For fans of this movie: the song in the background during the papercuts torture scene, it's Mark Holden's "You Don't Know". The album is available for download if you google it (as a part of Mark Holden's 80's unreleased album). That song doesn't appear in the CD/online release of this movie's OST. After 14 years since I've seen this film I've finally found that song. What a relief!
I saw this movie a long time ago now. it left a very strong impression on me, for good reason, as I'm realizing now. I'm a 42 year old man and the question he asks has a whole new resonance.
@Russell Stevens Was that ever actually proven? I wonder this every time I see somebody bring it up. I mean, how can you really prove such allegations, unless the accused actually admits to wrongdoing, which I don't believe he actually ever did.
@@justinhulet2848 There was a conspiracy of silence srrounding KS. That's how these things work. Just look at Jimmy Saville, who hid in plain site for decades. Years before allegations were made about KS i had heard things about him..
@candom rommenter Guess what?! People don't care, they will watch his movies because he is a great actor. So you can take you pathetic little comment and shove it!
Not really. This film came out in 1994. Millennials would have been 13 at oldest, some not even born yet. The target generation is Generation X, who was just starting to enter into the workforce when this film came out.
@@MatthewSmith-cv7op this can apply to both there are messages and theories that apply to both generations. MTV generations and microwave generations have similarities in wanting everything right Now. This movie being created in 1994 can serve as to what's going on now/ look at all the shoot ups at jobs and random schools.
Millennials & Gen Z have a good reason to be economically cranky. They inherited one mess after another (Iraq war, financial collapse of 2008, a pandemic, etc.) once they reached adulthood....
Unfortunately his career's dead, as the court of public opinion has already condemned him into the life of forced retirement. I can't fathom a period in the future when any production studio believes it to me anything but a negative PR move to bring Spacey in on any of their projects.
and he was saying that in reference to 90's kids/babies. So that 1000% applies to today's generation with technology and internet all being at quick access
oh you mean GENERATION X? this was made for that generation. if you wanna make a comparison to Millenials, FINE. but this was made for a now 40-something group of people. at the very least:accept that the generation Buddy was criticizing was once a generation of spoiled, needy post-adolescents when they just got out of school. for that matter: SO WERE THE BOOMERS. WE'RE ALL GUILTY. So shouldn't there be some UNDERSTANDING behind the process? shouldn't we try to make the younger generation into better people through education and guidance, instead of writing them off as a lost cause? a LOST GENERATION if you will? maybe the movie should be shown to young adults as they finally mature to prepare them for the worst. it worked for me: I'm now ready to better and maturely handle the situations with a boss like Buddy than Guy ever did. that could be more useful that just saying "oh this generation of young people is awful".
Having been raised by the baby boomer generation which pretty much hammers away at you and wants success immediately after high school and college it's no wonder why Gen Xers and the younger generations think that way, so in a way it's the older generation's fault. So shut up Kevin Spacey!!!
It's here at this point in the movie where a dark truth is revealed, though anyone working in a place like Hollywood won't think it's any news to them. Buddy states it all directly and bluntly, uncensored: In order to be a success, you have to EARN it. TAKE it. Buddy was once in Guy's position starting out as a subordinate, enduring abuse, doing median work, essentially serving someone else's needs. Now he's passing this hard dose of reality he learned down to Guy. How places like Hollywood are not about talent but about "Kill your parents, fuck your friends and have a nice day". Sobering, bitter pill to swallow.
Spacey really cuts through all the B.S. in this scene. What is he posing to Guy in this scene is "Why are you doing this?" What is it that you REALLY WANT? What is your motivation? My take in this is Guy is frustrated with his life and does not understand why he is always "The Loser." What Buddy is telling him is that he was "The Loser." once also but eventually became successful because he knew what he wanted and realized that if he played his cards right, he could eventually succeed. Buddy is also was able to survive an absolutely devastating event in his life, the rape and murder of his wife and still achieve great success. Guy is upset about having sex with Dawn and learning that she is secretly planning a sexual rendezvous with Buddy. The ironic part is that she is doing this to help Guy who she really cares about and is thinking that this will help his career.
jerry waflez YEAH, I guess they could have just all let this go, but Guy felt like this was his chance to shine. If he killed her and assumed that Buddy would just go along with the story in exchange for letting him live. Guy would become legendary in the film business because he supposedly saved Buddy from imminent death. I guess everybody wins, except of course DAWN.
