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This is one of my all time favorite scenes from any movie - Peter Finch as Howard Beale is absolutely electrifying. What is chilling to me is how pertinent his rant is today... see for yourselves.

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  • Great scene but it's a double-edge sword. In one moment Beale just lifted a nation, but at this point doesn't know he's being used. The people who are yelling, are they yelling because the feel mad? Maybe. Some might be doing it because they want to feel like the majority outsider.

    What's amazing about the scene isn't just what Beale is saying but what is going on behind the scenes. Amazing if you look at the coverage over the whole teabag thing which in retrospect was complete bollocks.

  • It speaks to the power of the media, television in particular, and how easily peoples thought and behavior can be manipulated...

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  • One of the greatest scenes ever in movie history!

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  • PETER FINCH,,,,DID YOU GET THE ACCENT???

    PETER FINCH IS OR WAS AN AUSTRALIAN....................­.LIKE ERROL FLYNN

    AS AN AUSSIE MYSELF, I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.

    I CAN STILL HEAR HIS AUSSIE ACCENT, CAN YOU??

    SAM NEILL IS A NEW ZEALANDER AND PLAYED SATAN IN "THE FINAL CONFLICT"

  • PETER FINCH,,,,DID YOU GET THE ACCENT???

    PETER FINCH IS OR WAS AN AUSTRALIAN....................­.LIKE ERROL FLYNN

    AS AN AUSSIE MYSELF, I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.

    I CAN STILL HEAR HIS AUSSIE ACCENT, CAN YOU??

  • PETER FINCH,,,,DID YOU GET THE ACCENT???

    PETER FINCH IS OR WAS AN AUSTRALIAN....................­.

    AS AN AUSSIE MYSELF, I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.

    I CAN STILL HEAR HIS AUSSIE ACCENT, CAN YOU??

  • ......and then, with the backing of corporate money, they formed the Tea Party. A "grassroots" organization that strangely were 99.9% white former Republicans, who decried their higher taxes, even though they were the lowest in 50 years.

  • good example of people see what the media gives them

  • @McGeeToo Give me 72 hours and I could brainwash anyone.

  • @GeneralBulldog54 I couldn't agree more. That's how the world works, the naive people with the best of messages are easily used to boost corporate greed.

  • "I'm MAD as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!!"

  • cool vid keep it up

  • Eerily prescient. Thirty years later most of the "news" media is dominated by exactly this sort of lunatic grandstanding.

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