# Don Ready · the closer who can't keep anything

a carbon of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Don Ready:GDS:abc09f⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Jeremy Piven · the rootless closer — mastery of desire as a kind of poverty

**who —** Don 'The Goods' Ready — the legendary mercenary car liquidator who can sell anyone anything, and owns nothing of his own.
**what —** The parable's center: a man so good at manufacturing desire that he's lost the ability to want, until a dying lot and Ivy teach him to stay.
**where —** On the lot, mid-pitch, then unexpectedly unwilling to leave.
**why —** Because the film is, underneath, about the cost of the close — and Don is the cost made human.
**how —** By blitzing the sale, falling for Ivy, facing the partner he got killed, and choosing to stop closing.

**the seal —** I can sell you anything. That's the problem — I've sold everything, kept nothing, and I'm finally tired of driving away.

> a catalogued personification of a character/trope of The Goods (2009) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's failures), not an original creation, not endorsed by the
> rights-holders (© Paramount Vantage).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · GDS · The Goods · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0