I Am A Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor
The latest review is up at Pajiba. This was the middle feature in our three movie-adventure day at The Grove. It was sandwiched nicely between Iron Man and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
David Mamet does an arthouse movie about mixed-martial arts. Or as I cleverly describe it, martial artsy-fartsy.
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kc // May 12, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Hi, I appreciated your Redbelt review on Pajiba. Where did you find Mamet’s remarks about Galaxy Quest?.
righteousindigestion // May 12, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Thanks. He’s done a lot of talking about it in interviews for the movie. But he actually references it in his latest book, Bambi vs. Godzilla. Mamet is arguing that Galaxy Quest is perfect in terms of dramatic structure.
A perfect film, he writes, starts “. . . with a simple premise and then proceeds logically, and inevitably, toward a conclusions that is both exciting and inevitable . . . . A washed-up bunch of television actors curse the long-gone success of their show; it has mired them in supermarket openings, portraying cut-out heros; they are given the chance to inhabit that fantasy turned real and discover, in themselves, real heroism.”
Story is told without fat, that is, without any extra scences to distract the audience’s attention from the plot.
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