YES, the movie audience enjoyed that part when I saw "Network" for the first time in a theater in January, 1977, I wasn't even 22 yet. "Network" was nominated but no Oscars yet. Later , Beale said that Ruddy guy died and I had no idea who he was talking about !
Duvall is electrifying in this, one of my favorite scenes in the film. Now watch him in Tender Mercies an witness the tremendous range of this great actor.
"BIG-TITTED HIT!" is a legendary line. Duvall can play a scene ANY way, he can make flat dialogue hilarious or sinister. His health has been poor lately but he seems healthy now. Legend.
The register of his voice when he delivers the simple line "...and Ruddy doesn't COUNT anymore..." is where that art and craft really shine. Chafesky's dialogue and Lumet's direction are so good as to be invisible, which is the sign of great moviemaking, and the characters and actors are so present they seem to come right off the screen.
+Jerome Joseph Gentes Jerry, you seen The Apostle? Duvall goes beyond his strength in that. Great performance. God bless the movies! 2000 phone calls! Big-titted hit! A common commonality!
Sensational!! 3 actors working at the top of their game, deliver some of the best written dialogue for a film under brilliant direction. It doesn’t get any better. Duval’s amazing-- just watch how his arms, hands were used by Lumet. Great sustained physicality. Although he was not even nominated for an Oscar, in this sc., he’s sublime. Love his grabbing a pair of scissors just after firing Max. Great catalyst line in the scene: "It's not your show anymore, Max... it's mine!" GO DUNAWAY!
"Something going on between you and Schumacher?" We have just watched a flurry of dialog exchanges and this is such a level change its crazy. This movie belongs in the hall of fame.
Max: "He could be jumping off a roof!" That line always made me laugh because he is so serious and no one pays attention. Overall a superb scene by amazing actors.
Duval is such a great actor. I came to this realization after seeing him in The Great Santini and then Tender Mercies. The contrast in these roles is huge and he did an absolutely superb job in both.
The thing I like about this is the presentation of the backstory. Although the viewer doesn’t know the characters that well, they run with scene. The way Duvall imitates his boss without any prior scene to familiarize the audience gives the scene some realism. Like the viewer is witnessing this in real life, trying to catch any particulars. In short, the way everything is not spelled out is nice. And besides all that “big fat big tittied hit” is just a great line!😂
Great direction, great casting, but first and foremost, great material written by Paddy Chayefsky. That guy was brilliant. I saw him in an interview once: he was a hard-edged New Yorker type, but had a flair for screenwriting and dark humor!
@@buddrossi6451There's so much to pick from, but Chayefsky's lines as delivered by James Garner in "The Americanization of Emily" about how the average civilian promotes war by glorifying soldiers' sacrifices... is my favorite, it grips my heart....it's amazing, stunning, rare honesty...in 1964, no less.
Gene Siskel liked to say that a great movie has three great scenes and no bad scenes... well, THIS scene, the "Mad as Hell" scene, and the Beatty-Finch scene certainly qualify "Network" for greatness...
773SleepyHollow I’ll offer the scene where Beale announces his intention to commit suicide as well. The way it unfolds is absolutely brilliant, and maybe my favorite “inciting incident” scene ever.
Years ago, in New York City, I stood in line to get an autographed copy of "The Apostle", a screenplay written by Robert Duvall which had been published in book form. As he signed my copy I pointed a finger at him and said, "You should have won Best Supporting Actor for Network!". He laughed; to this day I tell people I made Robert Duvall laugh.
This ranks right up there with the "ABC" scene in Glengarry Glen Ross as the best combination of writing + heavyweight acting in the history of Hollywood. Ali vs. Frazier=Holden vs. Duvall. Clash of the Titans. Beyond awesome, every scene these two guys lock horns (and there's more than just this one, several more).
#144 favourite script acting and direction barr none...written back in the 1970's but so relevant to now ...it begot the Roy's, the children of want and ignorance and Dianna Christen is the ghost of Christmas past...just a great movie , Lumet & Chafeyesky and all the actors ; masters of their craft!
That's what makes Chayefsky's writing so brilliant. Not the fact that they could be living in the midst of a prophet, but that the prophet could get better audience rating than Mary Tyler Moore.
