"The World Is a Business, Mr. Beale"
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- "It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today...
and YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And you will atone."
Network (1976)
Believe it or don't believe it: in the 1970s, my father was a limousine driver in Manhattan. He picked up several celebrities and high-profile people. He remembered Ned Beatty for being the nicest, kindest and most laid-back passenger. Ned was attending some kind of a gala and dad was sitting outside behind the wheel. Ned brought dad food and coffee, and made sure he was comfortable during his wait. True story.
I had a friend's brother who was a hotel concierge and met Bob Newhart and said he was a down to earth kind of guy. Very gracious man.
I believe you, and it's nice to hear good things about a celebrity I've always liked. I love this movie. It was decades ahead of its time, and this is one of my favorite scenes.
That's really badass of him.
So ahead of its time .. please buy xlm & xrp
I totally believe you. I heard that Ned was a good guy who really didn't forget where he came from. I also think Ned was a great actor in this segment - "and you shall atone." I enjoyed reading your blog. Thanks
Everyone talks about Ned yelling "You! Will! Atone!" And certainly they should; he's great at yelling! But what's positively bone-chilling for me is when he's quiet, whispering his anointment of Mr. Beale as the prophet of corporate salavation, damnation disguised as apotheosis. Electric stuff. RIP Ned.
‘Every anxiety....tranquillised’
Ned is a legend.
It’s the immediate shift back after for me.
'But why me?'
It's not him "yelling" he's mocking the news guy, and once he drive through the point of an near breaking of reality, he comes back down and tells him how it REALLY is and then scoops him up
A scene more relevant today than it was then.
@Peter Gabe ATMs?
Look through the history of society itself. It's always been operated on the true golden rule: he who has the gold (resources) makes the rules.
Revolution comes when people feel their governing or ruling body can no longer provide resources and protection, and no sooner
@Peter Gabe dollars on the computer screen as opposed to physical dollars. In essence, digital.
And even more relevant two years after this original comment ☝
@Peter Gabe Stocks i think
1976: Electro-Dollars
2022: Bitcoin
The greatest oscar never awareded....
You are absolutely Correct, Ned Beatty deserved it that year !
peter o toole didnt win best actor for lawrence of arabia
Well, at least they had the good sense to give Peter Finch the award he richly deserved.
Although I love this scene, there are two other scenes that are better. The marriage break-up scene and the "got to get mad" scene. Although I probably play this more than the others on youtube.
Actually under the petrodollar scheme the Arabs had to put the money back into the US.
It was a matter of government policy, not the free market.
I’ve heard Beatty shot this on his very first take. He mastered his lines and his performance, all done in one take.
He was hired with 4 days notice after the previous actor in the role wasn’t working out; he learned his lines on the flight from LA to NY to shoot the scene.
@@Conn88 Insane level of talent, thats how you tell he's a real professional
Almost 50 years later these truths still hold true, perhaps even more so now
Some things never change...
@@joeking6972few things do
They always have, they always will.🤷🏼♂️
Yes.
Yes, very sad.
This speech is even more topical today than when this movie was made 40 years ago. The only thing that has changed is the name of the corporations , I mean "nations of the world"
The names havent changed... the names just got more and more plentiful. The amount of "nations" has grown, and will continue to grow exponentially as we continue down the dark, hopeless path we're quickly sinking down into. Corporations are the only thing keeping us afloat, and will be and are the true downfall of western society, that and political unrest among our citizens. While everyone is fighting over hating/liking Trump or some other political figure, nobody is paying attention to what these companies are up to.
@Four Teen Yeah man for sure. I totally agree. Its really sad to see. Then you see them supporting extreme left wing terrorist groups like Black Lives Matter. Its depressing.
@@MTFOphantom So you basically agree with Mr Beatty's character?
@@Lennon6412 Sadly I do. "Every anxiety tranquilized, every boredom amused"
it has been topical since we invented money.
You have to admire Paddy Chayefsky. Imagine being able to write dialogue like that. He was a true genius.
One of my favorite movie scenes
Anthony Swindell One of the most important.
Monty Python. Short Bankers in The meaning of life.
