In the Godfather part 1 goes to Don Corleone on the day of his daughters wedding and asks him to kill the man who raped his own daughter. As a Sicilian man can never refuse a favour on this special day, he agrees to make the rapist an offer he cannot refuse, but the man is now in the Dons debt. This is a classic case of negotiation in film.
In one of the versions of Apocalypse Now (I think it’s the redux version) after the crew of the army boat steal Lt. Bill Kilgore’s surfboard and hide under the cover of plants and trees on the shoreline, Kilgore flys back and forth in his helicopter attempting without success to negotiate the return of his board. This is one of the more famous cases of failed negotiation in film.
In Rear Window James Stewarts character is wheelchair bound, stuck in his apartment following a car accident, and during his daily visits from the Hospital appointed nurse she tries to convince him that he should stop spending so much time looking out his back window observing his neighbours, as people will start to think of him as a peeping tom. But hearing none of it he tries to convince her that there’s nothing else to do, it’s harmless and besides, he might have come across something a bit peculiar. Once again, a classic case of negotiation in film.
So negotiation is everywhere in film, because negotiation is everywhere. Any time there is a disagreement between two parties and an exchange of information concerning the conflict takes place, that’s negotiation. Whether its Obi-Wan using Jedi mind powers to convince Elan that he doesn’t really want to sell him death sticks, or Osgood Feeling telling Jerry at the end of Some Like It Hot that ‘Nobodys perfect’, there are so many examples it would be pretty much impossible to list them all.
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