What are the best negotiation scenes from movies? Everyone goes for “My offer is this…nothing” from II, but I’ll take this one:
That, my friends, is how you use the bully pulpit.
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What are the best negotiation scenes from movies? Everyone goes for “My offer is this…nothing” from II, but I’ll take this one:
That, my friends, is how you use the bully pulpit.
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Higgs Boson's Mate
5th Element: Negotiation.
Wag
I don’t know about movie negotions scenes, but you’ve hit the nail in the head with the greatest all time musical negotiation ever with this post title.
“Well usually around 2:30 in the morning you’ve ended up taking advantage of yourself.”
JGabriel
O-Ren-Ishi (Kill Bill)
dmsilev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8AgUXPpLM
“There ain’t no sanity clause” is sadly prophetic.
Mojotron
“How much you got?”
edit: it’s a very one-sided negotiation.
Feudalism Now!
Higgs Boson’s Mate has the correct movie scene for this situation. “Anyone else want to negotiate?” although godfather II does have a more nuanced approach.
Keith G
Technically, by definition, that is not how one uses a bully pulpit.
Soul on Ice
Ya suspect!
Doug Milhous J
@Wag:
One of my all-time favorite albums.
Hawes
Johnny Casper and Leo in the opening of Miller’s Crossing. Or for that matter, later in the movie, when Bernie pleads for his life.
Negotiation or ultimatums?
WereBear
I feel Faye Dunaway wiz robbed because her Crawford impersonation was Too Good. So Iove this clip.
However, best “won that negotiation” scene has to be Hopper pissing off Walken enough to get killed before he cracks from True Romance.
wasabi gasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t33HXyN6WM
The Dangerman
I have Obama’s opening position for Boehner and McConnell this afternoon:
/pulp
fka AWS
Nobody’s gone with “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
grape_crush
Not a movie, but Walt’s final negotiation with Gretchen and Elliott was pretty kickass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9comvcU1VM
gogol's wife
@WereBear:
I was introduced to this Joan Crawford/Faye Dunaway clip the other day in one of DougJ’s threads, and I LUUURVE it! Somehow I’ve managed not to ever see this movie. I’ll have to rectify that.
Comrade Mary
I am a very bad person: I have never seen any of the complete Godfather movies. Guess it’s time to fix that.
Luthe
I know it’s from everyone’s least favorite Star Wars movie, but the quote is apt:
Time for Obama to go Mace Windu on these fuckers.
Botsplainer
Teabaggers are Khan and Obama is Kirk in TWOK. Khan has shot the shit out of the Enterprise and is smugly awaiting Genesis data, telling Kirk he has no choice but to trust Khan.
shelly
Addie Loggins: Imogene, what do you suppose Miss Trixie’d do if somebody offered her $25 to put out.
Imogene: Ooo Wee! You crazy? For that much money, that woman’d drop her pants down in the middle of the road!
Addie: If you help me get rid of Miss Trixie I’ll give you enough money to get back home.
Imogene: How much?
Addie: Thirty dollars
Imogene: (smiling) When do we start?
Anoniminous
But isn’t kinda fun to watch the GOP flail around as they realize they don’t own the patent on the No Negotiation, No Compromise tactic?
MattF
Faye Dunaway is just great. I saw Barfly in my drinking days, and let me tell you, it rang a bell– several bells, actually.
Comrade Mary
@gogol’s wife: I think this is Film 101 week for a lot of us.
Frankensteinbeck
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
I remembered that as a cheesy movie, but my memory fell utterly short of the truth.
Comrade Dread
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
That one’s definitely my favorite.
Joel
Pretty much anything involving the Bobs from Office Space.
KXB
Not a negotiation scene, but a scene that effectively shows what happens when the boss is upset at an underling not remembering his place:
The Untouchables – Dinner scene
But, the Tea Party seems to have adopted the Daffy Duck strategy.
http://youtu.be/LyPFQKpRnd0
Paul in KY
@Comrade Mary: I and II are classic movies. You should see them.
Shinobi (@shinobi42)
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Where did he learn to negotiate?
Best ever!
Joel
On a more serious note:
If you and I walk into Carl’s tomorrow and claimed the other killed Dwight Pederson, who do you think he’d believe? You? A forty year old, unemployed high school dropout who is proud when people call him the town drunk? Or me? I’ve got a job, Lou. I don’t get drunk and shout obscenities at my wife in public.
YellowJournalism
Dogma
Also, this one sums up the Republican attitude quite nicely, ironically via Alec Baldwin: God Complex
Keith P.
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: That’s the exact one that popped into my head. Awesome that it is the first one someone else mentioned.
Sly
“Maaaan, give her the fuckin’ overhead clause!”
Gravenstone
At work, so no youtube linkage, but I’ve always liked the scene from Branagh’s “Henry V” where he’s dictating his terms to the town of Harfleur
Rommie
I’m hoping Boner and Turtle get the full Wonka, but we’ll see.
drkrick
@Comrade Mary: The “negotiation” scene notwithstanding, it’s never a good time to fix not seeing Godfather III.
