Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Spanish Prisoner" in English language version.
Your dialogue has been called street-smart and edgy. It's even called Mamet speak.
Mamet's machine-gun dialogue, both an Airplane!-style joke on noir and a pitch-perfect copy of every overconfident asshole you ever met, is so beautiful yet utilitarian it's like holding a well-made steak knife when there's nothing to cook. You just admire it. His dialogue is so singular that it's called Mamet-speak...
Mamet's plays usually contain terse dialogue that is chock-full of profanity. At first it might seem as if anyone could master Mamet speak just by spewing curse words, but Zachary Simonson, who plays Bobby, pointed out that the language in American Buffalo is actually very precise and measured. "There's a term called 'profane poetry' which very well describes what's going on", he said. He explained that many lines are written in iambic pentameter, the same verse meter that Shakespeare used. These carefully crafted lines lend a rhythm to the dialogue that implies a variety of emotions as it fluctuates throughout the play.
To put it into Mamet-speak...
To put it into Mamet-speak...
