Network

[ReeseMac]

1:38 - 2:05 One of the most prophetic words ever spoken in a movie."...who knows what SHIT will be peddled for truth on this network!". Well we all know what SHIT is peddled for truth now ......don't we?

[bokie51]

I just like this guy!!!

[43wolverine]

The internet is NOT arguably worse. This is youtube, one website with video content. A lot of the world wide web is NOT VIDEO where all the subliminal messages and such are inserted. Imformation is READ on the computer; actual brain chemistry active. NO BRAIN CHEMISTRY when watching tv.

[Etrajbe]

The internet truly saved humanity...

[EmceeSlick4life]

@Etrajbe you think so? there are pros and cons..what are your pros on it

[Etrajbe]

@EmceeSlick4life Ehh? freedom of speech. TRUE freedom of information and artistic expression? Sharing of information? overthrower of dictators? All seeing eye through corruption? Starting of groups, backbone of revolutions?

[EmceeSlick4life]

@Etrajbe Freedom of speech? wasn't that established before the internet lol

sharing of info, mmk sure...artistic expression? again don't need the internet for that..starting of groups..can you explain some of these

i think i get your main point but the internet is also bad for some people, libraries, post offices ect

[LoveSmileDream21]

Definition of irony;  u watching this video lmfao

[tdp1909]

@LoveSmileDream21 Damn - I was just gonna say that! It's as ironic as a broadcast I saw from the 'Anti-TV' society...

[hankaaron1961]

Check out what one critic said back in 1976 in his unfavorable review of "Network":

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

The plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America -- where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power -- it is just impossible to accept.

[andresmdn22]

@hankaaron1961 You say that cigarettes are bad for me? Preposterous! There are studies that show the health benefits and my doctor smokes a pack a day.

--Anonymous 1950s man

[Andreazor]

With SOPA on the topic today, this is even more important. This will never become redundant.

[joefreeman856]

THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE A MUST WATCH IN SCHOOLs

[Etrajbe]

Also, now he could add the internet :) Finally we have freedom, truth.. in its purest form. So he should add that(obv he couldnt at that time) but today, internet saved humanity from this propaganda, atleast, the fight HAS started. Because finally the intellectuals, the non sheeplet, can wake up the sheep, fast and easy, with a free spread and flow of truth, however, ofc, now the same guys want to shut down the internet with their SOPA and shit, but libery, peace, truth will never die!

[hangtime911]

Ron Paul 2012.

[Tobacc0]

If you turn your TV off, for the first week you panic with nothing to do. That's how empty our lives have become. Week 2 is easier.

[BuildYourMind]

THE GREATEST BIT OF FILM EVER MADE.....INCREDIBLE ALL THESE YEARS LATER, But yet you "sheeple" will still vote to give a film award to "Jackie Bigtits" for her role as Dolly Parton in "Blowup Dollie".....God help us all.

[limerick121]

Will SOMEONE please put the whole script on the Internet. We need this message NOW!

[LibertyorDeath777]

Just a matter of time b4 "they" have complete control of the internet! The movie " THEY LIVE" is real man, i swear! lol

[MrRustyTomBone]

@LibertyorDeath777 Rowdy Roddy Piper FTW!!!!

[n64wilbert]

This film is more applicable in the current society!!

[f8talh8red]

48 dislikes?

more like 48 sheeple!

[Etrajbe]

@f8talh8red Most of the thousand likes are made by sheep aswell. But this is all true, propaganda propaganda.

[AtmanAwaken]

Excellent, thanks for sharing

[Melancholikerin]

Media education needs to become a school subject all around the world.

Kardashian Konfidential sold over 350'000 copies and freaking Snooki has had a book written.

Support culture, critical thinking and independence!

[klauslerner]

turn on, tune in, drop out...

[MathiasMichell]

did he die'??? xDDDDD

[23chopperrob]

Turn off your TV and open your mind!!!

[boy577]

2 best points,television is a goddamn amusement park.We will tell you any shit you want to hear

[WakeEveryoneUp]

Were you not listening? Television is a circus, you sit down everynight to watch a corporate sponsored one sided news broadcast to be spoon fed what ever they want you to believe!! we are in an alpha brain state when watching tv which makes it easy to push opinions onto the audience.

[monstanator]

Whats wrong with the tv?