"The world is a business MR Swindell!"
Ned Beatty should have won an Oscar for this singular scene. This film should have won Best Picture.
Nah it's a little too on the nose for the Hollywood elite.
"I have seen the face of god" "You just might be right Mr. Beal" all said in the conference room named Valhalla.
RIP Mr Beatty, the greatest one scene performance in movie history.
@Randy White That’s just not how things work...
@@BlackAbe007 he was nominated for this scene dummy
@@WesCoastPiano First Of all. I never said anything bad about your freakin hero, or this incredible piece of movie history. Second of all, nomination is NOT Winning. Third of all , you have no sense of humor. 4. You are a rude person. 5. Please Dwell on this...
Yeah, you only say that BECAUSE THE STORY IS SO VERY TRUE🙂🙃😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🤩😜🤪😝🤑🤑🤑
You cannot be serious. Overacting his way to an Oscar nomination. He was much more convincing in the rape scene in DELIVERANCE.
The biggest truth drop in cinema history.
Yet he started by saying "let me try to sell you something"...
its not truth. You are just too easy to convince, that was the point. He's convincing and its hard to argue against him, but he's wrong
@@AmelpsXettI can’t find anywhere that he’s wrong.Take one look at China. They aren’t really adhering to that whole Maoism thing too closely, are they? Not when the US is their number one consumer of goods. What broke the Soviet Union? Economics. The only color that matters in the end is green, and those at the top seem to forget all of their political ideologies once human greed takes over, whether that’s for money or for power or for both. Why do you also think a third world war is so unlikely to happen? Because the economic super powers do not want to lose trillions in GDP. It would be mutually assured destruction if they do. Ukraine is about as far as Russia can dare take it. The same can be said with Gaza and Israel. China will never attack its number one consumer. Surveillance yes. Attack, no. And what do you think happens when those at the top of specific communist authoritarian dictatorships find their way to the top? To hell with their collectivism, and on with the greed. They want for nothing while the rest of the country starves: They’ll likely do just enough to keep their own bellies fat at least I guarantee you that.
The same can be said of the GOP in the US. To hell with you. I got mine.
And all the powers that be need are talking heads and influencers and poverty to keep the masses in line so they keep consuming and keep funneling money to the top.
Again, at what point is this speech wrong? As long as human greed and scarcity exists, it will only get more and more true and more and more prophetic.
@@valkhorn I really don't understand why you wrote 80% of this text, but it's only a half truth.
It's not about just greed and scarcity. No matter the greed, there are the same people in the seats as us, the ones who don't want a nuclear war to break out and the ones who don't want their families to starve.
The world will ever get to the point of one or couple corporations ruling everything
@@AmelpsXetthahahahah😂 what do you think amazon is? amazon ALREADY rules the world dummy
THE most profound, powerful, and accurate movie. this is our world now more so than ANY other “ prophetic work” like 1984, brave new world, etc. Should be talk about much more
This is the genius of Paddy Chayefsky... The most accurate depiction of the current world in 5 minutes
I thought "Network" was a satire. It's more like a documentary.
Wall Street right now: YOU PEOPLE HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE
GAME STOP Share Holders..🍷😆😆 >> *'TO THE MOON EVERYBODY !'*
@@evm6177 😃🚀
Soon comes another round 🚀
@@antagonistlover when?
and to think back then ,I thought it was just a movie. Come to think of it, we used to say that about everthing,....
it's only a movie
If we only knew then.....what we know now.
Only a book....
"What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx." LOL
The Soviets at the time were state capitalists actually (not socialist by any sense) so of course they didn't but which they should have in order to have avoided the neoliberal corruption it is now with Putin
@Ben Baxter same as everyone else.
@@grammapauly7111 at least capitalists are honest about it.
Brilliant!..lol
@@MK-oz2lf you're about as smart as Elizabeth Warren is Native American
Network is a film that so perfectly understands the neutralisng ability of capital to twist even those explicitly railing against it towards its own ends. How dissent is addressed not with censorship, but with redirection, distraction and spectacle, such that an alternate vision of how the world might be is always simply repurposed to uphold the status quo without ever needing to be confronted head on.
