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Excerpt from an interview<\/a> originally published by Final Draft on September 25th, 2017<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The venerable screenwriting instructor Robert McKee is not only a knowledgeable craftsman, but also a fan of well-spun tales, whether on stage, in books, or on screen. Creator of the three-day STORY seminar\u2014and a celebrity among academics, thanks to Brian Cox’s portrayal in 2002’s Adaptation<\/em>\u2014McKee is blunt yet eloquent as he glides from films he adores and despises. He mentions loving 2016’s Lady Macbeth<\/em><\/a>, director William Oldroyd’s 19th-century romantic thriller, in the same breath as 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em><\/a> and The Lego Movie<\/em><\/a>. But this summer’s Atomic Blonde<\/em><\/a>? Not so much.<\/p>\n “It’s repetitious. It’s a female Jackie Chan without the humor,” he said in a recent phone interview, adding, “I never believed that people simply go to stories to escape. I think they go to a story to explore a world that they didn’t know. That’s why, when you see something that’s a catalogue of clich\u00e9s, you don’t escape. You get pissed off.”<\/p>\n