BSG Writing Agency? Page 2
Saying look on the internet!
Quote: zooo @ August 4 2008, 11:48 PM BSTSaying look on the internet!
Ahhhhh. Sorry.
But everyone wants a quick fix. No one wants to put the leg work in.
Sometimes you have to sit on the internet until 2am following round career trails and sketchy contact info until you track someone down.
It's like the 'Glengarry leads' from Glengarry Glenross.
Always Be Closing!
I wanted Kevin anyway.
I'd end up being Jack Lemmon and Aaron is certainly Alec Baldwin in what is Mamet's masterpiece - one of the best ten films ever made ... imo.
An author told me one way he got around agent-only submissions in the book world was to create their own agency because a publisher told him: unagented subs get binned, subs from agents we know get read, subs from unnown agents go in the slush pile.
So creating your own agency can, in the short-term, get you past the first hurdle - naturally if you make more submissions and they're not too hot, your 'agency' carries no weight with them. But the author wasn't worried as he'd been read and signed before it reached that stage.
And yet again, you have left me clueless.
Quote: Aaron @ August 6 2008, 3:17 PM BSTAnd yet again, you have left me clueless.
Baldwin played the company trouble shooter - he verbally beat seven shades out of the employees. 
Aaron if you have not seen it Glengarry Glenross is one of the finest films ever made, well worth seeking out.
Slag A: Don't worry I worked in sales for a while and had to get out because I could see myself turning into Jack Lemmons character
Thanks Matt. I have never even heard of it. I shall keep an eye out.
Quote: Sofa_Matt @ August 6 2008, 3:37 PM BSTAaron if you have not seen it Glengarry Glenross is one of the finest films ever made, well worth seeking out.
'Tis a good film; don't know about one of the 'best ever', but it's certainly worth a look.
Mamet's writing is superb, really sensing how to make the play work as a film. James Foley's direction really tight, keeping the sense of claustrophobia and intimidation of the piece, whilst again making the play "filmic". And it is one of the best ensemble casts I've ever seen in a film.
Favourite line? Many, but Pacino in the restaurant, "All train compartments smell vaguely of shit. That's the worst thing I can confess."
The weird thing about Mamet is that he's one of the best American writers of a generation and yet he uses tautology repeatedly. Sometimes it's flawless, other times it absolutely grates. But even so, he's a master. And the screenplay and direction are so claustrophobic (as Tim mentions). If you love dialogue and the way a character uses certain word choices then Mamet is da man.
I think he wrote one of my favourite films. Chazz Palminteri and a woman therapist... a con film.
What the heck is it called....?