Boiler Room (2000) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Claude Almansi edited Metadata: Geo subtitles for Ben Affleck's speech in Boiler Room: Claude Almansi edited Metadata: Geo subtitles for Ben Affleck's speech in Boiler Room: Claude Almansi edited Metadata: Geo subtitles for Ben Affleck's speech in Boiler Room. Ben Affleck's speech to the new recruits is very similar to a speech given by Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). Affleck took over Baldwin's The Hunt for Red October (1990) role in The Sum of All Fears (2002), appeared with Baldwin in Pearl Harbor (2001), and played Baldwin on an episode of Saturday Night Live.

A lot of times it seems like the world of the stock broker is best left to those that don’t have a heart to speak of and find it amusing to take advantage of people that have very little to invest and milking them for all that they have. When looking at how things are run in the real world the movies don’t look too far off the mark however. Giovanni Ribisi though plays a man that initially gets into the job for the promise of big money and a chance to show his family that he can be somebody. When he starts getting into the darker side of the practice he begins to take note of the damage that’s being done and just how cutthroat the business really is. Real or not the art of taking people’s money and squandering it on poor investments to get rich is not as off the mark as it might seem.

The only difference is that in the real world the people with big hearts tend to get squashed quicker and more often before causing this kind of damage.

Ben Affleck’s ‘Boiler Room’ Speech Ben Affleck’s ‘Boiler Room’ Speech An awesome speech by the head of an investment bank / broking firm in the movie “Boiler Room”. One of the best I’ve ever heard. Boiler Room is a 2000 American crime drama film written and directed by Ben Younger and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin, and Jamie Kennedy. The film was conceived when screenwriter Ben Younger interviewed for a job at brokerage firm Sterling Foster.

10. A few of the actors have starred in other films together.Â

Giovanni Ribisi has starred with Scott Caan in Gone In Sixty Second and with Vin Diesel in Saving Private Ryan.

9. There’s an alternate ending to the film.

The investor that Ribisi’s character ruined by making bad investments comes to the company armed and ready to cause mayhem. The director decided to go with the FBI raid scene instead so as to leave the movie on a more positive note.

8. The plot is loosely inspired by Jordan Belfort.

If you don’t remember, Jordan Belfort was the primary inspiration for The Wolf of Wall Street, and has been a standard for a few different films since.

7. Giovanni Ribis plays a college dropout in this film.

The director is a college graduate from the same school that Ribisi’s character dropped out of, Queens College.

6. Ben Affleck’s speech is somewhat familiar.

Boiler Room Ben Affleck Speech

It was inspired by a speech given by Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. Anyone that’s watched the film would know how it was designed to mirror that speech in a couple of ways.

5. The building that houses J.T. Marlin is very real.

It housed the Continental Dealer Broker Corp.

4. There’s a mention of Vin Diesel’s production company.Â

When another character tells Diesel’s character to get his “one race” hands off of his money the reference is made.

3. Ratner’s, the restaurant used in the film, is also in another film.

The Boiler Room Ben Affleck Speech

This restaurant was also used for a stake-out scene in the French Connection.

2. In the scene outside Greg’s house they couldn’t move the car.

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They couldn’t move the car because they didn’t have the keys. Ben Affleck had been sitting in the car earlier listening to music, before the scene was shot, and had accidentally taken the keys with him when he left.

1. The chips in Ribis’s casino were made by American Standard Molding.Â

This is the same company that makes a lot of sets for home games and casinos.

Ben Affleck Sales Speech

The world of stock brokers is not for the faint of heart.

Boiler Room Scene

Almost Famous (2000)
Screenwriter(s): Cameron Crowe

Advice About Being a True Rock Journalist - Be Honest and Unmerciful

Legendary writer and editor of Creem Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) congratulated his 15 year-old idol, aspiring rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit), on his 'damn good' writing, although he felt rock 'n' roll was in its 'death rattle...last gasp' in the early 1970s. After speaking briefly on the street, they continued talking in a small cafe. Bangs tried to discourage the idealistic and eagerly ambitious young William, but then gave him an 'assignment' to write about a Black Sabbath concert, urging him not to get too cozy with the bands he's writing about:

Boiler Room Script

You know, because once you go to L.A., you're gonna have friends like crazy. But they're gonna be fake friends. You know, they're gonna try to corrupt you. You got an honest face, and they're gonna tell you everything. But you cannot make friends with the rock stars...If you're gonna be a true journalist -- you know, a rock journalist -- first, you never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. Jesus. F--king nothing about you that is controversial, man. God, it's gonna get ugly, man. They're gonna buy you drinks. You're gonna meet girls, they're gonna try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs. I know it sounds great, but these people are not your friends. You know, these are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of rock stars. And they will ruin rock 'n' roll, and strangle everything we love about it, right? You know, because they're trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb. Now, you're smart enough to know that. And the day it ceases to be dumb is the day that it ceases to be real, right? And then it just becomes an industry of cool.

I'm-I'm telling ya, you're comin' along at a very dangerous time for rock 'n' roll. I mean, the war is over. They won. And 99% of what passes for rock 'n' roll these days, silence is more compelling. That's why I think you should just turn around and go back, you know, and be a lawyer or somethin'. But I can tell from your face that you won't. I can give you 35 bucks. Give me a thousand words on Black Sabbath...Hey, you have to make your reputation on being honest and, uh, you know, unmerciful...If you get into a jam, you can call me. I stay up late.

The Boiler Room Ben Affleck Speech

Then, later in the film, Lester spoke on the phone to William, dismayed that he seemed to have sold himself out, and reiterating that he should be 'honest and unmerciful':

Ben Affleck Boiler Room Speech Transcript

Oh, man, you made friends with ‘em. See, friendship is the booze they feed ya 'cause they want ya to get drunk on feeling like you belong....Because they make you feel cool, and hey, I met you. You are not cool....Because we are uncool. You know, while women will always be a problem for guys like us. Most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. Good-looking people - they got no spine, their art never lasts. And they get the girls, but we’re smarter....'cause great art is about guilt and longing, and, you know, love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love, and hey, let’s face it, you've got a big head start... I’m always home, I’m uncool....You're doin' great. The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. My advice to you, I know you think these guys are your friends, if you wanna be a true friend to ‘em, be honest and unmerciful.





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