Classic Films
Related: About this forumJust watched "Glengerry Glen Ross" on TCM. Seen it before...
and decided to watch it again. Just have to say it's absolutely brilliant. The dialogue, my God (a lot of cursing mind you) but it has to be one-in-a-million writing. Who can even think up those lines?
And the cast is teriffic, especially Al Pacino, Jack Lemon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin.
if you get a chance, watch it again.
musette_sf
(10,341 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(12,678 posts)Great satire of 80s greed. Unfortunately David Mamet turned into a crazy right winger in the 2000s (or at least became more obvious about it)
brush
(58,641 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 31, 2023, 11:03 AM - Edit history (1)
Sad. Wonder if he's stlll feeling all maga now that trump is an obvious crook and in grave legal danger.
denbot
(9,916 posts)That movie was canon to us sales folk back in the day.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,678 posts)Barely 5 minutes and he owns that movie. One of Jack Lennons best as well.
Auggie
(32,007 posts)elleng
(137,765 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Frasier Balzov
(3,765 posts)That defining part depicting the pressure of working in sales was written especially for him and especially for the film version.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,038 posts)The dialogue is nearly incomprehensible. I don't recall much of a plot, unless constant swearing is somehow a plot.
brush
(58,641 posts)You're the only one on this board who doesn't recognize the movie as a great piece of film making.
Think about that.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,038 posts)who has an independent opinion about things. And given that all of nine different people here have posted, I'm going to make a guess that I'm not the only one here who didn't care for it.
brush
(58,641 posts)and yours is certainly an outlier on this film.