{"id":8046,"date":"2015-04-07T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2015-04-07T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T06:05:20","slug":"is-more-character-complexity-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/is-more-character-complexity-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Is More Character Complexity Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUO_DdlF5Us?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to character, is more complexity necessarily better? Robert McKee uses President Obama, and former presidents Bush and Nixon as examples of character complexity and how a life becomes a story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Quotes of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.<br \/>\nBooks are well written, or badly written. That is all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril,<br \/>\nyou find out who they really are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Joss Whedon<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We observe, but it\u2019s a mistake to copy life directly to the page.<br \/>\nFew individuals are as clear in their complexity and as well<br \/>\ndelineated as a character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Robert McKee<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to character, is more complexity necessarily better? Robert McKee uses President Obama, and former presidents Bush and Nixon as examples of character complexity and how a life becomes a story. &nbsp; Quotes of the Week &#8220;There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}