"I don't have to tell you things are bad."

[Adsos Letter]

"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 TV's 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 know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are 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 gonna 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 got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! 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!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'"

emphasis added

LINK to quote from Network: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes

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I think it's about time to watch this again. :)

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[Poll_Blind]

2. That movie has more verifiable prophecy in it that 10 Books of Revelations, as far as....

...I'm concerned.

PB

[arcane1]

3. Indeed.

His rant about television is my favorite of them all.

[JuniperLea]

4. Life imitates art...

Or prophecy... yep... no matter how you slice it, much can be told about the future by watching films made by human beings who never thought the were prophets... or did they?

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. 1976

35 years. It was supposed to be satire, but they sure nailed FOX.

[Mira]

6. I'm so glad you wrote this, and yes, I will watch it again, and will shout

to all who will listen that I'm mad as hell.
Because I am.

Recommended

[Adsos Letter]

7. Not my writing Mira (obviously) but I think about "Network" and Finch's role

more and more as time goes on. :hi:

[Journeyman]

8. The only movie I ever went back to see a second time while it was still in its initial release. . .

[arcane1]

9. THIS is my all-time favorite part (among countless) from that movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

[Adsos Letter]

10. "We'll sell you any kind of shit you want"

"Turn them off, and leave them off" :thumbsup:

[arcane1]

11. "You even THINK like the tube!"

Damn, I may have to watch this again tonight :)

[malaise]

12. K & R n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. Saw that movie for the first time about 2 years ago. :-)

[arcane1]

14. Me too, but in 2007 :)

I think the timing was perfect, too. It was like poetic support of what I had already surmised by that time.

[Adsos Letter]

15. Added link to a YouTube clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBZDwf9dok&feature=related

[felix_numinous]

16. Last night I watched

Day of the Dolphin, and The China Syndrome (which does has a lot of information about nuclear power plants)--both movies were still very good. I plan to watch Network again too :)