Speed-the-Plow (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Mamet
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: A Hollywood film studio office
- Principal Characters: Bobby Gould, Charlie Fox, Karen
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Friendship, Antiheroes, 1980’s, Los Angeles, Loyalty, Ethics, Corruption, Ambition, Success or failure, Hollywood, Filmmaking or filmmakers
- Locales: California, Hollywood, CA
The Play
Scene 1 of Speed-the-Plow opens with Bobby Gould in his new but as yet undecorated office, debunking the prose of a heavy-sounding book about radiation. His old friend and right-hand man Charlie Fox walks in unannounced. Gould, who has attained a new position at a Hollywood studio only two days before, continues mocking the book, aware that Fox will shortly let him know why he came. Fox asks Gould how close he is to his boss, the head man in Gould’s Hollywood studio, whose name is Ross.
When Gould tells Fox that he can approve (“greenlight”) a...
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