The Dream And The Film Are The

Mixed Martial Arts Was Invented By Brazilians, Whose Families Had Been Trained By The Japanese. Those Brazilians Came To The U.s., Where Their Invention Was Bought Out, Gussied Up And Presented To The World, Which Found It Good.

We Live In Oppressive Times. We Have, As A Nation, Become Our Own Thought Police; But Instead Of Calling The Process By Which We Limit Our Expression Of Dissent And Wonder ‘censorship,’ We Call It ‘concern For Commercial Viability.

Consider: For All The Gobbledegook [film Studio] Executives Spout About Backstory, All That We, The Audience, Want To Know Is What Happens Next. That's The Only Thing That's Going On. . . . Character Is Nothing Other Than Action, And Character-driven Means The Plot Stinks, And You'd Better Hope The Star Is Popular Enough To Open The Movie In Spite Of It.

The Main Question In Drama, The Way I Was Taught, Is Always, 'what Does The Protagonist Want?' That's What Drama Is. It Comes Down To That. It's Not About Theme, It's Not About Ideas, It's Not About Setting, But What The Protagonist Wants.

I Look Back On My Liberal Political Beliefs With A Sort Of Wonder - As Another Exercise In Self-involvement - Rewarding Myself For Some Superiority I Could Not Logically Describe.