John Landis on GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Director James Foley’s adaptation of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play was a box office flop but has gained in stature due to its remarkable cast and viciously funny set-pieces (Alec Baldwin’s “Always Be Closing” is kissing cousin to Gordon Gecko’s “Greed is Good”). The pressure cooker plot about four real estate agents fighting for their jobs in a claustrophobic Chicago office space is punctuated by Mamet’s memorably mean-spirited dialogue which is delivered by some of the finest actors of the time including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris. Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award and Lemmon was voted Best Actor by the National Board of Review.
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Lemmon's performance is masterful. One of my all time favorites.
When he sells 8 plots and is full of bravado , how he speaks to Williamson is acting genius
Despite being a film with 7 or 8 legends,the one i love the most is Ed Harris.That scene in the bar where he's taking Alan Arkin for a ride about stealing the leads is golden.
I simply cannot pick one, Alan Arkin is superb in this and so is Lemon but then again they are ALL that great
I sort of agree in the sense that I found Ed Harris' character rather viscerally repugnant. If you can embody a supreme jerk and evoke feelings like that from the viewing audience; That's great acting.
They're all great, esp Lemmon and Pacino.
@@NGC6144 that could be any of the characters though, every one of them is at times sympathetic (when they want something) and a complete insufferable jackass (when they are putting on a display of power for each other). Rommer is the only one I have any respect for, because he's smart enough to realise the leads are a waste of his time and go out and find a mark on his own.
You're right. That back & forth dialogue with Arkin is just pure gold .
A true underrated film of the 1990s. Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and in a cameo performance by Alec Baldwin are top notch. Pacino received a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor, the same year he would win as the blind veteran in Scent of A Woman.
And strangely I think his performance as Ricky Roma is a more dynamic and exciting than the one he won for!
It was clearly a career Oscar because he should have won at least 2 or 3 oscars by this point.
@@johnrigs6540 At least 2 or 3!
Great movie, great acting. For me Jack Lemmon's performance was as good as any actor ever put on film.
That scene where he is in a phone booth making a pitch, his voice saying one thing and his face saying another, is amazing.
I would listen to this guy talk for days! I shit you not! One of my all time favourite directors and dudes! They should give him a channel somewhere and just let him talk, make people in movie industry watch him and say: "Guys... This! Okay?" And he doesn't work! What a fuckin shame! We still have great directors like carpenter, romero... and they don't work! We have grown ups, its sequel, Paul blart and its sequel, we have hot pursuit, we have useless remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, made by shitty directors (and they keep working)... but not a new landis movie. Tell them, professor farnsworth: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore." Cinema is going so down, guys... it used to be so good...
Wow, he wasn't exaggerating. That was one shitty trailer.
Jack Lemon’s voice as he’s talking to the Nyborgs. GOLD
Definitely. Everything Jack Lemon does in the film is amazing. So great to see all these talented actors taking turns trying to steal the show from each other.
Get the chalk. Pick up the fucking chalk. I'm on the fucking board.
Harriet and Blah, Blah..... shitty crumb cake.....from the store.
Patti LuPone could have played Alec Baldwins role. She’d have been savage and even more intimidating..
He gets it right Mamet here.... it's just priceless the way they talk over each other, they way they don't listen to each other, the way their consciousness 'spills out'... Jack Lemmon's portrayal of a salesman at the end of his tether is exceptional.... as is everyone else. All these grown men being tossed about by two young tossers.... Death of a FKN Salesman indeed ;)
15yrs ago I worked at an intense mortgage company and, on my first day, we watched Boiler Room in the conference room and some of the staff was raving about what a great sales movie it was. I told them I might give it another look eventually if the movie grew up a lot and because half as good a film as GGGR.
Totally agree, it's great and has a great soundtrack, I bought a CD of the soundtrack. A film I actually watched at the theater when it came out, lucky me.
I think I actually got the soundtrack first because it had a song or two on it that I wanted, and the music intrigued me so much that I rented the VHS.
One of the best movies I've seen. Great actors and the dialog is brilliant.
I'm so glad they added the Alec Baldwin scene. Easily one of the best works of his life and the most memorable scene in the movie. "Put the coffee down! Coffee is for closers!"
