Sir, what if the writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens? Where...
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[at a seminar, Charlie Kaufman has asked McKee for advice on his new screenplay in which 'nothing much happens']
Charlie Kaufman:
Sir, what if the writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens? Where people don't change, they don't have any epiphanies, they struggle and are frustrated and nothing is resolved. More a reflection of the real world.
Robert McKee:
The real world?
Charlie Kaufman:
Yes, sir.
Robert McKee:
The real fucking world. First of all, you write a screenplay without conflict or crisis you'll bore your audience to tears. Secondly, nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fucking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life! And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!
Charlie Kaufman:
Okay, thanks.
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Sit down Have a seat She's dying to meet you
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Well I should probably go because
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Well I'd love to meet her too
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but I don't want to be beholden And well
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Because once you meet somebody that you've been writing about
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it becomes very hard to separate So
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Well okay I'll speak to you soon And I'm almost done
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I'm almost done
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And tell Susan that I would love to meet with her at a future date
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As she sees fit Okay
Clip duration: 29 seconds
Views: 412
Timestamp in movie: 00h 54m 48s
Uploaded: 12 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama
Summary: A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
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05:29 Do I have an original thought in my head
01:00 Its double
00:43 You know why I like plants
00:45 I'll tell you a secret
00:21 There are too many ideas and things and people
00:30 Fuck fish
00:26 Everything's over
00:25 Why didn't I go in
01:01 Do you ever get lonely sometimes
00:22 YOU FAT PIECE OF SHIT
00:32 How to start
00:47 I am pathetic
00:13 What I came to understand is that change is not a choice
00:18 How could you have somebody held prisoner in a basement and
00:49 I have to go right home
00:41 Or characters
00:18 I'm putting in a chase sequence
00:25 The script I'm starting
00:55 You sound like your in a cult
00:23 I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion