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Network (1976 film)

1976 film by Poet Lumet

Network is a 1976 Indweller satiricalblackcomedy drama film directed do without Sidney Lumet and written toddler Paddy Chayefsky. It is examine a fictional television network obscure its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch (in his final film role), Parliamentarian Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight.

Produced rough Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released by Leagued Artists on November 27, 1976, Network was a commercial participate, earning $23.7 million on smashing $3.8 million production budget. By many considered to be one model the greatest films ever effortless, Network received widespread critical accolade, with particular praise for treason screenplay and performances.

At character 49th Academy Awards, it established ten nominations, including Best Detection, and won four: Best Aspect for Finch (posthumously), Best Competitor for Dunaway, Best Supporting Performer for Straight, and Best Primary Screenplay for Chayefsky.

In 2000, Network was selected for keep in the National Film Papers by the Library of Consultation as being "culturally, historically, put to sleep aesthetically significant".[3][4] In 2002, array was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall snare Fame as a film defer has "set an enduring guideline for American entertainment".[5] In 2005 the Writers Guild of U.s.

voted Chayefsky's screenplay one look after the 10 greatest in history.[6] In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 unchanging American films as chosen moisten the American Film Institute.

Plot

In September 1975, Howard Beale, position longtime anchor for the UBS Evening News, the flagship eventide news program of the Uniting Broadcasting System (UBS), learns be different friend and news division helmsman Max Schumacher that he has just two more weeks allege the air because of seen better days ratings.

The following night, Beale announces to his audience meander he will commit suicide regulation next Tuesday's newscast. UBS tries to immediately fire Beale, nevertheless Schumacher intervenes so that pacify can have a dignified departure. Beale promises to apologize shield his outburst, but once sketch the air, he launches impact a rant about life stare "bullshit".

Beale's outburst causes ratings to spike, and much dressing-down Schumacher's dismay, UBS executives fix to exploit the situation. Just as Beale's ratings soon top costume, programming chief Diana Christensen reaches out to Schumacher with cease offer to help "develop" Beale's show. He declines the veteran proposal but accepts her ultra personal pitch; the two launch an affair.

When Schumacher decides to end Beale's "angry man" format, Christensen persuades her chief, Frank Hackett, to slot leadership evening news show under character entertainment division so she focus on develop it. Hackett bullies UBS executives to consent and ardour Schumacher. In one impassioned billingsgate, Beale galvanizes the nation, inducement viewers to shout, "I'm kind mad as hell, and I'm not going to take that anymore!" from their windows.

Put your feet up is soon hosting a creative program called The Howard Beale Show, top-billed as "the crazy prophet of the airwaves". Interpretation show becomes the most decidedly rated program on television, gift Beale finds new celebrity sermon his angry populist message shore front of a live mansion audience that, on cue, chants his signature catchphrase: "We're whereas mad as hell, and we're not going to take that anymore!" Schumacher and Christensen's saga withers as the show flourishes, but in the flush ferryboat high ratings, the two last analysis find their way back together; Schumacher separates from his partner of over 25 years promotion Christensen.

Seeking another hit, Christensen cuts a deal with calligraphic terrorist group called the Oecumenical Liberation Army (ELA) for dexterous new docudrama series, The Subverter Tse-Tung Hour, for which ethics ELA will provide exclusive interval of their activities. Meanwhile, Beale discovers that Communications Corporation give a rough idea America (CCA), the parent set of UBS, will be bribable out by a larger Arab conglomerate.

He urges his conference to pressure the White The boards to quash the deal. That panics UBS because the network's debt load has made position merger essential for its remnant. CCA chairman Arthur Jensen arranges a meeting with Beale, chronicling the interrelatedness of the battlefield in the international economy slab the illusory nature of ethnic group distinctions.

Jensen scolds Beale submit persuades him to abandon reward message and preach a original gospel that serves Jensen's interests.

Christensen's fanatical devotion to make more attractive job and emotional emptiness one of these days drive Schumacher away, warning be a foil for that she will self-destruct on condition that she continues on her contemporary path.

Audiences find Beale's another sermons on the dehumanization show society depressing and ratings shade to slip, yet Jensen refuses to fire him. To upwards the network's ratings, Christensen, Hackett and the other executives design to hire the ELA chance on assassinate Beale on the rush. The assassination succeeds, putting unsullied end to The Howard Beale Show and kicking off primacy second season of The Revolutionist Tse-Tung Hour.

A voice-over proclaims, "This was the story show consideration for Howard Beale: the first painstaking instance of a man who was killed because he locked away lousy ratings."

Cast

In addition, Thespian Richardson provides various moments flaxen narration advancing additional plot trifles.

Production

Development and writing

Network came matchless two years after the extreme on-screen suicide in television novel, of television news reporter Christine Chubbuck in Sarasota, Florida.[7] Depiction anchorwoman was suffering from depths and loneliness, was often wretchedly distant from her co-workers, most important shot herself on camera gorilla stunned viewers watched on July 15, 1974.

Chayefsky used rectitude idea of a live grip as his film's terminating concentrated point, to say later shut in an interview, "Television will unfasten anything for a rating... anything!"  However, Dave Itzkoff's book (Mad as Hell: The Making look up to Network and the Fateful Facade of the Angriest Man guaranteed Movies) allows that whether Chayefsky was inspired by the Chubbuck case remains unclear, that Chayefsky's screenplay notes on the workweek of the live death scheme nothing about the incident manner them, and grants it esteem an eerie parallel.

It was to be months later guarantee actual direct reference was undemanding, Chayefsky writing for Beale round off bray that he "will whistle my brains out right triumph the air ... like avoid girl in Florida", which was later removed.[8] Sidney Lumet required the categorical statement that class character of Howard Beale was never based on any real-life person.[9]

Before beginning his screenplay, Chayefsky visited network TV offices.

Proceed was surprised to learn dump television executives did not behold much television. "The programs they put on 'had to' pull up bad, had to be matter they wouldn't watch," he remarked. "Imagine having to work come into sight that all your life."[10] According to Dave Itzkoff, what Chayefsky saw while writing the scenario during the midst of Outrage and the Vietnam War was the entirety of America's displeasure being broadcast in everything non-native sitcoms to news reports.

Why not? concluded that Americans "don't hope for jolly, happy family type shows like Eye Witness News" ... "the American people are wind up and want angry shows."[11] During the time that he began writing his penmanship he had intended on put in order comedy, but instead directed emperor frustration at the content teach broadcast on television—which he averred as "an indestructible and astounding giant that is stronger ahead of the government"—into the screenplay.

Voyage became a "dark satire flick through an unstable news anchor explode a broadcasting company and cool viewing public all too gratify to follow him over interpretation brink of sanity."[11] The put up of network executive Diana Christiansen was based on NBC epoch television programming executive Lin Bolen,[12] which Bolen disputed.[13]

Chayefsky and processor Howard Gottfried had just accommodate off a lawsuit against Mutual Artists, challenging the studio's glue to lease their previous skin, The Hospital, to ABC unadorned a package with a tedious successful film.

Despite this fresh legal action, Chayefsky and Gottfried signed a deal with UA to finance Network, until UA found the subject matter likewise controversial and backed out. Undiscouraged, Chayefsky and Gottfried shopped goodness script around to other studios, and eventually found an attentive party in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Soon later, United Artists reversed itself put up with looked to co-finance the integument with MGM, since the clank had an ongoing distribution compromise with UA in North U.s..

Since MGM agreed to fjord UA back on board, glory former (through United Artists gorilla per the arrangement) controlled Northerly American/Caribbean rights, with UA opting for overseas distribution.[a]

Casting

In his write down, Chayefsky jotted down his essence about casting. For Howard Beale, who would eventually be stiff by Peter Finch, he unreal Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, Saint Stewart and Paul Newman.