Conservative - really right wing conservatives - use Mamet's apparent 'change' since making this movie to point out that indeed, coffee at least 'should be' for closers. Good father? Go home and tell your pet dog.
"Third prize is, you're fired!"
You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?!
You know who I am? My watch cost more than your car, that's who I am...
@@Blaqjaqshellaq just like the lottery..lol
Pacino should have won an Oscar just for the scene where he tells off Spacey.
We watched this in screenwriting class back in college. Amazing film.
I remember him on a talk show with John Carpenter and David Cronenberg called Fear On Film back in 82. They were all informative and funny.
@David Imrie
Just watched that interview. It was pretty good. Thanks for mentioning it.
Everyone thinks of certain Big Moments in this movie, and rightly so. But there's a small one that will sneak by you. It's that duet scene between Harris and Arkin where they're not really talking about a crime-- are they? Pure magic.
The coffee shop scene is one of the most downtrodden yet serene scenes in the film. Something about that scene, the way it was shot, the acting the overall mood makes it probably my favorite.
get them to sign on the line which is dotted amazing perfomances
Another again movie, 10,000 times. Yea, P.S, it's a deep ass movie with the ultimate pro cast, totally top shelf.
I know the entire script memorized, that's what happens when you watch the movie 50 times.
Baldwin destroys everyone in this film with one mother fucking scene.
Pacino,dude. Pacino destroys baldwin in this movie.
debonbon Disagree, Lemmon was outstanding here as well as Pacino
I've gotta disagree with you there. Yeah, Baldwin was phenomenal for the short amount of time he's on screen but this was Jack Lemmon's movie all the way. The way he shifts gears from sympathetic, scheming, belligerent, petty, heartbreaking, all the way to just plain pathetic is incredible. You simultaneously dislike the guy but you also can't help but root for him and when you're hit with that ending it's an absolute gut punch so good you don't know who you really feel sorry for.
debonbon man I love Pacino at the end!
This time I agree with Landis completely; one of the finest American movies of the 90's.
I remember when it cames out in the cinemas worldwide.We're on Pacino of course,but Who was the surprise later on is Jack Lemmon!I was shocked how He can playing under of everyone,that was His greatness! Secondly, the biggest Surprise was Alec Baldwin.Nobody accept that He can growing up to acting for this Genius actors of All.But He did it.Only He has 2 or 3 scenes but that monologues are Hilarious.
Realy Good Movie,but sadly Hollywood never make this kind of pictures ever.
Lemmon , Ed Harris and Al Pacino were the best in this movie!
Neil Tomlinson you nailed it!
It was labeled as a thriller on the Norwegian VHS I had as a teen 20 years ago. It certainly thrilled me, but a friend found it a complete bore. All I could say was: "But everyone is so good!"
+Bjørn Helge Nesheim the movie's strength is from the dialogue.
+takerdust
Yes it is. I had the fortune to see Pacino on Broadway as Shelley a few years ago. He looked straight at us in the middle of the front rows (including Oliver Stone up front) during his last monologue. I'll never forget it. The others were good too.
This guy actually killed people...
I deleted this from my movies folder, not knowing what it was, skipping through it to check it out and not getting anything from it. You have convinced me to give it a second chance.
Watch the Monkey Dust send up of the "coffee is for closers" scene.
It's worth a look.
😉
This has the best first line of any trailer in history: "Put that coffee down!"
It's a great film, and one of James Foley's best works along side The Corrupter and At Close Range. Some of the dialog will leave your jaw on the floor!
Very underrated film-dazzling script with some of the best acting you will EVER see in a movie.
But he’s right-boy that’s a ridiculous trailer!
I rented this at fucking BLOCKBUSTER when i was a 15 year old girl simply to stare at my greatest love - Al Pacino. I had never heard of it and figured it was an also-ran in his oeuvre, but it took me about 2.5 seconds to figure out this was a really enthrallingly written, quality film and to this day it boggles me how its still so obscure and less well known than something like scarface, which is a bit overrated.
Only a broad,would utter such verbal poop as Scarface is "a bit overrated" lool
I'm glad that the trailer didn't over sell it...the cast ALONE should do this...GREAT PLAY AND FILM
Did he introduce himself as Irene Dunne?
