1:05:05
You cannot have a protagonist
without desire.
1:05:08
It doesn't make any sense.
Any fucking sense.
1:05:12
You follow? Good.
1:05:15
Anyone else?
1:05:21
What if a writer is attempting to create
a story where nothing much happens?
1:05:26
Where people don't change,
they don't have any epiphanies.
1:05:29
They struggle and are frustrated,
and nothing is resolved.
1:05:33
More a reflection of the real world.
1:05:36
The real world?
1:05:38
Yes, sir.
1:05:39
The real fucking world.
1:05:42
First of all, you write a screenplay
without conflict or crisis...
1:05:45
...you'll bore your audience to tears.
1:05:48
Secondly, nothing happens in the world?
1:05:52
Are you out of your fucking mind?
1:05:56
People are murdered every day.
1:05:58
There's genocide, war, corruption.
1:06:01
Every fucking day,
somewhere in the world...
1:06:04
...somebody sacrifices his life
to save somebody else.
1:06:06
Every fucking day, someone somewhere
takes a conscious decision...
1:06:10
...to destroy someone else.
1:06:12
People find love. People lose it.
1:06:14
Christ, a child watches a mother
beaten to death on the steps of a church.
1:06:19
Someone goes hungry.
1:06:21
Somebody else betrays
his best friend for a woman.
1:06:24
If you can't find that stuff in life...
1:06:27
...then you, my friend,
don't know crap about life!
1:06:30
And why the fuck are you wasting
my two precious hours with your movie?
1:06:36
I don't have any use for it!
1:06:39
I don't have any bloody use for it!
1:06:44
Okay, thanks.
1:06:49
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
1:06:50
No. Thank you.
1:06:52
Thank you so much, Mr. McKee.
1:06:55
This course makes you look at writing
in a whole different way.