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Buttoneer

(576 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 08:21 PM Sep 24

"Network" is probably my favorite movie of all time.

The writing is so incredible and prescient for its time. Here's a link to the some of the best quotes from the movie.
Arthur Jensen's speech is only rivaled by the "Lemon speech" from the Fall of the House of Usher series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes/

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Xavier Breath

(4,858 posts)
2. I was 10 when my Mom and Aunt dragged me and my cousin to see it at the drive-in.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 08:30 PM
Sep 24

I guess it was cheaper and easier than a baby-sitter, and they figured we'd get bored and fall asleep before we saw too much of the R-rated stuff. But, as a kid who worshipped at the tv alter I was fascinated by a behind-the-scenes look. I stayed awake until the ending. Yeah, much of the political stuff, like the scenes with the terrorist leaders was a bit over my head, and I couldn't really relate to William Holden's monologues about age and decay, but I got the gist of it. My favorite speech is when the network's president dies and Howard bemoans tv's intrusion into American lives and the power now in the hands of Robert Duvall's character.

Xavier Breath

(4,858 posts)
6. I somehow managed to never see that one until about ten years ago.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 08:47 PM
Sep 24

There's a theater downtown that used to show old movies during the summer. They had an old, huge pipe organ that they'd play before the show, and they'd have a sing-along to old songs with lyrics on a screen. I saw quite a few classics I'd seen many times before on tv, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but I also saw some classics that escaped me, like Casablanca. They stopped doing that when covid arrived on the scene, and sadly they've never started it up again.

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,523 posts)
9. It was on the Movies! TV channel last night. I sat through the first half of it and then went to bed.
Thu Sep 26, 2024, 01:18 PM
Sep 26
Movies!

They'll run it several more times in the next few weeks.

It's a terrific movie. Hats off to Paddy Chayefsky.
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