Keeps people entertained

You learn things (Discovery channel, travel channel and even cooking channel).

Some things are fake, but they are obvious. I doubt that when someone is cooking on the tv, hes lieing about the ingredients.

[shyko95]

@monstanator i.e Jersy Shore, The Only Way is Essex, Big Brother, Hollyoaks, I could go on, oh yeah, and every news programme is governed by the same company, playing eachover off like a toddler kicking eachover underneath the table, so we think there is a reason to fill in the ballot paper, or even more so, underneath the table cloth on which we are all standing, and the men behnd the barbed curtain pull the sides and we fall. TV's not bad, it's the way it's used to dumb down the world's kids.

[planchik]

@monstanator you're an idiot. keep watching zombie tube

[Hate2Loveme1991]

@monstanator You don't get it. Sure, the t.v. is entertainment and sure you learn things but the point that he's trying to make is that if the media fell into wrong and corrupt hands that they could influence us to do what ever they wanted us to. That amount of power can be world ending if it was used to be. Hitler influenced an entire country and some with his word of mouth, imagine if his speeches had been broadcasted world wide over the internet or the t.v.

[monstanator]

@Hate2Loveme1991

Sure, If the TV ended up in the wrong hands, things might turn out differently, but hasn't humanity evolved? aren't we able to make our own decisions and think for our selves? isn't that what makes us different? all with unique perspectives?

[Hate2Loveme1991]

@monstanator There would have been supreme dictatorship and mass genocide world wide. Not good.

[dweebcentric]

this is the ideal. but Ned Beatty's monologue (which you can also see on youtube) was the truth.

[phillipblnt]

To still have such current discussions about this topic, (and on this clip) as well, Give me chills. Sidney Lumet saw truth in this topic, 35 yrs ago. But it still unfolded.

BlackWaax, mankind has dwelled long enough on the past, looking for purpose. When the "kind solution" became the "weak way", we lost our path. Illusions of grandeur became the school of the modern.

[troopofdoom3000]

I love irony of a something on Tv saying that Television is all a bunch of lies. its very much like Charlie Brookers Tv Shows.

[svenlundergard1]

I watched this movie about 30 years ago and I swear to you all, I stopped watching TV.  I remember walking in my neighborhood and thinking, "Wow, everyone watches this blue box and we are being manipulated by big business" I was only a teenager. I dropped out of TV and when I see it now and then, like in a hotel when I'm curious to see what's on these days, I just can't believe what I am seeing. Absolute dumbing down of the world, so big businesses can manipulate us into buying anything. TRAGIC!

[Stranglehold432]

''Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamn amusement park!''

Exactly.

[platinum1987]

I personally dont give a shit whatever i hear on the news. You can all die

[wickedmillepertuis]

@platinum1987 wow...your heartlessness will come back to haunt u...who hurt you? We all come to love like refugees

[Jermaine1986]

Wake up Sheeple from this mass media/hipnosis 

[Lava91point0]

It's hard to pull away from that "comfortable" illusion we all wallow in, it's only when you step back and look in from the outside that you start to see it. Television is put simply - the tool that fools, the worker-ant mentality drilled into us until we've accepted it, it's what makes you apathetic.. After work folks will go home and sit watching sports and entertainment as if it's actually giving them real information, it's insane. Wake up

[Kahiara]

I know I'm indoctrinated... and yet it's still so hard to escape the captor you've been socialised and brought up with. :(

[182popeye]

lolll the ending was funny...

[XtCcHoSeN]

Funny how idiots can sit here and bicker with each other, negating the entire message of the movie. Shut up please.

[HomleandSecurity]

This guy is ripping off Glenn Beck

[dalepmay]

@HomleandSecurity Really? A guy in a movie from over 30 years ago is ripping off Glenn Beck? Glenn Beck was 12 years old when this movie was made. Please back up your claim with some evidence. What did Glenn Beck say or do at the age of 12, or earlier, that this man "ripped off"?

[HomleandSecurity]

@dalepmay I bet it was posted on YouTube after Beck was on TV

[dalepmay]

@HomleandSecurity That's your line of logic? Really? So if I post a video from Pearl Harbor day, I am just ripping off the movie?

Or how about all the 9/11 tribute videos, those are just ripping off Al Qaeda aren't they?

Your logic makes me sad.

