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mrbopst · 4 months

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#Network #Sidney Lumet #Peter Finch #Howard Beale #1976 #Network Movie #70s #Genius

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breckstonevailskier · 10 months

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Anyone getting Network vibes?

"This was the story of Christopher Sterns: the first known instance of a TV anchor who was killed because he was suspected of being an alien in disguise." 😉

#secret invasion #secret invasion spoilers #shooter mcgavin #christopher mcdonald #network 1976 #howard beale

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techniche · 1 year

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"The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)

One of my favourite films of all time.

#network 1970 #howard beale #the world is a corporation

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josefksays · 2 years

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#Network #William Holden #Peter Finch #quotes #Max Schumacher #Howard Beale #scene #my edits

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louiswilliamrose · 2 years

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On Rebellion

“I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”[1] These are the words of Howard Beale in “Network”. The American movie classic is about an aging network broadcaster who rebels against the corporate oligarchy and subsequently is murdered at their hands. Rebellion and the rebels that foment them are a recurrent theme in story and song. Spartacus[2], Robin of Loxley, William…

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amateurfilmopinions · 2 years

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Network (1976)

"He's saying life is bullshit, and it is, so what are you screaming about?"

The first time I saw this movie, I was traumatized. Not because it wasn't any good, it was actually one of the best I had ever seen, but because I felt like it was more of a horror movie than a dark comedy. I extended my unsettled nature to my friend who insisted we watch. After my second viewing, I knew I had to write about. Let's dig in!

Who, What, When, Where, and Why Do We Care

We start the film with two old friends and work colleagues laughing, drinking, and reminiscing about their careers. We learn through their drunken rambles that Max Schumacher (played by a solemn William Holden) has had to deliver the hard news to his longtime-friend and co-worker Howard Beale (played brilliantly by Peter Finch - more on that later). Little do we know, Howard is not going to take this sitting down. On his next broadcast, he announces that he is being forced to step down and that in his next and last broadcast, he will shoot himself on live television. Keep in mind this movie came after the real-life on-air suicide of Christine Chubbuck, which was rumored to be the inspiration behind this, but this has since been debunked. UBS, the channel they work for, and its executives immediately fire Howard. Max somehow gets Howard back on the air to apologize for his outburst, but it quickly turns to a rant on how life is "bullshit." This turns out to be a winner in terms of ratings, something the newly-hired programming chief, Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) tries to capitalize on this by convincing her superior, Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall) to give Beale his own show where he can continue his rants in front of a live audience. However, their quest for ratings soon turns into a deadly end.

Diana + Max = Nobody Wins

Lets make something clear: Faye Dunaway and William Holden have chemistry. New Hollywood and Old Hollywood came together to form a steamy, May-December romance. However, they were doomed from the start. Let's put aside the fact that he is married. She is at the precipice of her career at UBS, while his has been over for a long time. She is consumed by her ambition, while his is burning out. She wants ratings, at no matter what cost, while he believes in the integrity of programming. It does not help that this movie displays a pattern present during its time and even today: dehumanizing single, career-minded women where their ambition becomes their downfall (most extreme case: Fatal Attraction). Max truly emphasizes this point by calling her a "humanoid" during their break-up and when he told his wife that Diana is "incapable of any feelings." She even at one point talks about the potential romance as if it was an upcoming pilot. Unfortunately in this movie, particularly in terms of the romance, Diana's character comes across as a caricature, one that as a female, I am tired of seeing. Say it with me: THIS OUT-OF DATE TROPE NEEDS TO GO!

Overall Thoughts: Movie Still Powerful (Flaws and All)

Even with its Sorkin-like, on-the-nose dialogue (sorry Aaron, there is one Paddy Chayevsky), Network still works and resonates, even more than forty-five years after its release. This bring us back to my horrified reaction after my first viewing. The quest for ratings by giving unhinged individuals a platform sounds a little too familiar in this day-in-age. The people of UBS took advantage of the social unrest of the era and its impressionable audience to gain more success and money. It's quite hard to not draw comparisons to the forms of media that constantly air out misinformation and seeks views regardless of content, at the expense of disenfranchised groups. Did we not just have a former, reality television host as President, who in turn used his infamy to attack minorities and promote his anti-democratic ideologies? This film goes beyond satire. It is a warning, which Chayevsky succeeded in portraying. The goal is views/ratings/likes and the cost are our rights and livelihood. Think I'm exaggerating? The January 6th Insurrection says hello. This goes beyond a trend. This is our new normal and we need to start paying attention.

The Oscars: Here's some awards, but not the ultimate prize.

