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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
You arnt a salesperson until you watch this
This is a drama from an award winning play which was then made into a movie. Think about how much pressure the actors were under to go beyond the 5 star reviews and precedents already set by the play. Somehow and someway they had to find a way to go beyond excellence and make a movie out of this thing. That they did, and it is so well done that you will find yourself in shock.
Now one may think, well you can edit a movie and re shoot all these scenes and splice sentences together to achieve perfection. And to a degree this is done, but NEVER did this movie leave its roots behind as a play. most scenes are shot all at once without stops or gaps (read up on the movie)... and perhaps if one were to compile the most brilliant moments of movie history you would find the speech that Alex Baldwin made in this movie which is like 10 minutes long as Alex Baldwin takes the stage and tears everybody else into shreds (I think thats why Pachino was gone from that scene because Pachino's character would have tried to take the stage from alex baldwin-- think about it.) I am a salesperson a lot of my friends are salespeople and entrepreneurs. In my social network if you cant hold your own in a face to face then you don't eat. time and time again I've watched this movie with my co-workers during lunch and not only does it tend to pump us up, but we quote this movie all day long to each other.
"Put..the coffee down! Coffee is for closers only."
Samehada otoko to momojiri onna (1998)
A Stunningly Visual and Refreshing Movie
Plot: Most people are complaining about the Plot of the movie and with legitimate cause. The plot if anything is very linear and doesn't have those twists and turns that movie lovers enjoy. But in any case it still remains a solid storyline that isn't lacking in some huge manner that will leave you thinking the director was retarded. But perhaps the artistic genius that stands out in this movie is HOW the story is told.
As far as cinematography each shot is perfectly balanced with a vivid splash of colours that gives off an end product which is a crisp clean feel to the whole movie.
The brilliance of this movie is the extreme stereotypes of the actors as they (yakuza, knife expert, rock star, punk, rich upper class just to name a few) interact with each other. The pure enjoyment of this movie lays in watching all these total social failures/misfits do what they do best which is rob , kill and destroy. You will be laughing all through the movie as these characters do anything but what you expect from them.