Here are some clips from the amazing 1976 film, Network.
A truly brilliant film about media that also touches on the realities of oil and money.
The classic “Mad as Hell” speech is repeated a bit below, because I wanted to include the first clip that includes what happened beforehand, but that doesn’t include the reaction to the speech and so I had to include the second clip here too.
Enjoy! 🙂
And remember to get hold of and watch this movie in full. It is fantastic.
Thanks for recommending this. I tracked it down and watched it the other night. So many resonances to 2007 – oil supply, sovereign wealth funds, cynical TV executives…
My girlfriend thought it was depressing to see that the same issues were around 30 years ago and (apparently) nothing much changes. I wonder. We’re not experiencing the kind of crisis which is on the mind of the average person yet, in the way that must have been the case at times in the 70s. In fact, apart from climate change, most of the alarming aspects of our current situation are hardly on people’s radar. (I’m thinking of impending resource scarcity, the interaction between population and rising consumer expectations globally, the new levels of precariousness in the international financial system, the unsustainability of agri-business – I’m sure you could add to the list.) But sooner or later some or all of these factors are going to collide in a way which does gets people’s attention. In many ways, this will probably be for the worse – but all the same, it will shake off our complacency and encourage us to ask difficult questions which we’ve been shirking…
Well, I didn’t really mean to have a rant. I just wanted to say thanks for pointing me towards the film! As you can see, it got me thinking.
Thanx from me 2!