Glengarry Glen Ross

Merauk · 12-04-2002, 04:52 PM

Out on DVD recently and picked it up. First time I have seen it since it was in theaters (though I saw a play of it last year). If you have never seen this movie can't reccomend it enough. With out a doubt some of the best acting in a movie ever.

Alec Baldwin's scene has to be one of the best scenes ever put to film.

Quote:

Fuck you, that's my name. You know why mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight and I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. That's my name.

Steak knives anyone?

quintero · 12-04-2002, 06:41 PM

Perhaps the worst name ever for such a high caliber movie. All the actors were amazing, particularly Al Pacino.

Alec Baldwin was just classic.

Why cant I get the good leads?

Alluveal · 12-05-2002, 12:10 PM

It was based on a play.

(in regards to the name.)

The movie was awesome. I can't get enough Kevin Spacey.

Searyx · 12-06-2002, 03:18 AM

David Mamet is GOD :P

Rexfelis · 12-07-2002, 10:49 AM

Every actor in GGGR set a standard for those to follow. In particular, Jack Lemon blows you away with his "clinging to the edge" vitriol (when talking shit to Spacey's character about the deal he blows for Pacino's character) and later his pathetic desperation when Spacey's character finds out about the theft and sticks it to Lemon's character.

I'd say the nearest modern equivalent to this movie would be Boiler Room, which is a very meritous movie in its own right - Affleck's character was clearly inspired by Baldwin's, and he does a good job.

And yes, Mamet is on his own plane.

Interesting anecdote about Mamet and another ingenious writer/director: when Paul Thomas Anderson was in film school, he substituted a few pages from a Mamet play as his submission for an assignment in a screenwriting/playwriting class. He received a c+. He promptly dropped out and has been saying "Fuck you!" to conventional filmmaking ever since.

12-05-2002, 12:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
Alluveal Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 28 -1 Internets	It was based on a play. (in regards to the name.) The movie was awesome. I can't get enough Kevin Spacey. __________________ Officer of VeteranCrew "He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall." Elrond

12-06-2002, 03:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
Searyx I'm still the master of Mistmoore, dammit! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 2,072 +0 Internets	David Mamet is GOD :P __________________ "“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” --Socrates--

12-07-2002, 10:49 AM	#5 (permalink)
Rexfelis Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 168 -1 Internets	Jack Lemon Every actor in GGGR set a standard for those to follow. In particular, Jack Lemon blows you away with his "clinging to the edge" vitriol (when talking shit to Spacey's character about the deal he blows for Pacino's character) and later his pathetic desperation when Spacey's character finds out about the theft and sticks it to Lemon's character. I'd say the nearest modern equivalent to this movie would be Boiler Room, which is a very meritous movie in its own right - Affleck's character was clearly inspired by Baldwin's, and he does a good job. And yes, Mamet is on his own plane. Interesting anecdote about Mamet and another ingenious writer/director: when Paul Thomas Anderson was in film school, he substituted a few pages from a Mamet play as his submission for an assignment in a screenwriting/playwriting class. He received a c+. He promptly dropped out and has been saying "Fuck you!" to conventional filmmaking ever since.

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12-04-2002, 06:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
quintero Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 -1 Internets	Perhaps the worst name ever for such a high caliber movie. All the actors were amazing, particularly Al Pacino. Alec Baldwin was just classic. Why cant I get the good leads?