Paul y Was he able to survive? He's completely fucked up and his only purpose is to make Guy as fucked up as him, making his life impossible and telling him all that stuff from his own unfortunate and brutally miserable point of view, from a man who may be a rich producer but really is fucking nothing and has fucking nothing but a lot of misery and bad luck.So no, he didn't quite survive
guy wants the material success of others in hollywood. you can see it with the montage and how buddy learns how guy bragged to his own sycophantic friends about being the one running the show. guy is a very shallow person that you initially sympathize with because of how buddy mistreats him. however, in how he uses the situation ultimately to get a massive promotion shows how he's just another hypocrite that won't own up to his own selfish desires until buddy wakes him up to reality with this speech. what's great about this speech is that it's a cynical albeit realistic view of how things work in the world; where hollywood movies portray the happy, idealistic ending, the reality is that the dark side is what triumphant. otherwise, people like buddy wouldn't exist and prevail.
you mean your abuser turns the tables on you when you try to get revenge? yeah, pretty true to life. the trick is to stand up to somebody without going postal. throwing your life away is not the best revenge.
So this movie is basically about an incredibly miserable guy whose shitty life consists in making other people's lives impossible to make them as miserable. Unfortunately there's a lot of people like that. Sad as fuck
Captain Random The movie is about the soul that was lost of one man and the dreams of another. The one mans dreams were being crushed hopelessly and decided to take out revenge for it, but he wasn't taking revenge out on buddy, but out on his own desires. He gives in to these desires and does the deed losing his soul to join Buddy as a cold, viscous shark.
@@akahdrin i don't see it that way. Guy just sacrificed his gf to his godlike boss (who also lost his gf). This was the price to get big. No dreams were crushed, just the opposite.
good acting and dialogue, but i didn't need this cloying, self impressed movie (which hasn't aged very well) to tell me that life is unfair and hollywood is evil. i was a teenager when i saw this, and i knew it then. i wonder if george huang feels this was worth throwing away his career over before it began after all he endured as an assistant. he probably wouldn't have amounted to much anyway if this movie is any indication, but that's not the point. not so much like "the player" as the pretentious indy movie tim robbins is developing in that film. also... ten years as an assistant?
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One of the most amazing scenes from any movie from the last 20 years
the best life quote ever: what do u really WANT?
For fans of this movie: the song in the background during the papercuts torture scene, it's Mark Holden's "You Don't Know". The album is available for download if you google it (as a part of Mark Holden's 80's unreleased album). That song doesn't appear in the CD/online release of this movie's OST. After 14 years since I've seen this film I've finally found that song. What a relief!
Wow thank you!
I saw this movie a long time ago now. it left a very strong impression on me, for good reason, as I'm realizing now. I'm a 42 year old man and the question he asks has a whole new resonance.
"Dam it it's my turn to be selfish, it's my turn!" Lmaoooooooooooo
Kevin Spacey, what a great actor!!!
Understatement of the year - there is only a handful of actors that are even close to this man. He is my favourite
@Russell Stevens Was that ever actually proven? I wonder this every time I see somebody bring it up. I mean, how can you really prove such allegations, unless the accused actually admits to wrongdoing, which I don't believe he actually ever did.
@@justinhulet2848 There was a conspiracy of silence srrounding KS. That's how these things work. Just look at Jimmy Saville, who hid in plain site for decades. Years before allegations were made about KS i had heard things about him..
@@shanemyers7654 finaly you wrong ...
@@jR-bk8wuI don't think you can compare Saville, who raped kids to spacey.
Kevin Spacey. Man, actor, legend, AWESOMENESS
Doubtful.
@candom rommenter Ohhh...give me a break!
@candom rommenter Guess what?! People don't care, they will watch his movies because he is a great actor. So you can take you pathetic little comment and shove it!
“I haven’t spent one year
AND I SPENT 10” damn that would’ve slap me in the face
Netflix doesn't have it? Grow up! Way it goes!
+dimakauffman netflixs does though lol
+musiclover888 truth is I don't have Netflix. XD
+dimakauffman u need to get it and watch house of cards if ur a kevin spacey fan
dimakauffman 3 years later this comment is so relevant
My favourite scene from my favourite film. Must have seen it 20 times plus.
so you are my clone lol
i just re-act it for fun sometimes.
