Screenplay by Mamet
Posted on 05/14/2011 7:11:04 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
Three decades ago David Mamet became known among the culture-consuming public for writing… […]
And then Mamet thought some more, and looked in the mirror.
“I never questioned my tribal assumption that Capitalism was bad,” he writes now, “although I, simultaneously, never acted upon these feelings.” He was always happy to cash a royalty check and made sure to insist on a licensing fee. “I supported myself, as do all those not on the government dole, through the operation of the Free Market.”
He saw he was Talking Left and Living Right, a condition common among American liberals, particularly the wealthy among them, who can, for instance, want to impose diversity requirements on private companies while living in monochromatic neighborhoods, or vote against school vouchers while sending their kids to prep school, or shelter their income while advocating higher tax rates. The widening gap between liberal politics and liberal life became real to him when, paradoxically enough, he decided at last to write a political play, or rather a play about politics. It was the first time he thought about partisan politics for any sustained period.
“This was after the 2004 election,” he told me in an interview last month. “I’d never met a conservative. I didn’t know what a conservative was. I didn’t know much of anything.
“But I saw the liberals hated George Bush. It was vicious. And I thought about it, and I didn’t get it. He was no worse than the others, was he? And I’d ask my liberal friends, ‘Well, why do you hate him?’ They’d all say: ‘He lied about WMD.’ Okay. You love Kennedy.Kennedy didn’t write Profiles in Courage—he lied about that. ‘Bush is in bed with the Saudis!’ Okay, Kennedy was in bed with the mafia.”
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Haha. Send Mamet’s book his way. Or order one for his local library (if possible). You never know.
This one sure does.
I love Mamet.
Good idea. I was toying with the idea of sending the article, but it would probably be rejected because of the source.
Screenplay by Mamet
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“Trotter says the herd instinct in an animal is stronger even than the preservation of life,” Mamet said. “So I was watching the [2008] debates. My liberal friends would spit at the mention of Sarah Palin’s name. Or they would literally mime the act of vomiting. We’re watching the debates and one of my friends pretends to vomit and says, ‘I have to leave the room.’ I thought, oh my god, this is Trotter! This is the reaction of the herd instinct. When a sheep discovers a wolf in the fold, it vomits to ward off the attacker. It’s a sign that their position in the herd is threatened.”
THE EDGE
Fantastic film!
“What one man can do, another can do!”
Now you’re bringing me back a few years. A great movie. Late 1990s? Thanks for the reminder.
Baa. Baa.
Interesting. Guess who just mentioned this article in a tweet today and called it a “a good read”?
Great. Another limousine liberal who finally sees the light. Now that he has his millions after proverbially kicking honest folks in the teeth, he can bear leaving his old lib-pals and hob-nob with new ones.
It’d be something if a he wrote screenplay that skewered the Left and became something of a hit.
Until then, keep swimming, David!
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