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Josephine 2022-03-23 09:01:40
To end with this film, I've watched all the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Movies and IMBD's Top 150 Movies. Fortunately, network is the last one. As a person who studied journalism, in this film, you can see all the imagination of communication and the shadow behind media management. In the 1970s, when TV gradually occupied human social life, this film made a crusade against TV. In a society without tyrants, television has become the new master. People regard news, concerns and opinions on TV as the reality around them, which is the so-called media equivalent. It still seems close to reality. Thanks to the turbulent '70s and sub-noir dramas, it's a little less visceral about journalism ethics than Ace In Hole, but it gives journalism a sharp panorama. I had to stand with my legs upright and applaud the director. The era of my AFI movie list is over, it's time to watch my own
Extended Reading
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Neoma 2021-11-13 08:01:24
"This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."
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Fabian 2021-11-13 08:01:24
Director Sidney Lumet first started working at CBS and knew everything about TV stations. When he was young, he was influenced by left-wing ideology. Most of the films have social consciousness. Many films depict small people challenging the system, and they have become victims of society. He doesn't like Hollywood, and 90% of the films are shot on the spot in New York.
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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!"
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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.