[HomleandSecurity]

@dalepmay It only works for me. If you try to do it, you'e just ripping me off and you look like a fucking retard.

[Fireball69]

@HomleandSecurity i saw this movie 5 yrs before i heard of glen beck

[HomleandSecurity]

@Fireball69 I heard of Glenn Beck before he was cool.

[burnstagger]

You have meddeled with the primal forces of nature!

[gregalabama]

Academy Awards

Network won three of the four acting awards, tying the record of 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire. As of 2011, Network is the last film to have won three of the four Academy Awards for acting.

Won Best Actor in a Leading Role — Peter Finch Best Actress in a Leading Role — Faye Dunaway Best Actress in a Supporting Role — Beatrice Straight Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen — Paddy Chayefsky

[BlackWaax]

have faith within our people, there is no color, no race. there are our brothers and sisters, the ones we journey through this world and unto the next. i noticed one thing. ever since i turned off my tv and havent turned on for about a month, i have never felt so free.....

[Cheremon]

@BlackWaax but have you turned off your tv and moved to the computer? real freedom (for me) would be getting away from my laptop...and the thought terrifies me. isn't that sick?

[Freezykow]

@BlackWaax But yet your on the internet which is arguably worse?

[BeamingSplendor]

@Freezykow Even if watching an educated show on Television, you still get bombarded with mind corrupting advertisements. The Internet CAN be worse than the Television but the great thing about is, In the Internet, you have the ability to control what content you want to view and take in. You have ability to block advertising, and You have the ability to search for and watch any content you want. There is greater power of choice in the Internet, specially these days with the technology.

[Frost3784]

@BlackWaax You are wrong, there is race, and there is color. Racial diversity exists, to ignore it is to ignore history.

[dweebcentric]

@BlackWaax - but what about your computer?

[roxieheart100]

i wish I could find a way to take over the emergency broadcast system and play this message over and over again. because we need to get out of this coma that the corrupt media has put us in. MENTAL RESISTANCE WOOHOO!

[kubaner]

@roxieheart100 Most of the media's tactic of brainwashing the public is derived from Operation Mockingbird (1976).

[WillHear432]

It HAS fallen into the hands of the wrong people.

[KDanagger]

@WillHear432

Yes, the tube has fallen into the wrong hands. The news isn't news anymore, it's all propaganda and mind control.

However, we have right in front of us an equally powerful force. Many people don't realize the potential of Youtube. It is still a channel for uncensored, unfiltered information. The fact is, television news viewing is declining rapidly. More and more people are going to the alternative news sites, and even Youtube to find out what is REALLY going on in the world.

[daveNselena]

Yeah Century of Self, Freuds relative: Anti Christ.

[mattme020202]

Check out Century of Self sometime!!!

[CreativePotion]

@msgt33

It's not "believing".. lmao! I KNOW it's an inside job, you can't tell me I don't, because I know, and you don't know what I know, and until you do, then you'll know it's an inside job.

[ThaJointRadio]

I finally had the pleasure of watching this entire movie yesterday.. WHOA!!! 

[Freezykow]

Imagine if this guy saw the internet?

[CreativePotion]

The day I seen this, I never watched TV again, I use the computer now..

[Freezykow]

@CreativePotion lmao yeah that will fix everything

[CreativePotion]

@Freezykow

It did, I now know 9/11 is an inside job.....

[urizen1]

This film became an inspiration to Fox News. Irony is dead.

[mark0s3000]

He's describing FOX News.

[estellelight]

WHY Has the embedding been disabled? who requested?

[DamirAndIrina]

aug 30 2006 wow long time ago

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[indydaisy1]

the boredom killing buisness, go outside people wake up.

[Jayurba]

One of the finest moments in cinema history

[TheKrackMagic]

please tell me did he actually die at the end? what happened???

[96Towers]

@TheKrackMagic dude its a movie.

[Lennyfred]

@TheKrackMagic

he didn´t die at the end of this scene. watch the movie. it´s well worth it.

[kanakaken]

@TheKrackMagic Peter Finch died in 1977 after making Raid on Entebe. He made network in 1976. He was born in England went to Australia at the age of 10 learning his craft there.