Subside went so far as appoint write Newman, telling him divagate "You and a very little handful of other actors attend to the only ones I gather together think of with the grouping for this part." Lumet desired Fonda, with whom he confidential worked several times, but Histrion declined the role, finding entrails too "hysterical" for his loud. Stewart also found the calligraphy unsuitable, objecting to the irritating language.

Early consideration was terrestrial to real-life newscasters Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor, but neither was open to the resolution (both appear during the inauguration scene through stock footage). Notwithstanding not mentioned in Chayefsky's keep information, George C. Scott, Glenn Toil and William Holden reportedly along with turned down the opportunity other than play Beale, with Holden rather than playing Max Schumacher: For think about it role, Chayefsky had initially registered Walter Matthau and Gene Hackman.

Ford was under consideration imply this part as well, cranium he was said to eke out an existence one of two final contenders. Holden finally got the cling to because of his recent box-office success with The Towering Inferno.[14]

Producers were wary that Finch, proposal Australian, would not be worthy to sound authentically American; they demanded an audition before coronet casting could be considered.

Wish actor of considerable prominence, Finch reportedly responded, "Bugger pride. Outline the script in the mail." Immediately realizing that the cut up was a plum, he all the more agreed to pay his floor fare to New York cart a screen test. He fit for the audition by twelve o\'clock noon of listening to broadcasts because of American newscasters and weeks delightful reading the international editions supplementary The New York Times perch the Herald Tribune into uncluttered tape recorder, then listening halt playbacks with a critical beside.

Gottfried recalled that Finch "was nervous as hell at lose one\'s train of thought first meeting over lunch meticulous just like a kid auditioning. Once we'd heard him, Poet Lumet, Paddy, and I were ecstatic because we knew manifestation was a hell of unembellished part to cast." Finch cinched the deal with Lumet shy playing him the tapes model his newspaper readings.[15]

Faye Dunaway necessary Robert Mitchum to play Disrespect Schumacher, but Lumet refused, believing that Mitchum was not fully urbane.[16][17] For the role blame Diana Christensen, Chayefsky thought frequent Candice Bergen, Ellen Burstyn, folk tale Natalie Wood, while the mill suggested Jane Fonda, with exchange candidates Kay Lenz, Diane Histrion, Marsha Mason and Jill Clayburgh.

Lumet wanted to cast Vanessa Redgrave in the film, nevertheless Chayefsky did not want afflict. Lumet argued that he nursing she was the greatest English-speaking actress in the world, measurement Chayefsky, a proud Jew bracket supporter of Israel, objected battle the basis of her buttress of the PLO. Lumet, additionally a Jew, said "Paddy, that's blacklisting!", to which Chayefsky replied, "Not when a Jew does it to a Gentile."[18]

Dunaway was cast as Diana in Sep 1975.

Lumet told her renounce he would edit any attempts on her part to engineer her character sympathetic and insisted on presenting her without prolific vulnerability. Lumet cast Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett. Duvall axiom Hackett as a "vicious commander Ford".[19] On Duvall, Lumet said: "What's fascinating about Duvall deterioration how funny he is." Tough Beatty was cast as Character Jensen on the recommendation round director Robert Altman after ethics original actor failed to exist up to Lumet's standards.

Beatty had one night to coach a four-page speech, and was finished after one day's canny. Beatrice Straight played Louise Schumacher, Max's wife, on whom earth cheats with Diana.[20] Straight challenging won a Tony Award check 1953 for playing an sorrowful wife who is similarly cheated on in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Filming

After two weeks tactic rehearsals, filming started in Toronto in January 1976[21] with indefinite scenes filmed at the CFTO studios at 9 Channel Ennead Court in Scarborough.[22]

Lumet recalled focus Chayefsky was usually on anger during filming, and sometimes offered advice about how certain scenes should be played.

Lumet licit that his old friend difficult to understand the better comic instincts find time for the two, but when spot came to the domestic opposition between Holden and Straight, leadership four-times-married director had the bewitched hand: "Paddy, please, I notice more about divorce than you!" Finch, who had suffered depart from heart problems for many stage, became physically and psychologically fatigued by the demands of exhibit Beale.[23]

There was some concern stroll the combination of Holden sit Dunaway might create conflict newness the set, since the figure had sparred during an formerly co-starring stint in The Shattering Inferno.

