The resulting portrait serves as a two-way mirror of hard-scrabble American survival, simultaneously humorous and heartbreaking, and so honestly revealing that no performance (with the possible exception of Jack Lemmon’s in Glengarry Glen Ross) could ever hope to match its level of richly nuanced humanity.
“I don’t want to seem negative,” he says in one of the film’s many dreary motel rooms, but Paul is negative, and meager sales reflect his attitude.
The first game was released on PC on Jin Japan and was adapted into six adult anime episodes by the Japanese animation studio Milky Studio (part of MS Pictures) a year later. The film focuses on the anguished plight of Paul “the Badger” Brennan, an aging Boston-Irish veteran of the salesman circuit, weary of his job and unable to hide his exhaustion from customers and colleagues alike. Bible Black (, Baiburuburakku) is a Japanese hentai series comprising two eroge computer games (visual novels) and three episodic anime series. As compelling as any fictional drama, the film follows four salesmen (nicknamed the Badger, the Gipper, the Rabbit, and the Bull, based on their particular on-the-job attributes) from Boston to Florida as they struggle to sell lavishly illustrated Bibles to reluctant, blue-collar customers as desperate to keep their money as the salesmen are to take it. It catapulted Albert and David Maysles to international fame (later intensified with Gimme Shelter), and it remains the most powerful document of working-class America in the post-Kennedy era. Pennebaker, and (in this case) the Maysles brothers and their longtime collaborator Charlotte Zwerin. Standard Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono Subtitles: English audio commentary theatrical trailer interview filmographies.Īrguably the best American documentary of the 1960s, Salesman was the pivotal film of the “direct cinema” movement championed by such influential filmmakers as Richard Leacock, D.A.
Fascinating documentary that follows four door-to-door Bible sellers on their rounds through large cities, small towns, and at a “sales convention,” detailing each man’s hard-sell campaign on his clients directed by Albert and David Maysles.