Glengarry Glen Ross

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Movie
German title Glengarry Glen Ross
Original title Glengarry Glen Ross
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director James Foley
script David Mamet
production Jerry Tokofsky
Stanley R. Zupnik
music James Newton Howard
camera Juan Ruiz Anchía
cut Howard E. Smith
occupation

Glengarry Glen Ross is an American drama film directed by James Foley from 1992 . The script by David Mamet is based on his own play (German: "Hanglage sea view"). The film, which brings together an ensemble of well-known character actors such as Al Pacino , Kevin Spacey , Jack Lemmon or Ed Harris , initially fell through with audiences and critics, but is now widely regarded as a masterpiece.

action

The film portrays two days at Mitch & Murray's real estate company "Premiere Properties". The real estate agent Richard "Ricky" Roma, Shelley Levene, Dave Moss and George Aaronow are real estate brokers of the "old school". They are cunning, tricky and washed up with all the tricks. But the final numbers of the four are too low for corporate management. So they hear from their boss, Williamson, that the company's management is launching a sales contest aimed at boosting business. The top manager Blake, who has come from the headquarters, insults the salespeople as a "failure" and brags about his income. He then explains the details: The person who closes the most deals in the next few days gets a car. The worst is fired. It is important to sell a piece of worthless land within the night to come. Blake waves a pile of names at the most promising leads , the leads , in front of the employees and tells them they won't see those names because they are only for winners. Old Levene, who says he used to be a celebrated employee, is bitter and complains to his colleagues. Roma takes even the smallest opportunity to graduate, and so he cheers another piece of land under a depressed bar-goer named Lingk after engaging him in a conversation about initially private topics.

Moss and Aaronow spend the night pondering a promising break-in in their own office that would bring them a good pile of money. Moss already has a sophisticated plan and is trying to get his colleague on board as an accomplice . The brokers find that they need the prospects' new addresses to close deals, as the old addresses are no longer worth anything. The list of the most promising prospects is in the office of manager John Williamson. Aaronow and Moss wonder if they could steal the list and sell it to the competition. Levene, on the other hand, tries that night to convince Williamson to give him two of the new addresses and offers him a profit share in return. Williamson refuses.

The next morning the office was broken into. The closets have been ransacked and the list of new addresses and phones have been stolen. The police interrogate every employee in the Williamson office in turn. Roma and Levene graduated that night and are confident they will not be fired.

Lingk appears in the office and tells Roma that he spoke to his wife. You forced him to cancel the purchase. With all tricks - legal, semi-legal and illegal - Roma are now trying to get Lingk off or to change his mind. Williamson arrives and breaks Ricky Roma 's business from the previous night, which leads to an argument between Williamson and Roma. Roma insults Williamson very badly and announces that he will speak to the executive floor to finish him off. Thereupon Levene also blames Williamson, unintentionally revealing that he was in Williamson's office. Williamson realizes that Levene's list has been stolen. This finally admits the theft and the sale to the competition and names Moss as the "head of the plan". Levene tries desperately to bribe Williamson. However, he speaks to the police officer who is present, which will not only result in Levene being released, but also in criminal proceedings. When the phones are reconnected, Roma and Aaronov start work again as if nothing had happened.

Reviews

As with the audience, the film initially met with little enthusiasm from critics. Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post on October 2, 1992 that the film would have numerous notable actors. However, they would act like a jazz orchestra, from which the musicians would step forward and play solo numbers one after the other. The "uninspired" atmosphere would ruin the performers' performance; the film seems artificial.

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was "compelling and worth seeing"; he was "a current illustration of the consequences of the Reagan ideology against the background of the ongoing recession in the USA". The performances of the actors were praised as "furious". The “dialogue, sentimentality and over-dramatization” were criticized like the “day before yesterday” production.

The tenor changed over the years. Michael Denks wrote in Zelluloid.de on November 12, 2008, “Anyone who expects an exciting industrial thriller about the machinations of the representative branch will be clearly disappointed [...]. Despite fewer locations or scene changes, a cleverly simple story about the jungle of the commission-dependent agent is shown [...]. The actors shine as a compact stage ensemble, their characters are complex and very differentiated. "

And Carsten Baumgardt wrote on Filmstarts.de that films like this were "once again a prime example of the imbalance that is not uncommon in the cinema. In the early 1990s, James Foley succeeded in creating a masterpiece of acting that was heavy on dialogue, but nobody was interested [.. The director created a true pearl of cinematic art in collaboration with the brilliant screenwriter David Mamet in 1992. Although the grandiose theater adaptation did not find an audience in the cinema, the few that did see some of the most gripping dialogues of the 90s cinemas. The superbly laid-out cast is in top form. "

Awards

Al Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1993.

Jack Lemmon won the 1992 Coppa Volpi for Best Actor and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor . Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Jonathan Pryce and Kevin Spacey received an award from the Valladolid International Film Festival in 1992 . James Foley was nominated for a 1992 Deauville Film Festival award. David Mamet was nominated for the 1992 Writers Guild of America Award .

background

The film was shot in New York City . The main actors were so enthusiastic about the subject that they even came to the film set even if they weren't even filming. They did it to watch the others take their positions. The film had its world premiere on September 16, 1992 at the Toronto Film Festival . The film grossed approximately $ 10.7 million in US cinemas . In Germany there were around 25,000 moviegoers.

additional

The film is mentioned in the feature film Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth . In the movie Boss Baby , Alec Baldwin plays the role of baby and converts the legendary saying “Coffee is for Closers” (coffee is only available for those who do business) into “Cookies are for Closers”.

Soundtrack

In addition to the film music by James Newton Howard, the following songs can be heard in the film:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Critique by Desson Howe
  2. ↑ Glengarry, Glen Ross. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 3, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Michael Denks: Glengarry Glen Ross. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009 ; accessed on September 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Filming locations for Glengarry Glen Ross
  5. ↑ Glengarry premiere dates for Glen Ross
  6. ^ Box office / business for Glengarry Glen Ross