Network on TCM right now.

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I love this movie.


I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!!!!!


:loveya:Peter Finch. RIP.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. One of my favorites, too.

:hi:

[VenusRising]

2. Hey, cutie!!

How are you?

:hi::hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Doing okay.

Little tired. You?

[VenusRising]

6. Just fine.

Same stuff....different day.

[Robeson]

4. Thanks for heads up!

...I'm there...:thumbsup:

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7. You're welcome!

:)

[SeattleGirl]

5. Great movie!

Just saw it a couple of months ago, after not seeing it for years. Amazing how well it holds up over time, and how applicable it is to times now.

[VenusRising]

8. It is eerie how it holds up.

It's either life imitating art or art imitating life. Either way, it's creepy.

Hope you are doing well, SG!

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Jason Robards won Best Supporting Actor that year

for his role as Ben Bradlee in "All the President's Men."

As close to my heart as that film is and as much as I love to quote Bradlee, I think Ned Beatty did a better job in "Network" as Arthur Jensen. His dressing-down of Peter Finch ("And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And YOU... WILL... ATONE!") was absolutely masterful.

[VenusRising]

10. I absolutely agree with your assessment of Beatty.

He scared me from inside the teevee!


:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Exactly

You watch that scene — and that's a long soliloquy — and you feel like you're the one being shredded.

I have great regard for Jason Robards, and he did a fine job with the Ben Bradlee character, but there just wasn't much to it.

Or maybe that's just my take on it, having worked with a few curmudgeonly editors. :)

[VenusRising]

12. And the lighting for that scene was perfect.

He's so omnipresent he is the darkness of the room. It's all so very symbolic.

:loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. I didn't think of that, but you're right

And the camera angles — the long, long table.

Beale seemed very small. :)

[VenusRising]

16. I have my moments of smart.

;)

Beale was being consumed by the darkness that was Beatty's character just as he was being consumed by his handlers and viewers.

I'm getting chills thinking about it. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. As well as his own darkness

[VenusRising]

18. Even his show backdrop was black with only a spotlight upon him.

He was given light and life by the whim of the ones in charge. It's comparable to the darkness and despair that is upon us now. The realization that we don't matter in the greater scheme of things when there are powerful greedy people at the helm.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. How'd you know about my darkness and despair?

:cry:

[VenusRising]

20. Who doesn't feel that lately?

:hug:

Gotta hold on to each other.

:hug:

[terrya]

21. And "Network" lost Best Picture to "Rocky"

So, when people forget about some boring, crap, crowd pleasing movie about a boxer, "Network" will be regarded as an all-time classic. It is one of my very favorite films. It would have been great to see Ned Beatty get Best Supporting Actor (and I agree, it's a great performance)...it would have been a sweep of the acting awards...besides Beatrice Straight winning Best Supporting Actress, Faye Dunaway winning Best Actress and Peter Finch winning Best Actor.

[KitchenWitch]

13. Classic!

:D

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14. One of the best casts ever.

:thumbsup: