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In Reply to: Re: Glengarry GlenRoss posted by Victor Khomenko on December 12, 2002 at 13:07:07:
Well, this film was made 1992, but it look more dated, it is more from 70 / 80, the atmosphere remind me of " The Death Of A Salesman " somehow.
I, for one that can NOT stand Pacino ( very terrible ) found that he was quite right for THIS role.
But it could be the fact that the last film I saw with him must be at least 10 years old. ( The Scent of a women ) witch was an horrible remake of a very good film, as we know....
I found in this picture, an adjacent humanism that was quite right, even if I hate it....Vase clos...leaning for a kind of cinema verite.
The worst was the use of the world -fuck- a thousand time around.
Dreadful.
More I think of it ( I just finish my viewing about half hour ago )
More I dislike it. Still my respect for it for the crafmanship in it.
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***But it could be the fact that the last film I saw with him must be at least 10 years old. ( The Scent of a women ) witch was an horrible remake of a very good film, as we know....Don't you think the weakest point in the original was its ending? The last half an hour was going nowhere. But still, between the two films and two actors (Pacino and Gassman) the choice is trivial.
I canīt tell ! i saw this film twenty ( at least ) years ago...But I still have a v ery fond memory of it. I try to find a copy or wait till it shows up on tv...But till now, I was out of luck..
In France, ( just read it this morning ) the Decameron & Salo just came on dvd...
I think that if you have ever been a commissioned salesperson working from generated lead sheets you can REALLY relate to this movie. I found it an accurate portrayal of the uphill battle that salesmen face, especially as they get older and are "forgotten". The movie is quite deep in placing the Jack Lemmon character in a no-win situation. You may not like Pacino but he was a perfect fit for his role, and I think he did a great job especially when his "client" (Jonathan Pryce) came back asking for his refund. Kevin Spacey also played a convincing minor role as the office manager.And last but not least, Alec Baldwin's motivational scene where he says "My watch costs more than your f#cking car !!" and "In our sales contest first prize is a new Cadillac, second prize is a set of steak knives, and the rest of you are fired !!" reminds me of several sales managers that I have experienced over the years.
Lemmon, Pacino, Spacey, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Pryce, Baldwin, what a powerhouse cast !!! I think you should watch the movie again sometime and give it another chance.
I agree 100%. I could feel the tension and desperation in the characters throughout the entire movie. I felt it was an excellent insight into the live's of a group of salesman trying to sell an impossible (or at least improbable) to sell product. Sorry, no apology here. I liked it as well.
And I agree, that it makes this film much more personal. This is one of the "must see" films for salesmen (another is "Used Cars"). Also, do you remember the scene from "Ruthless People" - Judge Reinhold was trying to be a "Hard sell" salesman to the young couple, and just couldn't do it? Really true to life stuff, there."You can't afford it? Fucking finance it!"
Who is well played...
Doomsday---You mean guys will really sit and take the kind of shit the Baldwin character was handing out? Nobody would object to his bullying and invite him outside to see if his Rolex can trump a punch in the nose in the manliness sweepstakes?
If you are in the system...It will work the way it was described...
I just go to look at some review of it...and found the Chicago Tribune with a critic on it..the writer make an analogy to " The death of...) funny, is it not ?
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