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

[Buttoneer]

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/

[The Wizard]

1. Part of my permanent collection.

[Xavier Breath]

2. I was 10 when my Mom and Aunt dragged me and my cousin to see it at the drive-in.

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.

[Buttoneer]

3. Yep! Robert Duvall would be serving the interest of Rupert Murdoch in this scenario nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Network is a great film, but my favorite is Casablanca. Nt

[Funtatlaguy]

5. I'm mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore.

[Xavier Breath]

6. I somehow managed to never see that one until about ten years ago.

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.

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. My favorite movie

And I did not see it until I was an adult long after its release.

[Martin Eden]

8. Arthur Jensen Speech is great, and still relevant

As is the entire movie. Highly recommend.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. It was on the Movies! TV channel last night. I sat through the first half of it and then went to bed.

Movies!

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

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