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  • Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game

    (By Robert McKee)

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    Author Robert McKee
    “Book Descriptions: From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, Action offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.

    Action explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.

    Topics include:

    Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action
    Creating the Action Cast
    Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action
    The Action Macguffin
    Action Set Pieces
    The Sixteen Action Subgenres

    A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, Action illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.”

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