'Not any more' She once had hopes for one Future, now gone, but now another Future beckons. That she admitted her change in Loyalty so lightly, a mere shrug, suggests to me how little she cared at all. She had loved the Promises of one Future, but that Future couldn't love her back. The path she chose might not find everything she wants, but at least she won't be hearing 'no!' all the time.
It's sickening thinking of the ends to which people will go for money. Things you wouldn't even think of; until a stack of it were right in front of you. Kind of makes you wonder about the value, of 'values'
@kitchensinkradio I agree. The writing is so precise, so on the edge. This is a film that gets more important as it ages. Unfortunately, people are only concerned with Facebook and a flatscreen TV.
"You think he's stupid enough to take our one hit show off the air?!" MSNBC did that very thing when Phil Donahue started taking an anti-war stance in the early 2000s. #1 show on the network and they canceled him.
For being one of the few people in American media who was saying from the start that the "War on Terror" was going to be an endless waste of men and resources
Mr. Duvall doesn't so much steal this scene as he chews it up and spits it out in lines like: "It's a big fat, big titted hit!" And be honest, which one of us wouldn't give up a nut to have cause to say that just once in real life? PS. So, don't have any illusions about who's running this comment section from now on - you're all FIRED! I want you all outta this comment section BEFORE noon, or I'll have you THROWN out!!
Very good film to watch director by sidney lumet 3 brilliant actors in it faye dunaway was fantastic as dian6 she deserve the Oscar for her performance it was brilliant and robert duvall should got a Oscar for his performance it was brilliant for best supporting actor
Duvall's performance in this scene should be etched in stone as part of the 10 commandments of acting!" "Thou shall fully commit thyself as if it was truly haveth upon them"
Ironically the Takeaway, for most people, from this amazing film was/is to this day “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore”... but when I watch Jerika Duncan get consoled by Nora O’Donnell and of course Oprah, I mean Gayle, because a veteran of 36 years can be fired for giving a pissy answer to an ob noxious question... brings chills
Wild Bunch meets Lonesome Dove. I wish we had actors and movies like this today. The acting is superb, but also the actors in this scene are so genuine and real as people, you can visualize meeting them in real life. Hollywood is so fake today. Every man looks like a body builder and the women look like they're fresh from a Hooters bar.
@kitchensinkradio you're absolutely right about that line and I have seen this more than 3 times and I loved it and Bob Duvall really said that and it's Lmao and very satire,and RIP Sidney Lumet you are an iconic director to all of us,so thumbs up for this oscar winning classic @NoSmallPlans.
this film should be a great hit in the level of others of its time (apocalipse now, godfather), however, by exposes several and delicates issues about mass propaganda and Illuminatti power, reached very few peoples. With internet (and 911), earned deserved recognition.
THIS is film, kids, and these ARE the film-makers-- not you youtube wannabe's with silly 30-second clips and production companies rolling on the credits? HAHAHA Learn from the masters and keep delusion at bay.
“Herb, tell ‘im!”
Immediately interrupts Herb.
The way he pushed Herb out afterward was brilliant.
YES, the movie audience enjoyed that part when I saw "Network" for the first time in a theater in January, 1977, I wasn't even 22 yet. "Network" was nominated but no Oscars yet. Later , Beale said that Ruddy guy died and I had no idea who he was talking about !
Robert Duvall is the only reason I feel okay about going bald.
Bruce Willis?
Now you just need to be as Duvall as Robert or as Connery as Sean and you're all set.
he was born bald
Fuchsia 'tude Robert Duvall is the only reason Bruce Willis felt okay being bald.
@@DestroyerX61 😂😂😂
Duvall is electrifying in this, one of my favorite scenes in the film. Now watch him in Tender Mercies an witness the tremendous range of this great actor.
I could watch this scene over and over. Duvall is astounding.
"BIG-TITTED HIT!" is a legendary line. Duvall can play a scene ANY way, he can make flat dialogue hilarious or sinister. His health has been poor lately but he seems healthy now. Legend.
some of the best acting ive seen ever
The register of his voice when he delivers the simple line "...and Ruddy doesn't COUNT anymore..." is where that art and craft really shine. Chafesky's dialogue and Lumet's direction are so good as to be invisible, which is the sign of great moviemaking, and the characters and actors are so present they seem to come right off the screen.
