Henry Johnson

First Mamet Character: And what if she brings it (the gun) what will we do then? Second Mamet character: Whatever we want. A movie in three parts about three separate yet connected cons. David Mamet is an extraordinary and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who has also directed several of his own works. You know Mamet when you hear it, because nothing else sounds quite like. Even his imitators, of which there are many, struggle to get near it. They being the difference between corn on the cob and corn liquor. Other people attack him and Sorkin and Whedon and the other great writers who elevate their craft with a unique style. Mostly, that’s because they couldn’t do it if they tried and because they have tried and failed and must suffer like the rest of us knowing that they are a mob of Salieri (Salieri being the plural of Salieri) doomed to be rightly jealous of Mozart. Anyway, Henry Johnson is not, I should hasten to add, top shelf Mamet. It is not Johnny Walker Blue. The first…