A review by mrswythe89
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee

3.0

This was OK lor. Oddly enough for a book that goes on about picking the best scenes to include in your movie and cutting out the crap to get to the PURE MATTER OF STORY, it was kind of repetitive! And tended to make big claims about HUMANITY and the NATURE OF STORY that made me roll my eyes. The writing was so Hollywood lah. Still, it was useful to bone up on all this Inciting Incident jargon and whatnot. I am trying to improve my plotting/outlining skills and it was useful to read McKee's conception of storytelling. It might have been even more useful if I had recognised any of the films he dissected!