So what happened? He killed the girl??
You Heard Kevin Spacey tell him "pay your dues!" "MTV/MICROWAVE WANT IT NOW GENERATION" Spacey just roasted all Millennials!!
Not really. This film came out in 1994. Millennials would have been 13 at oldest, some not even born yet.
The target generation is Generation X, who was just starting to enter into the workforce when this film came out.
@@MatthewSmith-cv7op this can apply to both there are messages and theories that apply to both generations. MTV generations and microwave generations have similarities in wanting everything right Now. This movie being created in 1994 can serve as to what's going on now/ look at all the shoot ups at jobs and random schools.
He's right about that, but the whole drill Sargent thing won't earn my respect. It'll get me to throw it back at you.
Millennials & Gen Z have a good reason to be economically cranky. They inherited one mess after another (Iraq war, financial collapse of 2008, a pandemic, etc.) once they reached adulthood....
i dont see enough people giving frank whaley an award thats how i found this movie man. dudes such an underated actor
Agreed
I LOVE YOU KEVIN SPACEY!!!!
He is the perfect Scrooge isn't he?
Great movie, awesome scene
It's my favorit movie. Because of this scene.
3:44 the switch, only the best can pull it off
"Way it goes".Yeah that's the attitude people have become accustomed to and ultimately what shapes our catastrophe of a society today.
god damn, Kevin spacey's incredible. Once he gets the help he needs, I hope he jumps back into his career full force.
Unfortunately his career's dead, as the court of public opinion has already condemned him into the life of forced retirement. I can't fathom a period in the future when any production studio believes it to me anything but a negative PR move to bring Spacey in on any of their projects.
He sums up this whole generation today
and he was saying that in reference to 90's kids/babies. So that 1000% applies to today's generation with technology and internet all being at quick access
oh you mean GENERATION X? this was made for that generation. if you wanna make a comparison to Millenials, FINE. but this was made for a now 40-something group of people. at the very least:accept that the generation Buddy was criticizing was once a generation of spoiled, needy post-adolescents when they just got out of school.
for that matter: SO WERE THE BOOMERS. WE'RE ALL GUILTY. So shouldn't there be some UNDERSTANDING behind the process? shouldn't we try to make the younger generation into better people through education and guidance, instead of writing them off as a lost cause? a LOST GENERATION if you will?
maybe the movie should be shown to young adults as they finally mature to prepare them for the worst. it worked for me: I'm now ready to better and maturely handle the situations with a boss like Buddy than Guy ever did. that could be more useful that just saying "oh this generation of young people is awful".
Everyone says that about the next generation after theirs
Having been raised by the baby boomer generation which pretty much hammers away at you and wants success immediately after high school and college it's no wonder why Gen Xers and the younger generations think that way, so in a way it's the older generation's fault. So shut up Kevin Spacey!!!
Frank whaley is just perfect
That man was being stubborn to his boss in that scene.
Say what you want about Kevin Spacey but his speech about earning stuff was spot on lol
It's here at this point in the movie where a dark truth is revealed, though anyone working in a place like Hollywood won't think it's any news to them. Buddy states it all directly and bluntly, uncensored: In order to be a success, you have to EARN it. TAKE it. Buddy was once in Guy's position starting out as a subordinate, enduring abuse, doing median work, essentially serving someone else's needs. Now he's passing this hard dose of reality he learned down to Guy. How places like Hollywood are not about talent but about "Kill your parents, fuck your friends and have a nice day". Sobering, bitter pill to swallow.
Kevin Spacey has perfect grammar
I can't believe Kevin Spacey was 35 years old back when this film was made and he is now 60 years old, nearly 61, people age so fast
what do you mean you cant believe it, its an old film haha
@@rhettpeter83 its only 28 years old, it's by age it doesn't feel that long since the film was released but it was
Right now, If I was faced with the same question from Buddy, I still wouldn't know what to say 😫
So epic movie
Grinding for a job is great. Abusing people should always get you an ass whooping.
Thats the game. No one has to be involved with Hollywood. It is a choice. And most sane people know to stay the hell away from that world.
Kevin Spacey Greatest actor ever ❤😊
He killed the girl at the end??
I hope Kevin Spacey becomes a better man because he is a great actor
you can't "become a better man", especially if you're that broken.
Unfortunately, the sharks of today don't believe that anyone is redeemable. Spiritual a-holes.
