David Mamet's main achievement is screenwriting.
He wrote "Directing Lessons". Promoted the KISS principle, the famous film theory of shots. It's just keep it stupid, simple. "To make it look stupid, and simple."
(Of course, I think it suits a lot of things.)
At the beginning of the film, Jack Nicholson's Frank, in the dark, hitches a ride. In the early morning, they got to a gas station and Frank said to the owner, "Thank you for taking me, I'll buy you something to drink."
Then they walked to the restaurant. A cat ran past Frank's back.
At the restaurant, Frank ordered steak, eggs, fries and a bunch of other things, and went straight to the toilet.
Through the crack of the door, he saw the owner of the car leaving alone after drinking, so he came out and started to eat.
After eating for a while, he suddenly pretended to be looking for his friend and asked the boss: Where is my friend?
The boss said he had left.
Frank pretended to be remorseful, "He took all my things, including my wallet!" The
kind boss listened to Frank's explanation and let Frank finish his steak.
At the same time, he excitedly ran to the kitchen and said to his charming wife, "I found a mechanic!"
Then he explained to Frank that he lacked a mechanic. And can pay eight dollars a month salary.
After Frank saw the boss's wife, he agreed to stay.
And so the story begins.
This is David Mamet's approach to storytelling, I think.
If it was the Brothers Grimm, I think that's how the story started:
Once upon a time there was a small town, and there was a couple who didn't get along, and they owned a drive-in restaurant.
They are missing a car mechanic.
So one day, Frank happened to be in town.
hehe.
David Mamey's way of letting the actors tell their own stories makes people immersed in the ever-evolving plot from the start. Yes, the whole movie doesn't give the audience much time to rest, or to think that the movie is still a few minutes away from the end.
He ruthlessly implemented his KISS principle. Simple, direct and effective.
When Frank lay in the hospital later, the insurance company brought a document, and he said to Frank, "Sign this, and this is the only one that will convince me and the jury that you are innocent."
But no one saw the contract. what.
And later the lawyer and Cora almost went crazy for the contract, and the film never stopped the screen for a second on that contract.
This is David Mamet's style. Everyone will absolutely think about the content of this contract.
In the end, everyone will be able to guess what it is. But the real contract doesn't make much sense here, he just needs a prop, a MacGuffin to make the movie climax.
Maybe it's because there have been too many movies about stream of consciousness/playing tricks on the market recently, and this movie that tells a story seriously is what really attracted me.
He just followed these people with dreams and sins, and showed the most real things together.
There is no playing skill at all, no deceiving the audience, and no trickery.
and: At the beginning of the film, a cat jumps out of Frank's back, and everyone probably forgets about him very quickly. Then, after Frank and the hostess Cora had sex. Before going to bed, Cora took the cat to Frank's side and gave it milk. At the same time and Frank finally made out, and then returned to her husband's side.
When Frank and Cora were about to murder his husband, the poor cat put its paw on the switch and burned the cat. But it also killed Cora's husband.
When everyone thought the cat would never be seen again, at the back of the film, Frank got in a big truck and asked the driver what was in the back. The driver said, "Cat." The
truck pulled into the circus, and Frank finally saw the giant "cat."
It seems that the cat and Frank have a subtle hint and connection, and he has a relationship with the circus actress like a cat "stealing".
And, for this reason, the actress visited Frank and Cora's drive-in with the "cat", leaving the giant cat in the owner's bedroom.
"Cat" returned to the hostess of the drive-in restaurant again, but he turned into a vicious leopard. And can only be locked in a cage.
This may hint at their guilt. will eventually devour them.
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