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Originally Posted by DaveF
Perhaps a Mamet thing, but several characters all spoke in identical, artificial machine-gun stocattos that became tiresome, pushing me out of important emotional moments.
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As Elisabeth says, that's something of a Mamet trademark, but not as much as people think. He has whole films where no one talks like that (
State and Main, for example). But there's a certain disreputable type of character who routinely pops up in Mamet's world, and they always talk that way. I don't find it more (or less) artificial than any other movie dialogue; it's just a different approach.
M.