I did this monologue in College at an audition... no acting experience, just knew I had a booming voice and a love for David Mamet and Glengarry Glen Ross.... I got a part
@@zackcross7190 No he lied because he was trying to find out who robbed the joint. Had Roma not been actively pissed at Williamson he would have known that Roma was the one who saw the contract on his desk and known it was him who robbed the office. Instead about 5 minutes later Levene's dumbass comes in and accidentally let it slip that Williamson made up that bullshit about cashing in the contract therefore letting Williamson know it was Levene that robbed it.
Tbh I disagree. Pacino was incredible in scent of a woman in my opinipn. Unfortunately Denzel gave the best performance of the decade the same year in Malcolm X.
Yep. They gave him an Oscar for Scent of a Woman to make up for not giving him one before, like they should've. Because of their earlier incompetence, they robbed someone else of an Oscar to give it to Pacino.
Johnathan Pryce does such a good job but is just absolutely buried by 4 other incredible performances. One of the best adaptations of the stage of all time.
No women, just about 10 male actors, just 3-4 sets. No action, no (physical) fight scenes, no explosions, no CGI, no love story. No big world-threatening conspiracy. No fancy props or costumes. Just 1 piece of music. You can clearly see it's based on a theatre play. But fuck me, the tension... and the drama... and the actors... and the characters... and the dialogue... and the cursing... and the camera. I think we got a little masterpiece here.
And Scarecrow. Where’s he’s sweet and goofy. And Dog Day Afternoon. Aggrieved, self pitying, trying to please 5 people. Serpico. The guy has given us great gifts. Oh and Donnie Brasco.
I love the cop's frustrated reaction throughout this whole scene. Like when Al Pacino follows him into the room and then turns back to scream at Williamson, he's probably thinking "Jesus Christ, what does it take to get these guys in a room?"
A master class in writing and, a master class in acting! FYI, I used to sell Kirby Vacuums door to door in the late 80's. I was a great salesman but, I felt like shit selling people a $1400 dollar vacuum that they didn't need!
I was a fine dining waiter for many years. Selling people $1400 bottles of grapes never affected me because, well, if one has $1400 for a bottle of grapes...
“I’m going to Lempkin!” Oh, no! Not the person who was never referenced before and is never referenced again! Lempkin is just as scary as Davis and Rodriguez and Teller and other characters that may or may not have been referenced in an earlier draft of the script!
No women. No love interest. No action. No chase scene. No killing. Just raw talent. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce and Kevin Spacey. WOW!! Brilliant movie. 1992 was an amazing year for movies. I have seen every movie on this list. Glengary Glen Ross Rotten Tomatoes; 95% ET weekly: A Rating Chicago Sun Times: Rave review Budget: 12.5 million Box office: 10.7 million LOST MONEY! Crazy. Look what came out in 1992 Batman returns Home Alone 2 Lethal Weapon 3 Sister Act Aladdin Wayne's World Basic Instinct A League of Their Own The Bodyguard The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Patriot Games Bram Stoker's Dracula Fried Green Tomatoes A Few Good Men White Men Can't jump Unforgiven My Cousin Vinny Other flops that year - All good movies to me Scent of A Woman ( Bad year for Pacino ) 7 million Night and the City ( De Niro ) 6 million The Last Boy Scout - 6 million The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag - 4 million Reservoir Dogs - 3 million Blade Runner - 3 million Chaplin - 1.5 million
Brilliant! Deniro’s bar scene in Goodfellas where he admonishes his men after the heist is similar but Pacino’s garbling, spitting and phrasing takes the cake. IMO.
DAMN!!!!.....I thought Blake (Alec Baldwin) did a great job of tearing down a person verbally at the beginning of the flim, but Roma (Al Pacino) outdid him with his performance towards John (Kevin Spacey).
RICKY ROMA:😡😡😡😡😡 😠😠😠😠 BOSS:😮😮😮😮 😶😶😶😶 BOSS AFTER RICKY ROMA SERVES HIM COLD VERBAL DISH:😟😟😟😟😟 😔😔😔😔 THE AUDIENCE'S REACTION:😲😲😲😲 This Burns all the way down to the marrow. "You fucking child." Ouch...
Maybe this is why salesmen are looked on with such contempt. Let's break down what Roma was so mad about; he was trying to trick someone into thinking he had more time than he actually had to void the contract so that the sale would finalize against his wishes. He was mad that James Link was going to be able to exercise his legal right. His anger was fucking bullshit. Not that the source it was directed at (Williamson) was complicit, he was trying to pull a con job of his own, but he was pissed that he didn't get to screw someone over. He can go fuck himself.
Another great performance by Pacino 🎬 Funny how even after the detective told him not to leave the office after getting his name, Roma was about to walk out a SECOND time when Williamson blew his cover 😝
You're no Salesperson if you've never seen this movie. People talk about Boiler Room but it's got nothing on GGGR. "Guy don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy!"
The more i watch this scene, the more i think spaceys character did it on purpose...the moment he mentions the police to the client, then says they banked the cheque
In his acting master-class Spacey told that in that scene Al Pachino began to shit-talk Spacey personally, out of character, no scrip. By doing that Al Pachino managed to get Spacey into that destroyed state that we see here.
Not really. Michael Corleone never went on verbal tirades. Michael would just have a seething death stare aimed at the person who was insulting him. That's what makes Pacino so brilliant. He can kill you with his stare or with his verbal delivery of lines.
I agree. In this specific scene, I do think that he is way over the top. I understand that Al is a legend and the cult around him, but I believe this movie is Lemmon's.
@@sergiosantosbreton7625 Over the top? He was just robbed of a substantial amount of money due to the office manager's incompetence. I love when people claim an actor is "over the top" despite the scene explicitly warranting their anger and temperament.
Roma is the top salesman and prob the only reason Williamson hasn't lost his job. Roma may even make more than Williamson, but he knows he has all the leverage and his threats matter to an extent unlike Shelly. We may even see how Shelly became Shelly due to Williamson's manipulativeness and Roma's fate. He really is trapped in hell and he is a devil.
I got to watch this again, after have a meeting with my boss in her office this week. I felt like Ricky Roma, when I told how incompetent she is, and how unable to lead a workteam, and that's why many troubles came out and throw the company down. She almost cried and apologized, and I thought I got to be fired on the same or next day. Well, a week passed and I'm still employed...
Love this movie so much. Two things that don't make sense to me: 1) If James Lingk has 3 days to get out of the deal once the check is cashed, why would he be so concerned when he was told the check was cashed? He can still get out of it. Even if it's 3 days from when the contact is signed, he would still be within the 3 day period since the contract was just signed the night before he visited the office. They make it seem as though the cashing of the check was fatal to Mr. Lingk and he is now legally bound to go ahead with the deal permanently; 2) Mr. Lingk came to see Roma to tell him that he wants out of the deal, so the fact that Williamson made up the story about the check being cashed didn't change anything or make anything worse. If Roma thought that Williamson's comment about cashing the check was true, why does he think that remark is what made him lose the deal? The fact that the check would be cashed (if true) is not what would have killed the deal. And if the cashing of the check was NOT true (which we know it was not since Williamson made that up), again, why would that remark make Roma so upset? That isn't the reason the deal died, Lingk already wanted out anyways. I just don't see how Williamson's comment (whether true or not) was the nail in the coffin.
Williamson made two idiotic errors: he let's the buyer know that that the random guy there is a cop for no reason, making him lose even more faith in the sale. and obviously secondly, like Roma said...he thinks he knows what the shot is, and tries to "help" Roma, but actually knows fuck all. good scene. he might not have been the actual burglar but he might had well have been, given how much he costs everyone with his stupidity it would've been nice if the machine took this to heart before he implicates himself like a total jackass 5 min later
Really though, it's unlikely Williamson made any difference. Even if he hadn't said anything, Link seemed pretty determined to cancel the sale. I don't think Roma could have changed his mind.
