On Writing - The Power of Weakness (Glengarry Glen Ross) 

Yeah, I am going to do a video about Rocky next as a reaction to a video from a youtube JustWrite who claimed that Rocky was structureless. I am going to prove that assumption wrong and show the differences in Dramatic structure to basic structure.

Strat-Edgy Productions that's great! I hope you keep up with the movie videos

agreeeeed!

i dont believe fear as a good motivator --->>>-GUSTAVO FRING

He wasn't trying to motivate them to sell, he was trying to motivate the weakest salesmen TO LEAVE. Regularly culling the weakest sales performers is a tried and true tactic of bottom-of-the-barrel sales "teams".

@@brianmaiden1185 and ironically they're left with roma, who was never even told about blake's visit, and aaronow, the weakest salesman there.

@@-..-_-..- good point but I still think Shelley Levine is easily the worst… at least aarnow is somewhat human and that is a big step to getting sales, he just needs to learn how to be a closer.

@@Limitless_Pokemon well yeah but at least levine has some drive, aaronow spends the entire movie moping around (justifiably ofc, they're in a dogshit situation) and being so gullible that he didnt realize he was being tricked into robbing the office until moss explicitly told him (even if he later backed out). then in the back half of the movie he spends the entire time acting so comically guilty and fucking weird that roma doesnt even know how to have a conversation with him. hell, one of the first things he does in the movie is get a client's name wrong. and the entire movie alan arkin has this brilliantly hapless, almost confused look on his face. he's not even very good in normal conversation, like when he's "just talking" with moss, he spends most of the time just repeating what moss says back to him without even changing the words. he's just kinda dumb?? at least levine is a bit more worldly and *used to be* a good salesman. of course, aaronow is a better person, haha, he definitely still has a soul whereas levine is this weird sales demon that can't switch off and is constantly trying to manipulate everyone around him

Absolutely! That look is the best "line" in this great film.

AlucardNoir thank you

Supposedly, the actors were all such fans of one another's performances that they'd come in to watch each other on their days off. Jack Lemmon even said it was the best ensemble he'd ever worked with, which is quite something coming from someone who'd made as many great movies as he had.

"Blue Skies" featuring the great Mr Wayne Shorter. FIFY :)

Levene says that he remembers trying to sell those people years earlier, but they're broke deadbeats.

Exactly. The company doesn't need the salesmen, and so they have no incentive to help them. Might as well let them scramble and scrap to see what happens. Maybe one will survive and make them money. They don't care. These guys are playing a losing game.

@@davidandersson7642 fuck

*this*, management isn't innocent here. williamson gives levine two leads, one of them he had already given levine before, and the other williamson already knew was crazy people with no money. when levine asks "why?" and williamson says "because i don't like you", it's not just about turning levine in. it's also about williamson setting levine up to fail from the beginning.

Blake says as much - he thinks the good leads would be wasted on anyone in the office not named Roma. If Mitch and Murray were interested in having a thriving office, they'd give the other salesmen the Glengarry leads and let Roma work his magic with the bad ones. But they're not, so they don't.

@Brian Maiden. That scene was hilarious. Also, when The Dude got bonked in the head when he said the he wasn't listening to the cop's question.

The sacred and the propane

I loved Williamson's indifference to the insults and emotional blustering.

Kevin Hicks It is, in fact, Glengarry Glen Ross. Great film

irametdolorem I've seen "death of a salesman" great play man!

Rockett800 thanks my friend!

This movie actually lead me to quit my sales job, so don't go into it thinking it will make you like your job more, it could do the exact opposite. My guess is you will like it if you are the Al Pachino/Alec Baldwin type (apex pred.). But, if you identify with any of the other characters, it may lead you down a different path.

I think The Sound of Music'.

I've heard of pets being referred to as such.

Zippy Leroux: Yeah, it’s a classic play for more intellectual types, who can peel back the complex layers of human experience. A real actor’s piece.

Lol

There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day Lewis.

how much you care about that is unbearable

@@charmicarmicat2981 No, Eric's right to be perplexed. This is a great video but you gotta put some respect on Alec Baldwin's name. And you DEFINITELY should call him by the right one.

VoiceOfTheEmperor He's like forty something and has a kid already if I remember correctly.

i think he has a son

Bwahahaha no he won't. His kids gonna ask a question but receive a well thought out and concise answer. Kids don't have the attention for this so it will be wasted. Have fun 😆

lol, I am not 40 something. Ouch, that shit hurt a little. My son is 18. I started early.

see im his favorite i never called him 40 something

Nerv ClaX she has three weaknesses actually. One is that she is desparate for parental figures like Han and Luke, And the other two is the lack of wisdom and patience. All three of which almost got her and others killed in the Last Jedi.

That’s just you choosing not to see that she _does_ have conflict. She spends the last two movies figuring out what she wants and who she is. She has to cope with her abandonment and the crushing reality that it happened for no good reason. She has all this raw strength and is being discouraged and punished for its use. She sees good in Kylo yet utterly fails to sway him. Everything she thought the Jedi were is shattered when she meets Luke. She loses a father figure and a personal hero when Han dies. Bro, Luke had less conflict than Rey did. Hell, Luke didn’t even shed a tear when his Aunt and Uncle burned alive.

sixstringpsycho Just a thought about Luke not shedding a tear for his Aunt & Uncle: I think when someone close to you dies suddenly and unexpectedly the initial response is a period of shock where it doesn't seem real, maybe so the 'survivor' can maintain composure and get to safety if the threat persists. If someone has been degrading slowly and eventually succumbs, the response is different, there's less shock because the outcome was already expected. The grieving process may have even started before the person has died. I thought Luke just standing and staring seemed realistic, he's looking at it but not really processing it.

Lol

or you could just listen to the video in the background which is only 14 minutes long (less at faster speeds) tho i agree with having the name of the movie/show he is talking about in the description. the point of the video tho is obvious from the title. How weakness affects writing.

The name of the film isn’t as important as an introduction. I never would have finished the video if I hadn’t seen other Strat-Edgy works and known going in that it would be worth my time to finish. Constructive criticism for the day: a title isn’t an introduction. I imagine most viewers had no idea where you were going with this and got bored with your noir narrative summarizing an old movie. Would suggest that you should have started your intro with some snarky criticism of one of the end of the world tropefests you refer to later in the video. Also, some humor would go a long way towards making your work more appealing to wider audiences. Still, you make a great point as always.

what a fucking joke

I know, right. MrBTongue is way sexier than I am.

Strat-Edgy Productions I guess technically you are comparable since you compared your sexiness to him. I dunno, I guess we can deem you "Budget Btongue". I just find myself referring to both of your guy's content as I'm writing a choose your own adventure video series.