Al pacino, Jack Lemmon ,Ed Harris , kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin possibly the greatest assembly of actors in a movie ever and the acting was phenomenal, especially Al & Jack Lemmon
I did two days training as a salesman after I put my back out working insane hours in kitchens. After the second days training I was quite infused about my new career. That night I saw two films on TV I'd never seen before. Office Space and Glengarry Glenn Ross. I didn't turn up for the third day. I decided the Universe was speaking to me and I'd be a fool to ignore it.
Always surprised me the way Pacino emphasizes "Nyborg". Makes it sound like he read the memo and knew this was a dead deal, but he also seems genuinely supportive of Shelley.
Absolutely. He made that the deal was probably dead from the outset, but he genuinely respected Shelley and wanted to let him bask in his victory, however temporary.
I saw a stage production of this in the late 80s in Boston, with Peter Falk as Shelly "the Machine" Levine and Joe Mantegna as Ricky Roma. JJ Johnston played Dave Moss and he was a powerhouse in the part. Fantastic production, and Falk was spectacularly tragic. Great last line in the play: "I hate this job." The whole cast blew the doors off the theater.
I like the resonance with Pacino's speech - the one where he talks about the "details you remember" - "what she did with her arm" etc. Same thing here - the crumb cake, the clock on the wall, the little shot glasses.
I did door to door sales for a home improvement company… I never seen Glengarry Glen Ross until last week… this is exactly how it is… you live on those sales. When you hit a streak you feel like a boss.. when you hit the low streak it’s looooowwww….. I’ve been every guy on this team , except the stealing like Shelly but I’ve been him to… I was also Pacino my last stretch.. I was the top guy on the board 25,000 in sales the guy running the sales department leaves for a new company he didn’t tell any higher ups about the contest I didn’t get my 50 3d tv then I turned into Ed Harris and quit lol 😂
When I - some thirty years ago - was in college I had a job going door to door for some b.s. organization to get donations; we got forty percent of the donation. Or “leads” were the maps we were given to work for that day; you could see the amounts taken from that map from the previous times it had been worked, i.e., good or bad maps. Anyway, we - in the office, before going out or after coming back - use to get into fights all the time. I, only being there a little over a year, had gotten into two fights myself, with two different people. We all hated the job but we, working just fifteen hours a week, made more than kids our age who worked thirty to forty hours a week.
@@Monk-ow3ok Well Moss loves to whine, not just about the job, but about life in general. Misery loves company, as they say....and I'd want my sales guys in the company of someone other than a miserablist like Moss, but being led by a shark like Roma. Look at the board, the numbers never lie.
Salesmen love telling the tale, as much as making the sale. We would engage in conversations that the uninitiated would never understand. Our very existence depended on targets, numbers and rankings pinned to the mangers door. It was hell. Most reasonable people would never spend eighty hours a week at a job with the potential of going home with nothing at the end of the day.
@@mikekillagreen9432 let’s hope they actually work a movie together fr, not sure why they never did much movies after this one but honestly. Ed Harris would’ve been Perfect for HEAT. My two cents.
Did Roma know the Nybergs had no money? Later in the movie Williams mentioned there had been a memo about them. Given the way Roma seems on top of things, maybe he is just patronizing Levine.
Knowing more about the older actors career now, you could build an expanded universe on a few select films in his career to create an alternate human (some like it hot, the apartment, Glenn Gary Ross). In he’s 20s he fled his life as a musician, married a rich Florida tycoon, broke up with him, went into a desk job some 5 years later, found out his potiental girlfriend was sleeping with his boss while he worked his way up as a clerk, he quits his job for sale’s position (he reflected back on how well he could trick the mob in drag), then towards the end of his long sales career he does a desperate steal at the office where his current employer finally sends him to job for that theft.
I worked without a regular salary; 100% Commission for last 30 years of my working life. The best part of my job was knowing if there was a screwup; if I didn’t get paid, it was all on me. Every sale was mine to lose. Nobody’s fault but mine.