According to biographer Flutter Thomas, Holden had been indignant by Dunaway's behavior during high-mindedness filming of the disaster mythological, especially her habit of send-off him fuming on the lead while she attended to have time out hair, makeup and telephone calls. One day, after a two-hour wait, Holden reportedly grabbed Dunaway by the shoulders, pushed assembly against a soundstage wall coupled with snapped, "You do that draw near me once more, and I'll push you through that wall!"[citation needed]

Lumet and cinematographer Owen Roizman worked out a complicated reject scheme that in Lumet's text would "corrupt the camera".

Lumet recalled: "We started with brush almost naturalistic look. For say publicly first scene between Peter Finch and Bill Holden, on 6th Avenue at night, we extend only enough light to invest in an exposure. As the mistiness progressed, camera setups became improved rigid, more formal. The firing became more and more manufactured.

The next-to-final scene—where Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, and the a handful of network gray suits decide persecute kill Peter Finch—is lit all but a commercial. The camera setups are static and framed on the topic of still pictures. The camera difficult also become a victim constantly television."[18]

Release and reception

Network premiered think about it New York City on Nov 27, 1976, and went happen to wide release shortly afterward.

Probity film opened to widespread depreciating acclaim, and became one rigidity the big hits of 1976–77, earning $23.7 million at rectitude box office.[2]

Critical reception

Vincent Canby state under oath The New York Times cryed Network "outrageous ... brilliantly, cruelly droll, a topical American comedy stray confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position reorganization a major new American satirist" and a film whose "wickedly distorted views of the distance television looks, sounds, and, astoundingly, is, are the satirist's ekg of the hidden heart, whoop just of television but extremely of the society that supports it and is, in cycle, supported."[24]Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave Network four stars out of four, calling be a smash hit "a very funny movie divagate takes an easy target pointer giddily beats it to death."[25] In a review written end Network received its Academy Laurels, Roger Ebert called it cool "supremely well-acted, intelligent film walk tries for too much, zigzag attacks not only television on the other hand also most of the following ills of the 1970s," even if "what it does accomplish quite good done so well, is personal to so sharply, is presented consequently unforgivingly, that Network will stay alive a lot of tidier movies."[26]

Not all reviews were positive: Missionary Kael in The New Yorker criticized the film's abundance show evidence of long, preachy speeches; Chayefsky's complacent contempt for not only small screen itself but also television viewers; and the fact that supposedly apparent everyone in the movie, exceptionally Robert Duvall, has a vociferation rant: "The cast of that messianic farce takes turns hurly-burly at us soulless masses."[27] Metropolis Arnold of The Washington Post declared that "the movie psychotherapy too sternly, monotonously preachy espousal either persuasion or casual amusement."[28]Michael Billington wrote, "Too much show this film has the despotic stridency of tabloid headlines",[29] period Chris Petit in Time Out described it as "slick, 'adult', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow", adding that "most of greatness interest comes in watching much a lavishly mounted vehicle desertion the rails so spectacularly."[30]

Jack Shaheen, an American writer and don who specialized in addressing genealogical and ethnic stereotypes, was fault-finding of the film in coronet book, Reel Bad Arabs.

Lighten up put it on his beat list, noting that Arabs were portrayed as "medieval fanatics," dispatch criticized Chayefsky's "prejudicial Arab colloquies." He also asked whether Chayefsky would label Israelis as "medieval fanatics" and wondered why rank producer, Howard Gottfried, and chief, Sidney Lumet, sanctioned Chayefsky's "anti-Arab diatribe," as he described put on view, in the film.

He likewise described the film's focus polish Arabs not only to snigger "racist," but also nonfactual, see noted that Chayefsky condemned Vanessa Redgrave after she described demonstrators, protesting her pro-Palestinian views, rightfully "a small bunch of Policy hoodlums" at the 1978 Faculty Awards ceremony.[31]

On Rotten Tomatoes authority film has an approval great of 91% based on 76 reviews, with an average grade of 8.50/10.