Landis for President.
Vote trump!
Landis for death row
I second Landis for President
+ScreenHackTV For President? Hmm Better than Obama perhaps... Lol
President? Ummm maybe of a movie club.... of the united states? Yeaaahhh no thanks... although he'd be much better than Obama
Who would ever have thought that Jamie Foley could have gone from "Who's That Girl?" to a massive & stunning piece of work like this in just 5 years?
He should have hired David Mamet to write "Who's That Girl".
I think most non-legendary directors have a "One Great Work" in their filmographies, and most of the time they tend to be lightning in a bottle events that they never replicate again. Bob Clark had A CHRISTMAS STORY, Tinto Brass had CALIGULA, Mary Lambert had PET SEMATARY and Mary Harron had AMERICAN PSYCHO.
At the time I looked forward to this movie knowing it was directed by the same guy who directed "At Close Range," and "After Dark My Sweet." Two very good 80's crime flicks. I didn't even know he directed "Who's That Girl" to be honest. After Glengarry though he kinda fell into a rut directing more than a few unspectacular films. Foley is very good but it's not the directing that makes Glengarry, it's the director letting the actors do their thing.
Oddly enough, the trailer was what got me interested in watching the film. It took me 2 more years until my mom took the restriction off the Blockbuster account so I could rent it. The tonal mismatch didn't bother me.
John Landis might be one of my favorite people on the planet.
***** Particularly if it's raining...
+Aaron Swain Fancy finding you here :D
I met John Landis at one of the conventions in Hollywood. He is as cool as he is with TFH!
Does anybody else remember a different trailer of this movie with just the brass balls swinging left and right over a black screen with the actors' names and dialogue in the background?
This is a masterful movie when an ensemble cast that has so much talent that meshes well together.
katrph91 Yes.
great movie...
great film. saw it last year finally. one of the finest all star casts with one hell of a script.
The Jack Lemmon character turned up on THE SIMPSONS!
And this movie got a reference in the Boss Baby which also features Alec Baldwin.
Won ONE Tony. Mantegna for Best Featured Actor. Could have looked that up.
A love the dog eat dog culture that goes on in this Agency. The characters are all on the Brink' showing an overview of the realities of day to day survival from the banal to the extreme activities of 70% of the world's population live through on a day to day existence. Everyone a con man!' at stage in their life weather they acknowledge it or not! Some are better at suppressing their desires in a more subtle manner' while others are cruder in achieving their goals!....
Watching that trailer reminds me of when Disney had no idea how to market the movie "Bridge To Terabithia" so the trailer was cut to make it look like some straight up Harry Potter/Narnia style kids' adventure.
Landis Is freaking right. The flick is a masterpiece.
They didn't need a trailer...just release the director's and cast's names on a poster.
Okay, you convinced me to watch it.
I watched it. I loved it. Thank you Mr. Landis.
Every interview i see about the film goes on & on about the foul language. Can we all please get over it? Oh my poor virgin ears cant handle it! 😂please, there are way worse things plaguing our society
Hi I got 3 people (2 of them children) killed on set and should never be allowed to show my face ever again
The trailer doesn't do justice to the film. Too bad it didn't fare well at the box office. It's one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of American film.
Ricky Romano. Lol.
Ray's brother apparently
Why didn't they let see the trailer? Landis talked all over it. Very frustrating!
You can watch the trailers on Trailers From Hell without commentary if you so choose.
It’s amazing that this movie flopped in the box office
I think I'm one of five people who saw this in its original theatrical release... twice.
+dannydontgoin237 I saw it opening weekend. I couldn't figure out why everyone else didn't love it, except that many of the best films go over people's heads.
I saw it in the movie theater for it's first run, too. I was blown away, and told everyone how great it is. And I still feel the same way, prolly more so. I have the dvd and watch it regularly. The cast is Heaven sent!
God, I love hearing John Landis talking about movies. I could listen to him all day, everyday.
so you like hearing somebody butcher the details of your favorite movies?
A child murderer
@@plasticweapon it wouldn't be the first thing he butchered
@@oi6915 true.
