Quinto potere

Titolo originale: Network
Regia: Sidney Lumet |
Anno: 1976
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: adultery | new york city | corruption | profit | satire | tv ratings | murder | corporate | reporter | co-workers relationship | rage | anger | tv show in film | meeting | political satire | news | fired | network | anchor | tv news anchor |
Cast: Faye Dunaway | William Holden | Peter Finch | Robert Duvall | Ned Beatty | Beatrice Straight | Wesley Addy | Arthur Burghardt | Bill Burrows | John Carpenter | Jordan Charney | Kathy Cronkite | Ed Crowley | Jerome Dempsey | Conchata Ferrell | Gene Gross | Stanley Grover | Cindy Grover | Darryl Hickman | Mitchell Jason | Paul Jenkins | Ken Kercheval | Kenneth Kimmins | Lynn Klugman | Carolyn Krigbaum | Zane Lasky | Michael Lipton | Michael Lombard | Pirie MacDonald | Russ Petranto | Bernard Pollock | Roy Poole | William Prince | Sasha von Scherler | Lane Smith | Ted Sorel | Fred Stuthman | Cameron Thomas | Marlene Warfield | Lydia Wilen | Lee Richardson | Lance Henriksen |

Vincitore di 4 Oscar e di 4 Golden Globe nel 1977 - altri 11 premi e 19 nomination.Howard Beale è un commentatore televisivo con un larghissimo seguito; il suo indice di gradimento però è in discesa e i suoi capi decidono di licenziarlo. Howard allora dichiara davanti alle telecamere che si ucciderà: da quel momento ha un successo strepitoso, specie da quando, credendosi direttamente in contatto con Dio, diventa una sorta di profeta trascinatore.