[Ro3NiN]

videodrome



[cartex12]

for those who have not tried going an extended period of time without watching tv at all, or watching shows on the internet. i highly suggest trying it, do it for a month or longer and you will start to notice yourself getting happier and more calm. Maybe it will be much faster than that too, who knows.

[loombaron]

there are good things on TV but 90% is rubbish.

[komaki119]

@loombaron 90% is commercials remaining 10% is rubbish =100% shit

[MegaDimon1991]

i stop watching television 6 months now ad don't wanna see anything on it anymore.

[MicahBuzan]

what is this guy's name?

[CoolerKing37]

@MicahBuzan Peter Finch.

[TheStrazy]

So this isnt about casey anthoney? WTH? I want my mind numbing daily broadcast of drubbish !!!!!

[Marronisince1990]

watch?v=jG3BeS98qsY&feature=re­lated

[NeutralBeholder]

Very thought provoking. I do not watch TV much, however I recognize the influence it has over the minds of man. It wouldn't surprise me if modern TV entertainment actually makes people stupider just by watching it.

[highlander101279]

@NeutralBeholder Stupider????????.........prove­n your own point I think

[NeutralBeholder]

@highlander101279 Ah, well. You got me. I'm not a native English speaker, though. Honest mistake, really.

[Jonnybass7]

@AntiFaithNY Amen.

[LovinLearnin]

No one HAS to watch tv. It is for bored people who prefer NOT to think anyway. My kids were raised with just the channel 03 and movies, and we never even desire to watch that bullshit. Smart people CAN'T watch tv.

[jpass2424]

RIP Caylee Anthony.

[dconthe3]

i liked the whole message until he said look for truth in god. leave religion out of it, just get some people to start reading some fucking books and newspapers and to actually get EDUCATED about the world. disagree with me? watch some of kassem g's "california on" videos and you can see what i mean

[tenkats]

@dconthe3 I disagree, and I don't think "California On" would change my mind. It's not about including God in secular, rational discourse whether that's bad or good is not the point of the movie. It may just be that the character and the story is the product of its time. It could be that the audience is the American Republican. In another example, the film "The Birth of a Nation" wasn't promoting the KKK, it was merely depicting what was standard during the time of the KKK.

[dojufitz]

well written scene.....not like the bs of today.

[qoaa]

He is spot on about

Cnn/Fox/Msnbc/Abc/Cbs/and rest of every mass media and printed paper organization

[dragnet53]

@AntiFaithNY

maybe comet elenin will be the reset button you want. That sucker is a big comet and the mainstream is not even mentioning it. it could possible that it could mess this place up.

[Empre55]

Switch it off....n go into nature and wake up to the reality that you are the best thing since sliced bread.

[csm07cb]

i would really like to see this movie in its entirty, what is the name or is there a link to a site i could watch it?

[eurohim]

@csm07cb It is called, "Network."

[mcoldskool]

NWO is here

[JRobdakid2]

why wont it play when i post it on FB?

[taliesin939939]

@JRobdakid2 its a conspiracy lol

*twighlight zone theme song*

[bvdek]

What movie is it from?

[DedHedJosh]

@bvdek Network(1976) it's an amazing movie.

[bvdek]

@DedHedJosh Cheers mate.. yeah, I plan to watch it very soon.. just caught this very same clip (and a couple of others) on 'Zeitgeist - Moving forward'.. but I suspect most here would already be aware of that... lol

[jad3948]

this is modern shakespeare

[LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[voodoochild954]

i'm doing this for a drama class monologue. hope it goes swimmingly......

[timberwolves100]

This man is my hero even if he himself was an illusion. :D

[josesias]

@timberwolves100 that is why i put him on every day. my wife asks why i dont watch television anymore, and i put this on for her to hear.

[devtrash]

My issue with the message is that somehow newspapers and magazines and books never lie. HA

Spanish American war. Google that one people..

[PropheticVindicator]

@devtrash You can't trust anything of this world, so run to Jesus who is the way, the truth, and the life.

[imnorml904]

@PropheticVindicator  jesus isnt the truth. jesus is a lie for weak minded people who cant think for themselves.

[PropheticVindicator]

@imnorml904 God looks to a humble and contrite spirit; and unless you humble yourself before a holy God, you will not see the Kingdom of God.

