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Halt and Catch Fire - Sales Call [ "A16" Scene ]

c102030 · 47.8K views · 2014-06-09 · 3:56

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Overview

A scene from the TV drama Halt and Catch Fire in which Gordon Clark meets Joe MacMillan, who is posing as an IBM salesman, on a sales call. It includes the dialogue about IBM being the safe choice and a marketing guru telling an engineer when to stop talking.

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HN commenters post it as a favorite scene about IBM's reputation and sales psychology.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2026

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danielvaughn · 2026-02 · Strong recommendation

Lee Pace's performance in that show is one of my all time favorites. It's incredibly hard to play a charismatic marketing guru because in some sense, you're not acting. In a given scene, the character might be trying to convince people around him of some crazy idea, but if he hasn't convinced you, the viewer, then the entire illusion falls apart. So he really has to do in real life what he's pretending to do on screen. edit - a great example and one of my favorite scenes from the show: [VIDEO]

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danielvaughn · 2023-11 · Recommendation

This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Halt and Catch Fire, when the marketing guru tells the sales engineer (in no uncertain terms) when to shut up: [VIDEO]

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j1vms · 2018-10 · Recommendation

Think you'll get a kick out of this scene from Halt and Catch Fire: [VIDEO] [0] [0] Sales call scene with Joe and Gordon in Halt and Catch Fire: Season 1 Episode 1 [1] [LINK]

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