![]() ![]() I know you‘ve talked about things you’ve taken from memories of your parents, like the Carousel, or the hot-dog shop, or Christmas parties. It’s very close to the way I experience the world. Honestly, the intentional part of it is all from the gut. So it is intentional, but it’s the opposite intention of what we might have guessed. It’s so the audience can say, did he really just say, “I am not going to let a woman talk to me like that”? Which is one of the first lines I had in the idea of Mad Men. He has to be like, What am I supposed to say? Am I getting fired, am I getting complimented, am I getting punished?Īnd Rachel Menken and Don, in the pilot, was one of the first places where I put the silence in there for the exact opposite reason. ![]() So Don has to sit there and he can’t just answer that. And then there’s “I know what kind of person you are.” We know more about Don, we think, than Cooper does. One of them is an observation about human nature that I think is kind of profound. And I know what kind of person you are.” There are two huge thoughts in there. What did I say?”īertram Cooper says to Don, “When you reach the age of 40, you realize you have met almost every kind of person that there is. “He’s where?” “He’s there.” “He’s where?” “He’s there. What usually happens when dramatists have people speak like that- rat-tat-tat-is they have to repeat things again and again. Most of us don’t, in dramatic situations.Īnd I also feel like the characters are so eloquent that no one could absorb what’s being said if they just spoke quickly, like rat-tat-tat. I think those moments of silence are filled with the depth of human experience: In a conversation, you don’t know what the person is going to say next. That was a great learning experience for me, and has been a lot of pleasure. What I’m trying to do, and what people get out of it, is something that I have no control over. ![]() Viewers just don’t always know what the theme is. Well, there is a thematic unity to each episode, whether people perceive it or not. Really? You’re not leaving clues or hints for people to obsessively put together? I try to communicate as clearly as possible. I’ve been reading a lot of your interviews lately, and I came across a phrase that someone used-“architect of silences”-to describe how you keep audiences guessing about things. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. Weiner, 48, previously worked as a writer on The Sopranos. In preparation for her story “ The Madness of Matthew Weiner” in the April issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin sat down with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner to talk about his vision for the show as it enters its final season. ![]()
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