Network- The film was considered overly dramatic and extreme at the time of its release in the 1970’s. Decades later, do you think the movie would still be viewed the same way today? Why or Why not?
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2006-11-29 10:01:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Howard: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's no one anywhere that seems to know what to do with us. We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crying in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being. God Dammit, my life has value." So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now. Get up. Go to your windows, open your windows, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
2006-11-29 10:13:45 · answer #1 · answered by constablekenworthysboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm usually a big fan of 70's movies, but I did think the turn-every-scene-into-a-speech dialogue was overdone. I wouldn't call it overly dramatic or "extreme" thought.
What was thought to be extreme about Network? It isn't any more extreme than some older movies (like Birth of a Nation). Or Shakespeare and the Bible for that matter (Now, that's extreme.)
2006-11-29 10:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at was news has become in the last 30 years. Howard Beale is the father of the Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reillys that are considered "news" today. As far as the manufacturing of news, look at the scandals of the NY times and CBS news.
Not only would network not be considered shocking, it would almost be normal.
2006-11-29 10:22:24 · answer #3 · answered by Glenn N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It still has impact, but Life has imitated Art to such an extent that the shock value is negligible today.
2006-11-29 10:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by Minmi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ring
2016-05-23 03:04:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It made me mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!
2006-11-29 10:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope
2006-11-29 10:08:06 · answer #7 · answered by gogogo 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
2006-11-29 10:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by pff1216 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