Glengarry Glen Ross The movie from the 80s with the title that doesn't make sense that many people had told me was good, but I was skeptical. That's how I've always thought of it. I decided last week to look into it a bit. A near 8 rating at IMDB and an all star cast of Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon and Jude Ciccolella, President Palmer's chief of staff from 24.
The plot seemed a bit underwhelming to me as well. A bunch of real estate agents who sell vacation land complain about the bad leads they are getting.
So, after looking into it a little, Glengarry Glen Ross became the movie from the 80s with the title that doesn't make sense that many people had told me was good which has an incredible cast but a somewhat boring sounding plot.
Then I watched it a few nights ago, and it turned into a movie from 1992 with an excellent cast which humanizes salesmen and almost, almost elicits sympathy for them.
And now for the obligatory Simpsons reference. I would bet cold hard cash that Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, is the basis for the Gil Gunderson character. Oh, yeah, he is actually. I didn't know that until I just googled Gil Gunderson for a link to stick in here. And here I thought I was letting some big secret out of the bag. Whatta dope.
1 comment:
THanks for the movie suggestion, i'm always up for finding a gem of a film.
can't wait to watch it and see what I think...."Humanize Salespeople"...interesting....and for the record, i feel sorry for sales people on a regular basis, you couldn't pay me to do what they do!
~hl~
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