Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross Scene

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Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross Scene refers to a monologue delivered by Alec Baldwin in the film Glengarry Glen Ross which became widely recognized as one of the best monologues of all time. Online, the scene's fame has led it to be parodied in many notable videos.

Origin

Glengarry Glen Ross was released on October 2nd, 1992.^[1] It is an adaptation by David Mamet of his Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning 1984 play of the same name. The film is about a real estate firm filled with many struggling salesmen. Early in the film, Baldwin's character, Blake, is sent to the firm by the owners of Premiere Properties to motivate the sales team. He then unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse on the salesmen, questioning their manhood, and threatening them with termination. The scene was not included in the original play.

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Baldwin's monologue has been widely regarded as one of the most memorable in cinematic history. Newsweek wrote of Baldwin's performance, "Baldwin is sleekly sinister in the role of Blake, a troubleshooter called in to shake up the salesmen. He shakes them up, all right, but this character (not in the original play) also shakes up the movie's toned balance with his sheer noise and scatological fury." It has been listed as one of the best monologues in film by filmsite.org.^[2]

The scene was widely parodied after its debut. In 2005, Baldwin parodied the scene on Saturday Night Live as he berated Santa's elves (shown below).

On March 17th, 2009, radio station WBEZ uploaded a parody of the scene prior to a pledge drive for the radio station (shown below, left).

YouTuber LiamKyleSullivan uploaded a parody of the scene in 2012 with a YouTube-themed topic, gaining over 104,000 views (shown below, left). Baldwin would later joke about the scene in Boss Baby (shown below, right).. The Atlantic compiled a list of notable parodies on October 2nd, 2012.^[3]

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