The world this scene articulates IS the reality we now take for granted. The world that the realist worldview of media operates in service of. Neo-liberalism won, and the world that it created is one where an alternative system is all but impossible to imagine because social imagination itself has been slowly whittled away into meaningless-ness - even when its abscence may be leading us towards inexorable collapse at the hands of ecological catastrophe, endemic corruption, inequality and socio-political stagnation.
Beautifully put. Your comment makes me want to reread "capitalist realism" by mark fisher
@@somedipshitinthecomments2507
“It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet.”
What’s scary is learning who has cornered the market on currency itself, the Central Banks, and that they have had utter control for the last hundred years. Us little people are like cattle before them in our lack of understanding of our situation.
One of the best and most important comments on the whole of youtube.
Your name is some dipshit in the comments but your comment indicates you're at least an exceptional dipshit.
Technically we'd uphold slavery because of the security it provides. Instead of actualizing our free will.
One of the most terrifying and incredible scene I ever saw in a movie. Still relevant to this day. Really haunting performance! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When I saw Network in '76 at the age of 12 or 13 I didn't understand a lot of the satire and this scene especially. I knew that it was something special and unique and it would takes a couple decades to fully "get" it. I liked it in '76 and would put it on my list of all-time favourite films. It never fails to engage me no matter how many times I have watched the film. This scene is probably my favourite. Ned Beatty just nails it. As brief as the scene is he deserved his Oscar nomination.
Who took you to such an adult themed movie at 12 ? I'd be bored stiff...willy wonka is more like it at that age , or the love bug...
@@danieltossounian1962 Back in those days it was possible...
Just watching that scene because of Jimmy McGill
Does the show reference it at some point?
@@TheManKnownAsAi in the first episode of Better Call Saul, Jimmy enters into the room where howard hamlin, kim and others sit shouting : "You have medled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Hamlin, and I won't have it !" and lives the romm shouting "And you will atone" and when he realizes nobody seems to understand the reference, he says "Ned Beatty, from the Network. Jesus Christ, guys"
@@TheManKnownAsAiLiterally the first episode
Only saw this film for the first time yesterday. The scene made me think of Seymore Hofman in The Master. Unreal.
Paul Thomas Anderson screened Network for the entire cast and crew of Magnolia before shooting began.
Amazeballs 😍
Interesting that you say that. The only other actor I could imagine doing this monologue so well is Hoffman.
Absolutely brilliant performance, Mr. Beatty.
"...because you're on television, dummy."
Who here is here because of Max Derrat?
Max told me to watch, so I watch.
whenever someone you know gets up in arms about politics show them this...a movie that predicted the future so accurately i'm surprised its not banned.
I agree but I would call it a plan vs a prediction. The same essential things have been said in so many different formats for decades as it is predictive programming. For eg., 4:09 reminds one of Brave New World. How many people are on soma now?
Cool Cat...
It's neither prediction nor programming it's simply describing the world as it was back then and as anyone with pattern recognition saw the world. It's a great scene but only a revelation if you hadn't already come to the same conclusions.
@@ruizt SOcial MediA = Soma
And our children will live to see that perfect world... In which there will be one vast ecumenical holding company, for which all men will work, in which all men will have a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxiety tranquilized, all boredom amused.
I came into this movie thinking the "Mad as Hell" speech would be the best monologue in this movie. I was damn wrong.
There are so so many.
Translation: "Global corporations are calling ALL the shots."
Yes. I posted 2 years ago this is the best explanation of the New World Order, now called the Great Reset and the Green Movement ever.
Mr. Beale: "This is Madness!!'
Ned: "No"
"THIS IS BUSINESS!"
In the 300 comic, he doesn't yell it. So that's very fitting for how quiet he goes.
that's Jeff Bezos screaming at Bernie Sanders.
@Peter Gabe power companies sell 'power' amongst themselves in megawatt/hrs and use the Infrastructure to transfer it.
Kinda like how PG&E used PNW companies to supply regions that they were supposed to supply but weren't bothered to maintain/establish infrastructure.