[MrBluntHonesty]

@PropheticVindicator You do realise you just said to run towards the sun? Seeing as how Jesus along with most other deities with the traits he inherited are simply personifications of the sun. I'm not sure why I even bother to type this other than to perhaps open up some doubt, seeing as doubt is the most important thing that we humans have to actually make a change for the better in this world. Although religions, aswell as the media, frown upon doubts and questions... "I'm mad as hell!"

[PropheticVindicator]

@MrBluntHonesty Zeitgest has already been refuted... *yawn*

[croHDgaming]

TUBE... Network?

[MartialDuartist]

I sold my television a year ago.

[pyrox94x]

osama isn't dead

[keeganlv]

@pyrox94x still? I was thinking it's been awhile.

[drrhole]

most every american should watch this twice.bigups

[tantrum42069]

You know even though this movie won Oscar Awards, you will NEVER see it on TV! Wonder why?

[TVFREAKMAN]

@tantrum42069

actually, the TCM network shows this movie occasionally........but usually only very late at night.

[MrSuperMegafication]

@tantrum42069 I saw Network at 1:00AM about three months ago.

[garvess]

@tantrum42069 I watched it on tv last week. Standard cable.

[adrianogunz]

@tantrum42069 IFC, brother... played ONCE

[hillcresthawk]

Ohhhh...this should definitely apply now since Osama is dead smh...the sheep of america will eat up anything....anything

[lmmtonytouch]

@hillcresthawk the stupid of the world*** will eat anything their given ...

[str8ownage]

Amen mother fuckers

[packdude182]

the last line of the movie was easily the best line ever

[polkmqn2]

@AntiFaithNY

true man, true indeed, no matter how much we want it not to be....

[Lo71987]

NWO is coming

[thefutureofball]

@Lo71987 no my friend it's already here........

[Lo71987]

@thefutureofball I know but i meant as in people need to wake up lol

[thefutureofball]

@Lo71987 please more people care about obamas birth certificate or the "royal wedding" than freeing their minds :/............

[Lo71987]

@thefutureofball yup i mean im happy for will an kate but... smh no family is worth the attention.

[KQH8]

@Lo71987 Its already here, its been here for years.

[Lo71987]

@KQH8 well i forgot to ass that part looool

[wildabeast11235]

@Lo71987 You have completely missed the point of the above video. Watch again more closely. I'll give you a clue. (just because it didn't come out of the TV doesn't mean it's any more true than the shit that does) Replace the word television with media in his speech and re-watch.

[DedHedJosh]

@Lo71987 - THEY ARE ALREADY HERE! AND HAVE BEEN FOR A WHILE. WE HAVE JUST NOW REALLY NOTICED THEM.



[PainlessTragedy]

@Lo71987 NWO is already here...Newsflash, Corporations and Governments violating our human rights...YOu have already been Enslaved. You just don't know it yet.

[MrSuperMegafication]

@Lo71987 When?

[Distortion0]

@Lo71987 NWO is already here. Has been since it won the Cold War.

[TripleOG1991]

Tube = TV

[Wecanstopnwo1]

peliculon

[ViralDesign]

Amazing monologue

[dancrin]

Love it

[TheCIAsucks]

How could anyone dislike this? Maybe they are people who get offended when they feel like they are being spoken down to? It's so true though. People in America rarely read anything besides the Bible and a few assigned chapters from textbooks. The news has been nothing but entertainment for a few decades now.

[69TheGeneral]

"THIS TUBE"- YouTube

[Caineheist]

This tube = YouTube

[KastorOA]

Rest in peace Sidney Lumet

[rolgib]

When I read that Dish Network just bought Blockbuster for $225 Million CASH I said that's an awful lot of CASH until I found out later that Dish Network owns all the communications devices that Direct TV and others use to broadcast ! We are in a lot of trouble, believe it, Sydney did !

[pseudotruth]

When I used a word that sounds like pox, think Faux, my comment didn't appear.

Interesting!

[pseudotruth]

Would 43 people be Faux News executives?

[masterjedi89]

@pseudotruth its not just fox news, its everybody! there is almost a bias no matter where you get your news from. People who solely get their news from one source (like fox news) are imbeciles! The problem is that people are conditioned to believe anything they see. Almost no one is a skeptic anymore. The clever thing today is that the best propaganda is the kind no one is aware of and the American media is successful at it! It's all bullshit to keep people stupid and their minds vacant