Doug Milhous J
@Joel:
Great movie. Billy Bob at his finest.
Suffern ACE
As time goes by, the negotations appear to be for a product that is less and less valuable.
Aaron Morrow
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”
“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?” (If the whole movie is about negotiation, then it counts.)
bobbo
She lost in the end.
Alex S.
@Luthe:
Wow, that’s suprisingly self-conscious for the prequels.
Sad_Dem
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: That’s the one I came to mention.
Dead Ernest
@Doug Milhous J: and @Wag
Chiming in with an atypical (for me);
Yes, me too! Because I like Waits & that album so very much, and delight in the rare occurrence of having a ‘tribe’ to join in with*.
*also in the much larger, albeit less satisfying ‘tribe,’ of folks who cheerfully end sentences with propositions.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Comrade Mary: Don’t bother with the third,
mai naem
This is easy. The scene in Mississippi Burning in the shack where the big intimidating black guy threatens to cut off the Klansman’s scrotum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1O0sGD40pM That’s the scene in Spanish
This one’s in English but you the scene starts a couple of minutes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVlmenGrLc
Origuy
@Gravenstone: You mean, this one?
YellowJournalism
@bobbo: Yeah, but she made “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” and “Mildred Pierce,” and Faye Dunaway played her in a movie, so she still wins in the end.
wasabi gasp
@drkrick: There are a couple of movies I will never watch and that’s one of them. What makes that one a little weird is that I already own it as part of the boxed set.
Va Highlander
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Dang! Beat me to it.
kindness
I nominate ‘The Godfather’: Make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Really what would you put in Lindsey Graham’s bed to make him completely freak out (and let us be adult and not say a woman).
WereBear
@gogol’s wife: Thing is, Crawford became famous for “women’s movies,” as they used to be known. Like Bette Davis, she starred in melodramas with women driven crazy by unrequited… you know, drives. They were hugely popular for decades (probably ended their reign in the fifties) and I love them to this day.
Mommie Dearest was actually a reboot of that kind of movie, with Faye Dunaway inhabiting Joan Crawford, who was driven crazy by poverty, sexual abuse, and ambition unbecoming her sex. The fact that it became a camp classic proves my thesis.
raven
I won second place in the Steak Raffle!!!!~!
The Brothers of Alpha Sigma Phi Beta Gamma Chapter would like to thank everyone who participated in our fund raiser and announce the winners of the Omaha Steak Raffle.
raven
@Hawes: “Look inside your haaartttttttt!”
Waldo
I like to imagine Harry Reid as King Leonidas from “300”.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
You know what they called “women’s pictures” in the Pre-Code era?
Dramas.
Which reminds me, I’m way behind and really gotta get my Love Me Tonight post up about Chevalier.
ETA: IOW, in the Pre-Code era, dramas about women’s issues weren’t ghettoized into “women’s pictures.” They were just dramas meant for everyone to see.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: Oh, of course. “Women” were a different species, per Code.
Will check out blog later!
Kass
A bit long, but fabulous, from “Michael Clayton”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxxbZnAZLwo
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
They show Three on a Match pretty often on TCM — I’ll keep an eye on the calendar and try to alert people. Ann Dvorak plays a nice, well-bred middle-class girl who becomes a thrill-seeing drug addict who leaves her kind, wealthy husband just ’cause. And she’s not presented as a villain.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: I remember that one!
Yes, without TCM, such pickings would be very slim.
I adore early Stanwyk pics for the same reasons. They are tough girls who, win or lose, play their hearts out.
Hal
@JGabriel:
Damn, beat me to it.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tit89ofCOt4
“Half”
Love Bernie Mac
piratedan
For me it was The Warriors where Swan and Fox chat up the boss of the Orphans and decide that “they’re not gonna hide who they are just because some whore shakes her ass”…..
Tone in DC
@The Dangerman:
Oh AYUH.
Simeon
I always loved this scene from Braveheart:
Villago Delenda Est
THIS is how you make ransom demands.
Snarla
I like this maneuvering from Robocop. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mv-eb6jR/robocop_dick_youre_fired/
Z
Right here, the end of Fletch Lives. May our negotiations end the same way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2Mvkf9dL8.
Sly
“Ten for that? You must be mad!”
Villago Delenda Est
The ultimate teabagger
FRANCH
@grape_crush: Congressman Boehner, if we’re gonna go that way, you’re gonna need a much bigger knife.
kdbart
Boss Jim Gettys meeting with Charles Foster Kane at Kane’s mistress’ apartment when he asks him to drop out of the Governor’s race.
Boss Jim Gettys: You’re the greatest fool I’ve ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I’d say what’s going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you’re going to need more than one lesson. And you’re going to get more than one lesson.
M.C. Simon Milligan
Why the cheap four-flushing swine, he’ll never get away with it I tell you…
grendelkhan
“How much you want?” “Uh, half.” […] “You think you can steal from us and just walk away?” “Yeah.”