I used to work a job where our boss(who everybody hated) gave us all a lousy speech that had a lot of similarities to this one(in a pathetic kind of way). For months afterward me and my coworkers would regularly say to each other "put that coffee down!" and would never fail to get a hearty chuckle.
I'm glad Alec Baldwin started this scene off half cocked and then BANG! A scene nobody expected. Really played Russian roulette with his co-workers. A master at his work. You could say he's a real gun slinger.
David Mamet wrote this scene with Baldwin in mind. It took some time before Baldwin would commit but "man" this scene is Baldwin~~outstanding, to say the least.
One of my managers at a electronics/appliance store I worked at actually showed this entire clip to start off one of our Saturday morning sales meetings! His midget Central American assistant manager was standing behind him with his arms crossed like he was an enforcer
3:47 - I really like how he sounds so upbeat and excited during this portion of his speech; it really shows how the character is like a coach speaking to the team in the locker room in the minutes leading up to the game, trying to motivate the players. This is what seperates the Blake character from Williamson: Williamson is a little man on a power trip while Blake knows that he's gotta kick some asses to get things going.
@@johntallanger4036 Kind? Lol the point is that the conditions these men work in are downright abusive. It’s what drove them to resort to theft, manipulation, undermining and an overall culture of lies. Two men end up going to jail over the desperate circumstances created by their employer - who sent them their favorite golden boy to threaten them, not to motivate them. They didn’t have a single solitary syllable of positive reinforcement, but were only made to feel worthless despite working day and night to try and make sales for their company. If you think Baldwin’s character is someone to aspire to, or that his methods are meant to be motivating, then you missed the entire message of the film.
Blake's just a talking head hired by a cheap, mismanaged company who doesn't want to pay for proper leads or sales training. The guy has a prop set of brass testicles in his briefcase and the only thing he knows about selling is AIDA. It's why he constantly claims to drive an expensive car and focuses on his watch. A good salesman would've talked about how he closed a difficult sale or how he approached the leads given. This guy is just flash and alphabet soup. He's supposed to be selling success to these guys but it's obvious he hasn't sold shit.
@@sergey_is_sergey, I don't doubt the character's claims of being successful, whatsoever. I agree with you, as regards his employer. But this guy being fake, no. He's simply an example of what's trying to be portrayed as a morally bankrupt business paradigm.
A Surly Barber, We see it a few times. One of utter contempt for this pos, which Blake might have easily called him out on, but didn't. Perhaps, the thinking was, Blake absolutely knows what Levene thinks of him, but since he can't do anything about it, let him just continue to have that rage bottled up, with no release.
It's easy to sell if the product you're selling is a wanted thing. If it's booming and a hot product, then you really don't have to do or say much because the product sells itself. You just have to tell the percs of having it, instead of hounding the client with desperation or even lies to get it sold. It's all about the product. And being treated like this by someone like alec Baldwin wouldn't be necessary. Pep talks and meetings to get you more motivated are good but not being verbally abused like this.
He never said to hound them he said to close it and yes they're nice to their customers but don't pretend they're all nicey nice to those that work beneath them lol
That's why he's treating them like this. Because it's not easy and you have to work for it! You have to want it. If it was easy to sell, then he wouldn't be here
Ultimately ed harris's character is worth 50 of baldwins. I am thankful everyday that I lucked out and work in an industry that requires teamwork and tangible intelligence and none of the toxic rat race bullshit. Incredible work from all the actors here that it actually evoked these emotions in me
*100%* (paraphrasing) Ed Harris: "If you're so great why are you wasting time with us, a bunch of bums?" Alec Baldwin: "my watch is expensive and I made a lot of money last year" "cool, but that didn't answer my question."
