thread: 2006-02-20 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question, pt 2
On 2006-07-07, Curly wrote:
I took a break from Egri and read David Mamet's "On Directing Film", instead.
107 lean pages, like a Forge-game rulebook.
Egri does a good job with some things, like breaking Premise into 3 parts:
This leads to THAT.
But you gotta know which parts of Egri to shrug-off/
or else you'd be convinced that a Character Sheet with 50 pages of backstory—makes a better PC than The Pool's 50 word limit.
Whereas Mamet's analysis is much-more about keeping the same building-blocks that Forge games focus on/ and discarding the dead weight.
There's little or nothing Mamet says that you & Ron don't know. But Mamet tends to SAY it with with more virtuosity than you do. That's what he's famous for, after all.
