
into a docudrama by casting actors as living people, and finally styles it
as a mockumentary by adding spit-laugh mockery that laces his scenes with
the high hysteria.
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The film opens with its outcome,
Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), her skating career in ruins, talking to
camera. The telling then flashes back to when she was three years old and
plays out the two elements that push a story from the past: dramatic irony
and underdog empathy.
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MOLLY'S GAME
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MOLLY'S GAME also opens with an
outcome: the FBI hauls Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) off in handcuffs. The
telling then flashes back to her childhood and her father (Kevin Costner)
coaching her to ski as if she were a jarhead and he, a Marine DI.
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Once again, dramatic irony and
instant underdog empathy: After a career ending accident destroys her
athletic hopes, she decides to lead her life as a self-made woman in, of
all possible venues, high stakes gambling. Now she must live by her wits in
the testosterone reeking empire of gaming and gangsters. As a result, the
audience stares into every scene, wondering how, why and what did she do in
this dangerous male world that jammed her up with the law. Unlike the
passive Tonya who reacts to other people's actions, Molly makes her own
choices and these propel both her and the audience toward the future.
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STORYNOMICS
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Look out for next week's newsletter:
'McKee's Works / Doesn't Work Review: Oscars Edition'
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