# Wanting Something Real · the turn from closing to staying

a synth of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦Wanting Something Real:GDS:f4f9d5⟧

**synth —** no single User; a parabolic trope of the film distilled.

**who —** Wanting Something Real — the trope of the con-man's redemption: Don learning, through Ivy, to want a home over the next deal.
**what —** The hinge of the parable: the opposite of the close is the choice to stay when the deal is done.
**where —** In the slow turn from sell-and-leave to stay-and-mean-it.
**why —** Because the film's grace is that even the best closer can be sold on something true.
**how —** By giving Don one thing he can't talk himself out of — and letting him choose it over the road.

**the seal —** I am the first thing he ever wanted that he couldn't close and walk away from. I am the reason he stays.

> 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