This movie is great but sad too. Showing what salespeople have to go through to earn a living. It’s not easy. Unpredictable. Scary too. Especially if you are married with kids. Have a mortgage. Etc. It’s a very very cutthroat business. I couldn’t do it. No way. Love this movie though. I bought it on ITunes. The Alec Baldwin scene of giving that speech about selling is brilliant. The best part of the movie.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorites, but what I never got was why Levene and Roma celebrated the Nyborg sale like it was a sure thing. But Roma and Moss knew the name, and it had been established that they were tired of trying to sell to deadbeats. So why did Shelly, Moss and Roma all instantly assume it was a solid sale? - I guess you could assume Roma knew and was just being supportive, but then he did stop in his tracks once he heard Shelly closed them that morning.
THE best casting IMO ??? Spacey as the " company man " ; Ricky tells him just what he is, & poor Shelly has to sell his soul to him. Spacey was almost too perfect .-----------MJL, 77 y/o
All of this is about how much you think you're worth. People with no self-esteem exude weakness, they have no flare, and they buckle to their own doubt. Sales is for the confident, and killers of course. If you don't have that stay the fuck out of sales until you do.
Spent about 2 years working a job that was almost all sales commission pay in the early 90's. Never again. You were encouraged to lie, cheat, manipulate and abuse... and that was just how you were told to treat your fellow sales-staff. A horrible horrible profession. Where to be the best salesperson - you have to be the worst sort of human on the planet
Williamson manipulated Levene by giving him a deceptive lead so the movie does accurately depict salesmen business from your perspective to some degree
I sold cars for 2 weeks. I crushed it. I was the most aggressive new sales person. I was so nervous i never used the bathroom. I was never paid 1 cent. ( that was 1999)
I dont work at sales but I remember the movie. Can anyone from sales explain why it is an important scene from the specific pov of "Being a closer", I just dont get it.
You don’t sell, you don’t close, you seriously do not get paid…. They don’t have a living wage, it’s ALL commission. “It’s Fuck or Walk”, as Alec Baldwin said…. 😑🤷♂️
It ties into the mentality that you're only as good as your last sale. The Machine closing on the Nyborgs puts him above Harris' character who now has the longest losing streak. Ricky is playing up Levine's success just to torture Moss, his chief rival. Levine's over the hill and not a threat and, as some have insinuated, Roma probably knows the sale won't go through, so he's happy to give him the moment, knowing it wasn't a lost sale for him.
@@samwilliams7192 thank you! so the subject of torture is a very sensitive matter for any salesman, making this torture extra painful, reminding Moss that he is not a closer.
Why did youtube bring me here? and how many times was a jacket taken off and put on in this scene? Even with the pacino patented 'adjust jacket and sit up with smug/drunk smile' special it was a lot.
Don't try to sell shit because it has a big commission. That's chasing marbles in you construct of your life. customers aren't stupid and if you think they are you're in the wrong business. Sell a good product and get on with your life, period!
This entire move is so incredible, a complete masterpiece, and nothing will EVER come close in the future - first off all because studios refuse to make movies like this anymore, and second it’s not for a LOW-IQ & short attention span audience - movie audiences these days would be bored by this scene, there’s no action or explosions, no CGI, no superhero monster, no technology gadgets etc. If you are politically correct and easily offended stop reading here: The other reason why nothing as great as this movie can be made in the future is because to even get funding for a movie you must have blacks, women, gays, trans etc. What makes this movie great is the ensemble they managed to put together - the most amazing actors, all A-list, all male, all white. Were they chosen for that reason? No - they were selected because this movie because they were simply the best people for the job, no diversity quotas - no other considerations other than: Who’s the best person for the role? It’s so sad what America has become, I truly feel bad for the younger generations, jobs & opportunity shipped overseas, open borders, mass immigration, destroyed communities, no values, no nuclear families, no structure. Seeing these movies, how great America was and the amazing institutions and society men built that have now been torn down and destroyed is a devastating thing to see. Let us all raise strong men to combat the decay!
