In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, we find a powerful social commentary that offers a bleak outlook on the wage laborer, the proletariat, as Marx defined them in his Communist Manifesto. In the scene where Alec Baldwin’s character, the business motivator, lectures the salesman of a branch of his company, Mitch and Murray; his subsidiary salesmen are not helping their company, and Baldwin’s character beautifully and caustically reminds the salesmen why he is successful and they are not.
Even upon Baldwin’s first appearance in the scene, the lowly salesmen already distance themselves from him. When he says, “Lets talk about something important,” Baldwin’s character strategically urges the salesmen to make a drastic change in their business ideology; he makes it known to the failing salesmen that his approach works where theirs have failed. At the same time it doesn’t matter what follows after Baldwin’s character deems his…
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