@@TheStapleGunKid the point was to make him hold off for 3 days until the cancellation window expired. If he had thought the contract hadn't gone out by then, he'd probably sit idle long enough for the sale to be effected
Yes, that's a good point. Daniel Stern would have screamed at Williamson the same way he blew up at Beth his Wife in Diner when he played Schrevie played by Ellen Barkin for misfiling his Records.
@@ayokay123 I have a feeling Pesci would have just come off as a gangster, not a salesman. Pesci's verbal tirades are terrific, but he sounds blatantly gangster-esque every time he does them. Pacino can do both: sound like a gangster in one role but then come off as a legitimate salesman in another. Pacino was able to tear Spacey a new one without sounding like a gangster here, just a pissed off salesman.
After Lingk walked out they should have just held on the back of Roma's head, and had Williamson in shot too perhaps. He and the audience would have been on tenterhooks, waiting for the explosion.
Technically a sale WAS complete. A transaction was organised, agreed and done regarding stealing the leads then selling them to a competitor. It was achieved ;)
He may have lied about it in order to get the guilty person who stole the leads to slip up (which is exactly what the Levine character did minutes later).
@@gordons-alive4940 this, but he also had to keep his story straight because he was supposed to cash the check but stayed home with his kids instead. he lied to roma about cashing the check earlier to cover his ass and he couldnt change that now
So many great bits for the Al Pacino soundboard came from this movie.
you fairy haha
Does that seem clear to you?
What's my name? What's my name, bwah?
Ahh christ, im sorry
So glad someone else remembers this
You never open your mouth till you know what the shot is.... words to live by
Thats the whole fuckin scene right there!
I love how Williamson never bats an eye. He's probably the only person there with a salary and a secure job.
I think for the first time he sees he didn't think and screwed up.
I agree...he was about to shart his pants
It's really good, really subtle, acting. It's entirely in the facial expression and the chest. Too bad about the pederasty.
I don't think it's that secure. I also think he knows he screwed up and cannot summon anything in his defence.
Deer in the headlights
Pacino and Spacey get to blast off into hyperspace here, but it’s Johnathan Pryce’s embarrassment and impotent panic that sells me.
This rant never gets old 😂
This acting level is insane on another level.
A bit OTT really.
Yea, its crap.
Pacino in the 90s was going off the rails, but this one’s not as bad as Heat or Scent of a Woman.
@@francescotamburini5790 Ah he's decent in Heat
Even the actor who played a siderole in James Link did an amazing job in this film.
The inflection on " you fairy" is next level.
I just watched this movie yesterday after so many years, what an epic cast! The level of dialogue delivery is top notch
I did this monologue in College at an audition... no acting experience, just knew I had a booming voice and a love for David Mamet and Glengarry Glen Ross.... I got a part
I had coffee with Glengarry...HALF AN HOUR AGO!!!!
HA, nice reference to "Heat"
Vincent we can still get him.
Does anybody have any idea where the fck these people are?
The casting for this movie was absolutely brilliant.
Punchline missing:Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levine: "You ARE a shithead, Williamson."
Ha ha, I love that Lemmon line.
He got torched 1 minute later
“You are supposed to HELP us! Not FUCK US UP!”
😂😂 Every time.
Pacino s hair deserved an award
😂
"I'll tell ya somethin else, I hope you ripped the joint off, I could tell our friend here a little something, might help him to CATCH you!"
Guy gets screwed then he apologizes to the guy who screws him over.
He stopped himself from getting screwed. He stopped the property purchase
The check never actually went out though. Williamson lied because he thought it would help Roma.
@@zackcross7190 No he lied because he was trying to find out who robbed the joint. Had Roma not been actively pissed at Williamson he would have known that Roma was the one who saw the contract on his desk and known it was him who robbed the office. Instead about 5 minutes later Levene's dumbass comes in and accidentally let it slip that Williamson made up that bullshit about cashing in the contract therefore letting Williamson know it was Levene that robbed it.
Pacino deserved his overdue Oscar in 1992 "far more* for this than _Scent of A Woman_.
