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Really had no idea what I was getting myself into here (aside from the super famous line of dialogue, of course). Crazy relevant--if it hadn't looked 100% 70s and changed the radicals and communists to reality TV whores, it'd be just like today. Come to think of it, I'm surprised no one has re-made it. Please don't try.
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One of the classic great mainstream films of the last 40ish years. It feels much more recent than 1976.
I don't need to repeat what everyone else has already said, it's a great satire and insanely relevant, etc etc, great cast, acting, story, all of it.
I only have two comments. First, Beatrice Straight winning an oscar for her miniscule part is disgusting.
Second, I think the relevance of the movie today says more than people realize, more than it's…
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Despite 12 Angry Men being one of my favourite films of all time, Sidney Lumet remains a director who is still a great mystery to me. This is, shamefully, only the second film of his humongous back catalogue that I've actually seen.
I've never been to film school. Never studied film at college or University. Never attended any lectures on film nor engaged in academic study of any kind on film. Yet this film felt to me, as an uneducated…
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Vital and scarily relevant for these times, Network is as 'perfectly outrageous' as the poster claims without being sensationalist.
My only issue was with the romance storyline, which could have been a whole other film in itself. I felt like Network had so much intelligent insight on fear, madness, the media and society, that it didn't need to also include relationships and love. The effect is overwhelming, and possibly not in a good way.
I'm glad I saw this, an amazing script superbly acted. Class.
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Although this movie was released over 30 years ago, it remains highly relevant today. “Network” is the story of a low-rating TV station, UBS, which plans on firing their lead anchor, Howard Beale (Finch). Upon hearing he’ll be fired, Howard goes on air and says he’ll kill himself on live TV. Consequently, ratings increase upon Howard’s announcement. Instead of the network seeking help for Howard’s downward spiral into insanity, they decide to capitalize on their recent spike of viewers.
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If ever a film could be called psychic it would most certainly be 'Network'.
I am constantly in awe at how this film managed to be so prophetic about not only our media landscape today but society itself. Some of the lines that come out of the characters' mouths are just so staggeringly on point with what we're seeing today on a daily basis, that I think Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet on the level of Howard Beale in the… -
Watching Network in 2013 really hits home how far broadcasting has changed since the release of this dead on satire and the long lasting effects that the media have had on public discourse since then. Without the ruthlessness of Diana Christensen in Network we wouldn't have the detached ambivalence of consumers such as Tim Heidecker's Swanson in the 2012 drama, The Comedy. As William Holden elaborates on to Faye Dunaway:
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I've never seen this before, and it was an interesting addition component movie as I make my way through the Watchmen Motion Comics. Interestingly the Zach Snyder version of Watchmen opens with a television screen, just as this film does.
I was drawn in by the nature of money and ratings driving the perception of moral, ethical, and appropriate television content. In one moment someone is being fired for the outrageous broadcast of Howard Beale, the next scene they are…