Books : Glengarry Glen Ross
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9782869430150
ISBN: 2869430159
Label: Actes Sud
Manufacturer: Actes Sud
Number Of Pages: 62
Publication Date: January 07, 1993
Publisher: Actes Sud
Sales Rank: 6838570
Studio: Actes Sud
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First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.
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Like Pinter, Mamet is the master not of just the words but the spaces between them; shapes the silence that holds the words together; and reveals the true (subconscious) forces that grip his characters and drive them right over the cliff of their own greed. He is a direct descendant of Pinter and Beckett. A legend.
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There are only a few truly perfect things on this earth. A Chicago dog is one of them. There is nothing quite like it. This play is another little piece of perfection. Loved the movie, oh yes, but the play is just as good, which is a rare thing indeed. Often the movie version is superior to the original and vice versa. Here there is perfection on both sides. A glorious script is brought to the screen intact. No doubt much credit belongs to the director and cast, but I suspect that Mamet had something to do with it, too. It's hard not to love this sweet taste of poison. Levine is a character to adore and despise and then back into when he isn't looking. Wouldn't you just love to sleep with him, stab him and then leave him for dead? The writing is superb. Mamet's got the one-act tragedy down cold. Will he ever write a full-length play?
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The film version of Mamet's play with Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino is incredible and having recently attended a production of this play in the West End of London I was intrigued by the slight differences between the screenplay and the original. That's what prompted me to purchase the play and read it.
Mamet's language is powerful and the cadences that he writes for his characters really drive the action and reveal truths about their characters in subtle yet absolute ways.
This particlar version has some great introductory material about Mamet's life and work as well as some critical analysis of the play that I found very enlightening. For me this was well worth the special order.
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Glengarry Glen Ross, a real estate sales firm run by contentious and pugnacious animals, connives innocent folks into buying land at above market value. In David Manet's shocking "Glengarry Glen Ross", the ugly and cutthroat side of sales comes alive in three cantankerous salesman that do whatever it takes to keep their head above the cutoff line, the sales quota, and a younger sales manager precariously holding his position of authority over them. Parts of Glengarry come alive in brilliant voices that uncannily mimic true sales forces. Most of the play, however, divulges into long-winded rants that fail to thrust the plot forward. Manet's use of profanity is excessive and is a weak attempt to create a realistic sales environment. Yes, people swear and lie and bicker, but Manet's dependence on these moors, instead of a rich plot and multi-faceted characters, is unsuccessful and tiresome.
Another play I've read (and reviewed) on sales that packs much more a punch is Miller's "The Death of a Salesman".
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The Alec Baldwin scene that's in the movie version is not here in the play. As I understand it, the terrific Baldwin
scene was written later and made part of the screenplay especially for Alec.
All I can say is: GET THE MOVIE.
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