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Glengarry Glen Ross
Directed by James Foley
Screenplay by David Mamet
Jacobkosh needed an extension so I'm doing a filler movie presentation.
Sometimes with a film you get just the perfect combination of things. You get a cast of actors who are all deeply talented. Guys who all can take a scene and work it just right. Jack Lemon. Al Pacino. Kevin Spacey. Alan Arkin. Ed Harris. Not a single turkey among them. You give them a script of poetry to speak. Listening to David Mamet give a masterclass on the use of profanity of film. Every fuck, every shit, every cunt placed just so. But never too much. And a director who steps back and lets the actors act. Camera movements that focus on the details. He expands out from the stage play which has two sets but he keeps the feeling of claustrophobia. Close in shots. Shots in phone booths. Shots where the weather and environment oppresses. And editing that just makes each shot seem to flow back and forth. Fluid editing that hides in the background. There are no perfect films but Glengarry, Glen Ross is pretty damn fantastic.
None of the men in the film are good men. They are basically pushing shady real estate investments. Every time they do something sympathetic, they turn around and do something assholish. Even their victims aren't sympathetic. But the nature of the script and the direction cause us to sympathize with whoever is being victimized in the scene. The lack of protagonist in the film gives us the ability to shift our sympathies around. It keeps us engaged enough with a group that if we had a single focus would repulse us. And part of that is on the actors. Watching Al Pacino sling bullshit nonsense is hypnotic. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense but his delivery just makes you fixate on him.
And Jack Lemon giving us moments where you can see his soul being crushed again, and again until he has a moment of triumph that leads to hubris and his fall again. That little moment of realization on Kevin Spacey's face when he puts it all together. Or listening to Ed Harris bully his co-worker into joining his scheme. They get these moments that the actors expand to fill the screen. These tight, claustrophobic shots that amplify petty little lives of terrible people into something with gravity.
The worst thing I can say about this movie is that the opening sequence is overly quoted by douchebags who don't get it. And really if that's the worst thing you can say about a film, then it has to be pretty damn good.
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I was most impressed by how glossy and high quality the little montage of him talking appeared to be printed. It looked quality, boys!
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This was made by Americans?
It's a scene that sales people love. Because there is some deep truth in that scene. But they tend to fixate on some of the shitty motivational stuff.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
so many of my favorite actors
i basically like everything about this show except its central conceit
when you get to Enterprise I'll be able to discuss stuff with you. That's the only one I watched.
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