Plot
A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel. But soon things turn around when the young executive kidnaps his boss and visits all the cruelties back on him.
Keywords: boss, assistant, movie-producer, torture, office, humiliation, hostage, abuse, revenge, script
Back Stabbing - Two Faced - Revenge
In Hollywood all his dreams could come true... But first he has to make coffee.
He's been humiliated, kicked and spat on... and it's only 10:00 am.
Life is not a movie
Dawn: How about lunch?::Guy: Well, I'm not allowed to take lunch, Buddy doesn't believe in it.
Buddy: If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.
Buddy: And now try to follow me, because I'm gonna be moving in a kind of circular motion, so if you pay attention, there will be a point!
Buddy: And when you're done with her, west lobby, tube dress, stiletto heels, hurry. Fetch!
Buddy: I told you, it's gotta be loud loud loud! The audience should feel their balls tremble, their ears should bleed!
Buddy: Loud and nasty, that's the only way it sticks, Dawn.
[On the phone]::Buddy: Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!
Buddy: No offense to you, but you are just an assistant. Now, granted, you're MY assistant, but still just an assistant. Dawn, on the other hand, is a producer. Her car phone bills are more than your rent. So, just how far do you think you'll get?
Buddy: You are nothing! If you were in my toilet I wouldn't bother flushing it. My bathmat means more to me than you!
Buddy: Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to an three month shoot?
name | Swimming With Sharks |
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image size | 200px |
alt | A man towering over another shouting, the words Swimming with Sharks filling the background |
director | George Huang |
writer | George Huang |
starring | Kevin Spacey Frank Whaley Michelle Forbes Benicio del Toro T.E. Russell |
cinematography | Steven Firestone |
distributor | Trimark Pictures |
released | 1994 |
runtime | 93 minutes |
country | United States |
language | English |
followed by | }} |
Swimming With Sharks (also known as The Boss and Buddy Factor) is a 1994 American comedy drama film, directed and written by George Huang.
Unfortunately, Buddy turns out to be the boss from hell; he treats Guy like a slave, subjects him to sadistic (and public) verbal abuse, and has him bending over backwards to do meaningless errands. Guy is humiliated and forced to bear the brunt of his insults. Guy's only solace is his girlfriend, Dawn, a producer at Buddy's firm. When Buddy apparently fires Guy in a phone call, Guy snaps and kidnaps Buddy in order to exact some revenge, which results in tying up Buddy and subjecting him to severe beatings, torture and mind games. It is later revealed that due to a botched call waiting function on Buddy's home phone, Guy hears Buddy and Dawn arranging a rendezvous at Buddy's house.
Once in Guy's power, Buddy reveals for the first time a human, vulnerable side, telling a tragic story about his wife's death and revealing that he too was once a bullied assistant to powerful, tyrannical men. He also reveals his reasons for treating Guy so badly; it turns out that right from the start of the story-before he'd even met Buddy-Guy had secretly felt like he shouldn't have to work for anything because he was too good for that and that he, in Buddy's words, "thought he deserved everything just because he wanted it." Buddy had picked up on this, however, and abusing Guy was Buddy's way of showing him that he can't just have anything he wants simply because he wants it-he has to earn it, first-and making sure that Guy did deserve to have the good life when he earned it by working hard. Guy also learns a few secrets about Dawn, and must confront what he really wants from life and to what lengths he'll go to get it. Dawn arrives at the scene to find Guy aiming a gun at Buddy's face, and Buddy tells Guy that he has to pull the trigger in order to get ahead in the business.
The climax of the film reveals that Guy killed Dawn (who is blamed for kidnapping and torturing Buddy), and was subsequently promoted. In the final scene, Guy, who seems to have come out from under Buddy's reign a much hardened human being, tells a former colleague to find out what he really wants and then do anything to get it; during this speech, Buddy stands by, smiling as he calls Guy into his office for a meeting.
Huang's resultant script, "Reel Life", was picked up by Cineville executive Frank Evers, who brought in financing from independent investors, and significant production support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film was subsequently sold to Trimark Pictures (later assumed by Lionsgate in 2000). Cineville produced the film with Steve Alexander overseeing production.
Many rumors circulate about whom Buddy is based on. One is that the character was inspired by real life movie mogul Scott Rudin, while another is that he is based on producer Joel Silver and Guy is based on Silver's assistant in the early 90's, Alan Schechter. George Huang used to work as an assistant for Barry Josephson, who was the Senior Vice President of Development at Sony Pictures.
The director Buddy hires in the film, Foster Kane, is named after Orson Welles' character in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane
Category:1994 films Category:1990s comedy films Category:American comedy-drama films Category:Directorial debut films Category:Films set in Los Angeles, California Category:Films directed by George Huang Category:Plays based on films Category:Films about film directors and producers
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