@@MWPintheD Baldwin's character would probably still want to push him further, along the lines of "you think you're so good, it's still nothing". i don't believe Roma would get a tap on the back if he were there
Used to have a manager who talked like that but he would grab his own tie and flap it with every inflection in his voice. When he left for the day we ended up doing the same to each other. Great laughs
It is clearly for emphasis. And only a crazy person believes "all harsh personalities are associated to religion" in movies. There are many favors from the harsh (one of the officers of A Good Few Men, who mentions the KJV Bible as his guide is a much better example) to the corny to the fanatical but not Blake-like vulgar to the normal. Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for any other group, from gays to atheists to doctors to cops.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 "all" harsh personalities aren't associated with religion, however the majority of religious characters, at least Christian ones, aren't portrayed favorably in mainstream movies and this observation is correct. then again, i don't think Glengarry Glen Ross falls into this stereotype, just because someone says Christ this or Christ that doesn't mean the character is religious it's pretty clear that Baldwin's character's only god is money
@@vibovitold Exactly. Mentioning Christ in such a context is either profanity (which Flengarry Glen Ross doesn't have a lack of) or for exageration purposes. You know, I think I understand where your perspective and worries (if I can call them that) come from, but I sincerily think religious personalities in movies and the like (when they appear at all -- and most people in the West at least are not that religious to begin with) run the whole gamut from the soft to the innefective to the kind to the strong (Hank Hill in King of the Hill is a sympathetic example with some blind spots and flaws) to the hypocritical (Lt. Kendrik in A Few Good Men is my favorite example) to the harsh. And the harsh or hypocritical religious personality has at least as much basis in reality (just look around) as any other religious stereotype, including the most positive ones. Also, one only has to visit TV Tropes to see that, say, atheists (not to mention Muslims) also are frequently reduced to stereotypes in media. Media trades in simplification and stereotypes, I fear. Also, I can not avoid noticing even a liberal show like The West Wing made its main character, the president, a caring Christian even if liberal (while also creating a sensible atheist in Republican candidate Vinnick). And we have watched, by now, particularly in the wake of the 2008 crisis, many movies with harsh and/or immoral characters which have nothing to do with religion at all (as you noticed, their only god seems to be money or, I would say, them themselves). As for Mr. Balding's character's only god being money, it is probably a fair evaluation (though, who knows if maybe he just likes to keep business apart from private life -- as he said, good father? He doesn't care. Sell the real estate or hit the road), but let us remember that, in a not so distant past, many big WASP-managed/owned companies were linked through the top brass membership in and attendance to Christian denominations (usually, "respectable", traditional, "American") ones. It didn't seem to have done much to damp their enthusiasm for money or make tham softer.
"You drove a Hyundai to get here. I drove an $80,000 red BMW that's parked right outside. THAT'S my name!" Imagine what the back of his jersey would look like if he played basketball.
Why did Mr. Conductor feel too dangerous as a dangerous bad guy bad guy egg instead of a good egg like Humpty Alexander Dumpty within Melody Magic In Toyland?
One of my fave SNL skits(and I've watched the show off and on for close to four decades) was when Baldwin did a call-back to this scene playing Santa Claus' head elf, sent to chew the asses off all the elves in the toy factory. *"PUT that cocoa DOWN!! Cocoa's for cobblers!!"* He got so into it that at one point he briefly slipped into doing the actual dialogue from "Glengarry Glen Ross," though ever the professional, he caught himself-- there was a fleetingly brief pause where you could tell from the look on his face he was thinking "Wait...did I just....??" and then carried on like nothing happened. Shortly thereafter he almost made Seth Meyers crack up.
I liked that too! The slip tilted his hand into revealing that he too, is a FAN of this scene. He probably quotes it while he's in the shower to psyche himself up just like a lot of other people.
This is what I imagine Baldwin’s brain speaking out loud to him like in that South Park episode. You legit just wouldn’t know what to expect or be impressed.. or flat out just say some outta pocket shit lmaoo
In a way, Alec is a salesman trying to sell the others on the idea that the leads are solid and the fault is squarely on them. But at the end of the movie Kevin basically affirms to Jack that at least some of the leads are weak. They just like. Talking. To salesmen.
You would think he would say the bad news is you’re fired the good news is you have a week to retain your jobs but I felt he altered the wording on purpose credit to Mamet.
