we can love Robert McKee or not as we may love or not the American cinema. in this book, Mckee is rough with European cinema. however, in this book he evokes numbers of French films neophytes moviegoers ignored. Let's be clear: this book is very helpful anything that a little complex. if you really want to compose a story in the maximum operator, you need two things: your curiosity, imagination (in my eyes, one does not go without the other) and this book. it is almost complete. I recommend it even if the author is not the kind of man with whom I 'would go to the fair (lol) purchase in paperback ... But if you are not sure you want to spend two weeks in the fly (to integrate its mechanisms, that is longer) this book, and you do not have patience ... run away! or buy the cheapest possible for information ...