Network" (1976) Howard Beale "Mad As Hell" Speech delivered by Peter Finch
Transcript:
Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard.
Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows thing...
Network" (1976) Howard Beale "Mad As Hell" Speech delivered by Peter Finch
Transcript:
Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard.
Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
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When you look around you and then talk to your grandpa, he will say something like "in these days you cant do anything". It is true, you cant even smoke where you want, or drink beer on the beach. You don't hear good news, just bad news and each time you have to give up something in the name of freedom. And i know that "nation that gives up a bit of freedom to gain a bit of security deserves neither".
Bit of a stupid speech, seeing as its basically saying "I don't know whats happening, but it must be bad and lets get angry about it!", but it is a very iconic line :]
your an idiot. He's talking about complacency and people are asleep at the wheel letting things go to shit. First thing to wake you up out of your slumber is to realize you should be pissed at the world around you because things should not be this way.
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