#302 - You Can't Con David Mamet
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Justin the clue, and I'm here today with Will Slown. |
| 0:08.6 | And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. |
| 0:10.7 | This is a podcast that you're listening to, The Important Cinema Club, where we're going to be talking about David Mamet. |
| 0:15.9 | A guy, we're going to talk about it. |
| 0:17.3 | Fuck you. |
| 0:17.9 | Fuck you. |
| 0:18.6 | Fuck you, Justin. |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, that's right. |
| 0:20.5 | That is the dulcet tone. |
| 0:22.5 | No, no, listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. Fuck you. Of David Mamet, his particular style, |
| 0:30.0 | which me and Will just covered ourselves in like a toxic goo throughout this week watching his |
| 0:35.8 | movies. David Mamet has a multifaceted career. |
| 0:38.6 | First and foremost, of course, |
| 0:40.0 | he's one of the most famous and acclaimed American playwrights living today. |
| 0:43.8 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glenn Gary Glenn Ross, |
| 0:47.0 | as well as Oleanah, Speed the Plow, American Buffalo, among others. |
| 0:51.5 | He defined American theater in a way. Like, he is one of the greats. He has |
| 0:56.1 | also, at this point in time, completely lost his marbles, which makes you reevaluate all the work |
| 1:02.8 | that he's done before. I'm sure we'll get to that because, you know, I saw a clip of him on |
| 1:08.6 | Fox News pretty recently where he was going off about the groomer panic, you know, that business. |
| 1:15.2 | And you think, how can this man be the same man who wrote Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross? |
| 1:19.2 | How can you be, in my personal opinion, so smart in one area and so, so silly in another area? |
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