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Title: Overwrought, overthought, overcompliated. Get Syd Field instead.
Review: McKee is responsible for making the lives of screenwriters a living hell because movie executives go to his seminars and think they know about "story".McKee over-complicates the screenwriting process by stymieing writers with way too many rules. Good thing Quentin Tarantino doesn't follow these rules.Seriously, the only books you need on screenwriting are the Syd Field books "Screenwriting" and "The Screenwriter's Workbook", and maybe William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade.Aside from those works, get your hands on as many produced (and GOOD) screenplays as you can and read, read, read them.McKee will just distract you and get you thinking about rules that real filmmakers do not heed -- rules that would strip your story of all its fun, quirky, unique elements.
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