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SPOOKY: The 1976 Movie 'Network' Predicted YouTube And 'Two And A Half Men'
BusinessInsider ^ | 15 Feb 2012 | JIM EDWARDS

Posted on 02/24/2015 6:15:45 AM PST by shove_it

If you've ever seen the 1976 movie Network, you'll know the unforgettable scene in which TV news anchor Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) has a mental breakdown while on-air.

Ignoring the teleprompter, he breaks into one of the greatest soliloquies of American cinema, a wandering but coherent rant about the banks, crime and unemployment.

Finally, he urges his viewers to throw open their windows and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!"

Today, Network feels as fresh and vital as it did 36 years ago, and not just because Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight won Oscars for acting in it.

It's because the movie predicts everything about modern media in the 21st Century—from reality TV and YouTube to Glenn Beck and the tabloid news format. And it did so 20 years before the internet even existed.

It's spooky how much the movie got right about the direction of the news business specifically, and the media generally...

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; howardbeale; netneutrality; network
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To: Responsibility2nd
We know him as Glenn Beck.

Chuckle, good call.

21 posted on 02/24/2015 7:39:37 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it
So Conchata Ferrell from 2-1/2 Men was in the movie Network which translates into the movie somehow is responsible or influenced the making of 2-1/2 Men?

Maybe it's just me but there seems to be a few more than usual interesting (read: questionable) posts here this morning.

Obama was a CIA plant and now Berta was the mad-genius behind Charlie Sheen?


22 posted on 02/24/2015 7:55:27 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

>>Hell, even “The Walking Dead” has a new gay couple. <<

So, they eat each other? ;)

I have never seen TWD, which places it with Friends, Seinfeld, How I met your Mother, Breaking Bad and many other cultural icons.


23 posted on 02/24/2015 8:24:48 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: vladimir998

The Loud family’s reality drama aired on PBS in 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family


24 posted on 02/24/2015 8:29:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Glenn Beck, a pop radio zoo crew member who 'got series'


25 posted on 02/24/2015 8:32:25 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: AU72

Is this the scene you’re referring to? It’s my favorite one from Network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObkT7wJ108


26 posted on 02/24/2015 8:52:06 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: cincinnati65

#13 that speech could have been given by the Bush’s, Soros, Clintons, McCain, Boehner, McConnell, etc etc or as some call them here the uniparty.


27 posted on 02/24/2015 9:01:28 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: shove_it
In a similar way the 1990 Christian Slater film Pump Up The Volume eerily presaged young people's coming obsession with spewing their emotions stream-of-consciousness style on Twitter and Facebook.


28 posted on 02/24/2015 9:03:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NorthMountain

>>And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.<<

Everyone will be Green Bay Packers fans?

;) :)


29 posted on 02/24/2015 10:46:34 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: shove_it

Network was quite a movie, but this article was strung together with bits of wire and hype. It’s a full on click bait article.


30 posted on 02/24/2015 10:52:50 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: freedumb2003

31 posted on 02/24/2015 10:54:11 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

You are a member of the vast ecumenical holding company.

I am a Packer backer for years but don’t have the share dangit.


32 posted on 02/24/2015 10:56:21 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: Big Red Badger

Was, as in ... she’s not anymore. Didn’t mean she was dead. Sorry about that.


33 posted on 02/24/2015 11:09:52 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Yaelle

Agreed. I just searched for a recent article about “Network” and this was the best I could find. It struck me, after seeing the movie again after all those years, how well it fits the narrative today from the liberal media and the hypocrisy of The Regime to try to stifle what little truth that comes from talk radio and the internet with its “net neutrality” tyranny.


34 posted on 02/24/2015 11:15:59 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

I agree. I just saw this movie for the first time 3 years ago. It was great.

The media IS DEFINITELY the message. Marshall McLuhan got that part right.


35 posted on 02/24/2015 11:17:46 AM PST by Yaelle
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