You mean you like hearing from a murderer!
I want to know who made that trailer, they deserve to be blacklisted
...You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?
Loving the skinny puppy song in the trailer
Trailer completely destroyed the movie.
I would be hard to put a trailer together without blue language
I saw it in the theater, still don't know why it bombed.
I think Landis is one of the most capable director, on pair with Alfred Hitchcock
That's an epic reach,dude. :D
+Alberto Amoruso MASSIVE REACH!
good one Alberto
I saw this film for the first time last week. Until then I'd never heard of it and it was a friend at work who said "you HAVE TO see it".
My friend was right. John Landis is right. I am right by saying "you have to see this".
The acting is really something else.
Death of a fucking movie 👎
What actors in this? Scene stealers all.
Great movie, great actors
I can't count how many times I've seen this film. It was do to this film, "Wag the Dog" and "State and Main", that I picked up his book "Bambi Vs. Godzilla".
The man is a poet. And I am still in awe of his film "Red Belt".
Great film
Summed up to perfection
Is this on bluray?👻
A real masterpiece of all time
Genius filmmaking!
Wow, that trailer is like some kind of youtuber joke re-edit. "Death of a fuckin' Salesman" - perfect. If you haven't seen this film, do yourself a favour and watch it.
It's funny how in my mind 1992 doesn't seem so long ago. Hell, my UA-cam profile photo was taken in 1992 by sheer coincidence. But Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin and Alan Arkin look so young and, well, Jack Lemmon has been dead for a long long time.
I agree with Jack Lemmon: it was "Death of a F***ng Salesman". Enjoyed the characterization.
I like these extended TFH.More to enjoy!
Everyone round to Landis's house for martinis and movie night...(Mamet: "he's fukin buying.")
It is seven thirty.
GGR didn't win a bunch of Tonys in 1984. It only won for Joe Mantegna. The revival won for the same role, Liev Schreiber.
One of the greatest films ever made about the depths of depravity of American capitalism and greed
Amazing film.
It's free on youtube right now. I finally got to see it. For three decades I thought it was about a guy named Glen Gary, and another named Glen Ross. I wasn't even close.
This movie is epic...
ABC!!
I'm glad I didn't see the trailer. I don't why I went to see this movie, but it was a time in my life when, for example, I might be in a mall and, deciding I was in the mood for a movie, would walk over to the theatre there, see what was playing, and if there was something I might be interested in, and if it wasn't too long a wait until the next show, I'd buy a ticket and see it. That was how I ended up seeing Glengarry Glen Ross.
I find it ironic Alec Baldwin shoots down, verbally, the workers with his derogatory words and ego attitude. That ego appears to have cost him dearly in recent times on his own set involving a loaded pistol in his hands when it went off, killing the camera person.
His ego had nothing to do with the camera person's death. It was a domino effect of negligence, starting with the armorer. The prop master and the assistant director were negligent too. Baldwin himself should have asked someone to check the gun in front of him to make sure it was "cold"
@@chiefscheider Ok, ego may not be the proper term. Ignorance, lack of respect for others or the unwillingness of getting properly modified arms making such a happening virtually impossible are other terms. End user of a real gun has the responsibility of checking the arm and it should never be pointed when harm is not wanted.
The inexpensive safe alternative would have been to use non real guns.
A real gem of a movie. I like 2 things in movies: Action and great acting. This is really great acting.
Irene Dunn is looking masculine these days- ha. John is a superb film maker- great review John! I love the flim version of GlenGarry even more than the live theatrical versions.
I like the trailer. What are you gonna do? It's 95% guys in a room talking.
When he said this is Irene Dunne I chuckled cuz I used to have the craziest crush on her. I like black and white what can I say...
So true, I agree with everything John said {not that that matters lol}, the film is really everything he said
n1
There is a bit from Skinny Puppy's Rodent!
Hey remember that one scene with Vic Morrow?
Ricky Roma! Romano would be a cheese-head.
Don't be around landis and helicopters.
The jazz score sucks, but the film is awesome and Landis's review is true blue and bulls eye. What a great film and a great review.
glad you have better taste in movie than you do music and reviewers.
I'll give it a shot.