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«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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«A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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aesthetic, creators, divert, dramatic, enlighten, inform, mundane, Politics of, release
«The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.»
«Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit»
«We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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America and Americans
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«I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.»
«In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.»
«Oh, you know what? I got a better idea.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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