Was thinking the same exact thing...
Tbh I disagree. Pacino was incredible in scent of a woman in my opinipn. Unfortunately Denzel gave the best performance of the decade the same year in Malcolm X.
Yep. They gave him an Oscar for Scent of a Woman to make up for not giving him one before, like they should've. Because of their earlier incompetence, they robbed someone else of an Oscar to give it to Pacino.
@@philipsalama8083 It's a cycle that resulted in Denzel getting the Best Actor Oscar for Training Day.
And many of his other films as well.
The last three words alone set Pacino far above everyone else.
Johnathan Pryce does such a good job but is just absolutely buried by 4 other incredible performances. One of the best adaptations of the stage of all time.
I’m gonna be with you in a second
The only time someone was nominated for an Oscar for leading and an Oscar for supporting roles.
It's happened eleven other times.
@@Patrick-su5qz it only counts if it’s Al Pacino.
No women, just about 10 male actors, just 3-4 sets. No action, no (physical) fight scenes, no explosions, no CGI, no love story. No big world-threatening conspiracy. No fancy props or costumes. Just 1 piece of music.
You can clearly see it's based on a theatre play.
But fuck me, the tension... and the drama... and the actors... and the characters... and the dialogue... and the cursing... and the camera.
I think we got a little masterpiece here.
Nobody seems to notice the woman in the Chinese restaurant. ¯\(°_o)/¯
Also why is no women a good thing?
@@randomguy6679 Did I say it's a good thing?? Read again pls. I said, even if there are no women, it's an excellent film.
@@nancymcmonarch Does she have a speaking role or contribute to the plot in any way? Might have been in the background, I really don't remember.
@@harpiyon No, but you implied it.
Any actor knows to never interrupt Pacino during a monologue.
This is not losing it. This is taking an opponent apart molecule by molecule and making them cry.....quietly.
Probably the single greatest teardown ever
Let me buy you a pack of gum and I'll show you how to chew it
maybe the greatest monologue of all time delivered masterfully!
Al Pacino is amazing =)
Mamet really knows something bout human nature.
Simply the best movie ever made. Lemon is perfect and the cast are sublime
I tell you how great Pacino is- This is the same guy who played Michael Corleone. His range is incredible.
Also, he later played the Jack Lemon role in a stage production of this.
And Scarecrow. Where’s he’s sweet and goofy. And Dog Day Afternoon. Aggrieved, self pitying, trying to please 5 people. Serpico. The guy has given us great gifts.
Oh and Donnie Brasco.
One of the first movies ever shot using special "make everyone look tall and skinny" film.
Not to FUCK-US-UP
I love the cop's frustrated reaction throughout this whole scene. Like when Al Pacino follows him into the room and then turns back to scream at Williamson, he's probably thinking "Jesus Christ, what does it take to get these guys in a room?"
What an inspirational character!
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
A master class in writing and, a master class in acting! FYI, I used to sell Kirby Vacuums door to door in the late 80's. I was a great salesman but, I felt like shit selling people a $1400 dollar vacuum that they didn't need!
I’d disagree, I’d wager a lot of those Kirbys are still running or have been passed down.
@@chrisconley8583 A $1,400.00 vacuum in the 80's is like 5 grand now. Sorry....it was highway robbery.
My mom bought one of those kirby’s in the 90’s - and it still works quite nicely, lol. Was a nice heavy all-metal machine
@@JohnSmith-gq9gn How many Dyson's have you purchased over the last 40 years?
I was a fine dining waiter for many years. Selling people $1400 bottles of grapes never affected me because, well, if one has $1400 for a bottle of grapes...
All I see is Tony Montana still pissed off about the Diaz brothers 😂
Dead Kids Foundation we can’t forget that cockroach
FUCK DA FUCKIN' DIAZ BROTHERS!
Who do you think we are? Baggage handlers?
“Close the shop mang!”
“I’m going to Lempkin!”