And Dunaway's delivery of the line, "Not anymore..."
+Jerome Joseph Gentes
Jerry, you seen The Apostle?
Duvall goes beyond his strength in that.
Great performance.
God bless the movies!
2000 phone calls! Big-titted hit! A common commonality!
Duvall simply kills this. So good.
Astounding - perfection.
Dunaway, Fitch, Beatrice, and Holden are just perfect in this as well.
So incredibly well acted.
everything was so natural
Damn it! This film is incredible!
Just three great, great actors going at it. Duvall is just hilarious, he's so good.
Yes, there were all going at it. And I'm sure there was quite a bit of improv.
a GREAT film
the look he gives him when Holden says "fuck you" he's give him that smirk that is the greatest part
Sensational!! 3 actors working at the top of their game, deliver some of the best written dialogue for a film under brilliant direction. It doesn’t get any better. Duval’s amazing-- just watch how his arms, hands were used by Lumet. Great sustained physicality. Although he was not even nominated for an Oscar, in this sc., he’s sublime. Love his grabbing a pair of scissors just after firing Max. Great catalyst line in the scene: "It's not your show anymore, Max... it's mine!" GO DUNAWAY!
When movies were quality
#22
Holden, Duvall, Dunaway. Too many legends in one room.
Everyone in this scene is an Oscar-winning actor. Not surprised.
Even Herb?
Except Herb, lol.
Such Such Great acting..!!!
Happy 86th,Birthday Mr.Robert Duvall.
Watch this movie every time it's on TCM. Duvall shudda got an Oscar nom for just this scene alone!
this was such a powerful scene.. duval was simply amazing
"Something going on between you and Schumacher?" We have just watched a flurry of dialog exchanges and this is such a level change its crazy. This movie belongs in the hall of fame.
I love Duvall’s reaction to Holden saying “F@@k you!” Like “Whatever buddy “😀
Max: "He could be jumping off a roof!" That line always made me laugh because he is so serious and no one pays attention. Overall a superb scene by amazing actors.
An understated aspect of this scene is the contrast between the firestorm inside this small office room and the raging thunderstorm outside of it.
Network: the movie with the best acting ever!
One of the best all-time scenes-- Duvall is pure heavy metal
Robert Duvall should have been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this performance. It's a shame that he wasn't,
This movie should have gotten at least six acting nominations.
Agreed, him and Marsha Warfield should’ve been nominated
@@bryanalstoncoxing MARLENE Warfield, and yes, I agree. Marsha Warfield was a different actress.
@@buddrossi6451 haha you’re right 🫣🤣 yes MARLENE was very Oscar worthy
@@bryanalstoncoxing Though Marsha Warfield was wickedly funny in Night Court!
Amazing ,beauty of a film!Fantastic actingtoo.
So many great scenes in this film
Duval is such a great actor. I came to this realization after seeing him in The Great Santini and then Tender Mercies. The contrast in these roles is huge and he did an absolutely superb job in both.
The thing I like about this is the presentation of the backstory. Although the viewer doesn’t know the characters that well, they run with scene. The way Duvall imitates his boss without any prior scene to familiarize the audience gives the scene some realism. Like the viewer is witnessing this in real life, trying to catch any particulars. In short, the way everything is not spelled out is nice. And besides all that “big fat big tittied hit” is just a great line!😂
Everyone in this movie is a fantastic actor. Duvall should’ve been up for the Oscar along with the film’s other five acting nods
Yes. A great performance from a movie with heaps of them👍🏻
Blank Check brought me here. Honestly incredible impression by Griffin
How can one movie have so much?
How, how, how? Every scene, every line, every performance.
Great direction, great casting, but first and foremost, great material written by Paddy Chayefsky. That guy was brilliant. I saw him in an interview once: he was a hard-edged New Yorker type, but had a flair for screenwriting and dark humor!
