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On directing film
David Mamet · 初版 1991 年
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凭借作为剧作家、编剧，以及自己执导的广受赞誉的电影 House of Games 和 Things Change 的导演这一独特视角，David Mamet 深刻阐述了一部电影诞生的过程。从剧本构思到剪辑室制作，他审视了导演工作的方方面面，展现了导演为实现首要目标所承担的诸多任务：呈现一个既能被观众理解，又兼具意外感与宿命般必然性的故事。On Directing Film 改编自 Mamet 在哥伦比亚大学电影学院讲授的一系列课程，它不仅能让广大读者乐在其中，
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……（本质上给颠覆预期提供了可能）就是电影里的镜头切换。观众天生就会去推断从一个画面切到第二个画面的含义。大卫·马梅有一本很棒的书叫《On Directing Film》，篇幅不长，极其详细地讨论了镜头转换层面的这个问题。你可以借鉴其中的思路，把它拓展到三个画面，就能理解我上面讲的那些想法了。
…give a chance to subvert expectations per se) is cutting between shots in movies. The audience inherently tries to deduce the meaning of going from one image to a second. David Mamet has a great book, 'On Directing Film', that is not very long and talks about the shot transition version of this in great detail. You can use the ideas there and expand it to three to get into the ideas I've talked about above.
……学戏剧（好吧，是我大学里最接近戏剧的专业了）。我花了很多精力研究马梅。他的方法很容易用力过猛。马梅本质上是个剧作家，而话剧和电影是完全不同的媒介。其实他在《On Directing Film》里就讲过：戏剧关注的是角色之间的当下瞬间，电影则是画面的并置。马梅这辈子大部分时间都在写作而不是导演，看看他主创的作品就知道了……
…in theatre (well, the closest my college had). I focused a lot on Mamet. It's easy to take his approach overboard. Mamet is a playwright, and plays are a different medium than film. In fact, his book "On Directing Film," covers it: theatre is about the present moment between characters, film is about the juxtaposition of images. Mamet has spent most of his life writing rather than directing, and look at his credits…
……某种程度上很像原版魔兽世界（vanilla WoW）。游戏的大部分反馈来自于你与周围环境的互动[2]，而且你随时可以选择不同的任务线）。[0] http://www.amazon.com/On-Directing-Film-David-Mamet/dp/01401... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory [2] 第一次看到发光的植物时，你才意识到原来还有个叫草药学的技能等等。
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