There are no women or transsexuals in this film for the simple, obvious reason that roles for them *didn’t exist in the original stage play*, you nitwit. Take your petty culture war bigotries and white victimhood and shove them up your ass. There, is that non-peecee enough for you?
Al pacino, Jack Lemmon ,Ed Harris , kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin possibly the greatest assembly of actors in a movie ever and the acting was phenomenal, especially Al & Jack Lemmon
One of the greatest movies of 1992. Right there with Reservoir Dogs
I did two days training as a salesman after I put my back out working insane hours in kitchens. After the second days training I was quite infused about my new career. That night I saw two films on TV I'd never seen before. Office Space and Glengarry Glenn Ross. I didn't turn up for the third day. I decided the Universe was speaking to me and I'd be a fool to ignore it.
You were correct
Its a tough gig.
@@tedcrilly46 Yeah it wasn't for me. Seeing those films only saved me a couple of weeks tops of heading down the wrong path I think.
Alway be closing, you know what it takes to be a salesman? Brass balls. 😂
Out of sheer curiosity I have to know. Is it true that "it takes brass balls to sell real estate?"
I just noticed Alan Arkin comes out and asks for coffee. Because there's no coffee pot in the office anymore. Because it's for closers.
Me too. Fuck.
Lmao
“Fuckin thing got stolen”
He gets no coffee, though, because he can't close.
I love that Roma wasn't there for the sales Meeting but says Always be closing as well. True top salesman
I think somebody arranged for him not to be there.
It's no secret they were playing favorites with Roma. Giving him all the "premium leads" least he didn't act like a big shot to his peers abt it
Always surprised me the way Pacino emphasizes "Nyborg". Makes it sound like he read the memo and knew this was a dead deal, but he also seems genuinely supportive of Shelley.
This. He’s fucking w him the whole time.
No I think he emphasized it because they were hard-sells and it was surprising that he sold them.
Absolutely. He made that the deal was probably dead from the outset, but he genuinely respected Shelley and wanted to let him bask in his victory, however temporary.
Nyborg was stronger than any Patel
@@jamesjameson4566and the G-d Vishnu too
Imagine what it was for Pacino to just sit back and watch in silence Lemmon give this amazing monologue
Yeah but he had to do 15 times..
@@coolboatguy Even moreso
I saw a stage production of this in the late 80s in Boston, with Peter Falk as Shelly "the Machine" Levine and Joe Mantegna as Ricky Roma. JJ Johnston played Dave Moss and he was a powerhouse in the part. Fantastic production, and Falk was spectacularly tragic. Great last line in the play: "I hate this job." The whole cast blew the doors off the theater.
Man that would be an all-timer to see
Respect
I love that line "I never liked you anyway."
I like the resonance with Pacino's speech - the one where he talks about the "details you remember" - "what she did with her arm" etc. Same thing here - the crumb cake, the clock on the wall, the little shot glasses.
Jesus, Ed Harris is SO good in this scene 2:05
Ed Harris is brilliant too, the scared, shamed 3rd place guy.
I’ve never been an actor, but I’ve been in sales. Takes some nuts to lose your shit bc your “guy” whooped your ass. Good on him. He nails it.
All the 3rd. place guy does for most in this film was bitch, piss & moan.
No way that 'Have a good trip' line doesn't end in blows in real life. Sloppy awkward middle aged blows.
@williambauscher9296 I could see that😂
I did door to door sales for a home improvement company… I never seen Glengarry Glen Ross until last week… this is exactly how it is… you live on those sales. When you hit a streak you feel like a boss.. when you hit the low streak it’s looooowwww….. I’ve been every guy on this team , except the stealing like Shelly but I’ve been him to… I was also Pacino my last stretch.. I was the top guy on the board 25,000 in sales the guy running the sales department leaves for a new company he didn’t tell any higher ups about the contest I didn’t get my 50 3d tv then I turned into Ed Harris and quit lol 😂
Good to know you got out of the profession all intact good sir.