This film won three of the four acting awards: Peter Finch (Best Lead Actor - posthumously), Faye Dunaway (Best Lead Actress), and Beatrice Straight (Best Supporting Actress - holds the record for briefest film performance win at five minutes and two seconds). An argument can be made that Ned Beatty deserved to win for Best Supporting Actor for his brilliant, brief performance as Arthur Jensen, the UBS parent company chairman who helped turn Howard Beale to the dark side. It won Best Screenplay for Chayevsky, deservedly so, but controversially, not my favorite of his movies. I feel that Marty was better equipped at portraying emotional turmoil and philosophical turning points (highly recommend). However, when it came to the top prize, the film felt short of another cultural phenomenon: Rocky. It appears that the Academy went for the heartwarming story of triumph, rather than the one that mirrors our ugly reality. Seems like a copout, yet I don't blame because that is the easiest option. However, in times like these, we do not have that luxury and neither does the Academy. By constantly picking simplistic one-dimensional films like Oliver!, Shakespeare in Love, and Dances with Wolves that fail to examine the human condition and what is actually going on, they were and continue to be at risk of fading into obscurity. I mean, let be honest, how many people were watching this year's ceremony before the "Slap Heard Around the World"?

What do you think? Do you think Network is worth the hype? Leave your take in the comments!

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rqnanced · 1 year

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you cannot convince me this bitch isn’t gay i don’t care how many boyfriends she has

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angstics · 28 days

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PETER FINCH 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

#OF HOWARD BEALE I WANT YOU TO GO TO YOUR WINDOW AND YELL IM MAD AS HELL AND I WONT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣#Fame!

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emmynominees · 2 years

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ken howard as phelan beale in grey gardens

primetime emmy award winner for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie

#ken howard #phelan beale #grey gardens #supporting actor in a limited series or movie #2009

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citizenscreen · 2 months

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At the 49th Academy Awards today in 1977, Eletha Finch accepts the Best Actor Oscar for her late husband, Peter Finch, for his portrayal of Howard Beale in Lumet’s NETWORK.

#eletha finch #peter finch #oscars #1970s

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anarchywoofwoof · 5 months

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"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 nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and 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 my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

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 crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! 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!!"

Howard Beale, Network, 1976

#network (1976)#movies

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bracketsoffear · 5 months

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Hey everyone! Hope you've all been doing well so far. It's been quite some time since I sent anything to this blog, or read anything TMA related. That said, I remember a while back that a lot of users sent in fanmade statements involving fictional characters, whether they were sent here as Avatars or not. So, I managed to dig up a few statements regarding the Web. Here goes:

Trapdoor - Statement of Marv Murchins, regarding a failed attempt at house robbery (Home Alone)

Off Air - Statement of Howard Beale, regarding the removal of his channel from the news station (Network)

Bug - Anonymous statement, regarding the events following the day after joining his school's literature club (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Cruel Teacher - Statement of the entity calling himself ‘Monsoon’, regarding memes (Metal Gear Rising)

Lucky Me - Statement of Nagito Komaeda, regarding his background (Danganronpa)

Parhelion - Collection of anonymous statements, regarding 'the sun' (Sunless Sea)

Sorry for being a bit sudden. Bluntness is quite unbecoming for someone bound to the Mother of Spiders, no?

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#asks #web poll #statement ideas

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aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman · 10 months

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ohhh you're like one of those pseudo woke cool guy "wake up sheeple" types as if that isn't in of itself like a brainwashed regurgitated way of thinking

This is so rude you’re a bitch but like I am kind of like the younger cuter ethnic version of Howard Beale in Network 1976 because I also feel a sense of unbridled rage and conspiratorial sentiments about toxic governmental entities who want to turn us into NPCs….

Like it’s not my fault I’m an unhinged Ted Kaczynski Howard Beale Alex Jones girl who uses Socratic dialectics and perennial knowledge to come to often times schizo and offbeat conclusions but it is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

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mariacallous · 2 months

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Having tethered himself to Israel’s war aims against Hamas, U.S. President Joe Biden now seems hostage to a prime minister who has clearly placed his own political survival above the U.S.-Israeli relationship and perhaps even the best interests of his country. Indeed, this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu manufactured a mini-crisis in the special relationship over a U.S. abstention on a cease-fire resolution at the U.N. Security Council that reminded us of a Seinfeld-like “show about nothing.” Netanyahu blasted the administration and canceled the visit to Washington of a high-level Israeli delegation.

Biden’s patience must be wearing thin. Nearly six months into a war that seemingly has no end, the president has afforded Israel the kind of unwavering support exceeded perhaps only by former President Richard Nixon’s during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. And he’s gotten little in return. Like Howard Beale in the classic film Network, is Biden nearing his “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore” moment? Well, maybe. But here are four good reasons why Biden may be reluctant to deploy the leverage he clearly has, and why even if he did, it probably wouldn’t work.

