Character B: Just let me... B

Funny how he keeps repeating himself lol

He didnt say anything useful😢

Sorry, my lump of words took 30 seconds of my time… I’m writing a comedy and couldn’t resist…

Just kidding…

Sample of your first: A: Leave me alone. B: Quirt skirtin’ the issue and maybe I would. A: Piss off, you’re givin’ me ‘gas’. B: dude, I don’t think you’re grasping the gravity of the situation. A: not now, I’ve got more important crap on my plate. B: How long are you planning on hiding your head up your ass, perhaps it would better suit your frickin’ Highness if I submitted a written proposal for a time more mutually pleasing… huh! A: Suck it up, Buttercup! I find your incessant ‘whinging’ to be both tiresome and, at best, a profligate misappropriation of time better spent watching my toenails grow… now, run-along sweet-innocent child born of infallible naïveté, and hence, be at halcyon pensivities leisure and bringe the thou no more the weight of your inner maladies and afflictions to which, no man of standard measure of reason could not without excessive merit for which to do such admirable, yet unrequited gregarious help unto forthcoming, be that if your consignment, or squalid lassitude born of time and again honored abject complacency, such loathe some sloth beseeched you and begeht you willing Part to gluttonous self-praise, be you slain in your own blinded contrivance…

Liz Taylor and Richard Burton repeat almost every line in the opening of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, at least twice, sometimes three times or more. The first line ("What a dump!") Taylor says at least 4 times in 2 minutes, but makes a little guessing game out of it. Such a powerful way to expose her character, highlight their relationship, and drive home the dig (spoiled little rich Dean's daughter, slumming with a lowly history teacher, complaining about her "dump" of a house, living with her "dump" of a husband). You'd be hard pressed to find a finer first 10 minutes of film. Try. You'd be hard pressed. Those first 10 minutes. Find a finer first 10 minutes. Try.

"What do you mean I'm funny? Funny how? No, how am I funny? No Anthony, he's a big boy, he said it, let him answer, how am I funny? Maybe it's me, but funny how? How am I funny? You said it? How the F am I funny?"

"Who are those guys?" "Who are those guys?" "Who are those guys?" ~William Goldman, in the highest-priced screenplay in history.

"If you can't find that stuff in life then you my friend don't know CRAP about life!" Charlie Kaufman

The best way to write realistic dialogue is to say it out loud. You’ll know right away if it’s natural or clunky.

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Example of repetitiveness: "Are you lost, baby girl?"

Starts at 2:40.

lol. "lock Her Up" "stop the steal" "build the wall" Those were repeated ad nauseum. Seemed to actually INCREASE the impact. Yikes.

Goo Goo Goo Joob.

British TV in a nutshell - Female driven police dramas that repeat the same beats over and over and over. We look to America for original TV.

I'm not sure if I counted 10 traits.. (unless he repeated some of them)

DnD should watch this video

In other words if your dialogue sucks 🤣

David Mamet + Robert McKee = Head explodes.

"Search for the perfect choice." So true for so much of the creative process. I'm a writer and also an illustrator, and the same goes for illustration. No matter your skill and talent, and even the clarity of the vision inside your head, you are still searching for the lines and shapes that best capture and refine that vision. It's rarely a "nailed it" process. Rather, it's always a seeking process. Patience, resilience and trust in your own ability that eventually you will find the best choice, is what I found served me best as I developed as a writer and illustrator.

Some old fart teaching young farts how to have a conversation...while doing a monologue. Go on.

He just summarized almost 80% of Final Fantasy XIII's dialogue.

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is it weird that i love exposition in film? i like the feeling of Im there in the experience in this crazy world like most of the long drawn out scenes in space odyssey. I like it when mood and archetypal imagery symbolism somewhat over shadow the characters.

Robert McKee is a fantastic teacher. I remember seeing him live in 2009 for his seminar. It's intense but was such a powerful experience. Taught me so much.

Outstanding presentation.

@4:15 -- a typical evening with my teenagers. @4:35 -- same @4:55 -- yes, exactly

He was kinda repeating himself... but I got the message. I've been guilty of this in my writing, harping on a theme and milking it for a page when one exchange would suffice.

Where is part 2?

i got your books. story and dialogue 👌🏼💪👍

His book "Story' is worth reading. This sounds like a lot of blather about the obvious

Bay-nal.

Dear Mr. McKee, Thank you for this analysis. X

How did so many people in the comments miss the point of what you were trying to say? We really are living in the times of the infographic and countdown generation. I guess you should get a Buzzfeed like editor for your videos so people understand them. Again, thank you. I love your no-nonsense approach to writing. It is a battle. Not some formulaic bullshit where a thesaurus substitutes actual thinking process.

Thank you so much. You are extremely helpful, to the point. You don't offer formulaic alternatives as do most "writers" on KZfaq. You understand the importance of style and the power of language. Thank you.

Great advice. Thanks!

he spent half the video talking about writers repeating themselves... stop halfway if you want to save yourself 300 seconds of your life.

I know in teaching repetition is necessary to really drive home a point and commit it to the learners' memory, but I still laugh at the irony here.

Nine minutes of him saying "don't repeat yourself" in many different ways.

i dont wanna talk about it ... the room

I was so surprised when I saw that he helped to craft the stories of older Barbie movies. 😮

and what about "life is like a box of chocolates" ? sometimes repetition can add depth to the theme by showing the meaning of the phrase trough diferent perspectives

I have no idea how long he blathered on and on about not repeating oneself, while he said the same thing over and over in slightly different words, because I gave up before he was done. This is an "expert"?

Wait.. what happened to the other 9?... Can't find the other matching lessons?

I think I have story talent pouring out my ears, but my literary talent needs a lot of development. Anything that helps me work on this is immensely valuable.

Writing is like making a pot out of clay. You need a glob of clay in order to begin the process. The words are your clay and McKee's book then tells you how to shape and mold...

Somewhat disagree. Repetition can sometimes be used in a good way. Off the top of my head just take the monologue in Taxi Driver. Repetition is used to great effect in many dialogues as it is a way to show bickering, to stress point or show that a character is maniacal about something. And having a character repeat the same line multiple times in a movie also be an interesting callback.

cant this be summarized as just - dont add anything superficial. write it in a way people communicate in real life ?