Oh, no! Not the person who was never referenced before and is never referenced again! Lempkin is just as scary as Davis and Rodriguez and Teller and other characters that may or may not have been referenced in an earlier draft of the script!
No women. No love interest. No action. No chase scene. No killing. Just raw talent. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce and Kevin Spacey. WOW!! Brilliant movie. 1992 was an amazing year for movies. I have seen every movie on this list.
Glengary Glen Ross
Rotten Tomatoes; 95%
ET weekly: A Rating
Chicago Sun Times: Rave review
Budget: 12.5 million
Box office: 10.7 million
LOST MONEY! Crazy. Look what came out in 1992
Batman returns
Home Alone 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Sister Act
Aladdin
Wayne's World
Basic Instinct
A League of Their Own
The Bodyguard
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Patriot Games
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Fried Green Tomatoes
A Few Good Men
White Men Can't jump
Unforgiven
My Cousin Vinny
Other flops that year - All good movies to me
Scent of A Woman ( Bad year for Pacino ) 7 million
Night and the City ( De Niro ) 6 million
The Last Boy Scout - 6 million
The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag - 4 million
Reservoir Dogs - 3 million
Blade Runner - 3 million
Chaplin - 1.5 million
Blade Runner isn’t from 1992.
@@TheFederer0808 lol what a weird mistake.
One of my favourite actors
Brilliant! Deniro’s bar scene in Goodfellas where he admonishes his men after the heist is similar but Pacino’s garbling, spitting and phrasing takes the cake. IMO.
Williamson didn't know what the shot was so he opened his mouth
Actually, it was a totally innocent mistake because he wanted to reassure the customer that the burglary didn't affect his check.
@@ayokay123 Which is how Roma lost the sale. He wanted to make sure that they couldn’t cancel a check that was never cashed.
@@zackcross7190 Correctamundo!
@@zackcross7190 Very sleazy and unethical behavior on the part of Roma.
@@simplock They’re all sleazy and unethical when you really think about it.
Jonathan Price...easily overlooked in this, but 100 percent carrying more than his weight in this..!
Pryce**
DAMN!!!!.....I thought Blake (Alec Baldwin) did a great job of tearing down a person verbally at the beginning of the flim, but Roma (Al Pacino) outdid him with his performance towards John (Kevin Spacey).
RICKY ROMA:😡😡😡😡😡 😠😠😠😠
BOSS:😮😮😮😮 😶😶😶😶
BOSS AFTER RICKY ROMA SERVES HIM COLD VERBAL DISH:😟😟😟😟😟 😔😔😔😔
THE AUDIENCE'S REACTION:😲😲😲😲
This Burns all the way down to the marrow.
"You fucking child."
Ouch...
1:24= Williamson realized he fouled up.
No truer words in sales, you never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
Maybe this is why salesmen are looked on with such contempt. Let's break down what Roma was so mad about; he was trying to trick someone into thinking he had more time than he actually had to void the contract so that the sale would finalize against his wishes. He was mad that James Link was going to be able to exercise his legal right. His anger was fucking bullshit. Not that the source it was directed at (Williamson) was complicit, he was trying to pull a con job of his own, but he was pissed that he didn't get to screw someone over. He can go fuck himself.
We all wish we could rip into company men like Al does.
This is when cursing is absolutely necessary
THAT is why I'm in my mom's basement. I never knew the shot.
95% of the Pacino soundboard
Another great performance by Pacino 🎬
Funny how even after the detective told him not to leave the office after getting his name, Roma was about to walk out a SECOND time when Williamson blew his cover 😝
One of David Mamet's very best. What a great writer.
This scene and Alec Baldwin's motivational speech. For my money, the best written, best acted movie of the '90s.
Baldwin got an Oscar nod for that movie and he'd been onscreen for seven or eight minutes.
I once had a book with a short review of this movie. It said "Rated R for relentless profanity". Ain't that the truth.
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You're no Salesperson if you've never seen this movie. People talk about Boiler Room but it's got nothing on GGGR. "Guy don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy!"
There are a few times in my life that I would have loved to have been able to do that.
