{"id":1436,"date":"2017-06-09T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/09\/david-mamet-reveals-why-movies-dont-need-dialogue-and-more-no-nonsense-screenwriting-lessons\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:20:00","slug":"david-mamet-reveals-why-movies-dont-need-dialogue-and-more-no-nonsense-screenwriting-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/09\/david-mamet-reveals-why-movies-dont-need-dialogue-and-more-no-nonsense-screenwriting-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mamet Reveals Why Movies Don&#8217;t Need Dialogue and More No-Nonsense Screenwriting Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/06\/david-mamet-interview-masterclass\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/alec-baldwin-glengarry-glen-ross.jpg?itok=sBtTrRyI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nLegendary playwright and screenwriter David Mamet discusses his no-nonsense approach to writing.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nDavid Mamet doesn&#8217;t mince words. He doesn&#8217;t in his writing (Al Capone in <em>The Untouchables<\/em>: &#8220;You get further with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word&#8221;). He doesn&#8217;t in his dramatic writing MasterClass (&#8220;Godard said every movie has to have a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that order. And that&#8217;s why French movies are so effing boring&#8221;). And he certainly didn&#8217;t in his recent interview with No Film School, during which he told us, &#8220;Hollywood is a cross between a spa and a cesspool.&#8221;&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMamet has authored dozens of award-winning plays and screenplays, including <em>The Verdict<\/em>, <em>The Untouchables<\/em>, <em>Hannibal<\/em>, and <em>Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em>, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. He has also directed a number of his own screenplays, such as <em>The Spanish Prisoner<\/em> and <em>House of Games<\/em>, which won Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the 1987 Venice Film Festival.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/06\/david-mamet-interview-masterclass\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Legendary playwright and screenwriter David Mamet discusses his no-nonsense approach to writing.&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; David Mamet doesn&#8217;t mince words&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"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,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}