Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty
Movie trailer:
Movie quotes:
Nelson Chaney: All I know is that this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting. Frank Hackett: We’re not a respectable network. We’re a whorehouse network, and we have to take whatever we can get. Nelson Chaney: Well, I don’t want any part of it. I don’t fancy myself the president of a whorehouse. Frank Hackett: That’s very commendable of you, Nelson. Now sit down. Your indignation is duly noted; you can always resign tomorrow.
Howard Beale: 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 work, 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, Goddamnit! 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!”
Did you know that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad, is the highest-paid television writer? After two or three years of negotiations he reached a $100 million deal with Fox to keep Family Guy and American Dad running on Fox until 2012. Didn’t know that? Well, now you do.
I just found this funny review of The Incredible Hulk in The Guardian. The critic Peter Bradshaw captures the experience most people must have had when watching this not-so-good movie:
“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk’s USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film. Film co-written by star. Edward Norton. Norton in it. Norton write it. Norton not need gamma-radiation poisoning to get big head. Thing is: Hulk head weirdly small. Compared with rest of big green body. …
You don’t think there is a movie that made $15 trillion? Hm, think twice. Because there might be one movie that indirectly added that much to America’s gross domestic product in the 1980s. At least that is the theory of Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell: Continue reading ‘The $15 Trillion Movie’
It’s not been easy for the United States this year, but at least there is one positive aspect of the country’s weak currency: Because the US Dollar is at a low, exporters find themselves in a better situation than before. This includes major film studios from the US as well as movie production companies and independent producers. All of them see their sales soaring in Europe due to the favorable USD/EUR exchange rate. Additionally, these companies usually fund their movie projects in USD but then sell them overseas for EUR, GBP and other currently strong currencies, which means they might even be able to rake in a premium. However, higher profits due to currency exchange rates are everything but sustainable, so demand must always be driven by quality of the movies being thrown onto the market rather than their price. Quality of content will always remain king.
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Giovanni Ribisi
This lovely movie won Sofia Coppola, who also directed the movie, an Oscar for best original screenplay. The movie was also nominated for best direction, best actor in a leading role (Bill Murray) and best picture, but lost out to other movies in these categories. Lost in Translation tells a quiet love story between a famous but aged actor and a young girl, who happens to find herself in a troubled relationship with her sought-after photographer husband. It is perhaps the movie’s deep atmosphere, the superb acting and soundtrack that made this one of my all-time favorites - in combination with the great presentation of whiskey and cigars, maybe. Difficult to say as the movie is pretty good in its entirety. Besides, Lost in Translation features some of the best city shots ever put on film, making Tokyo a character of its own.