I haven't watched the movie beginning to end in a really long time, but I think that was sort of the point of the scene and the one that followed. He blew off the meeting because he was closing a sale.
Of Baldwin read the manual on how revolvers work as well as he studied this script a lot of suffering would of been avoided. Haha, he's against guns, maybe it was his way of showing why they're so dangerous.
We really don't know if the Blake is a realsalesperson. He can be just an actor or motivational speaker Mitch & Murray hired to motivate/intimidate the employees.
If man hasn't had a significant amount of financial success by Jack Lemon's age in this movie, Just Go become a f****** Walmart greeter, drive a bus or something like that definitely don't be in sales.
Billyin4C, Even though the clear implication is that Levene's best days were long past, we can't know with certainty, that the desperate straits in which he found himself, in that moment, weren't significantly driven by what he may have had to spend on the medical care for his daughter, possibly over a period of time. I'm not suggesting that he might have been pretty comfortable (though I'm not sure Levene wouldn't have felt the lure of remaining in that business, regardless), only that being up against the wall wasn't necessarily a direct reflection of his not having a decent sort of means to support himself with, save for that extenuating circumstance.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I think that you may be exactly right. His financial desperation is probably the result of paying for his daughter's care. I guess my idea of having a great amount of success is that you were intelligent enough to secure your money when you do make it. However, what you've just said is the most likely scenario. I kind of think that the character is just supposed to be a common man, and this kind of situation is not uncommon for people. Sometimes we don't live up to our potential, and the result being that we end up struggling later in life for our shortcomings at an earlier period of time.
A lot of salesmen end up broke. It's a high-pace job, and they think the money is just going to keep flowing in. But as you get older, it gets harder to keep up the pace, and then there's a downturn, and suddenly you're scrambling after elusive commissions. Or as is happening all over the USA today to car salesmen, there's a shortage of product and no matter how good you are, you can't sell what you don't have.
We had a Director who got pissed at me because I was smirking at his attempt to recreate this moment in a meeting years ago. He pulls off his watch and puts it in front of me saying "I paid $25,000 for this watch". I pulled off mine, put it next to his, and said "I paid $30 bucks for mine and it tells the same exact time that yours does".
Notice at 2:29 Ed Harris "upstages" Baldwin. This scene is Baldwin's. It was written for the film, it's not in the stage play. Spacey, Lemmon and Arkin all let Baldwin dominate the scene as it was written that way. But Harris had to do that finger wave, which was a way of upstaging Baldwin. Baldwin in interviews never mentioned Harris by name, but did say "all the other actors let me have the scene, except one". Clearly he meant Harris. Who, BTW, I've been told by some who have met or dealt with him, is a first class jerk.
@@ImYourHuckleberry_29 Perhaps. But the point was this was to be Baldwin's scene and it was a little upstaging by Harris. I'm not a fan of Harris anyway, his reputation is not good. A bit full of himself.
TWS1956, I've never interpreted it as Moss even trying to show up Blake. Blake got up in his face and Moss couldn't (or wasn't able to) counter the rap being laid down. The only response Moss can come up with, is one of concession and defeat, in that hand gesture. He was confronted and had nothing else to offer as a comeback, IMO.
Crazy thing is, guys actually thought baldwins speech is an all timer for salesman, reality is any company that had a guy like him was a shit show awful place to work
I used to work a job where our boss(who everybody hated) gave us all a lousy speech that had a lot of similarities to this one(in a pathetic kind of way). For months afterward me and my coworkers would regularly say to each other "put that coffee down!" and would never fail to get a hearty chuckle.
Hahahha
Did he call you guys f@ggots ?
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I wrote JacknLemmon and he sent me an autographed picture. Total class.
GOAT
Alec Baldwin playing the role that defines who he really is.
Anyone who’s been in sales has experienced lecturers like this. Baldwin plays this part perfectly.
Baldwin is a shattered soul, as many other actors.
And the other day he accidentally shot an assistant at the set.😔
Great actor.
@@philipfm I NEVER in 30 years heard cussing at a sales meeting.
Not once.