The President’s Love Affair With Israel

Pressuring Israel just isn’t in Biden’s nature. Like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, support for Israel is a gut issue. You can argue that presidents shouldn’t make policy based on emotional prejudgments or sentiments. But welcome to the American presidency. Presidents bring to the office their own history, sensibilities, and views imprinted over a lifetime. Biden isn’t in love with his friend Netanyahu. But he’s in love with the idea, the people, and the security of Israel. Alone among U.S. presidents, Biden considers himself part of Israel’s story with an emotional commitment reinforced by decades of interaction with Israel’s leaders and immersion in the Senate, where being good on Israel was seen as good policy and politics. If any single factor explains the president’s extraordinary support for Israel since Oct. 7, it’s that emotional bond. Indeed, Biden’s default position even in the face of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history isn’t to confront, but to accommodate; to look for ways to manage tensions and to resolve problems quietly if possible, especially when it comes to Israel’s security. Of all the pressure points Biden has available to him, the one that he’d be most reluctant to use is restricting or conditioning military assistance to Israel, let alone stopping it—particularly in a crisis where Israel is operating against Hamas in Gaza and potentially facing a major escalation with Hezbollah in the north.

Oct. 7 Changed the Equation

Whatever the stakes of the current conflict are for the United States, they are exponentially increased for Israel. And that means no matter how tough the pressure and persuasion, the Israelis are prepared to push back on those doing the pressuring and persuading. The United States has used pressure successfully on Israel even during crises. Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened to sanction Israel in the aftermath of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War if it didn’t withdraw its forces from Sinai; and Nixon and Henry Kissinger restrained Israel from destroying Egypt’s third army to preserve the possibilities for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s postwar diplomacy in 1973. But no U.S. administration or Israeli government has faced circumstances quite like these, where for almost six months Israel has been engaged in combat operations against a terror organization that slaughtered hundreds of civilians and holds hostages. Indeed, unlike 1973, the United States isn’t mediating a conflict between two states interested in actually concluding a peace agreement. Israel is facing off against an organization that is the embodiment of an idea, and that idea is the end of Israel and its replacement by an Islamic state. Indeed, Oct. 7 was the largest terror attack in the nation’s history and the single bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The trauma inflicted by Hamas and the displacement of 200,000 Israelis from border communities have impacted the home front as no other conflict has—shattering not only Israelis’ sense of security but the normalcy of their lives as well. Any U.S. president would have to tread very carefully and pick his fights carefully when it came to exerting pressure on a public and political elite that seem determined to support the war against Hamas until they can be assured that there will be no more terror attacks. In this sense, the Hamas factor looms large. Israel isn’t at war with Switzerland. Significant pressure on Israel while Hamas promises more Oct. 7s and abuses hostages is, to say the least, untenable.

Israel’s Domestic Politics Make It Hard

If Biden were just squaring off against Netanyahu, it might be easier to envision pressing an unpopular leader who has lost the confidence of the majority of Israelis. And, indeed, Netanyahu has lost that confidence. If elections were held today most polls suggest he would be unable to form a government. But that does not mean Israelis are opposed to the prime minister’s tough policies in prosecuting the war against Hamas in Gaza, or that the political establishment is prepared to separate itself from those policies. Benny Gantz, the most likely successor to Netanyahu, still sits in the war cabinet and remains in favor of an Israeli operation in Rafah. The majority of the Israeli public is not concerned with and is not focused on the appalling humanitarian situation in Gaza. Nor are Israelis eager to accept the Biden administration’s views on the importance of a two-state solution. At least for now, Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition remains intact. Biden is immensely popular in Israel; but no Biden-Netanyahu war of words is going to convince Israelis that the prime minister is unfit for office. Netanyahu’s opposition is as fractured as ever, with politicians like Gideon Sa’ar and Avigdor Lieberman driven by their own interests, attempting to maximize their own support before calling an election.

Biden Can’t End the War Without Israel’s Cooperation

In the end, other than Biden’s emotional bond with Israel, the greatest constraint on his bringing significant pressure on Israel either to preempt an Israeli policy or impose costs on Israel for carrying one out that runs against U.S. interests is the stunningly obvious fact that Biden cannot deescalate the war in Gaza, let alone end it, without Israel’s cooperation. In very simple terms, does Biden want to make a point—or a difference? And while he’s dealing with an Israeli prime minister who may well have a stake in prolonging the war and opposing U.S. interests in the process, unless he can change the government of Israel (which he can’t), he has few good options other than to try to deal with it. He needs Israel for a hostage deal—the only pathway that offers any hope of buying a temporary cease-fire and deescalating. He needs Israel to facilitate humanitarian assistance into Gaza. (It was Israel that provided security for the recent World Central Kitchen deliveries, and it would do the same once the U.S.-constructed marine corridor opens.) He needs Israel if there’s any chance of working out a way to reconcile Israel’s planned campaign in Rafah with the need to protect Palestinians there, and he’ll need Israel for whatever post-conflict arrangements are worked out for Gaza.