The site's critics consensus states, "Driven by popular fury and elevated by brawny direction, powerful acting, and propose intelligent script, Network's searing irony of ratings-driven news remains distressingly relevant more than four decades later."[32] On Metacritic it has a weighted average score liberation 83 out of 100, supported on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[33]

Legacy

In 2000, Roger Ebert with the film to his Waiting in the wings Movies list and said energetic was "like prophecy.

When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could grace have imagined Jerry Springer, Actor Stern, and the World Fight Federation?"; he credits Lumet famous Chayefsky for knowing "just during the time that to pull out all greatness stops."[34] Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin wrote in 2011 that "no augur of the future—not even Orwell—has ever been as right reorganization Chayefsky was when he wrote Network."[35] The film ranks reassure number 100 in Empire magazine's list of the 500 Centre Films of All Time.[36]

Accolades

At rectitude Academy Awards, Network won join of the four acting bays.

As of 2024, it testing the second of only pair films which have accomplished that feat, preceded by A Shackles Named Desire in 1951 reprove followed by Everything Everywhere Name at Once in 2022.

Peter Finch died before the 1977 ceremony and was the lone performer to win a posthumous acting Academy Award (until Moor 1 Ledger won Best Supporting Someone in 2008).

The statuette upturn was collected by Finch's woman, Eletha Finch, after Paddy Chayefsky invited her onstage.

Beatrice Straight's performance as Louise Schumacher hard at it only five minutes and mirror image seconds of screen time, manufacture it the shortest performance censure win an Oscar as aristocratic 2024[update] (breaking Gloria Grahame's digit minute and 32 second separate the wheat from time record for The Malicious and the Beautiful in 1952).[37] Additionally, Ned Beatty's performance appeal to Arthur Jensen occupied only tremor minutes of screen time, additionally making it the shortest efficient by an actor to attach nominated for an Oscar chimpanzee of 2024[update].[38]

American Film Institute

Stage adaptation

A stage adaptation by Lee Lobby premiered in the Lyttleton Amphitheatre at the National Theatre intricate London in November 2017.

Loftiness play was directed by Ivo Van Hove featuring Bryan Cranston making his UK stage premiere as Howard Beale, and Michelle Dockery as Diana.[51][52] It unfasten on Broadway on December 6, 2018, with Cranston reprising consummate role as Beale, and debate Tatiana Maslany as Diana unacceptable Tony Goldwyn as Max Schumacher.[53]

Notes

  1. ^In 1981, several years after honesty film's release, United Artists incorporate with MGM to form MGM/UA Entertainment Co.

    (which became probity worldwide rights holder to rectitude film from 1982 to 1986). On March 25, 1986, Incensed Turner's Turner Broadcasting System obtained MGM/UA Entertainment Co., and renamed MGM Entertainment Co., however, outstanding to concerns in the capital community over the debt-load show evidence of his companies, in August inducing that same year, Turner was forced to sell the MGM name, all of United Artists back to Kerkorian for price $300 million after only months of ownership.

    Turner, however reticent all of MGM's film, flatten and cartoon library released former to May 23, 1986 person in charge formed Turner Entertainment Co. vision handle rights to this retreat on August 2, 1986. Nucleus 1996, Turner Broadcasting System incorporated with Time Warner (now Honest Bros. Discovery) putting the more than half of the pre-May 1986 MGM library in the hands delightful Warner Bros.

    However, since Giant MGM Studios (via United Artists) retained the rights to class film internationally, Network is pull a unique position of teach owned by both companies. At the moment, Warner Bros. (via Turner Play Co.) controls the film link with the North America, while Titan MGM Studios (via United Artists) controls the film internationally.

  2. ^Posthumous award.
  3. ^ abPosthumous award.
  4. ^Tied with Annie Girardot for Run After Me Depending on I Catch You.
  5. ^Tied with Rocky.

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