Alec is always the man,
@@christervainio I bet u would trade places with him in a second ,
What a legendary cast. Heavy hitters all of them.
@Michael Jordan fans are the worst NBA fans then are you that Universe Galaxy guy who hates Jordan fans?
A: Always
B: Be
C: Checking that you haven't got live rounds loaded into a gun that you are going to be pointing at someone
W comment
oh....sheeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!! i feel guilty for laughing at that one....
Ohhhh! Burn!
Obviously the guy has hit bad times now, but this must have been the highlight of his career, delivering this speech to 3 acting legends
Bad times lmfao he shot and killed a woman and it was all his fault, screw him
The only things he hit were those 2 people with a gun.
@Nero Whatever can Alan Arkin kill, Alec can do it twice as better.
@Nero the millionaire, that's known all over the world he's doing all right
You are so wrong, Baldwin is a fucking legend.
The way he delivers "B" stands for "Be" without even blinking shows that this is a man who can sell anything with confidence. Even shitty acronyms.
Baldwins' character could sell mosquito repellant to a Eskimo.
One of the great scenes in cinematic history
not really
@@R4lee444 my life is so much better now since i know where you stand......loser....
I'm glad Alec Baldwin started this scene off half cocked and then BANG! A scene nobody expected. Really played Russian roulette with his co-workers. A master at his work. You could say he's a real gun slinger.
I guess you could say he knew what the shot was.
He gave it his best shot.
If I worked in Hollywood, I couldn’t work on this film. I’d be too awestruck by this powerhouse cast. FANTASTIC!!
You might also be awestruck by the possibility of getting mortally wounded on set.
I always felt that Baldwin wasn’t really acting. This is just how he would talk to his wife and kids on any random night at dinner. LOL
Certified freaking nutcase!
Yeah, typical Long Island personality.
@@AgathaLOutahere …..you’re right. LOL
@elilis1638ROTFL😂
I love how it's pissing rain all throughout. What a great film.
Originally written as a PLAY 😉
@@jamesrivera4947 the Baldwin scene/character is not in the play though
2:17 "I've been in this business for fifteen years." "What's your name?" "Fuck you, that's my name!!!!!"
My favorite line
Oh, good to meet you Fuck You, nice to have you part of the team. Can I show you around?
I wouldn’t mind seeing a remake of this one just so we can see how unbelievable the original talent was.
Love this movie. Bring couple great actors and put them in the room together. No big budget or special effects. Just pure talent.
David Mamet wrote this scene with Baldwin in mind. It took some time before Baldwin would commit but "man" this scene is Baldwin~~outstanding, to say the least.
Only could be done by a murderer
Imagine if Joe Pesci was in this scene and Alec Baldwin told him to shine his shoes, this movie would have ended here.
Joe Pesci would have made sure he ended up in the boot of that Cadillac Eldorado! 😄
You don't think he would have shot Pesci first ?
I can go out there tonight, the materials you got and get 15000 shines! Can you? If not, go get your shine box.
you know whats in this shinebox...the shah of iran leads, these are gold too you, but you dont get them.
Anybody want to see the second price? The second price is a shinebox.
One of the greatest 5 mins of all time.
From a nerd in Beetlejuice to the most confident dude ever in this
Really great film 🎥 👍 ...superb acting ...you got Jack Lemon 🍋 to be in this ..."well played"
Lemon doesn't have to scream to be strong. Screaming is thin....
The part where Baldwin sneaks up behind Arkin and is whispering and Arkins expression is the funniest thing in the film.
One of my managers at a electronics/appliance store I worked at actually showed this entire clip to start off one of our Saturday morning sales meetings! His midget Central American assistant manager was standing behind him with his arms crossed like he was an enforcer
I was trying to buy a car, it shocked me how often I'd walk on a lot and no one would introduce themselves.
I prefer that.. I always know more than the sales people anyway.
3:47 - I really like how he sounds so upbeat and excited during this portion of his speech; it really shows how the character is like a coach speaking to the team in the locker room in the minutes leading up to the game, trying to motivate the players. This is what seperates the Blake character from Williamson: Williamson is a little man on a power trip while Blake knows that he's gotta kick some asses to get things going.
Agreed. A higher level individual/coach can do the same thing and be kind. Hard to do though.
@@johntallanger4036 Kind? Lol the point is that the conditions these men work in are downright abusive. It’s what drove them to resort to theft, manipulation, undermining and an overall culture of lies. Two men end up going to jail over the desperate circumstances created by their employer - who sent them their favorite golden boy to threaten them, not to motivate them. They didn’t have a single solitary syllable of positive reinforcement, but were only made to feel worthless despite working day and night to try and make sales for their company. If you think Baldwin’s character is someone to aspire to, or that his methods are meant to be motivating, then you missed the entire message of the film.
Blake's just a talking head hired by a cheap, mismanaged company who doesn't want to pay for proper leads or sales training. The guy has a prop set of brass testicles in his briefcase and the only thing he knows about selling is AIDA. It's why he constantly claims to drive an expensive car and focuses on his watch. A good salesman would've talked about how he closed a difficult sale or how he approached the leads given. This guy is just flash and alphabet soup. He's supposed to be selling success to these guys but it's obvious he hasn't sold shit.
@@sergey_is_sergey, I don't doubt the character's claims of being successful, whatsoever. I agree with you, as regards his employer. But this guy being fake, no. He's simply an example of what's trying to be portrayed as a morally bankrupt business paradigm.
3:53 Jack Lemmon's expression is fucking priceless.
A Surly Barber, We see it a few times. One of utter contempt for this pos, which Blake might have easily called him out on, but didn't. Perhaps, the thinking was, Blake absolutely knows what Levene thinks of him, but since he can't do anything about it, let him just continue to have that rage bottled up, with no release.
He looked pissed
Always be closing and check that the gun isn't loaded with real bullets.
Baldwin was totally on target in this scene
hahaha I see what you did there.
It's easy to sell if the product you're selling is a wanted thing. If it's booming and a hot product, then you really don't have to do or say much because the product sells itself. You just have to tell the percs of having it, instead of hounding the client with desperation or even lies to get it sold. It's all about the product. And being treated like this by someone like alec Baldwin wouldn't be necessary. Pep talks and meetings to get you more motivated are good but not being verbally abused like this.
Sounds like you are experienced. Indeed, the easiest sales job is Caterpillar tractors; the manufacturer has done all the work for you.
He never said to hound them he said to close it and yes they're nice to their customers but don't pretend they're all nicey nice to those that work beneath them lol
I remember the amount of pressure I had to sell warranties and accessories when I worked at Best Buy for barely anything above minimum wage.
That's why he's treating them like this. Because it's not easy and you have to work for it! You have to want it. If it was easy to sell, then he wouldn't be here
i saw this scene as a kid and it stuck with me, i thought the whole movie was going to be like this
When men spoke as men
Ultimately ed harris's character is worth 50 of baldwins. I am thankful everyday that I lucked out and work in an industry that requires teamwork and tangible intelligence and none of the toxic rat race bullshit. Incredible work from all the actors here that it actually evoked these emotions in me
Competition side isn’t what’s toxic, it’s the cheating people and lying for a living. That’s ugly.
*100%*
(paraphrasing) Ed Harris: "If you're so great why are you wasting time with us, a bunch of bums?"
Alec Baldwin: "my watch is expensive and I made a lot of money last year"
"cool, but that didn't answer my question."
If Arnold was casted, put the coffee and the COOKIE down!
The most intense 5 minutes in movie history. No special effects. Just pure acting at the highest level. Dope.
Wrong! "You can't HANDLE the Truth!"
Jack Nicholson runs circles around this jerk
I just started SaaS sales. I love it. It's so hard and I love it.
I once told a guy fuck you is my name... he fired me!
Imagine driving a Hyundai in 1992? They were under $9k new and complete shitboxes at the time. They rusted out in a year or two and were disposable.
yeah, they were all the rage for some reason.
@@WintersWar because they were cheap.
Wish Roma had been there.
