Robert McKee

  • How to Write a Screenplay that Gives the Finger to Mythic Structure

    How to Write a Screenplay that Gives the Finger to Mythic Structure

    Long before Harry Potter stroked his wand and yielded yet another sequel to his magically inflating franchise; eons before Frodo became the ring-bearer to his own tripartite wedding of myth and special effects; and far, far away from the uneasy alliance between a Sarah Lawrence College mythology professor and the advent of the blockbuster—there was…