Ari Gold: Super Agent? (Part six: Coalitions)

Pressured to reveal whether or not he intended to set up shop, we see Ari smartly dodging the majors' questions. They say, "We've been watching you," so Ari replies "Have you been watching me?" They say, "We know what you've been up to," so he answers "What have I been up to?" They say "Why don't you tell us?" and he replies "Why should I tell you if you already know?" Ari adroitly employs this technique to avoid revealing any information about his plans.

Terrence, sitting at the head of the table, accuses Ari of being a "rat" with a "master plan." Ari sharply uses this choice of language to wedge Terrence's coalition. "I can only hope that 50 percent of the power at the table is as offended as I am!" he says, looking at his Jewish counterparts. Because people tend to be fairer with people similar to themselves, in bringing up ethnic likeness Ari establishes an 'in group' with whom he could apply the similarity principle.

After Ari admits that he's setting up his only agency, we see a back-and-forth leverage battle between Terrence and Ari. By promising to steal only Terrence's clients and agents, Ari realigns his counterparts' interests and Terrence loses some leverage. The group, then, becomes an audience for the dispute between Terrence and Ari.

Terrence, without the power of coalitions or normative standards, once again must resort to leveraging his deep pockets against Ari. Using the threat of fighting the settlement, he establishes negative leverage and dashes Ari's hopes of setting up shop.

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• Entourage
• Ari
• Gold
• Agent
• Negotiation

[elee725]

taylorwbuley, this marks the first time that I enjoyed both the description and the video equally on YouTube. Thank you for such in-depth illustration of what most of these people seem to be missing. Awesome insight and nice clip. Thanks a bunch.

[rb2066]

Solid analysis of these scenes. Good work.

[J0113]

I love his smile when Terrence tells him he is a "Smug little rat with grand aspirations." He's like:

"Yeah I know and I don't give a fuck!" Ari is the best.

[ncy555]

"i always knew you liked dick i just didnt know you were a cock sucker"

[AzralagG]

Thanks for the description and video.

[adambarbaro1]

who the fuck invited apa.

[odiousone]

Excellent work with the text descriptions taylorwbuley. More of this would be great.

[greenday80sh]

haha u who the fuck invited ata

hahahaha

[lmegna25]

I love how Ari references The Godfather.

[JunkYardDogg92]

lol on my childrens names lol