Frasi

Howard Beale: No, no. I'm gonna blow my brains out [...] D
Howard Beale: I want you to go to the window, open [...] D
Diana Christensen: By tomorrow, he'll have a 50 sh [...] D
Howard Beale: All I know is, you've got to get mad [...] D
Howard Beale: We'll tell you anything you want to [...] D
Bill Herron: What we're going to see now is someth [...] D
Arthur Jensen: [greeting Beale] How are you now? [...] D
Howard Beale: At the bottom of all of our terrifie [...] D
Diana Christensen: I was married for four years, a [...] D
Howard Beale: You're beginning to believe the illu [...] D
Howard Beale: Television is not the truth. Televis [...] D
Diana Christensen: Terrific, Max! Terrific! Maybe [...] D
Max Schumacher: What about your loves, lusts and a [...] D
Howard Beale: [on the air] Last night, I was awake [...] D
Howard Beale: Right now, there is a whole, an enti [...] D
Secretary: Mr. Hackett's trying to get through to [...] D
Frank Hackett: Four hours ago I was the Sun God at [...] D
Howard Beale: Good evening. Today is Wednesday, Se [...] D
Max Schumacher: She does have one script in which [...] D
Diana Christensen: Well Max, here we are: Middle-a [...] D
Howard Beale: I bear witness to the light! D
Nelson Chaney: So, what do we do about this Beale [...] D
Harry Hunter: I told them, I said look, we're runn [...] D
Max Schumacher: Howard, I'm taking you off the air [...] D
Diana Christensen: Let's stop kidding ourselves. F [...] D
Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal fo [...] D
Frank Hackett: Mr. Jensen is unhappy with Howard B [...] D
[Jensen leads Beale into the conference room] Art [...] D
Howard Beale: What's wrong with being an angry pro [...] D
Nelson Chaney: The affiliates won't carry it. Fra [...] D
Laureen Hobbs: The Ecumenical Liberation Army is a [...] D
Diana Christensen: The time has come to re-evaluat [...] D
Edward George Ruddy: I'll want to see Mr. Beale af [...] D
Walter C. Amundsen: You would describe Mr. Jensen' [...] D
Louise Schumacher: Then get out, go anywhere you w [...] D
Frank Hackett: The business of management is manag [...] D
Diana Christensen: I'm interested in doing a weekl [...] D
Laureen Hobbs: Don't fuck with my distribution cos [...] D
Louise Schumacher: Do you love her? Max Schumache [...] D
Diana Christensen: TV is show biz, Max. And, even [...] D
Max Schumacher: I'm the man that you presumably lo [...] D
Diana Christensen: [flipping through the newspaper [...] D
Barbara: These are those four outlines submitted b [...] D
Bill Herron: There's a hell of a lot of Liberation [...] D
Diana Christensen: Did you know there are a number [...] D
[first lines] Narrator: This story is about Howar [...] D
Frank Hackett: [Discussing Beale's poor ratings] W [...] D
Howard Beale: [awake, alone, in bed, at night] I c [...] D
Diana Christensen: The next time I send out a mark [...] D
Max Schumacher: We could make a series of it. "Sui [...] D
Diana Christensen: Look, I sent you all a concept [...] D
Narrator: It was a perfectly admissible argument t [...] D
Diana Christensen: Did you see the overnight's on [...] D
Diana Christensen: I watched your 6 o'clock news t [...] D
Narrator: The initial response to the new Howard B [...] D
Max Schumacher: Tell Hackett to go fuck himself! D
Laureen Hobbs: He's plague, he's smallpox, he's ty [...] D
Laureen Hobbs: Well Ahmed, you ain't gonna believe [...] D
Max Schumacher: Corner gossip says that you're Fra [...] D
Howard Beale: I would like at this moment to annou [...] D
Frank Hackett: Well, the issue is: Shall we kill H [...] D
Doorman: Good afternoon, Mr. Beale. Howard Beale: [...] D
Diana Christensen: Did you see the news this morni [...] D
Max Schumacher: You need me. You need me badly. Be [...] D
Howard Beale: No booze today, Howard. Howard Beal [...] D
Max Schumacher: After living with you for the last [...] D
Narrator: That evening, Howard Beale went on the a [...] D
Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] E [...] D
Diana Christensen: Hi. I'm Diana Christensen, a ra [...] D
Howard Beale: [laughing to himself] But, man, you' [...] D
Frank Hackett: I argued that television was a vola [...] D
Diana Christensen: Miss Hobbs, we're talking about [...] D
Narrator: By mid-October, "The Howard Beale Show" [...] D
Edward George Ruddy: I'm going to let Hackett have [...] D
Howard Beale: We are in a lot of trouble!... becau [...] D
Narrator: "The Mao Tse-Tung Hour" went on the air [...] D
Frank Hackett: I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna impal [...] D
Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are [...] D
Howard Beale: All human beings are becoming humano [...] D
Howard Beale: [on the air] We all know that the th [...] D
[last lines] Narrator: This was the story of Howa [...] D
Diana Christensen: That "The Mao Tse-Tung Hour" is [...] D
[immediately after making love with Max] Diana Ch [...] D
Howard Beale: ...I want you to get mad. I don't wa [...] D
Max Schumacher: I feel lousy about the pain that I [...] D
Man on Phones: So far, over 900 fucking phone call [...] D
Diana Christensen: Stop selling, Max. I don't need [...] D
Diana Christensen: [begins passionately making out [...] D
Mary Ann Gifford: You fuckin' fascist! Did you see [...] D
Edward George Ruddy: I think Hackett's overstepped [...] D
Diana Christensen: But we're getting around the FB [...] D
Frank Hackett: For God's sake Diana, we're talking [...] D
Frank Hackett: The business of management *is* man [...] D
Arthur Jensen: Good morning, Mr. Beale. They tell [...] D
Howard Beale: [on the air] I just ran out of bulls [...] D
Diana Christensen: [shouting] Son of a bitch. We'v [...] D
Max Schumacher: When Ruddy gets back, he'll have y [...] D
Diana Christensen: I'm sorry for all those things [...] D
Max Schumacher: [about Diana] I'm not sure she's c [...] D
Diana Christensen: Look, we've got a bunch of hobg [...] D
Arthur Jensen: I started as a salesman, Mr. Beale. [...] D
Max Schumacher: I'm sorry Bill, this Beale busines [...] D
Max Schumacher: Do you have a favorite restaurant? [...] D
Nelson Chaney: All I know is that this violates ev [...] D