Talk:Robert McKee

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Mckee is far more than a seminar instructor[edit]

Robert Mckee is known Hollywood and Broadway figure, and the Wikipedia entry should be broadened accordingly. (Friday 10-Nov-2006 04:05PM GMT+2)

- Done at 11-Nov-2006 02:16AM GMT+2

Who are these award-winners?[edit]

"26 Academy Award winners, 125 Emmy Award winners, 19 WGA..." who? Is there a list? Were the awards given for writing? Were the awards given after they attended the sceminar? Were the awards verifiably given at all? More than a citation is needed. An explanation is needed. Youdontsmellbad 22:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your points, so you are welcome to research and post any citations; I took the official numbers that are presented at the McKee website. I guess that not all award winners won it for their writing, yet all of them did take the course, before or after winning. —comment added by John Hyams^(t/c)

I have already added clarifications in the article (in parentheses). John Hyams 05:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's a pretty stock answer, john. but the burden of proof is not on the person who finds fault, but the person who wrote the thing. i suggest that you fix the problem or i'll be happy to remove the reference. Youdontsmellbad 01:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's a patronizing comment. I have no burden of proof whatsoever, the McKee website is reliable enough. When your character is portrayed by an Emmy-Award actor, you do not go and lie in your website about who attended your course. Would you like a copy of all the receipts? You go and prove how many Austrian soldiers died in the battle of Austerlitz! John Hyams 04:48, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

looks good now. my apologies if i replied harshly after you'd already fixed the problem. Youdontsmellbad 06:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Read Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources (online and paper). These "statistics" about award-winners are unduly self-serving. Actually the entire article is rather unbalanced in its style of writing. --Cinematical 12:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo was taken in 2005, not in 2006[edit]

As a participant in the Nov 2006 course, I know for a fact that the current photo was taken in his previous and first visit to Israel, in 2005, not in 2006. McKee did not wear all black in his 2006 visit. In fact, he wore as follows: 1) first day: blue shirt 2) second day: light-brown shirt and brown pants 3) third day: blue jeans with a light-color shirt. In the photo, the hall of the Cinemateque is indeed the same, but a year before (2005). John Hyams

Additional rearrangement[edit]

The Casablanca info is an anecdote, so it should be moved to that section. Number of participants should be moved to the section about the seminar.

-- Done. —comment added by John Hyams^(t/c)

also there is nothing about criticism/backlash/dislike of mckee. when i was at film school, mckee was mostly considered a joke. and in my experience most film professors and students at other schools were of the same opinion. 24.185.239.254 03:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I went to USC's MFA Screenwriting Program and his book was not required nor referenced in any classes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.8.126.131 (talk) 18:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This whole page comes off as far too worshipful to me, I also found everyone in my film school and in the industry now that I'm in it kind of consider McKee a joke. Also the anecdote about "give a director 120 blank pages and say DIRECT THIS" is ... of questionable merit in an encyclopedia article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.207.206.210 (talk) 09:37, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anecdotes[edit]

Anecdotes? Are these really necessary? It doesn't seem very encyclopedic to me, and quite superfluous here. --46.117.237.207 (talk) 16:05, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McKee credits[edit]

R. McKee doesn't appear as a writer on the Wikipedia list of episodes or writers pages of Kojak, Columbo, Spenser: For Hire and Quincy, M.E.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spenser:_For_Hire_Episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Columbo_writers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quincy,_M.E._episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kojak_episodes

According to his IMDBpro profile, he is only credited as a writer for 1 episode of Spenser, and for Mrs Columbo among 21 other writers : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571210/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

This should be corrected — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tireatute (talk • contribs) 16:28, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Grandson of HIm[edit]

Should I add known relative of him? I am his grandson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RelatableBryan (talk • contribs) 16:40, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]