Pacino the GOAT actor. Buck the Academy man, they have no clue, I'm telling you. This movie is a masterpiece.
The more i watch this scene, the more i think spaceys character did it on purpose...the moment he mentions the police to the client, then says they banked the cheque
You Company Man!
I've used this line many times.
In his acting master-class Spacey told that in that scene Al Pachino began to shit-talk Spacey personally, out of character, no scrip. By doing that Al Pachino managed to get Spacey into that destroyed state that we see here.
But he retaliated - against Lavigne.
The guy who gets all upset about the check being cashed...his dialogue is the dialogue of a man going to hurt himself.
Roma went Godfather on Spacey! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really. Michael Corleone never went on verbal tirades. Michael would just have a seething death stare aimed at the person who was insulting him. That's what makes Pacino so brilliant. He can kill you with his stare or with his verbal delivery of lines.
Al pacino nearly went full on tony montana lol
Pacino after 1980 or so only knew loud and louder. He’s almost doing Tony Montana again here.
I agree. In this specific scene, I do think that he is way over the top. I understand that Al is a legend and the cult around him, but I believe this movie is Lemmon's.
@@sergiosantosbreton7625 Over the top? He was just robbed of a substantial amount of money due to the office manager's incompetence. I love when people claim an actor is "over the top" despite the scene explicitly warranting their anger and temperament.
@@brandonb.5304 Nah. He was robbed of the opportunity to rob somebody else. It was never his money to begin with.
Roma is the top salesman and prob the only reason Williamson hasn't lost his job. Roma may even make more than Williamson, but he knows he has all the leverage and his threats matter to an extent unlike Shelly. We may even see how Shelly became Shelly due to Williamson's manipulativeness and Roma's fate. He really is trapped in hell and he is a devil.
I LOVE this scene.
This is the speech you give your boss the very second you when the lottery.
How he said.."you fuckin child" my god it was so insulting
Ahhhh what a big man you are
2:07 "I'm going to Limpkin!" Who ever the fuck that is
Anthony Rapp brought me here!
I *LOVE* this whole scene lol. and ive 100% felt like Ricky in this scene.
Roma probably could have still saved that sale the way Mr. Link was was showing his belly but I think he really wanted to rip Williamson a new one.
I got to watch this again, after have a meeting with my boss in her office this week. I felt like Ricky Roma, when I told how incompetent she is, and how unable to lead a workteam, and that's why many troubles came out and throw the company down. She almost cried and apologized, and I thought I got to be fired on the same or next day. Well, a week passed and I'm still employed...
A lot of good prank calls have come from this scene
Great movie. Great scene.
Love this movie so much. Two things that don't make sense to me: 1) If James Lingk has 3 days to get out of the deal once the check is cashed, why would he be so concerned when he was told the check was cashed? He can still get out of it. Even if it's 3 days from when the contact is signed, he would still be within the 3 day period since the contract was just signed the night before he visited the office. They make it seem as though the cashing of the check was fatal to Mr. Lingk and he is now legally bound to go ahead with the deal permanently; 2) Mr. Lingk came to see Roma to tell him that he wants out of the deal, so the fact that Williamson made up the story about the check being cashed didn't change anything or make anything worse. If Roma thought that Williamson's comment about cashing the check was true, why does he think that remark is what made him lose the deal? The fact that the check would be cashed (if true) is not what would have killed the deal. And if the cashing of the check was NOT true (which we know it was not since Williamson made that up), again, why would that remark make Roma so upset? That isn't the reason the deal died, Lingk already wanted out anyways. I just don't see how Williamson's comment (whether true or not) was the nail in the coffin.
Williamson made two idiotic errors: he let's the buyer know that that the random guy there is a cop for no reason, making him lose even more faith in the sale. and obviously secondly, like Roma said...he thinks he knows what the shot is, and tries to "help" Roma, but actually knows fuck all. good scene. he might not have been the actual burglar but he might had well have been, given how much he costs everyone with his stupidity
it would've been nice if the machine took this to heart before he implicates himself like a total jackass 5 min later
Really though, it's unlikely Williamson made any difference. Even if he hadn't said anything, Link seemed pretty determined to cancel the sale. I don't think Roma could have changed his mind.
