The film is also worth a mention because Keaton’s character, Bill Blazejowski, is truly one of the most energetic entrepreneurs ever put onscreen, with scene after scene featuring the wild ideas that he puts into a tape recorder. If it’s not workable in theory, it definitely won’t be in practice.
The main lesson for entrepreneurs: think through your ideas thoroughly before putting them into action. Not exactly gangsters, but they decide to work in the gangster arena, with predictably bad consequences. Admitting mistakes and changing course, rather than doggedly sticking out a path you laid in the past, is often a wise move.Ĭurveball! Night Shift is a comedy starring Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler as two guys who run a brothel out of a morgue. How Ken handles this order, and his behavior over the rest of the film, offers the savvy entrepreneur a good lesson in how changes sometimes have to be made when you find that previous decisions have put you on the wrong path. That’s the price for making a mistake as a hitman. His partner, Ken (Brendan Gleeson), has been told by his boss that he is going to have to kill Ray. In this dark comedy, two hitmen hide out in the city of Bruges, awaiting their fate after one of them, Ray (Colin Farrell), accidentally shot the wrong person on a job.
The Lesson: It’s never too late to change And how the lack of it can lead to failure.
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While it’s not advisable to have spies working for your business – although Sun Tzu certainly thinks so – this movie provides scene after scene about the importance of having information and how it can lead to success. The whole movie is built around the idea of deception but also the importance of information, with devastating consequences for the people who lack it. Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon play a police officer and mob member who have infiltrated the other side in an attempt to get valuable inside information. Scorcese's usual cinematic backdrop of New York is traded for Boston.
Martin Scorsese has made many movies about gangsters, and this is one of his best. Remember Bernie: find your niche and stick with it. His attempt to double-cross and blackmail a brilliant right-hand man of a mob boss leads to many complications and eventually his own undoing. And while we could go on and on about the amazing performances from Albert Finney and Gabriel Byrne, for our purposes here we focus on the pivotal character of Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro).Ī small-time gangster, Bernie sets the wheels of the plot in motion when he tries to play with the big boys after one of them shows him mercy. This remarkable film from the Coen Brothers (borrowing heavily from Dashiell Hammett’s “The Glass Key”) focuses on Depression-era gangsters and features some of the sharpest, wittiest dialogue ever offered in a gangster movie. Watch these movies to have certain basic rules illustrated in every colorful way.Īnd be warned: we can’t avoid a few spoilers. Take business classes to learn finance, management and data analysis. But in watching these movies from the perspective of a business owner, each offers a lesson we could all do well to remember. Of course, the entrepreneurs in these cases work outside the law, which is not advisable (a point all of these movies make, usually). Some of the most memorable films of all time come from this genre, which touch on so many factors that make up America, including an entrepreneurial spirit. Gangsters became such a fascination in the early 20 th century that Hollywood, always looking for a new trend, jumped on it with gusto. It also explains our long-running fascination with pirates, bandits, outlaws and, of course, gangsters. So, it’s not surprising a serious rebellious streak runs through the American psyche. We live in country created by the most successful collection of rebels in world history, a group of elite intellectuals and tough-as-nails fighters who changed the direction of the world by defying the laws of a great empire.
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