David Mamet talking MMA film REDBELT

Acclaimed director David Mamet discusses his new film, an MMA fight film entitled REDBELT, during a segment from Fox's mobile show FIGHT GAME.

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[MrMZaccone]

@VanHowle Listen to real people talk some time. There isn't much "real dialogue" and there's lots of profanity. In its own way Mamet's writing is very real. 

[MrMZaccone]

@ejarrett You obviously have no understanding of MMA and the technicalities involved. Especially the ground game. I love MMA because it more closely resembles a "real" fight. Boxing is fun to watch but now that the majority of people out there can tell it ISN'T what a real fight is like, they have to educated themselves to enjoy it. I'd recommend you do the same with the elements of MMA. To a certain extent, perception is reality.

[MrMZaccone]

@sleepcity It was an EXCELLENT film. It was about adherence to personal principles and overcoming adversity through those principles. There should be more like it. I'm sick of Hollywood eye candy with no moral to the story other than "don't fuck with our hero". What made it good was the fact that unlike most of the SHIT out there, it had a story with people and drama and interaction. I cared about the protagonist and in the end I cared about his principles. Sometimes, they're all you have.

[MrMZaccone]

@Diedrupo They also did a sort of boxing although obviously is wasn't called that any more than their wrestling was called wrestling.

[sleepcity]

I love Mamet (well, his plays not his politics) but MAN this was a terrible film. Edmond, Sparta, Redbelt...I don't think Mamet has another "Glengarry" or "American Buffalo" in him. Too bad he's resorted to writing tribalistic screeds about how all Jews can be divided into "religious" and "self-hating" and anyone who dares to criticize a single action of the Israeli government is an anti-semite. Boo.

[Diedrupo]

The greeks and romans did wrestling, not boxing.

[ejarrett]

People who proclaim "Boxing is dead" are idiots, what do you think the Greeks and Romans did ?

MMA is cool but not to the level of specificity and rules that boxing has...I might as well watch someone with an icepick.

[nollestr]

Ive talked to a cpl people who worked at Second City when he was there an they all said the same thing, they said that Mamet is one of the biggest assholes ever to come thru 2nd City.

[lotor666]

Did you seriously upload a video with like 4 frames a second... are you serious?? its 2009 people!

[VanHowle]

Ehh...David Mamet is brilliant in the sense that he has convinced people that he is brilliant. In fact I find only a few of his plays to be tolerable as he does little more than regurgitate what he's written previously. His terrible plays are fucking awful, his "great" ones are alright if you prefer profanity to real meaningful dialogue.