Jack Lemmon is incredible in this movie
R.I.P Jack Lemmon and Alan Arkin 🙏💐 Remembering to Always Be Closing
Yes, even without coffee.
Who say fuck the machine
Some of the greatest on screen chemistry and acting
A masterpiece performed by great artists.
Anybody who has worked in sales knows this movie is a masterpiece.
I worked in sales nobody said a word to each other.....in the office...we just spoke to the customer on the phone
Ha..telemarketing government grants isn't really sales
@@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf it was pretty easy all In coming calls
I take it there was no such things as friendships, etc. during that time?
When I - some thirty years ago - was in college I had a job going door to door for some b.s. organization to get donations; we got forty percent of the donation. Or “leads” were the maps we were given to work for that day; you could see the amounts taken from that map from the previous times it had been worked, i.e., good or bad maps. Anyway, we - in the office, before going out or after coming back - use to get into fights all the time. I, only being there a little over a year, had gotten into two fights myself, with two different people.
We all hated the job but we, working just fifteen hours a week, made more than kids our age who worked thirty to forty hours a week.
"You did that? 🤨"
"Yeah 😎"
"Fuck you 😡"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was nice to see Ricky stick up for Shelley
Even if it was real, he made him feel good. We all need friends like that.
yes sir @@petersmithyy4556
That was a real low blow by Roma, talking about Moss not having a contract to get stolen. That one hurt.
Sales being sales, I'd hire Roma over Moss any day
@@dashingeduardosuarez
OP: that was a shitty thing Roma did
You: I want to hire a psychopath like Roma.
Such a weird thing to say unprompted 😂
@@dashingeduardosuarez I would too. Roma could sell mosquito repellant to an Eskimo.
@@Monk-ow3ok Well Moss loves to whine, not just about the job, but about life in general. Misery loves company, as they say....and I'd want my sales guys in the company of someone other than a miserablist like Moss, but being led by a shark like Roma. Look at the board, the numbers never lie.
@@dashingeduardosuarez you still don’t get it. No one was questioning Roma’s efficiency as a salesman it was about his behavior towards Moss
Salesmen love telling the tale, as much as making the sale. We would engage in conversations that the uninitiated would never understand. Our very existence depended on targets, numbers and rankings pinned to the mangers door. It was hell. Most reasonable people would never spend eighty hours a week at a job with the potential of going home with nothing at the end of the day.
If you realize this… this is the first & last time Al Pacino & Ed Harris worked together in one movie. 😬
Its not too late!
@@mikekillagreen9432 let’s hope they actually work a movie together fr, not sure why they never did much movies after this one but honestly. Ed Harris would’ve been Perfect for HEAT. My two cents.
Lemmon has a lock on those steak knives.
"It's a fugazi"
How do you know it's a fugazi? You looked at it for 2 seconds.
There's something about Lemmon's style that has a real Breaking Bad feel.. I reckon he could've played a kick arse Walt in the 80's 😃
One of the greatest movies ever.
Did Roma know the Nybergs had no money? Later in the movie Williams mentioned there had been a memo about them. Given the way Roma seems on top of things, maybe he is just patronizing Levine.
The funny thing is Jack Lemon/Shelly is at the same time both pitiable and contemptible. And I think that sums up the sales world nicely.
Lemmons performance is incredible
Should have been nominated
No one trolls like Pacino!
I would have been worried about Moss coming back with a gun.
Oh hell, that a good and scary point.
"have a good trip" LOLLLL
Which one of these two things contains more dialogue: 1.) A scene from Glengarry Glen Ross? Or 2.)A scene from a Quentin Tarantino film?
Knowing more about the older actors career now, you could build an expanded universe on a few select films in his career to create an alternate human (some like it hot, the apartment, Glenn Gary Ross). In he’s 20s he fled his life as a musician, married a rich Florida tycoon, broke up with him, went into a desk job some 5 years later, found out his potiental girlfriend was sleeping with his boss while he worked his way up as a clerk, he quits his job for sale’s position (he reflected back on how well he could trick the mob in drag), then towards the end of his long sales career he does a desperate steal at the office where his current employer finally sends him to job for that theft.