When they show the sales board - he's the top guy by far.
@@MWPintheD Baldwin's character would probably still want to push him further, along the lines of "you think you're so good, it's still nothing".
i don't believe Roma would get a tap on the back if he were there
the difference between the play and the movie is amazing
the stage play is a black comedy
the movie is a depressing drama
thewkovacs, Certainly, it's very depressing, but there are some pretty humorous moments mixed in, as well, like Moss talking about the rice bowl.
Used to have a manager who talked like that but he would grab his own tie and flap it with every inflection in his voice.
When he left for the day we ended up doing the same to each other. Great laughs
Interesting touch when he asks if they've made their decision for Christ, the lights from the passing elevated train briefly forms a halo on his head.
That line made no sense, unless it was just the typical Hollywood "let's associate all harsh personalities with religion"
It is clearly for emphasis. And only a crazy person believes "all harsh personalities are associated to religion" in movies. There are many favors from the harsh (one of the officers of A Good Few Men, who mentions the KJV Bible as his guide is a much better example) to the corny to the fanatical but not Blake-like vulgar to the normal. Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for any other group, from gays to atheists to doctors to cops.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 "all" harsh personalities aren't associated with religion, however the majority of religious characters, at least Christian ones, aren't portrayed favorably in mainstream movies and this observation is correct.
then again, i don't think Glengarry Glen Ross falls into this stereotype, just because someone says Christ this or Christ that doesn't mean the character is religious
it's pretty clear that Baldwin's character's only god is money
@@vibovitold Exactly. Mentioning Christ in such a context is either profanity (which Flengarry Glen Ross doesn't have a lack of) or for exageration purposes.
You know, I think I understand where your perspective and worries (if I can call them that) come from, but I sincerily think religious personalities in movies and the like (when they appear at all -- and most people in the West at least are not that religious to begin with) run the whole gamut from the soft to the innefective to the kind to the strong (Hank Hill in King of the Hill is a sympathetic example with some blind spots and flaws) to the hypocritical (Lt. Kendrik in A Few Good Men is my favorite example) to the harsh. And the harsh or hypocritical religious personality has at least as much basis in reality (just look around) as any other religious stereotype, including the most positive ones. Also, one only has to visit TV Tropes to see that, say, atheists (not to mention Muslims) also are frequently reduced to stereotypes in media. Media trades in simplification and stereotypes, I fear. Also, I can not avoid noticing even a liberal show like The West Wing made its main character, the president, a caring Christian even if liberal (while also creating a sensible atheist in Republican candidate Vinnick). And we have watched, by now, particularly in the wake of the 2008 crisis, many movies with harsh and/or immoral characters which have nothing to do with religion at all (as you noticed, their only god seems to be money or, I would say, them themselves).
As for Mr. Balding's character's only god being money, it is probably a fair evaluation (though, who knows if maybe he just likes to keep business apart from private life -- as he said, good father? He doesn't care. Sell the real estate or hit the road), but let us remember that, in a not so distant past, many big WASP-managed/owned companies were linked through the top brass membership in and attendance to Christian denominations (usually, "respectable", traditional, "American") ones. It didn't seem to have done much to damp their enthusiasm for money or make tham softer.
Good thing for Jack Lemmon that you need brass balls to sell real estate, not a gun.
Lol
Crazy, but I kept thinking about a gun everytime he picked something up!
This scene was added just for Baldwin. It's not in the play, originally.
"You drove a Hyundai to get here. I drove an $80,000 red BMW that's parked right outside. THAT'S my name!" Imagine what the back of his jersey would look like if he played basketball.
great comment haha
Explain to someone who never watches basketball please.
@@Camcolito Sports teams such as basketball often put their last names on the backs of their uniforms.
@@billstrohler Thanks :) - You would need to add 'Fuck you' somewhere there too.
🤣🤣🤣
I almost died when he pulled out the brass balls! 😂
Why did Mr. Conductor feel too dangerous as a dangerous bad guy bad guy egg instead of a good egg like Humpty Alexander Dumpty within Melody Magic In Toyland?
