Weird. I was just thinking about the "mad as hell" segment. And Sidney Lumet is interviewed throughout all of the Stanley Kubrick documentary I watched the other day.
I remember thinking this movie had been destroyed by parody, and cliched into oblivion before I even saw it. I didn't expect it to be that much of a powder keg when I finally did.
Chayefsky’s script for The Americanization of Emily has some good moments as well. I found both Network and The Hospital somewhat marred by overwriting.
I've seen it twice, once shortly after it came out, and a second time 3 or 4 years ago. It was fairly disturbing to realize how prophetic that film was.
Proud to have not owned a TV as an adult until I was 40 years old and got tired of watching movies on my computer, and still insufferably proud of having cable Internet but NOT cable TV, and of the genuinely blank looks people get from me, and the astonished looks I get in return when they realize the blank look IS genuine, when they refer to some vapid TV inspired pop-culture claptrap.
Rather proud of the fact that I *can't* watch television - even on my computer, which means that I couldn't watch this clip.
If it's what I suspect it is, I used to have it as my outgoing voice mail message, until people got mad because it was so long and convinced me to change it.
It's the part where Beale comes on and announces the death of the CEO and the rise of Hackett, calls people maniacs for believing the stuff they see on TV, urges them to turn off their TVs, then collapses.
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I remember thinking this movie had been destroyed by parody, and cliched into oblivion before I even saw it. I didn't expect it to be that much of a powder keg when I finally did.
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Preach on, Brother.
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If it's what I suspect it is, I used to have it as my outgoing voice mail message, until people got mad because it was so long and convinced me to change it.
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