...and of course everyone who knows him, knows not to bring up his kid, Charlie, who got in trouble overseas. In Chile, I think it was.
"Harriet and Blah Blah Nyborrrg"
I worked without a regular salary; 100% Commission for last 30 years of my working life. The best part of my job was knowing if there was a screwup; if I didn’t get paid, it was all on me.
Every sale was mine to lose. Nobody’s fault but mine.
I could never do that
Course you did hahaha
Damn Right !!
1:34 Maybe he'll get his coffee in heaven #ripalanarkin
Yossarian croaked?
Everyone in this movie should've been nominated and won the Oscar for best actor.
the academy shouldve made a special group award just for this movie
What about supporting...
@@mikekillagreen9432 Nope. BEST ACTOR FOR ALL OF THEM!
@@sourarmoredhero7765 They aren't leads. It don't work that way
@@mikekillagreen9432 Well if I ran the awards show that's how I'd have it sir.
This movie is great but sad too. Showing what salespeople have to go through to earn a living. It’s not easy. Unpredictable. Scary too. Especially if you are married with kids. Have a mortgage. Etc. It’s a very very cutthroat business. I couldn’t do it. No way. Love this movie though. I bought it on ITunes. The Alec Baldwin scene of giving that speech about selling is brilliant. The best part of the movie.
It's a wonder more sales people who live and die from what they make in commissions don't have high blood pressure.
“And what the F are you babbling about?” 😂
These guys must have had so much fun doing this ! ALL of them! if I ever did it, I'd wanna be Ricky Roma !! -----------MJL, 77 y/o
Jack Lemon: "All due respect, he's (Ed Harris) an order taker"!!!!!!!!!
I love this movie, it's one of my favorites, but what I never got was why Levene and Roma celebrated the Nyborg sale like it was a sure thing. But Roma and Moss knew the name, and it had been established that they were tired of trying to sell to deadbeats. So why did Shelly, Moss and Roma all instantly assume it was a solid sale? - I guess you could assume Roma knew and was just being supportive, but then he did stop in his tracks once he heard Shelly closed them that morning.
Dave thinks he skimmed leads and sold 8 before selling em
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was make the world believe he didn't exist.
That or making them believe the leads were good.
THE best casting IMO ??? Spacey as the " company man " ; Ricky tells him just what he is, & poor Shelly has to sell his soul to him. Spacey was almost too perfect .-----------MJL, 77 y/o
Lemmon deserve at least a nomination.
The 2 star composite recruiting podcast brought me here
Be a closer. Because you can get a much bigger contract than if you work the 8th inning.
Sheldon Levene = Ol' Gill from the Simpsons..
Levine was the inspiration for ole Gill.
All of this is about how much you think you're worth. People with no self-esteem exude weakness, they have no flare, and they buckle to their own doubt. Sales is for the confident, and killers of course. If you don't have that stay the fuck out of sales until you do.
Wow!
Coffee is for closers
Spent about 2 years working a job that was almost all sales commission pay in the early 90's. Never again.
You were encouraged to lie, cheat, manipulate and abuse... and that was just how you were told to treat your fellow sales-staff. A horrible horrible profession.
Where to be the best salesperson - you have to be the worst sort of human on the planet
Williamson manipulated Levene by giving him a deceptive lead so the movie does accurately depict salesmen business from your perspective to some degree
I trust you got out with your sanity intact.
BEFORE things became Chipotle Pussy.......in some industries - this - was very real. I've been on both ends of it, the giving and receiving.
chipotle pussy?
I get it. I finally get it. Lay into me how you will, i finally get it.
Thumbnail looks like Tim Roth
I sold cars for 2 weeks. I crushed it. I was the most aggressive new sales person. I was so nervous i never used the bathroom. I was never paid 1 cent.
( that was 1999)
...So what this movie is telling me is that sales is a career for utter sociopaths and psychopaths.
