"Coffee's for closers" Glengarry Glen Ross poll

No "GO TO LUNCH", no credibility.

That is not a line in Alec Baldwin's speech.

If you want to start a poll of the entire script of GGR, go for it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3HURJNd0J4U

I've been in corporate "training" sessions in which scenes from "Wall Street" were screened. My protestation of "Don't these guys all go to prison in the end?" was met with stoney silence and shit-eating grins.

I bet a lot of smack-heads enjoy Trainspotting too.

sexyDancer, envisioning you subverting corp training has brightened my day, thx dude.

You didn't specify the speaker in the poll, Nick.

it is a test

YOU FAILED

Too late, I already had TWO CUPS of coffee.

favourite lines from this are pretty much all pacino though

get me a stickagum, nyalshwyahowdachewit.

Great poll

I went with the "Hyundai" line, though also was considering: "I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I am here on a mission of mercy!" and "...the *real* favor is to take my advice and fire your fuckin' ass", the way the sentences flow for the former, and the caustic bite for the latter.

I don't think that because people know or rattle off the lines so well that they necessarily endorse the philosophy. It's a movie like "Goodfellas"...great/memorable dialogue.

It seems like these lines would just be fun to say, too, like physically.

i've already said teh coffee line once today
it was fun!

there's a relish people take in them which sort of freaks me out

this speech used to be a HUGE favorite for audition monologues

actorish types secretly want to be killworthy salesmen fux

similar skill set

Baldwin is great but I think he actually gives the weakest performance in this movie.

-- n/a, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah I kinda feel the same way. great role but he doesn't really kill it the way he does in later roles that demand some of the same things, like The Departed.

the line i chose was, "These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you, they're gold. And you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers. "

i like the way baldwin delivers that one.

i think the "problem" (coz wtf, this is a great scene) there is he doesn't have enough to bounce off -- harris is kind of too weak.

"You are a shithead, Williamson" if it were an overall poll, followed by Pacino's "company man" monologue.

Then "fuck you, that's MY name."

Also n/a OTM about the lines just being fun to say.

Lemmon owns this movie. the rest of it is kinda meh.

yeah lemmon is so fucking incredible in this

yeah I kinda feel the same way. great role but he doesn't really kill it the way he does in later roles that demand some of the same things, like The Departed.

i couldn't get past his ridiculous attempt at a southie accent.

These have all been committed to memory by every scumbag salesman in every office I've worked in for at leat the past ten years. Oh, irony.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:03 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY (read the 'about the video' part)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HURJNd0J4U

"what are you gonna do about it... asshole?"

Kevin Spacey is such a goddamned boring actor

Lemmon's the one guy I don't buy for a minute. Too much acting in his acting.

Pacino and Lemmon's pas de deux for Jonathan Pryce's benefit is my favorite scene.

Lemmon's good to great, with a couple of ridiculous moments when he does his patented pleading-for-sympathy wheeze that throws me out of the movie: he makes us feel sorry for the character.

Baldwin is great but I think he actually gives the weakest performance in this movie.

-- n/a, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah I kinda feel the same way. great role but he doesn't really kill it the way he does in later roles that demand some of the same things, like The Departed.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:09 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I didn't mean anything about Baldwin, I think he's great (as I said), I just think basically everyone else in this movie is amazing. I think Lemmon is perfect. His acting style is different, more "actory" then everyone else in the movie, but it works because he's of a different generation, so it makes sense that he's different, less hard and more schmaltzy (as seen when he switches into salesman mode).

"Lemmon's good to great, with a couple of ridiculous moments when he does his patented pleading-for-sympathy wheeze that throws me out of the movie: he makes us feel sorry for the character."

yeah, cuz god forbid anyone in the film should give a performance that doesnt allow us total & unabashed scorn for his character. where are you coming from here alfred?

That Lemmon gives the same goddamn performance in every serious film but this time it almost fits?

the character's a sack of shit; that's how it's written.

& portraying him as the sad sack of shit that he in fact is makes him a lot more memorable & interesting

and my memory of how Lemmon always does the shirt tugging and bathos and tears in every other serious performance gets in the way.

Could probably have a Best of Mamet poll. House of Games has provided me with some good jokey catchphrases to share with friends, like "Because I *WON* that money from ya baby!"

I love Glengarry, though I've only seen the original Mamet stage version...

you should see the movie

Ugh "coffee's for closers" is used around here by the sales wankers. AARGH KILL. Still never seen this film, mind.

ohyeah this reminded me to bump the thread abt "the unit" even though i have this feeling not v many people are watching it at least people on ilx - underrated! and i don't think it's just me giving it too much credit or reading into it or whatever, no, i think it treads this amazing line btwn subversive and mainstream yet isn't fence-sitting - maybe it's like the psychic paper of tv shows or something - you see what you want to see

haha from wikipedia entry for the unit:

In episode 13 ("The Wall"), Mack offers Bob a cup of coffee, who says, "Coffee's for closers" - a reference to the play Glengarry Glen Ross, written by David Mamet, who also writes The Unit.

Say this to salespeopl...

"You seen "Glengarry Glen Ross"? "

ans: yeah

"THAT MOVIE OWNZ YOU!!"

sue2007bu (1 week ago)
This clip makes me happy I don't work in sales anymore. The day I quit was the happiest day of my life.

HustlingVegas (5 days ago)
good u dont belong in sales in the first place, you're weak

I like how he half-assedly mimes drinking a shot after saying: "Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket." He can hardly stand to even PRETEND to be that guy.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

These have all been committed to memory by every scumbag salesman in every office I've worked in for at leat the past ten years. Oh, irony.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:03 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

ha ha, too true. i once tried to fuck with a smarmy rep by getting her to recite the ABC's. when she feigned ignorance i blurted "Always Be Selling.. wait, no, that's not right..", then she replied sales wouldn't be my forté.

also, since it hasn't been posted yet

this

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

this movie is incredibly dated, but i still liked it. needs a reboot/sequel.

one where the coffee is gritty

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?

Ha, I never thought about that.

Well, now the clocks have moved over here, it gets dark before the banks close.

Banks in grocery stores used to be open late.

I doubt Williamson was dropping real estate contracts at a Safeway bank kiosk.

show of hands: how many ilxors in retail have been shown the Alec Baldwin clip by their supervisors?

Fantastic.

that is amazing.

That's almost too good to be a mere clickbait parody, even as great as clickhole is.

lol at punctuation at 1:20

its a labor of love, which all the best clickhole stuff is

listen

i got 48 hours to make you a loootta money

will you go to lunch

^ this is the real line to use at work, nm aida or abc

Go to lunch, George.

The Machine!

Don’t think anyone’s mentioned Roma’s burn of Williamson: “Who told you you could work with men!?”

I think about it all the time