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David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
screencraft.orgGlengarry Glen Ross
This play is set in the very near future Then 7 years after that Then 75 years after that
Anne Washburn • Mr Burns
How’s tricks in the sticks,
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Mamet points out, as E. M. Forster did before him,8 that our only interest should be in what happens next.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Within a five-block radius of my apartment there are four first-run multiplexes and a dozen thirty-to-fifty-seat revival houses with rotating programs devoted to obscure and well-known actors, directors, and genres. These are the mom-and-pop theaters, willing to proceed with the two o’clock showing of The Honeymoon Killers even if I’m the only one
... See moreDavid Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
The movie is thoroughly a product of Seventies sensibility: the integrity of things as they already stand, the presentation of a text as a concrete object, and out-front admission of the means of production.
Manny Farber • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
Dramatic Irony: Employ Hitchcock’s favorite device and hide from the protagonist a fact known to the audience.