Crazy media-TV station situation

Unique 2021-11-13 08:01:24

I am mad as hell, i am not gonna take this anymore! What is empathy, this movie is that the depressed announcer shouted out the inner thoughts of many people. Sidney Lumet is a good director. The twelve angry men are astonishing. The hot afternoon is extraordinary. The big trial is also his work. He deserves the title of master. Going back to the movie, this story about the American TV media's ubiquitous audience ratings is undoubtedly wonderful. An announcer who was about to be dismissed finally gave his heartfelt voice, and the ratings unexpectedly increased, so the female producer started a new program for the downfall announcer. The announcer gave a loud speech, hysterical, and ended up in a faint. The female producer is a generation who grew up watching TV and believes that everything should be as shown on TV. She likes old-school news editors and has developed an underground romance. The old-school editors have a clear understanding of her and blindly pursue ratings. , Ignoring morality and responsibility, thinking that being with her will sooner or later be ruined. The new program of the Lost Announcer was very hot, but as time went by, his ratings dropped. The TV station wanted to replace him, and the chairman of the board of directors supported him. So the top of the TV station discussed assassinating him. I thought they were joking, but when the announcer was live, Two extremists actually shot him to death. The film freezes and ends when the announcer falls and dies. This is really a classic film.

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  • Orland 2022-03-25 09:01:07

    I don't know what the author of "Entertainment to Death" has anything to do with this movie, at least this movie is a prophecy and generalization of the entire TV era. Television is a crazy, neurotic industry. Why didn't "Spirit of the Times 1" quote what the big boss said to the male host in the conference room?

  • Connie 2021-11-13 08:01:24

    The film is good, but everyone is a little too excited; almost every subtitle is followed by an exclamation mark, it is recommended that the rant group collect it.

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  • Max Schumacher: Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown, require treatment.

    Howard Beale: This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world. And even to some great, unseen, living force. What I think the Hindus call prana. But it's not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation. It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness. I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth. And you will not take me off the air for now or for any other spaceless time!

  • Howard Beale: At the bottom of all of our terrified souls, we know, that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick, dying, decaying political concept, riling in it's final pain. I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest, the most powerful, the most advanced country in the world, light years ahead of any other country. And I don't mean the Communist are gonna take over the world; because, the Communists are deader than we are. What is finished... is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods... Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word. Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things...