"second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is your fired" should have won this in walk
― dmr, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-3889642/saturday_night_live_glengarry_glen_christmas_season_31/
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Baldwin redoes Glen Garry Glen Ross in the above clip on SNL -- it's corny but I still get a kick out of it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
best part is when his brain thinks he's in the real play!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
I love that.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, it must be like memorizing a song, the beats are already so carved into your head that you just go on autopilot. Especially for dialogue like that Glen Garry scene.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
thread revive regret
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
did cable air this often? I'm amazed how many people have seen this over the years.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
sorry morbs :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Pacino would do great with Levene's opening monologue. He also is at his best when playing someone who can't shout and control the room (Donnie Brasco, The Insider)--another reason this could be great.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
yes Al, no more shoutin'. I hope he would lose the weird primped black hair for this role and play it like he's 72 (he is).
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah al's just for men addiction creeps me out
― Hamburger Hitler (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
They should get Gosling to do Williamson.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Only thing I think this piece gets wrong is that the speech is more about making the stakes clear at the start.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-glengarry-glen-ross-alec-baldwin-scene-is-so-u,82782/
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Lemme buy ya a pack of gum -- I'll show ya how to chew
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I should crosspost the HAL PACINO 2001 video
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
I actually saw this in a high school class!
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://thehairpin.com/2012/08/notes-from-an-all-female-glengarry-glen-ross-viewing-party
― goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
N: What if David Mamet was actually just Jared from Subway?
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
That hairpin piece is so annoying lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
V cool movie I worked doing admin stuff in a sales office once. V weird environment. I knew all about leads lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
I can't tell if you're quoting someone or if you're posting on ilx. The hairpin piece was funny and kinda insightful.
― bamcquern, Monday, 15 September 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
idk struck me as privileged grumbling from ppl who'd never stepped inside a shitty sales office
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 06:39 (nine years ago) link
N: He’s not very encouraging.AH: This is how you encourage a group of old men. You yell at them and belittle them. Remind them how weak they are.N: I find it to be almost like nonsense, like I can’t — I can’t make sense of it. What is it that people like about this movie? Is it like, human? Is it true in any way?
yes
Yeah, I can see it that way, but I can also see why they think the movie's kind of over the top and unrelatable. Not every facet of being human is especially relatable to other humans (not an especially helpful truism, but it reconciles your and their povs), and in light of that, their questions and comments are fair. Plus, I think they're trying to entertain each other and their audience, so I don't junk it's fair to characterize what they said as grumbling.
GGR's in this class of movie about men that's ostensibly critical of certain male-centric institutions (like the mob) that at the same time seems to lionize some of the worst aspects of those institutions. Upthread morbs makes a comment about the shift in Mamet's politics, and I don't know his work too well, but considering GGR and Oleander, both of which I've read, I wonder if his politics have just calcified (which I think is what Morbs was wondering, too).
Anyway, that doesn't mean that GGR doesn't say anything of value about sales, real estate, the 80s, middle aged men, or capitalism.
― bamcquern, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
The movie also makes statement on importance of coffee imo
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure Mamet's language is not aspiring to big R Realism
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
none of this is to say i can't understand why you wouldn't like this thing by an unlikeable playwright about unlikeable characters behaving unlikeably
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
right it's not that i dont get why people wouldn't like it—its obv about a very particular culture (and masculine as it may be, I think its being underestimated maybe cuz the movie focused on men how many women have similar jobs w/ the same pressures—the office I worked in, the leading sales person was female, and the women were often doing better than a number of the dudes) (nb everyone was kind of sad).
but it's the feigned ignorance i guess that bothers me, the "who would live like this" stuff...idk, maybe a guy trying to take care of his daughter in the hospital? an average working person?
finding it tough to watch makes sense, the faux naif thing just bothers me for some reason
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
the best sales person in the office was a woman—and she was also known for using extra sleazy sales tactics to move the units they needed
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah the culture of sales is in no way a uniquely male one, any more than the culture of office (micro)aggression is
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
and for most people, if you don't think bullying happens in yr workplace, you're probly the bully
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
The Wolf of Wall Street seems similarly dated. When I saw it, I thought of all these guys getting rich selling things over the phone, when now no one will pick up the phone to talk to a stranger, let alone their friends.
Daniel Pink has a good chronicle of how sales has fundamentally changed when both parties have access to the same information.
Also, related to D's comment, when I saw In The Company of Men I remember that the pack-mentality reminded me more of groups of saleswomen than men in the offices where I temped at the time.
Glengarry in a very specific way feels of the 1979-80 recession, the same "I got debts that no honest man can pay" of Nebraska, with the same underlying story being that there was no way for a weak-performing salesman to get the leads that would keep him from being a weak-performing salesman.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
this movie is incredibly dated, but i still liked it. needs a reboot/sequel.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
one where the coffee is gritty
― j., Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:22 (eight years ago) link
The timeline confuses me. Roma, Levene etc believe Williamson that he "filed the contracts at the bank" even though it's night when they leave the office and obv no banks are open?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 October 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
Ha, I never thought about that.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 October 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Well, now the clocks have moved over here, it gets dark before the banks close.
― Mark G, Sunday, 25 October 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Banks in grocery stores used to be open late.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 October 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
I doubt Williamson was dropping real estate contracts at a Safeway bank kiosk.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
show of hands: how many ilxors in retail have been shown the Alec Baldwin clip by their supervisors?
― niels, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
Fantastic.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 December 2015 02:25 (eight years ago) link
that is amazing.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
That's almost too good to be a mere clickbait parody, even as great as clickhole is.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
lol at punctuation at 1:20
― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 18 December 2015 05:00 (eight years ago) link
its a labor of love, which all the best clickhole stuff is
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 18 December 2015 05:35 (eight years ago) link
listen
i got 48 hours to make you a loootta money
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
will you go to lunch
^ this is the real line to use at work, nm aida or abc
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 6 May 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
Go to lunch, George.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link