Glengarry Glenross

[poliphilo]

It's a little disorientating to hear Jack Lemmon say "fuck" and "cocksucker".  Where did he pick up that kind of language?  Did he really know what he was saying?

It's like that movie where Jimmy Stewart says "semen" and (correct me if I'm wrong) "pantyhose". Anatomy of a Murder- that's the one.

And Lemmon and Al Pacino performing one of Mamet's feisty, little, lyrical duets together- that's wrong, surely? Lemmon does films with grouchy old Walter Matthau; he doesn't do films with Pacino. There's some timeslip going on. We've phased  into a  parallel universe. I'm going to wake up soon.

I like Jack Lemmon. He made a huge career out of playing obnoxious, over-anxious, sweaty little men. In real life we'd cross the street to avoid his characters. But up on the screen...

We love him; we feel his pain.

Shelly- the Machine- Levene: don't you just love it?

Comments

[intotheraw.livejournal.com]

I assume you are referring to the movie (the AMERICAN movie) based on the play?

They rewrote the script, and even added a charactor, Baldwin's charactor isn't in the original play. I don't think swearing was in the original, but you know how it is with American audiences, everything has to be dummied down, over dramatized, and swearing gets a point across when good acting could as well. But if the audience is too daft to know good acting when they see it, Hollywood rewrites the good stuff. (I don't see many films anymore, being stuck here in Americaland.)

It has been years since I have seen the film, but the play, oh I love the play. I love the final scene when the charactor (I can't remember his name) realizes he's lost and walks out without saying a word. His silence says more than words, even swear words can say.

I hate American cinema, surely you have better things to watch on your side of the pond?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I mean the movie. I don't know the play at all.

I'm not particularly fond of American mainstream cinema either. On the whole I prefer my movies with subtitles. :)

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

I love that movie. I've seen it a bunch of times, but now you've made me want to go and watch it again.

Always be closing!!

M

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But these leads are shit.....

[mkhobson.livejournal.com]

Blake: The fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: Fuck you. That's my name.
[Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.

OK, I'll stop now. ;-) God I love that movie.

M

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to work out what they were talking about. Leads? What the hell's a lead?