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| Nelson_Mandela 06/24/19 1:44:39 PM #20: | #67. Network https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Network_%281976_poster%29.png Dir: Sidney Lumet Genre: Drama Year: 1976 I was chatting the other day about the Broadway adaptation with Bryan Cranston with someone who had never seen Network. Just by looking at the ads, they assumed Network was something like The Newsroom--a really dialogue heavy movie about broadcast journalism with pretty overt political undertones. I will tell you now, if you're interested in it, that Network is nothing of the sort. It is a completely bat-shit crazy satire that might leave you sick to your stomach (in a good way). Network is closer to Catch-22 than to The Newsroom. It starts out as a more standard news drama, but very quickly devolves into an over-the-top black comedy that has auspices of the cable news takeover of the early 2000s. Peter Finch plays Howard Beale, an anchor whose mental breakdown makes him the highest rated thing on TV. This may be the single-greatest role in all of film and is worth watching just for his lunacy. It does indeed get quite dark--but like most satires, the vision isn't exactly optimistic, yet it's eerily prescient. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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