You were getting complacent disrespectful & a total job burnout !
strong moment :P
Look at that man's face at the 0:00? What does he feel?
Spacey really cuts through all the B.S. in this scene. What is he posing to Guy in this scene is "Why are you doing this?" What is it that you REALLY WANT? What is your motivation? My take in this is Guy is frustrated with his life and does not understand why he is always "The Loser." What Buddy is telling him is that he was "The Loser." once also but eventually became successful because he knew what he wanted and realized that if he played his cards right, he could eventually succeed. Buddy is also was able to survive an absolutely devastating event in his life, the rape and murder of his wife and still achieve great success. Guy is upset about having sex with Dawn and learning that she is secretly planning a sexual rendezvous with Buddy. The ironic part is that she is doing this to help Guy who she really cares about and is thinking that this will help his career.
then he kills her
jerry waflez YEAH, I guess they could have just all let this go, but Guy felt like this was his chance to shine. If he killed her and assumed that Buddy would just go along with the story in exchange for letting him live. Guy would become legendary in the film business because he supposedly saved Buddy from imminent death. I guess everybody wins, except of course DAWN.
Paul y Was he able to survive? He's completely fucked up and his only purpose is to make Guy as fucked up as him, making his life impossible and telling him all that stuff from his own unfortunate and brutally miserable point of view, from a man who may be a rich producer but really is fucking nothing and has fucking nothing but a lot of misery and bad luck.So no, he didn't quite survive
+Paul y Oh yeah, Buddy's life really became a "success" lol. I would want no part of that kind of success.
guy wants the material success of others in hollywood. you can see it with the montage and how buddy learns how guy bragged to his own sycophantic friends about being the one running the show. guy is a very shallow person that you initially sympathize with because of how buddy mistreats him. however, in how he uses the situation ultimately to get a massive promotion shows how he's just another hypocrite that won't own up to his own selfish desires until buddy wakes him up to reality with this speech. what's great about this speech is that it's a cynical albeit realistic view of how things work in the world; where hollywood movies portray the happy, idealistic ending, the reality is that the dark side is what triumphant. otherwise, people like buddy wouldn't exist and prevail.
wish you were here pink Floyd made my dad Landie cry the only time I ever seen him cry 😢😥
This is what happens when bullying and abuse goes too far.
you mean your abuser turns the tables on you when you try to get revenge? yeah, pretty true to life.
the trick is to stand up to somebody without going postal. throwing your life away is not the best revenge.
@@plasticweapon First Blood is a good example about bullying and abuse which it really goes too far causing the victim to explode and go berserk.
@@plasticweapon It is if it's a homicide-suicide situation.
I have never seen this movie, and this looks like something out of the bourne series for some reason...
+rixille no but it's a really good movie
and it's a comedy i don't know why it was named a the dark comedy when it came out
Poor Kevin
He might be a terrible person in real life, but he used to be a great actor...
No different then half of Hollywood if you knew the truth.
He was found not guilty on all charges.
@@lordprotector3367 I said "might" remember haha
So this movie is basically about an incredibly miserable guy whose shitty life consists in making other people's lives impossible to make them as miserable. Unfortunately there's a lot of people like that. Sad as fuck
Captain Random
The movie is about the soul that was lost of one man and the dreams of another. The one mans dreams were being crushed hopelessly and decided to take out revenge for it, but he wasn't taking revenge out on buddy, but out on his own desires. He gives in to these desires and does the deed losing his soul to join Buddy as a cold, viscous shark.
+Captain Random watch the movie, fuck
@@akahdrin i don't see it that way. Guy just sacrificed his gf to his godlike boss (who also lost his gf). This was the price to get big. No dreams were crushed, just the opposite.
good acting and dialogue, but i didn't need this cloying, self impressed movie (which hasn't aged very well) to tell me that life is unfair and hollywood is evil. i was a teenager when i saw this, and i knew it then. i wonder if george huang feels this was worth throwing away his career over before it began after all he endured as an assistant. he probably wouldn't have amounted to much anyway if this movie is any indication, but that's not the point. not so much like "the player" as the pretentious indy movie tim robbins is developing in that film. also... ten years as an assistant?
That awful fake blood is so distracting
???
Dommage qu'il soit raciste et pervers, car j'adorais cet acteur, un super acteur, vraiment dommage! Quel gâchis!