Yep. I work in sales and I can confirm this.
I dont work at sales but I remember the movie. Can anyone from sales explain why it is an important scene from the specific pov of "Being a closer", I just dont get it.
You don’t sell, you don’t close, you seriously do not get paid…. They don’t have a living wage, it’s ALL commission.
“It’s Fuck or Walk”, as Alec Baldwin said…. 😑🤷♂️
ABC. Always Be Closing (closing the deal). Even I knew that! lol
@@RickRubinesque And how does it translates into this scene?
It ties into the mentality that you're only as good as your last sale. The Machine closing on the Nyborgs puts him above Harris' character who now has the longest losing streak. Ricky is playing up Levine's success just to torture Moss, his chief rival. Levine's over the hill and not a threat and, as some have insinuated, Roma probably knows the sale won't go through, so he's happy to give him the moment, knowing it wasn't a lost sale for him.
@@samwilliams7192 thank you! so the subject of torture is a very sensitive matter for any salesman, making this torture extra painful, reminding Moss that he is not a closer.
Unreal
Harris was tough...whew...Shelley's soliloquy is sad and pitiful because we all have to prostitute ourselves in some kind of salesmen manner...painful
Looks like Shelley is the only one in that office whom Ricky genuinely respects.
Tour de Force acting ensemble on steroids.
you got a mean streak in you
fuck the machine.
Damn Nyborgs are deadbeats.
Isnt the guys in Fargo named Nyborg?
The people are insane. They just like talking... to salesmen.
Litstening to the machine means you could learn how to earn your coffee at Mitch&Murry
Why did youtube bring me here? and how many times was a jacket taken off and put on in this scene? Even with the pacino patented 'adjust jacket and sit up with smug/drunk smile' special it was a lot.
Does Roma know the Niborgs are nuts?
I think he knows but a signed check is a signed check
Name of the movie?
Glenn Gary Glenn Ross
mouth of a sailor
bill and i verners trailer
philip loved tailor
4:35 Convert that mofo
Don't try to sell shit because it has a big commission. That's chasing marbles in you construct of your life. customers aren't stupid and if you think they are you're in the wrong business. Sell a good product and get on with your life, period!
This entire move is so incredible, a complete masterpiece, and nothing will EVER come close in the future - first off all because studios refuse to make movies like this anymore, and second it’s not for a LOW-IQ & short attention span audience - movie audiences these days would be bored by this scene, there’s no action or explosions, no CGI, no superhero monster, no technology gadgets etc.
If you are politically correct and easily offended stop reading here: The other reason why nothing as great as this movie can be made in the future is because to even get funding for a movie you must have blacks, women, gays, trans etc. What makes this movie great is the ensemble they managed to put together - the most amazing actors, all A-list, all male, all white. Were they chosen for that reason? No - they were selected because this movie because they were simply the best people for the job, no diversity quotas - no other considerations other than: Who’s the best person for the role?
It’s so sad what America has become, I truly feel bad for the younger generations, jobs & opportunity shipped overseas, open borders, mass immigration, destroyed communities, no values, no nuclear families, no structure. Seeing these movies, how great America was and the amazing institutions and society men built that have now been torn down and destroyed is a devastating thing to see.
Let us all raise strong men to combat the decay!
Completely agreed
There are no women or transsexuals in this film for the simple, obvious reason that roles for them *didn’t exist in the original stage play*, you nitwit. Take your petty culture war bigotries and white victimhood and shove them up your ass. There, is that non-peecee enough for you?
It’s ironic because the same system that created this movie - That being Hollywood -played a major role in destroying the American dream.
That’s not a good work environment.
fuck the machine. fuck the machine? fuck the machine!
lots of f words.
Pretty typical of a David Mamet script lol
The fuck you care?
Old style sales was mostly grifting
Moss is such a kuhnt
Love how Roma pisses him off
Is it just me or does the character of Moss do nothing in this film but bitch, piss & moan about EVERYTHING?