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Posted by TA (A) on September 29, 2004 at 06:10:17

In Reply to: Spartan posted by PdL on September 28, 2004 at 11:28:51:

there's a particular oddness to the way david mamet has his characters talk - in an off way that suggests they're strategizing something or hiding information. it's like the train scene between janet leigh and frank sinatra in the manchurian candidate. i think a viewer either finds it really intruiging or just goes "huh?"

when val kilmer goes into the interrogation room and pretends to be a secert service guy to force a lie out of the guy being interrogated, i was hooked on the film. mamet moves this scene so quickly that you may have missed the gamemanship between all the characters. i like that gamesmanship in mamet's films. have you liked other david mamet films?

there have been other trheads on spartan on this board

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