Less dialogue (Milk Teeth).
Characters immediately memorable. Likeable characters are not.
We guess what truth is using all our prior knowledge of human nature.
Information must be immediately intriguing - we must care if it is true.
True dreams: forceps/universe/trees. You have to wait
for the payoff, for the admission of truth. You get
more than confirmation of your hunch.
Is your word able to carry the weight of the phenomenon behind it? What
people say carries the burden of what they're not saying (subtext). One thing is said, and what's lurking in the room beside it. The audience comes up with the shorthand. The drama shows what we can't see
[7% is what we say: the rest is bodies]. Some people don't identify with
lying when they're lying. The first moments present the game, the rules. Embarrassment is lurking somewhere. How are you in your circle?
It is a laboratory creating conditions for human behaviour. Sociologists say everyday life is structured like a play, we enter a situation, assess likely scripts. What won't be scandalous? What will connect?
Everything done must recognisably belong to the rule-set for this one.
There is risk. Why should you engage? Why should they?
[David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars].
Where is this going?
Characters immediately memorable. Likeable characters are not.
We guess what truth is using all our prior knowledge of human nature.
Information must be immediately intriguing - we must care if it is true.
True dreams: forceps/universe/trees. You have to wait
for the payoff, for the admission of truth. You get
more than confirmation of your hunch.
Is your word able to carry the weight of the phenomenon behind it? What
people say carries the burden of what they're not saying (subtext). One thing is said, and what's lurking in the room beside it. The audience comes up with the shorthand. The drama shows what we can't see
[7% is what we say: the rest is bodies]. Some people don't identify with
lying when they're lying. The first moments present the game, the rules. Embarrassment is lurking somewhere. How are you in your circle?
It is a laboratory creating conditions for human behaviour. Sociologists say everyday life is structured like a play, we enter a situation, assess likely scripts. What won't be scandalous? What will connect?
Everything done must recognisably belong to the rule-set for this one.
There is risk. Why should you engage? Why should they?
[David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars].
Where is this going?