Of course, no examination of business in film would be complete without a mention of David Mamet, perhaps the greatest dramatist of kill-or-be-killed conflict among men and women. Although it is not true violence, the conflict of the marketplace can nonetheless be reminiscent of the bloody violence of the political world as seen in Wag the Dog (1997, co-written by Mamet) and private crime as seen in Heist (2001, directed by Mamet). While the salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross might be happy to in fact kill each other, they must settle for putting each other out of business in the world of selling second-rate real estate. mises.org/daily/6647/Wall-Street-and-Main-Street-in-Fiction-and-Film
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