The long table has two rows of bankers lamps. Perhaps symbolizing bankers and their influence on commerce and world affairs in general.
I remember watching this scene for the first time. And when the “why me” part comes full circle it is one of my favorite feelings of awesomeness from any movie ever. It felt like a revelation just like mr Beale
where are the Chayefskys of today? who has taken up his mantle? was he really just a one-off singular genius so brilliant that we cannot hope to see his like again?
BillyPentangeles Movies that require thought don't make money, ESPECIALLY in Asian markets. Studios will be milking light sabers and superheroes until the cow dies, then they'll make straight to video meatloaf.
Andrea Tharp I’m lucky to have great independent theaters cause their is only garbage in the big theaters
I really saw promise in Jason Reitman when Thank You For Smoking came out, but he's kind of devolved into a indie dramedy by the numbers writer and director. But I think you're vastly right. All movie satires seem to be largely watered down, and the good ones come from mostly adapted literature (Fight Club for example). The societal satire has mostly existed in television for a while now, primarily animated television (South Park, Beevis and Butthead, and The Simpsons in the past, maybe Rick & Morty today) where people won't take it too seriously because of the medium. Think the idea of that messaging and what the networks (or streaming companies what have you) will allow to broadcast ties quite well into the theme of this monologue.
I'd argue for Aaron Sorkin.
I'm trying dammit.
"It's Ned Beatty from Network...
For Christ's sake guys..."
It's 2023. The bad guys won. :(
A lesson many still fail to learn, on all sides of the political spectrum.
You're right. And now here we are.
I know he said "all men will serve a common profit"
But I can't help but think... it was done on purpose..
Profit....Prophet....
"I have seen the face of god."
Plus, a world where all men work for one "company", own stock in that "company" and the company provides all, that's basically a (weird) version of communism.
"Money, not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations."--Thomas Jefferson.
tree beard - absolutely! the same though came to me immediately. they were illustrating that money is the new religion.
@@RedroomStudios I think this new religion came into being with the age of the film: "Wall Street."
Damn... now I cannot un-hear it.
Now im watching this everyday
I swear the more you learn about how the real world works it starts to become terrifying to learn the truth, can I just go back into the martix?
You know the steak isn't real but it's delicious, tbh the dark truth is always better then a lie
12 Angry Men, The Hill, The Group, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Murder on the Orient Express, The Verdict, the list goes on and on. Like Scorsese, Coppola, Huston, Ford, Fellini, and others. Sidney Lumet was one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived. Amy and Jenny Lumet his daughters will carry on his work.
this is frightening because it is still oh so relevant
RIP Ned.
Ned Beatty wow what a great actor he was in so many films sad hes only remembered in Deleverance.
Superman
Network, nominated for Oscar
Nashville
All the President's Men
Silver Streak
He's been in dozens of great movies
K Doherty Hopscotch
Wheeeeeee Louder! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
How the holy fuck does this not with Ned Beatty an Oscar. It's the most magnificent, eternally relevent scene in cinema history. I must have linked it to people a hundred times by now.
He was nominated. The problem is there were like 8 Oscar worthy performances in this movie. Look up Marlene Warfield's "distribution costs" scene in this movie.
@@Atreus21 Indeed. What a movie.
Chilling and invigorating scene, a masterpiece
They have to tell you what they are doing and it goes right over peoples heads.
👍 ✓
That’s the real red pill: that the elites are right to despise you.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once said "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
How right he was.
Love this Movie. Feel it today
...Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook...
and starbucks
Ned Beatty was only 38 when this was filmed. Wow! Dude looks at least 50
RIP Ned Beatty
Whenever this particular scene gets uploaded in german, it gets immediately taken down.
mmmmmm? Why?
@@SuperGuanine If you think the US and England are worse off regarding Propaganda and the dumbing down of the citizens, try growing up in Germany. A lot of important knowledge isn't even translated anymore. Even the book "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays from 1923 (which influenced Goebbels) was first translated in 2007! It's just depressing to see.
I was really hoping for something like this when watching the episode of “American Gods” that had _Mr. World._ Instead, I got salsa.
