{"id":70385,"date":"2014-04-27T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=70385"},"modified":"2014-04-27T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:29:12","slug":"before-you-watch-mad-men-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/27\/before-you-watch-mad-men-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Watch <i>Mad Men<\/i> Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70387\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Weiner-Film-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Weiner-Film-School.jpg\" alt=\"Weiner-Film-School\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Weiner-Film-School.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Weiner-Film-School-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Weiner, in film school, 1990. \u201cI realized that if you could write, you could have complete control.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6293\/the-art-of-screenwriting-no-4-matthew-weiner\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s interview with Matthew Weiner<\/a>, which appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/current-issue\" target=\"_blank\">in our latest issue<\/a> and is, as of today, available in its entirety online. (If you bring it up with your friends and they\u2019re like, <em>Yeah, I read that two months ago<\/em>\u2014<em>what rock have <\/em>you <em>been living under<\/em>, it\u2019s probably because they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\">subscribe to <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">The Paris Review<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>But so can you.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Weiner discusses the writers who\u2019ve influenced him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t make lists or rank writers. I can only say which ones are relevant to me. Salinger holds my attention, Yates holds my attention. John O\u2019Hara doesn\u2019t, I don\u2019t know why\u2014it\u2019s the same environment, but he doesn\u2019t. Cheever holds my attention more than any other writer. He is in every aspect of <em>Mad Men<\/em>, starting with the fact that Don lives in Ossining on Bullet Park Road\u2014the children are ignored, people have talents they can\u2019t capitalize on, everyone is selfish to some degree or in some kind of delusion. I have to say, Cheever\u2019s stories work like TV episodes, where you don\u2019t get to repeat information about the characters. He grabs you from the beginning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And his early dalliance with poetry:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>What were your poems like?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">WEINER<\/p>\n<p>Pretty funny, a lot of them, in an ironic way. And very confessional. A lot like what I do on <em>Mad Men<\/em>, actually\u2014I don\u2019t think people always realize the show is super personal, even though it\u2019s set in the past. It was as if the admission of uncomfortable thoughts had already become my business on some level. I love awkwardness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And the origins of the <em>Mad Men <\/em>pilot:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Four years after I\u2019d started working in TV, I wrote the pilot for <em>Mad Men<\/em>. Three years after that, AMC wanted to make it. They asked me, What\u2019s the next episode about? So I went looking through my notes. Now, imagine this. At this point it\u2019s 2004\u2014I\u2019m writing for <em>The Sopranos<\/em>\u2014and I go back to look at my notes from 1999 &#8230; but then I find this unfinished screenplay from 1995, and on the last page it says \u201cOssining, 1960.\u201d Five years after I\u2019d abandoned that other screenplay, I\u2019d started writing it again without even knowing it. Don Draper was the adult version of the hero in the movie. And there were all of these things in the movie that became part of the show\u2014Don\u2019s past, his rural poverty, the story I was telling about the United States, about who these people were. And when I say \u201cthese people,\u201d I mean people like Lee Iacocca and Sam Walton, even Bill Clinton to some degree. I realized that these people who ran the country were all from these very dark backgrounds, which they had hidden, and that the self-transforming American hero, the Jay Gatsby or the talented Mr. Ripley, still existed. I once worked at a job where there was a guy who said he went to Harvard. Someone finally said, You did not go to Harvard\u2014that guy didn\u2019t go to Harvard! And everyone was like, Who cares? That went into the show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s the perfect primer for tonight\u2019s episode, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6293\/the-art-of-screenwriting-no-4-matthew-weiner\">it\u2019s available in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read\u00a0The Paris Review\u2019s interview with Matthew Weiner, which appears in our latest issue and is, as of today, available in its entirety online. 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