Jon Udell on Network
Jon Udell’s most recent post references Network, a highly under-rated film from 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 4 (best actor, best actress, best supporting actress, and best screenplay), but today it’s largely forgotten.
The film is a critique of television media and it’s cause/effect relationship with our society. Very profound. Too profound to get into now because I have a lot of homework to do.
I’m very impressed with Jon Udell. I will read his weblog regularly.
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October 16th, 2002 at 10:19 pm
i was just watching this on cable a few weeks ago.
i had no idea what it was at the time and remember thinking, “this is pretty cool… why have i never heard of it?
now in the past week i’ve noticed two references to it: your post and my econ prof muttering, “i’m mad as hell and i’m not going to take it anymore…”
October 16th, 2002 at 10:42 pm
Yeah, it’s a really awesome movie. A lot of the themes are parallel to American Beauty; themes critiquing mass consumerism and mass media, how the protagonist’s epiphany causes his life to spiral out of control, professional women trying to succeed in a male-dominated profession. Lots of parallels. Network is awesome.
October 17th, 2002 at 5:12 pm
American rage, and its subsequent containment as a source of corporate-conspiracy profit, is not a popular Hollywood subject.
Paddy Chayefsky — an amazing visionary.