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I have this theory that the great modern playwrights are now film directors...

>> No.2103427

you are confusing writing and directing
(as well as play- or screenwriting and theatre or film direction)
but I see what you are getting at

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>with Hanake? Really?

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>>2103438
GTFO

>>>/sci/

>> No.2103445

>>2103442
Dude. I am not /sci/ and you know NOTHING about plays.
First. His name is HANEKE not HANAKE.

Second. HE HASN'T EVER WRITTEN A POPULAR PLAY. HE HAD DIRECTED SEVERAL THOUGH.

>> No.2103447

This caracalla idiot is trying to prove how knowledgeable he is by reading wiki articles, methinks.

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>>2103445
>His name is HANEKE not HANAKE.
Three points to gryffindor for that stroke of genius...

>HE HASN'T EVER WRITTEN A POPULAR PLAY. HE HAD DIRECTED SEVERAL THOUGH.
Oh, brilliant, that's halfway to a concession... He also writes his films..

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>>2103447
Per-ooof?

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>>2103449
:D Retard.

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>>2103452
what sort of 14 year old are you? How's msn these days, eh, kid, eh?

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To further examine the theory, are there good playwrights writing good plays at this point in the 21st Century?

>> No.2103515

>>2103487
I went to see a collection of short contemporary plays put on by a group of drama students at my school. It was straight up gimmicky pointlessly abstract shit. Stuff like people riding segways around on stage while talking about the scientific method. I went to another a few years later, and it was the same sort of stuff.

To be fair, I imagine % good short plays / % good full-length plays is even lower than % good short stories / % good novels. I don't want to give up on theater, but I remained to be convinced there's anything worthwhile happening there anymore.

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>>2103515
This is interesting and really funny. i don't know of any good published playwrights either...

>> No.2103530

A lot of the stuff Haneke is doing on the screen wouldn't work in play format. See: anything in the Seventh Continent. A film about voyeurism and its relation to the audience like Funny Games would however be quite effective on stage, I think

Some of the elements that could work for theatre in his films, though, are often cribbed from other people, like Bergman for instance

>> No.2103531

>>2103530
Well, he is writing for cinema, y'know, and that he was or wasn't was never a particular contention of the theory; his visuality up until recently was pretty workmanlike, thoguh; then he got those great wide shots in Cache and the rest is history...