Screenwriting From Iowa

It’s not that Mamet isn’t concerned about social change it’s just as I quoted in yesterday’s post he doesn’t see that as the role of the artist. Dickens stands in the other corner. When Dickens’ father was sent to a debtors prison Dickens went to work in a factory — at age 12. He would [...]

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“It’s not the dramatist’s job to bring about social change. There are great men and great women who effect social change. They do so through costly demonstrations of personal courage—they risk getting their heads beat in during the march on Montgomery. Or chain themselves to a pillar. Or stand on the line, and that can [...]

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