@@buddrossi6451There's so much to pick from, but
Chayefsky's lines as delivered by James Garner in
"The Americanization of Emily" about how the average
civilian promotes war by glorifying soldiers' sacrifices...
is my favorite, it grips my heart....it's amazing, stunning,
rare honesty...in 1964, no less.
" Well, let's just say, fuck you too, honey." That was sweet.
An acting clinic by 3 tremendous actors acting their a$$es off. Such a great scene.
Gene Siskel liked to say that a great movie has three great scenes and no bad scenes... well, THIS scene, the "Mad as Hell" scene, and the Beatty-Finch scene certainly qualify "Network" for greatness...
773SleepyHollow I’ll offer the scene where Beale announces his intention to commit suicide as well. The way it unfolds is absolutely brilliant, and maybe my favorite “inciting incident” scene ever.
Also the scene where Diana pitches the show to Frank
One of my favorite scenes in this movie. Love it!
Years ago, in New York City, I stood in line to get an autographed copy of "The Apostle", a screenplay written by Robert Duvall which had been published in book form. As he signed my copy I pointed a finger at him and said, "You should have won Best Supporting Actor for Network!". He laughed; to this day I tell people I made Robert Duvall laugh.
This ranks right up there with the "ABC" scene in Glengarry Glen Ross as the best combination of writing + heavyweight acting in the history of Hollywood. Ali vs. Frazier=Holden vs. Duvall. Clash of the Titans. Beyond awesome, every scene these two guys lock horns (and there's more than just this one, several more).
I love the ABC scene, but this scene is more organic.
I love the comparison of "processed, instant God" with "bigger than Mary Tyler Moore". Really shows how perverse Diane Christiansen's thinking is.
"My God, I'm supposed to be the romantic, you're supposed to be the hard-bitten realist!" This movie's meta-commentary is a thing of fucking glory.
I do believe Duvall stole the scene!
Duvall steals every scene, starting with quiet appearance in the corner as Boo Radley.
A microcosm of the overall film's brilliance.
"Big titted hit" I have never heard this phrase ever except in this film.
3 great performances 👏
This is so well written..Paddy Chayevsky masterpiece
#144 favourite script acting and direction barr none...written back in the 1970's but so relevant to now ...it begot the Roy's, the children of want and ignorance and Dianna Christen is the ghost of Christmas past...just a great movie , Lumet & Chafeyesky and all the actors ; masters of their craft!
Herb tell him Herbs phone hasn't stopped ringing lol so cool
I got a new favorite now... Mr Duvall
Wow... how is it possible that this classic isn’t referenced every five seconds especially in today’s climate?
My of my favorite movies ever if not my absolute favorite great movie with some of the best acting you will see
That's what makes Chayefsky's writing so brilliant. Not the fact that they could be living in the midst of a prophet, but that the prophet could get better audience rating than Mary Tyler Moore.
An absolutely brilliant film! astounding and dangerous and fantastic it really leaves me feeling numb when I’m finished watching it
DUUUVAAAALLLLLL!!! One of his most legendary scenes ever. He was such a tool in this.
I'll miss him when he's gone.
Fantastic !
'Not any more'
She once had hopes for one Future, now gone, but now another Future beckons.
That she admitted her change in Loyalty so lightly, a mere shrug, suggests to me how little she cared at all.
She had loved the Promises of one Future, but that Future couldn't love her back.
The path she chose might not find everything she wants, but at least she won't be hearing 'no!' all the time.
Que buenos actores habían antes. Ese duelo entre Willian Holden y Robert Duvall es épico.
William Holden: “Ruddy will never stand for this!”
Robert Duvall: “Ruddy don’t surf!”
Faye is so crazy and hot in this movie! LOL
And talented
@@georgeguja6155 She's like a modern day Siren. Seducing men to their doom! LOL
@@Fan_Made_Videos I doubt that she would seduce anybody to their doom in real life but I understand your analogy
What an actress. And her beauty was off the charts!
The famous Brat Pit dialogue "America is not a country it's damn Business"
"Great, we need all the press we can get!"
Hah.
One of my top 10 favorite films. Just curious... was this a popular film in its day?
Yes, it won 5 academy awards if I recall correctly
What a great film.
