Glengarry Glen Ross

SCENE ONE:

A booth at a Chinese restaurant, Williamson and Levene are

seated at the booth.

LEVENE:

John...John...John. Okay. John.

John. Look:

(pause)

The Glengarry Highland's leads,

you're sending Roma out. Fine.

He's a good man. We know what he

is. He's fine. All I'm saying,

you look at the board, he's

throwing...wait, wait, wait, he's

throwing them away, he's throwing

the leads away. All that I'm

saying, that you're wasting leads.

I don't want to tell you your job.

All that I'm saying, things get

set, I know they do, you get a

certain mindset... A guy gets a

reputation. We know how this...all

I'm saying, put a closer on the job.

There's more than one man for the...

Put a...wait a second, put a proven

man out...and you watch, now wait a

second--and you watch your dollar

volumes...You start closing them

for fifty 'stead of twenty-

five...you put a closer on the...

WILLIAMSON:

Shelly, you blew the last...

LEVENE:

No. John. No. Let's wait, let's

back up here, I did...will you

please? Wait a second. Please. I

didn't "blow" them. No. I didn't

"blow" them. No. One kicked out,

one I closed...

WILLIAMSON:

...you didn't close...

LEVENE:

...I, if you'd listen to me.

Please. I closed the cocksucker.

His ex, John, his ex, I didn't know

he was married...he, the judge

invalidated the...

2.

WILLIAMSON:

Shelly...

LEVENE:

...and what is that, John? What?

Bad luck. That's all it is. I

pray in your life you will never

find it runs in streaks. That's

what it does, that's all it's doing.

Streaks. I pray it misses you.

That's all I want to say.

WILLIAMSON:

(pause)

What about the other two?

LEVENE:

What two?

WILLIAMSON:

Four. You had four leads. One

kicked out, one the judge, you say...

LEVENE:

...you want to see the court

records? John? Eh? You want to

go down...

WILLIAMSON:

...no...

LEVENE:

...do you want to go downtown...?

WILLIAMSON:

...no...

LEVENE:

...then...

WILLIAMSON:

...I only...

LEVENE:

...then what is this "you say"

sh*t, what is that?

(pause)

What is that...?

WILLIAMSON:

All that I'm saying...

3.

LEVENE:

What is this "you say"? A deal

kicks out...I got to eat. Sh*t,

Williamson, sh*t. You...Moss...

Roma...look at the sheets...look at

the sheets. Nineteen eighty,

eighty-one...eighty-two...six

months of eighty-two...who's there?

Who's up there?

WILLIAMSON:

Roma.

LEVENE:

Under him?

WILLIAMSON:

Moss.

LEVENE:

Bullshit. John. Bullshit. April,

September 1981. It's me. It isn't

f***ing Moss. Due respect, he's an

order taker, John. He talks, he

talks a good game, look at the

board, and it's me, John, it's me...

WILLIAMSON:

Not lately it isn't.

LEVENE:

Lately kiss my ass lately. That

isn't how you build an org...talk,

talk to Murray. Talk to Mitch.

When we were on Peterson, who paid

for his f***ing car? You talk to

him. The Seville...? He came in,

"You bought that for me Shelly."

Out of what? Cold calling. Nothing.

Sixty-five, when we were there,

with Glen Ross Farms? You call 'em

downtown. What was that? Luck?

That was "luck"? Bullshit, John.

You're burning my ass, I can't get

a f***ing lead...you think that was

luck. My stats for those years?

Bullshit...over that period of

time...? Bullshit. It wasn't luck.

It was skill. You want to throw

that away, John...? You want to

throw that away?

WILLIAMSON:

It isn't me...

4.

LEVENE:

...it isn't you...? Who is it?

Who is this I'm talking to? I need

the leads...

WILLIAMSON:

...after the thirtieth...

LEVENE:

Bullshit the thirtieth, I don't get

on the board the thirtieth, they're

going to can my ass. I need the

leads. I need them now. Or I'm

gone, and you're going to miss me,

John, I swear to you.

WILLIAMSON:

Murray...

LEVENE:

...you talk to Murray...

WILLIAMSON:

I have. And my job is to marshal

those leads...

LEVENE:

Marshal the leads...marshal the

leads? What the f***, what bus did

you get off of, we're here to

f***ing sell. F*** marshaling the

leads. What the f*** talk is that?

What the f*** talk is that? Where

did you learn that? In school?

(pause)

That's "talk," my friend, that's

"talk." Our job is to sell. I'm

the man to sell. I'm getting

garbage.

(pause)

You're giving it to me, and what

I'm saying is it's f***ed.

WILLIAMSON:

You're saying that I'm f***ed.

LEVENE:

Yes.

(pause)

I am. I'm sorry to antagonize you.

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