{"id":583,"date":"2007-07-11T01:06:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2007-07-11T01:06:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T01:06:42","slug":"godzilla-vs-mamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla vs Mamet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mamet’s book, Bambi vs. Godzilla<\/a>, is compulsively readable and full of opinions, which is precisely what one wants from it.
\nIt also discloses the ancient secret of the screenwriter, which I shamelessly reveal here:<\/p>\n

To write a successful scene, one must stringently apply and stringently answer the following three questions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Who wants what from whom?<\/li>\n
  2. What happens if they don’t get it?<\/li>\n
  3. Why now?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it… These magic questions and their worth are not known to any script reader, executive or producer. They are known and used by few writers. They are, however, part of the unconscious and perpetual understanding of that group who will<\/em> be judging you and by whose say-so your work will stand or fall: the audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Mamet’s title is, of course, from the infamous short “Bambi meets Godzilla”, a true classic that I saw on TV in the late 80s and haven’t seen since… until now. No-one should be surprised it’s on Youtube<\/a>. Some of you may be surprised, however, that it has its own wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Mamet’s book, Bambi vs. Godzilla, is compulsively readable and full of opinions, which is precisely what one wants from it. It also discloses the ancient secret of the screenwriter, which I shamelessly reveal here: To write a successful scene, one must stringently apply and stringently answer the following three questions: Who wants what from whom? … Continue reading Godzilla vs Mamet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-9p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}