A True Classic😎😎😎
One of my fave SNL skits(and I've watched the show off and on for close to four decades) was when Baldwin did a call-back to this scene playing Santa Claus' head elf, sent to chew the asses off all the elves in the toy factory.
*"PUT that cocoa DOWN!! Cocoa's for cobblers!!"*
He got so into it that at one point he briefly slipped into doing the actual dialogue from "Glengarry Glen Ross," though ever the professional, he caught himself-- there was a fleetingly brief pause where you could tell from the look on his face he was thinking "Wait...did I just....??" and then carried on like nothing happened. Shortly thereafter he almost made Seth Meyers crack up.
I liked that too! The slip tilted his hand into revealing that he too, is a FAN of this scene. He probably quotes it while he's in the shower to psyche himself up just like a lot of other people.
Someone needs to do a prank call with something like Starbucks with this.
You know what? I just heard Alec Baldwins character speaking. And i now understand why SNL had him playing Donald Trump.
"Are you man enough to take it"....that line alone would tell a new viewer of this film that Lemmon would be in on the theft.
Imagine having this conversation with a GenZ or Millennials. They will all call out next day mental health day …
aka zoomers
"Second prize is a set of steak knives." If that isn't insulting...
5:25 I started laughing hard when he brought those out. 😂😂😂
Lol, can't imaging how they managed to shoot that scene while the rest of the cast where sitting there all in splits! 😆
Shit. It just dawn on me. I'm a fucking Steak knife.
This is what I imagine Baldwin’s brain speaking out loud to him like in that South Park episode. You legit just wouldn’t know what to expect or be impressed.. or flat out just say some outta pocket shit lmaoo
Kudos to Blake for buying brass balls just as a prop to berate people with
30secondsflat, Uh, Moss?
If they were to make an another version of this, this mr "f*** you" should be played by Christian Bale.
A business consultant from the old days
Great movie, but totally depressing.
Best line 2:53 had me thinking 🤔
Mitch and Murray should never have sent this guy to motivate those people at that movie set.
I would tell this guy that I'm going to bring in my own f****** coffee pot, because coffee is dirt stinking cheap.
As iconic of 6 minutes as 6 minutes gets
In a way, Alec is a salesman trying to sell the others on the idea that the leads are solid and the fault is squarely on them. But at the end of the movie Kevin basically affirms to Jack that at least some of the leads are weak. They just like. Talking. To salesmen.
I never understood why people post part of a scene.
AIDA explained better than at my university 😂😂😂
Guns don’t kill people , Alec Baldwin does
Yo!😭😂🤣
What happens to the sales rep who comes in 4th place?
He got shot.
You would think he would say the bad news is you’re fired the good news is you have a week to retain your jobs but I felt he altered the wording on purpose credit to Mamet.
why did you cut the end of it off??
Classic idiot which can't even rip a clip, or was just too lazy to made another one.
damn, now I feel like selling some $hit!
Never give this man a gun.
yeah too late lol. you read the news right?
Guy walks around with a pair of brass balls in his suitcase.
The most aggressive pep talk ever
I love their zero fu#@s given attitudes as he's going through his tirade.
Learn a trade or skill. Avoid sales.
I always wonder what would have happened if AL Pachino was not outside and sitting in this session
I haven't watched the movie beginning to end in a really long time, but I think that was sort of the point of the scene and the one that followed. He blew off the meeting because he was closing a sale.
The ironic thing is that Pacino is missing the meeting because he is actually selling a piece of land to Gordon Pryce.
it actually makes sense. he's busy earning, so what's the point of lecturing him how he should be busy earning.
Of Baldwin read the manual on how revolvers work as well as he studied this script a lot of suffering would of been avoided. Haha, he's against guns, maybe it was his way of showing why they're so dangerous.
You don’t belong here.
We really don't know if the Blake is a realsalesperson. He can be just an actor or motivational speaker Mitch & Murray hired to motivate/intimidate the employees.
If man hasn't had a significant amount of financial success by Jack Lemon's age in this movie, Just Go become a f****** Walmart greeter, drive a bus or something like that definitely don't be in sales.
