For the past 6 months or so, I’ve been retooling my verbal game.
So the basic sequence from MM was
- Attract
- Comfort
- Seduce
I think the overall model of how to pull is right, but I’ve got a fetish for comprehension – so I think the words are wrong.
Here’s how I think about it.
- Draw Her Into a Cycle of Validation
- Build Trust
- Arouse
Sort of the same thing, but this really just tells you about my game, my thinking process. And less about the “essential” nature of the game. (whatever that may be)
I am deliberately trying to draw a picture in the girl’s mind when I talk to her. The same way Nas can paint a picture of NYC in NY State of Mind.
From part 3
If you knew my streets
You would know all everybody talk about is who got beef
Who’s snitchin’, who told police
Who came home, who’s still gone, who rest in peace
Now they killin’ over music money, not drugs, rap replaced it
Cause thugs with no brains got no patience
New jacks I pistol whip ’em with the funky rhythm I be kickin’
Musician, inflictin’ composition of pain
I’m like Saddam Hussein
Still alive, lookin’ at his dead children’s burnt remains
I birthed the game, learned you lames a new lesson
Your crew’s soft man, y’all need some new weapons
The Ps breed warriors in skullies and Timbies
Around micks, spics, niggas, and guineas
So that’s what I’m doing. And to this end, I’m reading a lot more about film, writing plays, comedy, magic, illusion, etc.
Given that a writer can conjure up a dragon or a far away galaxy with the flick of a pen – how do film/tv makers convince you that this flat 2 dimensional set of moving lights is real life?
Special Effects, Lighting, Music……..
Dialogue…
I came from the pick up era where lines and scripts were the preferred way to pull.
Honestly, I could only remember a line or two of someone else’s stuff – but I absorbed the idea – what the stories meant. So I would take my own personal stories, and then punch them up so that they grab an audience better.
To that end, this is a nice piece from the chicks @ ScreenPrism.
0:48 – “Faking empathy to make them open up”
1:59 – She breaks down the power play between Ed Kemper (Serial Killer) and the Agent.
This scene, this filmed capture of two actors doing their best work, – this thing convinces the viewer that this is real. This creates the ‘spell’.
And a lot of the spell is not in the words themselves, but in the expressions and the reactions and shifts in position between the two.
File to Game is Everywhere
-Archie