Mad As Hell - Network 1976
This needs no introduction. Peter Finch won the Oscar for his role as Howard Beale.
Video - I'm mad as hell - Scene from Network - 1976
Transcript
"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 TV's 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 know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are 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 gonna 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 got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! 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, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!""
This might be the most important scene from the movie but there are no embeddable versions available, so watch it on youtube.
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Jun 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Reader Comments (9)
i linked this above...this is perhaps the best scene...
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/irs-tax-liens-jump-by-60-but-how.html
They been calling this "green shoots, and our new economy" for many years now. Many lives, businesses, are being destroyed by the governments war on wages coupled with an ever increasing need for greater revenue. They really need those taxes to use them to help move companies out of America, and train foreigners to do our jobs.
The IGA that serves UC students was just closed for tax purposes.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110106/BIZ01/301060099/Keller-s-IGA-forced-to-close
You gotta love the new American dream, I have to chuckle when they call it progress.
http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/01/habitiat-for-humanity-now-forclosing-on.html
this could make some people angry....
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/01/federal-reserve-as-instrument-of-war.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/college-education-could-possibly-be.html
http://www.news-press.com/article/20110130/RE/110129012/1076/Loan-modifications-burn-many-homeowners
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-05-26/news/os-polk-detention-deputy-charged-20110526_1_child-pornography-polk-deputy-child-abuse