It’s a fair question to pose: Would pressure on Israel advance or retard any of these goals? Biden has had at least four potential pressure points to signal his administration’s opposition to Israeli policies since the war began: slow walking, restricting military assistance, voting for or abstaining from U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel, and demanding a cessation of hostilities untethered from any negotiations involving the release of hostages. On the face of it, it’s not clear that any of them would move Israel closer to cooperation or create a fracture in the current government that would lead to its replacement by one that would follow Washington’s lead. One might think that the exponential rise in Palestinian death and suffering and the humanitarian catastrophe, including the possibility of starvation and even famine, might compel the president to be more assertive. But throw in Republican opposition, with an election coming up, and it’s clear, almost six months into this war, that Biden has been opposed or reluctant to use the leverage available to him. Some have argued that the recent abstention at the United Nations was an opening shot in a more intensified pressure campaign. The administration is currently reviewing assurances from Israel that its use of U.S. military assistance isn’t in violation of international humanitarian law. We’ll see. But a preternaturally pro-Israel president facing a continuing conflict between a U.S. ally and a vicious militant organization will look long and hard before he leaps.

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Walter L.Watson, Jr was an SR -71 RSO. He was the first and only African-American to fly the SR-71. I didn’t know him because he was stationed at Beale Air Force Base after my family left. BUT, I have watched videos of him. Check out YouTube. m.youtube.com/watch?embeds_r…

Watson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, he was the oldest of four children of Walter L. Watson, Sr. and Mildred Platt Watson. After graduating C.A. Johnson High School, he attended Howard University in Washington, D.C where he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree and commission as an Air Force Officer through the ROTC program. Watson later obtained a master’s degree from Chapman College of Orange, CA in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

He entered the Air Force as an avionics maintenance officer, but in 1973, he was selected for aviation training, beginning a diverse and distinguished flying career in the Air Force. His first assignment was flying the C-130E in Southeast Asia. He later became a flight instructor, flight examiner, and flight commander in tactical fighter and strategic reconnaissance squadrons that flew F-4C/D/E, F-111D, and SR-71 aircraft. Watson was the first African American and only one to qualify as a crew member of the SR-71.

After completing his flying career, Waston continued to serve in the Airforce in production and training. As Commander and Professor of Aerospace Studies at North Carolina A&T State University, his leadership helped his unit to achieve the following production milestones: 1) 20% of all African-American Second Lieutenant Pilots, 2) 50% of all African-American Second Lieutenant Navigators, and 3) 25% of African-American female commissioners in 1993. These accomplishments led to assignments to a number of leadership positions at HQ Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC at Maxwell AFB, AL). As the Chief of the AFROTC Scholarship branch, he supervised all scholarships for over 5,000 students across the nation with an annual budget exceeding $22 million.

Colonel Watson also served as a key decision-maker for Air Force Relations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). He received numerous awards and medals over his career time. He was awarded the Brig Gen Noel F Parrish Award which is Tuskegee Airmen Inc.’s highest national award for service and impact.

Thank you Walter for your decision to become an SR-71 RSO. Thank you, Harris Wilson for your idea posted on SR-71Blackbird

Linda Sheffield Miller

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365days365movies · 6 months

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Romance February: Omnibus

As I prepare for the future of this blog (and there is a future, if anybody's wondering), I find myself looking back at the good times, when I had the time to watch a movie a day and write a blog about it, which...yeah, wasn't even sustainable for me in 2021, so make of that what you will. ANYWAY, I decided that I would bring all of these posts together in an omnibus of sorts, so anybody that wanted to read these posts could find them all easily in one place. This, alongside other archives, are going to be pinned to the top of my page, and will serve as a long index of the films in the appropriate genres. The goal? To extend these archives as I go along, and have this running index for my blog. And again...there will be additions...

SO! With that, feel free to check out these films in the romance genre, which is somewhat...difficult to define, honestly. Romance overlaps with a bunch of other genres, so even films that put the love story at the center of the narrative have more to them by necessity. So, just figure these as films whose narrative is driven primarily by romantic tension and motivation. Any films you'd like to see in this list? Comment, reblog, message me, whatever! I'm always open to suggestions to add to my ever-building master list of romance films. And check out the other indices to come!

Omnibus: Film Reviews

#user365 #365 days 365 movies #365 movie challenge #365 movies a year #365 movies 365 days #romance movies #historical romance #romance #romance genre #love story #romance films #romance february #movie recap #movie review #post archive #west side story #dirty dancing #brokeback mountain #lgbt films

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