1:05:04
You cannot have a protagonist
without desire.
1:05:07
It doesn't mak e any sense.
Any fucking sense.
1:05:11
You follow? Good.
1:05:14
Anyone else?
1:05:21
What if a writer is attempting to create
a story where nothing much happens?
1:05:25
Where people don't change,
they don't have any epiphanies.
1:05:29
They struggle and are frustrated,
and nothing is resolved.
1:05:32
More a reflection of the real world.
1:05:35
The real world?
1:05:37
Yes, sir.
1:05:38
The real fucking world.
1:05:41
First of all, you write a screenplay
without conflict or crisis...
1:05:44
...you'll bore your audience to tears.
1:05:47
Secondly, nothing happens in the world?
1:05:51
Are you out of your fucking mind?
1:05:55
People are murdered every day.
1:05:57
There's genocide, war, corruption.
1:06:00
Every fucking day,
somewhere in the world...
1:06:03
...somebody sacrifices his life
to save somebody else.
1:06:05
Every fucking day, someone somewhere
takes a conscious decision...
1:06:09
...to destroy someone else.
1:06:11
People find love. People lose it.
1:06:14
Christ, a child watches a mother
beaten to death on the steps of a church.
1:06:18
Someone goes hungry.
1:06:20
Somebody else betrays
his best friend for a woman.
1:06:23
lf you can't find that stuff in life...
1:06:26
...then you, my friend,
don't know crap about life!
1:06:29
And why the fuck are you wasting
my two precious hours with your movie?
1:06:35
l don't have any use for it!
1:06:38
l don't have any bloody use for it!
1:06:43
Okay, thanks.
1:06:48
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
1:06:49
No. Thank you.
1:06:51
Thank you so much, Mr. McKee.
1:06:54
This course makes you look at writing
in a whole different way.
1:06:59
-Mr. McKee.
-Yes?