The Zero Sum Game is a situation in which a gain by one person or
side must be matched by a loss by another person or side. In other words, a
person’s loss must be equal to another person’s gain in order to be a Zero Sum
Game.
Rudo Y Cursi
“Rudo y Cursi” is a movie about two half-brothers,
Tato who plays striker & Beto who plays goalkeeper, from the same town whom,
after being spotted by a scout, have to compete for a professional football contract because the scout can only take one player. Apart from being a football player, Tato’s
biggest dream was to become a musician, and Beto’s has always been to
lift the world cup, deciding by a penalty shoot-out, Tato scored and got
the opportunity with one of the best teams of the nation while later on Beto
joined the rival team. After starting their career, each of them gained their
own nickname, Tato earned “Cursi” (“corny”) and Bet earned “Rudo” (“rude.”)
After both gained fame as the superstars of their teams, things started to go
wrong for both, Cursi lost his woman, doesn’t have the same goal scoring touch
and his musical career didn’t end up well while Rudo gets into the world of
gambling and drugs. After one year of football season they both finally face
each other in a game. Cursi is afraid that if he loses his team is going to
second division while his brother Rudo needs to win in order to pay all his
debts to the drug cartel or he’s going to get killed. The match ended on a
penalty shootout and Rudo ended up saving Cursi’s shot. After that, Cursi
decided to quit football and went back home, while Rudo got shot in the leg and
had to quit football, they both ended going back home and decided that home was
the place where they actually belonged since the beginning.
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet is an example of the Zero Sum
Game, there are many competitions that can only have one winner throughout the book, some of them leave the loser without any reward.
The Cadillac
In order to win the Cadillac, someone needs to get out.
When Ross was talking to Aaronow about how bad the leads were and all the pressure they had under them in order to sell the leads, as he mentions:
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Moss: The whole fuckin' thing . . . The pressure's just too great. You're ab . . . you're absolu . . . they're too important. All of them. You go in the door. I . . . ''I got to close this fucker, or I don't eat lunch,'' ''or I don't win the Cadillac . . . '' We fuckin' work too hard. You work too hard. We all, I remember when we were at Platt . . . huh? GlenRoss Farms . . . didn't we sell a bunch of that . . . ?
Just like in the movie ''Rudo y Cursi'' only one of them could get the professional opportunity and the other one was going to stay with nothing at their hometown with nothing and working as farmer just like every other person it the town.
1983 Cadillac
Roma's Case
(For Roma to close his case, Lingk has to get screwed.)
After Roma made his long speech to Lingk to sell the lead as they were mention to ''Always be Closing,'' it all work out until Lingk's wife wanted him to close Roma's case.
Roma: And I don't want any fucking shit and I don't give a shit, Lingk puts me over the top, you flied it, that's fine, any other shit kicks out you go back. You . . . You reclose it, 'cause I closed it and you . . . you owe me the car.
Roma's point of closing the leads was over since he had nothing to worry about and he had won the prize but Lingk came over and mentions that he had to close the deal because of his wife.
In ''Rudo y Cursi'' the scout promised Cursi to help him with his professional musical career if he kept scoring goals for the team, but after the scout couldn't help him since his scoring touch vanished.
The Good and the Bad leads
For someone to have the bad leads, someone needs to be on top selling the good ones.
Aaronow: How many leads have we got?
Moss: The Glengarry . . . The premium leads . . .? I'd say we got five thousand. Five. Five thousand leads.
In the play, all of the characters have what they call the bad leads which are much harder to sell than the good leads, Moss and Aaronow plan on stealing the good leads, also called ''premium leads,'' in order to be able to sell more than Roma and be on top of the board.
Aaronow: You're going to steal the leads and sell the leads to him? (Pause.)
Moss: Yes
When Roma gets the leads after the real estate offica was robbed, he agrily argues with Williamson because he gave him a Patel case.
Roma: Patel? Fuck you. Fuckin' Shiva handed him a millon dollars, told him ''sign the deal,'' he wouldn't sign.
Since Levene struggled to sell the bad leads, he ended up stealing the premium leads and selling them to Jerry Graff because he wanted to be on top of the board.
In the film, Rudo didn't want Cursi to have all the fame and the big amount of money so he got into the gambling and drug world to earn more money but instead he ended up losing almost everything. He still payed the drug cartel all the money he owned them but since it took him so long the drug cartel decided to shoot his leg and end his football career for being a liar.
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