Jekyll Island Monster it is.
I love that little push that is giving to Beale as he enters the room.
This movie aged well.
"All necessities, provided;
All anxieties, tranquilized;
All boredom, amused."
This line is particularly terrifying.
Relevant
What a stunningly Brilliant actor Ned Beatty was. To go from Bobby in Deliverance, to Otis in Superman, to this stunningly accurate scene of modern day financial corruption. WOW!!!!!! What a truly superb actor he really was:- R.I.P. Sir, you will be sadly missed.
The best scene of all times no doubt about it
I dedicated a house track to this movie and sampled Beale's "mad as hell" speech, which is on my channel (track is called Get Mad). It's not for everyone, but I'm sure some of you will like it.
Even Jimmy McGill is a fan.
"Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary-- that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object--that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated--chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point! I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key! It may be at the cost of his skin, it may be by cannibalism! And this being so, can one help being tempted to rejoice that it has not yet come off, and that desire still depends on something we don't know?"~Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grumblebuggy Spergamatron
Thank you so much for posting this.
What does any of that mean though?
It means that even if the world's leaders, the corporate plutocrats and communist dictators, "could" achieve their pet utopia projects, mankind will never accept even the most beneficial execution of it.
Like a wild animal, it's live free or die, forever.
I was expecting him to finish his tirade with "and there is no Queen of England!"
all boredom amused, all people distracted
R.I.P. Ned B.
The United States (US) isn’t a democracy, because 100% of her citizens are not represented in her government. This clip accurately portrays the US as a plutocracy.
The US is today at war with the Russian Federation in Ukraine for the exclusive benefit of US oligarchs. Over a million US citizens died due to the coronavirus, and 38 million Americans still live today in poverty! The People’s Republic of China, however, and claimed to be a dictatorship by the US, has already eliminated poverty at home, despite having 4 times the US’ population. 80% of the richest men in the world are Americans.
shortest screen time for Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
The lighting in this movie is phenomenal
THIS IS THE BEST CLIP TO SHOW A NOOBIE HOW THE WORLD WORKS
R.I.P. Ned Beatty.
It's great but depressingly true.
Go get ya booster jab 💉
@@richard7645 nah
He's predicting the future world of Rollerball.
RIP Ned Beatty.
Paddy's masterpiece. The modern Shakespeare.
When this scene came out. It was viewed as an EXAGERATION. Today. the Davos Types have shown us. It was actually an
UNDERSTATEMENT.
Ya'll👀?👀Yet?
You bet.
One of the more brilliant and underrated actors in history. Rest In Peace.
This scene is when I realised this movie was one of my favourites of all time
ELECTRODOLLARS!!! Blockchain: predicted!!!
Mr. Hamlin atoned
Max Derrat sent me. 👍
Me too. 👍
3:47
This is what most people don't understand about these types of elite people, when they say: "Our Children..." they literally mean their children. Not yours. 😏 Just something for you guys to think about.
I saw this movie the first time it was shown on TV(!). This was some time in the late 70's, I think. Nothing could have prepared me for this scene.
Now, 40+ years later, there's nothing to disprove what was said - except that our children DID NOT end up living in a world where there is not war, famine, oppression, brutality, and pestilence. People in high places still profit from this, so,,, it goes on.
Fantastic performance, really highlights the irony of a false promise like the one he's making when you look at the world today. Just shows we really need to fix things
Thanks to Immortal Techs - Rich mans world (1%) for introducing me to this.
Electro dollars are now called cryptocurrency.
Every single company he lists in this speech (2:39) still exists 50 years later. Every. Single. Company. Nations come and go. Multinational oligopolies are forever.
Globalism Defined
Right up there with Gordon Gecko's Greed is Good speech!
Prescient speech considering this 45 years old.
So true...scary!
Ned Beatty, from Network.
For Christ's sakes, guys.
*walks out of boardroom*
‘The world is a business, Mr Beale. And it has been since man crawled out of the slime.’
One of the greatest, and most apt movie scenes of all time.
Interesting.
Better Call Saul!!!
I wish I had such a silver tongue.