Just watched this again for the first time in years last week - each of these 7 actors gives a master class. Lemmon's low, guttural "no-oo" as he sees Spacey finally going into the office to tell the cop is so instinctively brilliant..
Fr I wish more reactors did this, they react or talk too much and then miss key and pertinent details and then scratch their heads later as to Wtf is going on.
Awesome reaction!..... at about the 32-minute mark, you asked about what makes Roma's leads so good. In Mamet's original play, we find out in the end that Roma has actually been bribing Williamson (as Levine tried to do) a portion of his commissions for the best leads....... I still like this ending better, though, where Roma is genuinely surprised by his colleague's downfall.
Glengarry Glen Ross was a pulitzer-prize winning play first, and David Mamet wrote the screenplay for the movie as well, but for the movie he wrote a new scene which is Alec Baldwin's monologue which lays down the stakes for the rest of the film.
It was so much better before cell phones. Nobody could reach you. You’d call into the office twice a day for messages. By the time you finally got around to calling anyone back, 80% had already solved their problem themselves. You could always say you didn’t get the message. A doctor or dentist appointment could last all day. Nobody knew where you were all of the time. Somehow the world functioned just as well if not better than now without everyone walking around with a full ass computer/phone/TV/camera/video & audio recorder in their pocket.
"your excuses are your own!" I have always loved that line. Also love the look on the cops face during Roma's last rant. looks like he is thinking "ok well s**t I am defiantly not going to be able to intimidate this guy so lets just get this done ASAP and move on to the next one."
If you notice that just like in Quentin Tarantino's film 'Reservoir Dogs' (which was released in 1992 the same time as this film), the break-in and robbery is never seen on camera. Like Quentin Tarantino, the screenwriter David Mamet is clearly not interested in knowing what happened during the robbery of the office. In fact, this film has a lot of similaries to Reservoir Dogs, like a filmed stage playl an all male cast, a robbery that is never seen on-camera, profane salty dialogue driven script, etc. The only real difference is that in Glengarry Glen Ross, nobody is killed.
I’ve never seen that movie, but I’ve seen that speech dozens of times, not only on RUclips, but in person having worked in sales for 10+ years 😅 I wasn’t will to sell my soul and immoral so decided sales wasn’t for me
This was a famous book that became a famous Broadway Play and then a famous Film. That "Put The Coffee Down" scene was originally only in the movie "Stocks are down." Buy Low Sell High With Stocks
47:20 what humanity means to these people is they care for their own and provide at all cost because if they don't sell it is their livelihood (and their family's) that is gone. As Ricky said when Williamson brought up the file from last year " Ok good because I don't have to eat this month" or when Levine said "my daughter" or when when Williamson said "what if you don't sell? Then I am F***ed" or in the movie Cinderella man when the promoter said "my heart is for my family and my balls and my brains are for Business and this is Business."
What does that say abt Humanity? IDK, maybe that we do don't (or do) conduct ourselves like we're at the top of the food chain. Do we deserve the comforts, freedoms & plenty we've amassed as we keep destroying ourselves, each other & our planet that give us so much? Strange to view my fellow Humans as one of my least fav animals. Humans are complex creatures of Duality & Contradictions. Capable of Good & Evil, Beauty & Ugliness, Love & Hate, Greatness & Pettiness, Greed & Generosity, etc. What an interesting species we've turned out to be! Truly a work in progress.
This movie is a masterpiece for me, I came out of law school on a high and was introduced to a terrible economy and had to take one of these nasty sales jobs and dreaded every day for months, to the point I strongly considered ending my life. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later and hope that some of the other people got out, it's very debilitating and will flatten all your love and compassion and humanity.
As a car salesman, I will definitely speak on how bad interest rates are, and how our market is is declining. Because anything else would be disingenuous… however if you are at my desk looking at numbers, I will try to close you. Never pressure tactics… just simple and straightforward.
Lol.... you have Manhattan in the background (and for some reason, we can see the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels (which are underground) in the aerial shot)... you hear "White Plains" and think: "most likely Long Island"... LMAO
@@donferoce5652 It's a myth that each borough has its own accent. Whenever people say someone has a "Brooklyn accent," they usually just mean the person sounds working-class New York.
I'm always excited when a new 'Glangarry Glen Ross' reaction is on RUclips, however, watching 3 seconds of the film then pausing to spout the obvious for 10 mins, then watch a further 4 seconds only to pause again to impart more spurious spiel.... A great shame.
David Mamet who wrote the screenplay absolutely hated salespeople. This is obviously a very negative view - like if a Gestapo agent had written a treatise on Jewish history. It's not really what all salespeople are like. It's pretty much as bad as it gets for the industry. There is always SOME deception in sales, just to get past the customer's knee jerk reactions, but outright lies and criminality, no not really.
It's a wonderful film. Dialogue laden. Dense with words. You , as a reactor, you need too slow down. It's not necessary to interject and comment on every scene. Let it flow. All is good my fellow traveler.
Just watched this again for the first time in years last week - each of these 7 actors gives a master class. Lemmon's low, guttural "no-oo" as he sees Spacey finally going into the office to tell the cop is so instinctively brilliant..
Don't listen to the people who say you stopped too much. If I wanted to watch the movie without someone stopping, I would be watching the movie.
Fr I wish more reactors did this, they react or talk too much and then miss key and pertinent details and then scratch their heads later as to Wtf is going on.
