Robert McKee
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Nov 8, 2026
Levent BulutHOST
English writing books, on the other hand, treat the theme as a full statement.
Levent BulutHOST
Robert McKee even famously coined the term controlling idea to describe this.
Levent BulutHOST
To bridge this gap, the article draws a very clear distinction.
Levent BulutHOST
The topic is a name, and the theme is the judgment the text implies about that name.
Bob BoutelierHOST
Let's start with stories.
Bob BoutelierHOST
In the last episode, I gave you Robert McKee's definition, a protagonist overcoming forces of antagonism to reach something they desire, hero, conflict, goal.
Bob BoutelierHOST
Let's build on that with a few lessons from Lancaster that I found surprising.
Bob BoutelierHOST
First, who's the hero? In 2008, a British politician named David Davis resigned his seat in Parliament to force a by-election over a civil liberties issue.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And I actually use, I don't know if you've ever read this book.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
I think his name is Robert McKee.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
He wrote this book called Story.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And it's like this big, big.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
I don't know if you've ever read this book.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
I think his name is Robert McKee.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
He wrote this book called Story.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And it's like this big, big...
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And I actually use, I don't know if you've ever read this book.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
I think his name is Robert McKee.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
He wrote this book called Story.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And it's like this big, big, and that's what I use when I teach.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And I actually use, I don't know if you've ever read this book.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
I think his name is Robert McKee.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
He wrote this book called Story.
Jennifer LedwithGUEST
And it's like this big, big, and that's what I use when I teach.
Isaac RudanskyGUEST
So he gave me two books to read.
Isaac RudanskyGUEST
One was called Story by Robert McKee.
Isaac RudanskyGUEST
And Robert McKee teaches like the screenwriting course in Hollywood.
Isaac RudanskyGUEST
And he wrote a book called Story.
Isaac RudanskyGUEST
It's a great, I highly recommend it for anybody who's interested in writing.
Nancy PanuccioHOST
When she gives something up to get it, we learn who she is.
Nancy PanuccioHOST
Robert McKee put it this way in his book story.
Nancy PanuccioHOST
True character is revealed in the choices a person makes under pressure and the greater the pressure, the greater the revelation.
Nancy PanuccioHOST
Success alone doesn't reveal much.
Ross CiuppaHOST
I think that there's a lot of merit to...
Ross CiuppaHOST
I think that was one of the fracturing moments of me saying, okay, well, if that is true, how do we insulate ourselves from that truth, right? And I think it was Robert McKee or some screenwriter and or storytelling guru said once that...
Ross CiuppaHOST
Story is basically just a metaphor for a life lesson that we're trying to filter through our own experience, right? We're trying to teach the world.
Ross CiuppaHOST
And I feel like there's room to do that in advertising, right? Especially now when you have...
Bradford WintersGUEST
And so it started making me think, you know, and then as I it created this curiosity in me about the sort of the overlap between the two.
Bradford WintersGUEST
And I remember when I did the Robert McKee course on story, I remember him saying something about You know, the beauty of a well-crafted story sort of has a real rhyming effect between the setup and the payoff.
Bradford WintersGUEST
And that sort of goes hand in hand almost with what Robert Frost said, that all good writing, including poetry, is as good as it is dramatic.
Bradford WintersGUEST
And it was interesting because I have a friend who runs the Woodbury Poetry Room at Harvard, and she invited me once to give a talk on these two things.
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