It's sickening thinking of the ends to which people will go for money.
Things you wouldn't even think of;
until a stack of it were right in front
of you.
Kind of makes you wonder about the value,
of 'values'
God what a movie. 3 of the all-time greats, being directed by one of the true masters- Sydney Lumet.
@kitchensinkradio I agree. The writing is so precise, so on the edge. This is a film that gets more important as it ages. Unfortunately, people are only concerned with Facebook and a flatscreen TV.
WE GOT A GODDAM HIT, GODDAMMIT
best acting on earth
"You think he's stupid enough to take our one hit show off the air?!"
MSNBC did that very thing when Phil Donahue started taking an anti-war stance in the early 2000s. #1 show on the network and they canceled him.
For being one of the few people in American media who was saying from the start that the "War on Terror" was going to be an endless waste of men and resources
Lol Frank's prediction didn't really pan out did it....after Howard Beale gets killed live on TV. I wonder if he lost his job
Mr. Duvall doesn't so much steal this scene as he chews it up and spits it out in lines like: "It's a big fat, big titted hit!" And be honest, which one of us wouldn't give up a nut to have cause to say that just once in real life?
PS. So, don't have any illusions about who's running this comment section from now on - you're all FIRED! I want you all outta this comment section BEFORE noon, or I'll have you THROWN out!!
Everything came true.
Howard Beale was not insane he was perfectly sane and rational he made sense.
@kingcaesar5 Let me clarify: comparing Duvall's body of work to DeNiro's (both Bobby D's), I prefer Duvall.
Very good film to watch director by sidney lumet 3 brilliant actors in it faye dunaway was fantastic as dian6 she deserve the Oscar for her performance it was brilliant and robert duvall should got a Oscar for his performance it was brilliant for best supporting actor
It all starts with the script, folks. And Paddy Chayefsky - one of the best dramatists in the business - provided a doozy of a document here.
Duvall's performance in this scene should be etched in stone as part of the 10 commandments of acting!" "Thou shall fully commit thyself as if it was truly haveth upon them"
Duvall is awesome in this movie
Ironically the Takeaway, for most people, from this amazing film was/is to this day “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore”... but when I watch Jerika Duncan get consoled by Nora O’Donnell and of course Oprah, I mean Gayle, because a veteran of 36 years can be fired for giving a pissy answer to an ob noxious question... brings chills
@kitchensinkradio Best line of the whole movie,What really killed me was the hand gestures he was making when he said it
Wild Bunch meets Lonesome Dove. I wish we had actors and movies like this today. The acting is superb, but also the actors in this scene are so genuine and real as people, you can visualize meeting them in real life. Hollywood is so fake today. Every man looks like a body builder and the women look like they're fresh from a Hooters bar.
The real Bobby D!
unbelievable
💓💗💖
@kitchensinkradio you're absolutely right about that line and I have seen this more than 3 times and I loved it and Bob Duvall really said that and it's Lmao and very satire,and RIP Sidney Lumet you are an iconic director to all of us,so thumbs up for this oscar winning classic @NoSmallPlans.
Baaaadass movie
this film should be a great hit in the level of others of its time (apocalipse now, godfather), however, by exposes several and delicates issues about mass propaganda and Illuminatti power, reached very few peoples. With internet (and 911), earned deserved recognition.
The biggest most obvious point is that Duvall had great scenes in both those movies also.
Herb, tell 'em!
Bigger irony is Bill Holden threatened to punch Dunaway for being chronically late for Towering Inferno shooting.
Dead on...
Wow...
Fuck I have a different favourite actor every time I watch this movie.
This movie and "Idiocracy" has come to past. I think it would be wise to put all cable news on pay per view.
Turn off your TV.
THIS is film, kids, and these ARE the film-makers-- not you youtube wannabe's with silly 30-second clips and production companies rolling on the credits? HAHAHA
Learn from the masters and keep delusion at bay.
I think it would've been better if Duvall had played this scene the way he played Boo Radley in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
@gomudhen uncalled for man.
BOG TOTTED HOT
Finally found this Blank Check quote
Took a few embarrassing search terms to get here but we got there