I'm thinking the character had some kind of habit, the horses or something.
@@WintersWar Probably, some shitty habit robbing him of his drive.
Billyin4C, Even though the clear implication is that Levene's best days were long past, we can't know with certainty, that the desperate straits in which he found himself, in that moment, weren't significantly driven by what he may have had to spend on the medical care for his daughter, possibly over a period of time. I'm not suggesting that he might have been pretty comfortable (though I'm not sure Levene wouldn't have felt the lure of remaining in that business, regardless), only that being up against the wall wasn't necessarily a direct reflection of his not having a decent sort of means to support himself with, save for that extenuating circumstance.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I think that you may be exactly right. His financial desperation is probably the result of paying for his daughter's care. I guess my idea of having a great amount of success is that you were intelligent enough to secure your money when you do make it. However, what you've just said is the most likely scenario. I kind of think that the character is just supposed to be a common man, and this kind of situation is not uncommon for people. Sometimes we don't live up to our potential, and the result being that we end up struggling later in life for our shortcomings at an earlier period of time.
A lot of salesmen end up broke. It's a high-pace job, and they think the money is just going to keep flowing in. But as you get older, it gets harder to keep up the pace, and then there's a downturn, and suddenly you're scrambling after elusive commissions. Or as is happening all over the USA today to car salesmen, there's a shortage of product and no matter how good you are, you can't sell what you don't have.
If someone told me to put my coffee down, it'd probably be their last words.
Back when Alec Baldwin had a semblance of cool.
wow, steak knives. lol
Life is not about money.
go home and play with your kids!
true or false? both.
@@takerdust I don't have no kids, that is why I don't need money 🤪
We had a Director who got pissed at me because I was smirking at his attempt to recreate this moment in a meeting years ago. He pulls off his watch and puts it in front of me saying "I paid $25,000 for this watch". I pulled off mine, put it next to his, and said "I paid $30 bucks for mine and it tells the same exact time that yours does".
And then everyone clapped
@@Ghidorah96 and jumped on the tables crying "captain my captain", i've been there
Did Alec Ever Grab His Watch? Or did He just Leave It On Ed Desk?
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They are lucky Baldwin didnt have a gun.
"Nice Guy" I don't give a shit. "Good father" Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids! -Classic
This scene is a Rorschach test
Notice at 2:29 Ed Harris "upstages" Baldwin. This scene is Baldwin's. It was written for the film, it's not in the stage play. Spacey, Lemmon and Arkin all let Baldwin dominate the scene as it was written that way. But Harris had to do that finger wave, which was a way of upstaging Baldwin. Baldwin in interviews never mentioned Harris by name, but did say "all the other actors let me have the scene, except one". Clearly he meant Harris. Who, BTW, I've been told by some who have met or dealt with him, is a first class jerk.
I always liked that gesture. Added variety. Not all of them can be expected to take that abuse and say nothing.
@@ImYourHuckleberry_29 Perhaps. But the point was this was to be Baldwin's scene and it was a little upstaging by Harris. I'm not a fan of Harris anyway, his reputation is not good. A bit full of himself.
TWS1956, I've never interpreted it as Moss even trying to show up Blake. Blake got up in his face and Moss couldn't (or wasn't able to) counter the rap being laid down. The only response Moss can come up with, is one of concession and defeat, in that hand gesture. He was confronted and had nothing else to offer as a comeback, IMO.
@@mitchellmelkin4078I agree
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Another great scene is left off the screen. He never meets Pacino's Roma character who is the star salesman of the bunch.
Crazy thing is, guys actually thought baldwins speech is an all timer for salesman, reality is any company that had a guy like him was a shit show awful place to work
Coffee is for closers only...........KISS MY AZZ!!!!!!!!
It seems like he fired on purpose here.
He had no idea he would fuck up so bad later on in his career.
Too Soon, with Alec Baldwin.
Weird how much Alec Baldwin comes across like Donald Trump in this bit
Good thing there were no loaded guns on that set