Some of the guilty feel compelled to give the game away, as it were. Zionist Wag the Dog (1997) screenwriter and playwright David Mamet happens to be one of them. Yesterday I watched his early movie House of Games (1987), which is concerned with a group of Seattle conmen, and followed it up by listening to his audio commentary with actual hustler and sleight-of-hand manipulator Ricky Jay, who plays one of the flim-flam men in the film. Mamet, who has a pronounced affection for shysterism and cons, would return to the theme in The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and other screenplays. Just like Lindsay Crouse’s character Dr. Margaret Ford, who has a fatal “tell” and inadvertently gives herself away by making repeated Freudian slips, David Mamet also feels compelled to say too much. He and Jay, he says, “spent many, many years talking about the similarities between drama and the confidence game – that what you’ve got to do is distract the person in order to get them to do something they wouldn’t ordinarily do. For example, to distract them so they don’t say, ‘Wait a second. Elephants can’t really fly, this movie’s a bunch of nonsense.’” Jay concurs that “the power of film in general is one of the biggest cons.” Profanity merchant Mamet’s greatest revelation is still concealed up his tuxedo sleeve, however. Remarking on the character of the conman played by Mike Nussbaum, Mamet says, “One of the great rules of life – I made it up – is never trust a Jew in a bowtie.” Just remember, readers, that it was the racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracy-theorizing bigot Mamet who said that – not me.
They subvert and pervert everything they touch, this is true on many levels.
Our days were numbered from the minute motion pictures were invented.
I’m still going to watch Watchmen, but my internet connection has been shitty the past week or so and videos were taking forever to load. Seems to be back to normal now, so maybe I’ll watch it this weekend.
It’s just one of those CGI extravaganzas like Avatar (which, btw I finally saw a few weeks ago). Basically eye candy.
I wish they’d have designed pants for Dr. Manhattan in GGI.
I also wish they used the giant mutant squid.
Sometimes I can’t understand why directors deviate from the original story except in the name of brevity to economize time.
I only just discovered that the actress in House of Games was Mamet’s first wife, responsible for his first big break in movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Crouse
Interesting also that Mamet appears to have married non-Jews. His present wife, Rebecca Pidgeon, actually converting to Judaism.
In the audio commentary Mamet recorded for Homicide, he says Pidgeon has a good “Jewish soul”.
Shudder!
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