Is that not a good enough justification for me posting this clip? Well how about this: it's after 5, I've run out of caffeine, I haven't had lunch, I'm tired and I haven't showered yet today. This is my gift to myself, and I don't have to justify shit to you. I might even post the Glengarry Glen Ross speech tomorrow just because I goddamn well feel like it.
Need motivation to pump this shitty market into year-end? Here's some inspiration for you:
Posted by Bess Levin, Dec 19, 2007, 5:20pm
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Posted by yo yo ma , Dec 19, 2007 5:32PM
is it just me or does Timmayy look like Ben Affleck in this clip?
Posted by Random Banker , Dec 19, 2007 5:35PM
Ha, I used this as my pump music before my interviews in college... its quite possibly the greatest peace of cinema in the history of film. This and the Gekko speech in the limo, you know "... rich enough not to waste time, rich enough to have your own your own plane. A player, or nothing."
Posted by Random Banker , Dec 19, 2007 5:39PM
Oh, no that's the wrong scene... You need the one where he throws his keys down the table and says "if you want vacation go teach third grade at public school". .. that's the good shit.
Posted by , Dec 19, 2007 5:39PM
quoting lines from Wall Street...how cliche...and gay.
Posted by Anon , Dec 19, 2007 5:41PM
Easily Ben's best work. Hands down.
Posted by Random Banker , Dec 19, 2007 5:46PM
Look ass clown, i wasn't quoting from it. I was watching it in my apartment before my interviews. Like the way you cranked up metallica or Eninem or whatever...danced around to the bsb (that's backstreet boys, to the uninitiated). Everybody has their gay little rituals, bite me.
Posted by Anal_yst , Dec 19, 2007 5:55PM
Anyone who claims not to have seen Wall Street, etc 10+ times is completely full of it. Oh you're so cool, so high & mighty to decry the movie for its romanticizing of the "glory days" of the Street. Every single person who with a finance degree has found inspiration (criminal or otherwise) in that movie since it came out.
I know personally i was motivated to find a trophy wife who will decorate my already gaudy apartment with disgusting crap more at home in a junkyard or ghetto than an art gallery. I mean if that isn't success than what is?
Posted by , Dec 19, 2007 5:57PM
who'd watch a broker to get pumped up?
are you admitting you are in sales?
Posted by copyranter , Dec 19, 2007 6:09PM
Give 'em Hell, BL.
Posted by Gekko , Dec 19, 2007 6:17PM
Your name is "you're wanting", and you can't play the man's game, you can't close them, then tell your wife your troubles. 'Cause only one thing counts in this world: get them to sign on the line which is dotted. You hear me you f*ckin' fa**ots?
Posted by , Dec 19, 2007 6:18PM
Scum talking to more scum.
Posted by oh noes! , Dec 19, 2007 6:19PM
As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired!
Posted by hug o. chavz , Dec 19, 2007 6:19PM
I think we could use some video from the sallie mae call. After bumbling through the call and half/not answersing questions, I would love to have seen the IR person's face when good ol' Al said let's get the f- out of here. Talk about incentive to get a new job...
Posted by D , Dec 19, 2007 6:43PM
good clip from 25th hour:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=irYInw9B9BQ&feature=related
Posted by Random Banker , Dec 19, 2007 6:51PM
"The ladies ever tell you, you look like an optical allusion?" GOLD
Posted by , Dec 19, 2007 7:52PM
I love that clip from the 25th hour. Excellent movie, so well written!
Posted by Andy Tabbo , Dec 19, 2007 11:09PM
Ben Affleck is a tool. I can't believe they even did that scene, an obvious knockoff. Please post the original Alec Baldwin for your masses. Let them see something great.
To quote Team America, "I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school."
Posted by great clip, I watch it often , Dec 20, 2007 12:40AM
"Goddamn it, you fucking guys."
That's my favorite part. I make it part of my daily conversation.
"What's he gonna say? No? Fuck you? I don't want to see those returns? Stop laughing it isn't funny."
Oh but it is. It most certainly is.
Posted by clean ferak , Dec 20, 2007 7:40AM
But Bess, NO SHOWER???
ewwwww
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 7:57AM
@6:19 obviously you dont know steve mcgarry, cut from the same cloth as al lord.
Posted by anon , Dec 20, 2007 8:19AM
interesting article about bess--naughty naughty
http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~astudent/2004-2005/issue12/news/03.html
Posted by Old News Guy , Dec 20, 2007 8:49AM
Old news @ 8:19.....old news....
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 9:27AM
FYI not everyone had a bad year remember. we just had an amazing year ourselves. A bunch of us are off to st. barth's to celebrate !!!! hard work really does pay off kids. cutting corners / ripping off customers ur bound to get burned.
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 10:25AM
More BS. I don't know anyone with a ticket to St. Barth's that has either the time or the interest to be on DB at 9:27 AM
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 10:28AM
9:27 is going to visit his parents who live on St. Barth Street in Edison, NJ
Posted by Andy Tabbo , Dec 20, 2007 12:13PM
Just watched the Baldwin speech in Glengarry for the hundreth time. It really highlights the point that Ben Affleck is a terrible actor. Affleck is so bad, I would almost think it's a spoof of Glengarry Glen Ross, something to laugh along with.
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 4:00PM
actually a lot of people are going to be in st. barth's. pink eli throwing a party at la plage, and nikki beach is right next door - anyone without nye plans should come down !
A-B-C !
Posted by , Dec 20, 2007 4:12PM
How come no ones talking about Boiler Room. Certainly not as inspiring, but I think a better picture overall. And a better Affleck.