Feelings of the movie "TV Station"

Fabian 2022-03-21 09:01:41

There are many speeches in this film which are very touching. Although I don’t know much about capital operation, I seem to be inspired by these dialogues. Bill (retiring senior host) Frank (department head) Jason (company chairman) Bill : If a company wants to take over another company, it needs to buy a sufficient share of the shares, but it must first file with the government. We bought our company in this way, but now someone wants to buy American Communications Corporation, a so-called Western World Fund. They filed a record with the government this morning. Who is the Western World Fund? It is a consortium of banks and insurance companies. He came American Communications didn't buy it for itself, it was an agent. The real buyer is someone else. Who is it? They won't tell you, they won't tell the Senate, and they won't tell the Department of Justice. I'll tell you the real buyer. Who is it, it is Saudi Arabian Investment Company, it is Saudi Arabian! ........they are everywhere, New Jersey, St. Louisville, St. Louis, Missouri, that's just what we know, and how much we don't know, because their money goes through our country and Swiss banks and The Bank of Canada is laundered, if we don't know the com deal and all that, now the Arabs have made our money and then come back and use our money to buy General Motors, International Business Machines, International Telephone Communications, AT&T, U.S. Steel, etc., they've bought half of England. listen to me, the arabs are buying us, there's only one way to stop them, who is it, it's you, so I'm asking you to get up, get up from your chairs, pick up the phone now, get in the car and drive to the western union Bureau sent to the White House, by midnight I want the White House to get millions of cables, I want them to walk into the White House with knee-length cables, and send President Ford a cable saying, I'm crazy, I can't take it anymore La, please don't sell our country to the Arabs, I want ATCOM to end the deal right now, we ATCOM stop the deal at once, come on, come on, stop the deal right away, no more, I want ATCOM right away Terminate the transaction. . . Frank: I want to print out the script and read it a few more times. You know better than me about the transaction between American Communications Corporation and Saudi Arabia. American Communications Corporation has a loan of more than 2 billion in Saudi Arabia. We have mortgaged everything to them. We need Saudi money. , disaster, this show is a disaster, a disaster, the death knell is ringing, I am dead, dead. Maybe we overestimated Bill's influence. We just called and said that the White House has been walking with telegrams. It will be overwhelmed by telegrams tomorrow. Will the government stop it? It will delay our deal, our deal will be delayed for 20 years. . . Jason: You have interfered with the source of nature, and I do not agree! Get it, you thought you just blocked a deal, but it's far from the truth, the Arabs took billions of dollars from our country, and now they have to pay it back, it's the ebb and flow, the tide of rebuilding , is the ecological balance, you are just an old man who looks at the problem from the perspective of the country and the nation, but in fact there is no country, no nationality, no Russians, no Arabs, no third world and no Western countries, the world is a complete whole, yes A vast expanse of intertwined and interacting multiple variables, ruled by all kinds of money, petrodollars, electric dollars, all kinds of dollars, deutsche marks, yen, rubles, pounds, shekels, it's a decision on this planet The international monetary system of all life, the system that maintains the normal functioning of all life on the planet, this is the law of nature today, this is the structure of the atomic, subatomic, galactic galaxy today, and you destroy the existing harmony of perfection The force of nature and nature, you have destroyed the force of nature, you have to make up for it, do you understand, Mr. Bill, you are standing in front of a 21-inch screen, roaring about America and democracy, in fact, there is no America at all, no Democracy, only International Business Machines Corporation, International Telephone and Telecommunications Corporation, AT&T Corporation, DuPont Dow Eckerson, they are the countries of today's world, do you think members of Congress meet every day to discuss something, they come up with deadlines The big and minimum algorithm and statistical decision theory to calculate the price cost probability of investment transactions, like us, we live in a corner of the world, there is no country, no ideology, Mr. Bill, the world is a society composed of companies , there are eternal laws of business that govern a cruel society, the world is a business, Mr. Bill, it has been since the dawn of mankind, Mr. Bill, our children will live in a perfect world without war and hunger , no oppression and tyranny, there is a huge company for everyone, everyone gets the same pay, everyone holds an equal share, life must be smooth and orderly, all anxiety is relieved, all boredom is quiet, I choose You Mr. Bill came to preach the gospel because you are a public figure, 60 million people watch your show every Monday to Friday night, I see the face of God, are you right Mr. Bill?

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  • Howard Beale: We'll tell you anything you want to hear, we lie like hell.

  • Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!

    Howard Beale: [calmly strolling toward the audience] So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And *why* is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA - the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?

    Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.