David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
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Start, every time, with this inviolable rule: the scene must be dramatic. It must start because the hero has a problem, and it must culminate with the hero finding him or herself either thwarted or educated that another way exists.’
Yes, there’s a script to follow, but that script just paints the broad strokes. Everyone on the Bananas is free to add their own touches and strokes of genius.
Dialogue, dramatized and narratized, performs three essential functions: exposition, characterization, action.
