![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead he spent two years interviewing stockbrokers, mostly in boiler rooms, fly-by-night operations that use incessant high-pressure calls to peddle often fraudulent investments, mostly to senior citizens. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close?" The answer was Younger, though he never spent a day making cold calls. Either you sell the client some stock, or he sells you a reason he can't. In that speech, Young (played by Ben Affleck) tells the tyros: "And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A top broker made a speech to the would-be trainees very much like the one uttered by Jim Young in Boiler Room (Ģ000), the movie Younger would come to write and direct. As it turns, out the brokerage was a "pyramid scheme"-a few of the top brokers were making big money, but he figures few of the trainees did or ever would. ![]() It was the beginning of a brilliant career, not in finance, but in film.Īs Younger, now 30, waited for his interview at in the office of Long Island, N.Y.-based brokerage, he knew two things right away: the place was crooked and it was a movie in the making.Īmong the trainees, he says, "I was the only one with a decent suit," Younger says. ![]()
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