"I'm mad as hell & I'm not gunna take it any more!" -- the thread for Network

"The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!" pic.twitter.com/iqmKxHVVSr

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 11, 2018

Despite having Bryan Cranston immediately in front of me, which was exciting, Broadway's NETWORK is an anemic take on the classic film.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) May 16, 2019

Looks pretty dazzling, though, as Ivo Van Hove's shows do.

Rewatched. Yeah this film has major problems. It wants to be manic like an old Preston Sturges movie but it also wants to be serious and at least to feel "real." I see several of the actors - Dunaway and Duvall particularly - struggling with this indefinite tone. Dunaway is expected to be a cartoon in some moments and real in others. All the while the dialogue is far too grand for these characters.

Holden says to Dunaway when he's breaking up with her, "Everything you touch turns to shit" - and he's supposed to be the compassionate one, the guy with heart.

I think he said everything she touches dies.

You're probably right. Still, a massively condescending thing to say. Her character is obviously a piece of work, but in that scene he's a much worse person than her.