A few confusing revelations, to be sorted out. .

Lacey 2021-11-13 08:01:24

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Very old film, but I still feel the same when I saw it today. Fortunately, I didn't miss it.

Now my mind is full of deep gray, very chaotic. The thoughts were not very clear, so I had to temporarily list the next thoughts one by one. Organize it later.

1. Max, beale and diana represent journalists of different natures. max should be a positive image. Both beale and diana are too extreme. The former is sought after for conveying public anger. The latter does everything in order to watch, blood, terror, and murder, in her opinion, are just sweet cakes that attract the public. The transitional pursuit of ratings has caused her to lose press freedom and press justice.

2. The relationship between the pure News Corporation and the controlling chaebol, the pure contradiction between the news person and the businessman. The chaebol in the film looks very ugly.

3. Beale, the most innocent and lovely old man. His destiny is doomed, so is it the same for the people's democracy movement?

4. Max, a cold-faced middle-aged man, seems to be the only normal character in this play, a journalist with traditional morality, and a journalist with real news significance. He can feel love, pain, loss, happiness, this is the real person. For Diana, it is a kind of courage to be obsessed, but not obsessed, to see the status quo and to get out. It would be great if he could pull the beale, but then there will be no more text.

5. Diana, the incarnation of television? It seems that the screenwriter as a filmmaker does not approve of television, or some of its practices. Is this film revenge or a kind reminder? Can film and television as the media reach a final settlement? Today it seems less hateful.

6. Is ratings the ultimate news? What if it goes against the basic principles of news in order to gain ratings? Murder is an extreme example, but in daily life, more minor examples often occur. Is this still news in the real sense?

7. As the top management jensen, I didn't understand the concept he conveyed through howard beale. Similar to the ultimate goal of society, communism, etc., it just uses vocabulary such as enterprise and business.

8. Mao Zedong's time? Ridiculous

9. The final revelation, to live a real life.

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  • Hillary 2022-04-22 07:01:09

    The American TV era in the 1970s was just like the current Internet era, where capital is behind the control and the media guides public opinion.

  • Golda 2022-04-20 09:01:35

    The male protagonist caused his own destruction by grandstanding, and the same is true for this film. Exaggerated dramatic conflicts, crazy performances, pretentious preaching, and bloody extramarital love routines, just turned a satirical tragedy into a stupid TV series, which is terrible.

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  • Howard Beale: [on the air] Last night, I was awakened from a fitful sleep shortly after two o'clock in the morning, by a shrill, civil and faceless voice. I couldn't make it out, at first, in the dark bedroom. And I said, "I'm sorry, you will have to talk a little louder"... The voice said to me, "I want you to tell the people the truth, not an easy thing to do, because the people don't want to know the truth." And, I said, "You're kidding. What the hell should I know about the truth?" But, the voice said to me, "Don't worry about the truth. I will put the words in your mouth." And I said, "What is this, the burning bush? For God sake, I'm not Moses." And the voice said to me, "And I'm not God! What does that got to do with it." And the voice said to me, "We're not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth. We're talking about impermanent, transient human truth. I don't expect you people to be capable of truth; but, God damn it, at least you're capable of self-preservation!" And I said, "Why me?" And the voice said, "Because you're on television, dummy! You have 40 million Americans listening to you and after this show you could have 50 million. For Pete sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sack cloth and ashes, preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man!"

  • Laureen Hobbs: The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra left sect, creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts - which the Communist Party does not endorse. The American masses are not yet ready for open revolt. We would not want to produce a television show celebrating historically deviational terrorism.

    Diana Christensen: Miss Hobbs, I'm offering you an hour of primetime television every week, into which you can stick whatever propaganda that you want.

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