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Leading article Australia

Mean boys

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

‘True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.’ So wrote the eloquent Robert McKee in his mesmerising book Story, a brilliant analysis of the skills and ploys of Hollywood’s most gifted screenwriters.

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