The archetypal story unearths a universally human experience, then wraps itself inside a unique, culture-specific expression. A stereotypical story reverses this pattern: It suffers a poverty of both content and form. It confines itself to a narrow, culture-specific experience and dresses in stale, nonspecific generalties.--Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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October 27, 2009
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