November 4th, 2009 / 1:56 pm
 Craft Notes

Glengarry Revisited

A week or two ago I posted about Liam Rector’s use of the Alec Baldwin speech from Glengarry Glen Ross. Here is a later scene in the same movie, a monologue by Al Pacino, which in that context seems to open up the holding in another kind of way–not to subvert it, but to gather out:

Here is a list of people who have disappeared.

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10 Comments

  1. November 4th, 2009 / 6:27 pm Ken Baumann—

      That’s how to talk.

  2. November 4th, 2009 / 2:27 pm Ken Baumann—

      That’s how to talk.

  3. November 4th, 2009 / 10:09 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ditched on Howland Island so they could be together.

  4. November 4th, 2009 / 6:09 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ditched on Howland Island so they could be together.

  5. November 5th, 2009 / 3:08 am Jonny Ross—

      mamet + pacino = guttural verbal majesty

  6. November 4th, 2009 / 11:08 pm Jonny Ross—

      mamet + pacino = guttural verbal majesty

  7. November 5th, 2009 / 11:21 pm Waverly Sands—

      I just looked at that disappeared list a couple of weeks ago researching Ambrose Bierce. A hell of a lot of people disappear in Australia, it seems.

  8. November 5th, 2009 / 7:21 pm Waverly Sands—

      I just looked at that disappeared list a couple of weeks ago researching Ambrose Bierce. A hell of a lot of people disappear in Australia, it seems.

  9. November 6th, 2009 / 1:32 am reynard—

      glengarry glenn beck

  10. November 5th, 2009 / 9:32 pm reynard—

      glengarry glenn beck