You are a poop head Williamson.
Fuck the machine
@@TheStapleGunKid the point was to make him hold off for 3 days until the cancellation window expired. If he had thought the contract hadn't gone out by then, he'd probably sit idle long enough for the sale to be effected
@@SaturnineXTS I doubt Roma could have stalled him for 3 full days though. Link seemed very determined to cancel the sale.
any Fisherking fans?
"...Hey, forgive me!
hey...forgi-i-i-ve me.
whoa...whoah... ... ... HEY! ForGIVE me!
I have this."
The cop watching them is probably thinking, "I have stress in my job but I don't envy these guys."
Wonder how the scene would've played out if Joe Pesci had played Roma and either Ray Liotta or Daniel Stern played Williamson.
Kevin spacey was perfect ...so was AL Pacino ..
Yes, that's a good point. Daniel Stern would have screamed at Williamson the same way he blew up at Beth his Wife in Diner when he played Schrevie played by Ellen Barkin for misfiling his Records.
I imagine Pesci would have done just as good with this monologue. Ray Liotta and Stern as well. They're all good actors.
You talk to Ray Liotta like that, and he'll beat you with a revolver.
@@ayokay123 I have a feeling Pesci would have just come off as a gangster, not a salesman. Pesci's verbal tirades are terrific, but he sounds blatantly gangster-esque every time he does them. Pacino can do both: sound like a gangster in one role but then come off as a legitimate salesman in another. Pacino was able to tear Spacey a new one without sounding like a gangster here, just a pissed off salesman.
Who would allow themselves to be spoken to like that?
Somebody who fucked up big time and knows it.
Realistically though, it's unlikely Roma could have salvaged the sale anyway. I doubt he could have stalled Link for three full days.
No I believe he could have.
@@TheStapleGunKid We'll never know thanks to Williamson.
Really miss Kevin Spacey. What was done to his career is unforgivable.
Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut
Not a day goes by I don’t want to recite this rant to one of my alleged coworkers who, like Williamson, is “hired to help us ... not to fuck us up.”
the way Jonathan Pryce asks for forgiveness is just acting at it's best...
"You ferry" love it!
I don't think he meant a boat. Fairy*
@@writerconsideredLoL😂
What I say to my tv when the sport bet doesn’t cover!!! 🤣
2:11 - Pacino knew...
Roma….always be closing.
After Lingk walked out they should have just held on the back of Roma's head, and had Williamson in shot too perhaps. He and the audience would have been on tenterhooks, waiting for the explosion.
Mitch & Murray
He messed with his discount
Anyone else find it odd how this movie is all about salesmen, yet no one in the entire movie manages to close a sale?
It's the whole point of the movie. They're drowning desperate men clawing over each other in a vain effort to survive.
Still you'd think a move about salesmen would have at least one incident where someone sells something.
@@scottystcloud7086 The leads are weak? Fucking leads are weak? THEY'RE weak.
Technically a sale WAS complete. A transaction was organised, agreed and done regarding stealing the leads then selling them to a competitor. It was achieved ;)
@@scottystcloud7086 Wrong!
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He cashed the check , give him his car!
Best scene in the movie, why did williamson supposedly lie about the check though?
He may have lied about it in order to get the guilty person who stole the leads to slip up (which is exactly what the Levine character did minutes later).
I think he just assumed the customer was worried that his check and the contract were stolen, so Williamson thought he'd put his mind at ease.
@@gordons-alive4940 this, but he also had to keep his story straight because he was supposed to cash the check but stayed home with his kids instead. he lied to roma about cashing the check earlier to cover his ass and he couldnt change that now
Ricky is a company man who wouldn't fuck his employers over. Williamson fucked up and he knows it. Incredible film.
Yes but he didn't really give a shit.
1:15 - Roma's eyes are a bit like those of a lizard watching a fly get away...