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I was just trying to explain to someone why they shouldn't be turned off to a film just because Steve Martin is in it. I was primarily trying to get them to rent The Spanish Prisoner. This is what I came up with. I came across your diary by just cruising around. I never think of films as being the actor's (sorry). A film is like a building. The writer is the architect, the director is the structural engineer and the actors are the building materials. Unless you're talking about a studio film. Then, more often than not, the film is a cheap, over priced prefab just like everything else in a nasty new housing development that will be an ugly disintegrating eyesore in 20 or so years.... Anyway, if you look at a film that way, a Mamet film is like a Frank Lloyd Wright home. A unique and modern structure that is built to stand the test of time. A modern classic. In the hands of the studio hacks, a "Steve Martin film" is one of thos annoyingly identical development houses. In the hands of an artist like Mamet (as is the case in The Spanish Prisoner), it is the Guggenheim!
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