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    David Mamet roasts Weinstein and liberalism in latest play

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    Site Supporter donlapalma's Avatar
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    This makes me like his guy even more. I'd love to see it. Fat chance of it coming here though. We'll see.

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    Good on David Mamet.

    BTW, I loved Spartan.
    "Therefore, since the world has still... Much good, but much less good than ill,
    And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
    I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good." -- A.E. Housman

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    I've thoroughly enjoyed every Mamet film I've ever seen, could not get through his novel, Chicago, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SAWBONES View Post
    Good on David Mamet.

    BTW, I loved Spartan.
    I didn't realize that was a Mamet movie, but I thought it was very good, especially for a straight to video. I need to see Red Belt again now that I'm a new BJJ practitioner.

    This play sounds interesting too, I'm going to have to look up what else he's done. I believe he directed some episodes of The Shield, which is my all time favorite tv show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balisong View Post
    ...I'm going to have to look up what else he's done...

    Mamet's IMDB
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    I love his writing. Somewhere I have a description of a writing class he taught in which he challenges the class to write a scene which shows that someone is an eager, motivated student.

    The class offers all kinds of suggestions of scenes about the person arriving early and showing that with their alarm clock and the empty streets and getting a janitor to unlock the room and all of the stuff they bring and Mamet cuts it down to a two-second shot of a person trying a doorhandle which is locked, then sitting at the table alone with their pen in hand. Parsimony, parsimony, parsimony. His writing is so stripped and spare...some of my very favourite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misanthropist View Post
    His writing is so stripped and spare...some of my very favourite.
    "The Spanish Prisoner" is a good example of that leanness of style.
    There's nothing civil about this war.

    Read: Harrison Bergeron

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    I think I've seen Mamet quoted as saying (paraphrasing) "Write it, then cut it in half. Then cut it in half again."
    Plus he trains BJJ with Al Bundy. What's not to like?

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    Quote Originally Posted by blues View Post
    "The Spanish Prisoner" is a good example of that leanness of style.
    I will definitely check that out.

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