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. Ken Baumann

      That’s how to talk.

  2. Ken Baumann

      That’s how to talk.

  3. Matthew Simmons

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

  4. Matthew Simmons

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

  5. Jonny Ross

      mamet + pacino = guttural verbal majesty

  6. Jonny Ross

      mamet + pacino = guttural verbal majesty

  7. 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. 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. reynard

      glengarry glenn beck

  10. reynard

      glengarry glenn beck