Awesome reaction!..... at about the 32-minute mark, you asked about what makes Roma's leads so good. In Mamet's original play, we find out in the end that Roma has actually been bribing Williamson (as Levine tried to do) a portion of his commissions for the best leads....... I still like this ending better, though, where Roma is genuinely surprised by his colleague's downfall.
Glengarry Glen Ross was a pulitzer-prize winning play first, and David Mamet wrote the screenplay for the movie as well, but for the movie he wrote a new scene which is Alec Baldwin's monologue which lays down the stakes for the rest of the film.
Ironically, it's for a lot of people the movie's best-known scene.
It was so much better before cell phones. Nobody could reach you. You’d call into the office twice a day for messages. By the time you finally got around to calling anyone back, 80% had already solved their problem themselves. You could always say you didn’t get the message. A doctor or dentist appointment could last all day. Nobody knew where you were all of the time. Somehow the world functioned just as well if not better than now without everyone walking around with a full ass computer/phone/TV/camera/video & audio recorder in their pocket.
"your excuses are your own!" I have always loved that line. Also love the look on the cops face during Roma's last rant. looks like he is thinking "ok well s**t I am defiantly not going to be able to intimidate this guy so lets just get this done ASAP and move on to the next one."
If you notice that just like in Quentin Tarantino's film 'Reservoir Dogs' (which was released in 1992 the same time as this film), the break-in and robbery is never seen on camera. Like Quentin Tarantino, the screenwriter David Mamet is clearly not interested in knowing what happened during the robbery of the office. In fact, this film has a lot of similaries to Reservoir Dogs, like a filmed stage playl an all male cast, a robbery that is never seen on-camera, profane salty dialogue driven script, etc. The only real difference is that in Glengarry Glen Ross, nobody is killed.
The character Gil from the Simpsons is based on Jack Lemmon's performance as Shelley Levene.
I’ve never seen that movie, but I’ve seen that speech dozens of times, not only on RUclips, but in person having worked in sales for 10+ years 😅 I wasn’t will to sell my soul and immoral so decided sales wasn’t for me
So glad u did this movie. Masterclass on acting. 👍
This was a famous book that became a famous Broadway Play and then a famous Film.
That "Put The Coffee Down" scene was originally only in the movie
"Stocks are down." Buy Low Sell High With Stocks
47:20 what humanity means to these people is they care for their own and provide at all cost because if they don't sell it is their livelihood (and their family's) that is gone. As Ricky said when Williamson brought up the file from last year " Ok good because I don't have to eat this month" or when Levine said "my daughter" or when when Williamson said "what if you don't sell? Then I am F***ed" or in the movie Cinderella man when the promoter said "my heart is for my family and my balls and my brains are for Business and this is Business."
What does that say abt Humanity? IDK, maybe that we do don't (or do) conduct ourselves like we're at the top of the food chain. Do we deserve the comforts, freedoms & plenty we've amassed as we keep destroying ourselves, each other & our planet that give us so much? Strange to view my fellow Humans as one of my least fav animals. Humans are complex creatures of Duality & Contradictions. Capable of Good & Evil, Beauty & Ugliness, Love & Hate, Greatness & Pettiness, Greed & Generosity, etc. What an interesting species we've turned out to be! Truly a work in progress.
This movie is a masterpiece for me, I came out of law school on a high and was introduced to a terrible economy and had to take one of these nasty sales jobs and dreaded every day for months, to the point I strongly considered ending my life. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later and hope that some of the other people got out, it's very debilitating and will flatten all your love and compassion and humanity.
As a car salesman, I will definitely speak on how bad interest rates are, and how our market is is declining. Because anything else would be disingenuous… however if you are at my desk looking at numbers, I will try to close you. Never pressure tactics… just simple and straightforward.
i asked a real estate guy if this movie is accurate, he said no, then tried to ricki roma me!
Lol.... you have Manhattan in the background (and for some reason, we can see the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels (which are underground) in the aerial shot)... you hear "White Plains" and think: "most likely Long Island"... LMAO
Great review for a great video, thanks 🙂.
This film is a masterpiece. I like to describe it as an adult film. But then it just confuses people
Pacino is from east Harlem
"Born in East Harlem, he grew up in New York City's South Bronx" according to his Kennedy Center Honors Bio
@@donferoce5652 It's a myth that each borough has its own accent. Whenever people say someone has a "Brooklyn accent," they usually just mean the person sounds working-class New York.
For more savage conversations check out "In the Company of Men."
PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN
Coffee is for closers!
My corporate sales trainer says this every time he’s in the dealership 😂 I also always have coffee
I'm always excited when a new 'Glangarry Glen Ross' reaction is on RUclips, however, watching 3 seconds of the film then pausing to spout the obvious for 10 mins, then watch a further 4 seconds only to pause again to impart more spurious spiel....
A great shame.
I think the director was influenced by Edward hopper. The sets have that look
David Mamet who wrote the screenplay absolutely hated salespeople. This is obviously a very negative view - like if a Gestapo agent had written a treatise on Jewish history. It's not really what all salespeople are like. It's pretty much as bad as it gets for the industry. There is always SOME deception in sales, just to get past the customer's knee jerk reactions, but outright lies and criminality, no not really.
It's a wonderful film. Dialogue laden. Dense with words. You , as a reactor, you need too slow down. It's not necessary to interject and comment on every scene. Let it flow. All is good my fellow traveler.
Dude, let the movie breathe a bit. Pausing every 5 seconds kills the flow. I tried but eventually had to bail on this one