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This movie was made in 1976 and it’s a warning that the U.S basically ignored seeing how today the most popular television is reality TV shows. The director wanted people to realize this is where TV is going and there is a beautiful point to it but if we take it too far TV will never be the same.
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This still applies today obviously because the most popular TV is the reality TV shows that have no meaning behind it at all. Basically sacrificing all for the ratings. The destruction of people’s lives and going against you’re morals to get the best ratings. The central message of this film is the destruction of informational news TV and bringing in the new reality TV. Beale is shot and killed on his show because the executives couldn’t let him and couldn’t keep him because of ratings. In the end Shumacher leaves Christensen because of her lack of a heart. This whole quest for ratings goes way to far having to deal with different rights groups who also want to get on air. Her being the heartless TV producer only looking for the best story and Shumacher just looking for a new love having to leave his wife for her. Christensen also finds a new love in Shumacher where it’s basically one sided. The whole network basically behind her destroys Beale and destroys real news just for ratings getting the first glimpses at reality television. She turns Beale’s serious acquisitions into the highest rating television they can possibly get. Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) is the VP of Programming and gets her eye on this new attraction. Through all the chaos and use of Beale as a way to get more ratings, he’s the only character who sees it as wrong a quits. Character Max Shumacher (William Holden) plays Beale’s boss and head of the news department. The pivotal point when all the moral decisions will be thrown away for popularity and ratings. The initial choice is to fire him but when they realize their ratings jump up quite significantly they decide to keep him.
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Chaos breaks out when they learn of the public reaction. The story starts out in a newsroom where character Howard Beale (Peter Finch) has an unusual broadcast claiming he’s going to kill himself on live television. The slaves are then hunted down and killed by their master, except one who escapes.In honor of the great screenwriter/director Sidney Lumet I’ve decided to do a movie analysis on one of his greatest works Network. However, when these promises are not held up the next day, the slaves rebel. He promises them a day off for the following Good Friday and commits to freeing one of the slaves. Whilst they eat and drink, he also feeds them religious rhetoric and attempts to instruct them in the workings of Christianity. In a misguided attempt to enlighten his African-originating slaves, a Count invites twelve of them to a dinner on Maundy Thursday in a re-enactment of the Last Supper with himself as Christ. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields, hoping to thus teach the slaves about Christianity.
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The film tells the story of a pious Havana plantation owner in the 1790s, during Cuba's Spanish colonial period.