Part 2: Network (1976): Why The Acting Is So Good | Acting

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Today, we’ll take a look at the performances of Beatrice Straight, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Kathy Cronkite, and Arthur Burghardt.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Sources:
Mad As Hell by Dave Itzkoff
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire - Cinephilia & Beyond - bit.ly/2kbQDyR bit.ly/2zJP553
How They Write A Script: Paddy Chayefsky - Go Into The Story -
bit.ly/2oIQdRo
Under the Influence: Sidney Lumet and Network BY KEVIN LEWIS - bit.ly/2yDeoEs
Paddy Chayefsky Speaks Out by Susan Horowitz - bit.ly/2FImkJ5
The Agonies of a Screenwriter by Robert F Moss - bit.ly/2yCPqVM
Music:
Frank T. - Slice 7 - spoti.fi/2IbtHtr
Sro - Bring Back
Sro - Façade
SiM - ErOs - spoti.fi/2p0VnZf
Polar Opposites ( / polaroppositesdirect )

[@karacop78]

Ned Beatty's speech, apart from the obvious performing value, is a scene that should be remembered as a great gift for humanity. No wonder they weren't allowed to shoot this inside NYSE...

[@AlmostEthical]

My favourite moment of the film. The script was incredible and Ned's performance was magic.

[@ArcanePath360]

It's a scene that has more and more relevance to the real world as time goes by. Except change the company names. These people own us.

[@ricardomurillo5205]

That fact it was rejected by the corporate temple shows how powerful this scene is. A Shakespearian monologue of our times.

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

Thank you for this Tyler. And thank you to karacop78 and those responding. Thank you for sharing your love for these few minutes of film. All of you make this world a better place...reminding me that I am not alone in it.

[@Cenot4ph]

These kind of movies make the 70s such a golden age for movies. Intelligent and well acted that you won't see these days anymore

[@dildonius]

You’ll see plenty of them these days if you actually bother to look and watch modern films, rather than just turn your nose up to them so high that you can’t even see the screen.

[@GUAXIMAN]

So true

[@burtlangoustine1]

A world of less destraction has more courtesy.

[@spudmckenzie5649]

@@dildonius I'm a film buff for nearly 40 years and I'd love to watch even just one modern film that could possibly compare to Network these days. Any suggestions? Please think hard and make a good suggestion because I'm about 95% sure I will laugh so hard when I read your recommendation I will shit my pants

[@andrew_owens7680]

@@spudmckenzie5649 We'll have to start with a film made in America that has English language higher than a 4th grade level. Crickets.

[@alpcankaratas7336]

Network is probably my favorite movie of all time and Ned Beatty's speech is in my opinion, the greatest monologue ever given on film. Great video, it's good see the process of these masterpieces. Keep the format Tyler!

[@pabloperez4063]

Agree every word

[@phillipleconte3715]

i first saw Network when i was 14. i thought, this is the way adults talk...i couldn't wait to join in...thank you Tyler, this is terrific!

[@rbnsnu]

I believe it was Gene Siskel who said to Roger Ebert re: Network's dialogue that people don't really talk like this. Ebert replied "No, but they should!"

[@avidodd26]

back when creativity was profitable

[@Donleecartoons]

@strontiumXnitrate How original.

[@vincentsaia6545]

Also in the movie is Lance Hendrickson who plays one of the network lawyers going over the contacts with the terrorists in the Cathy Cronkite scene. He previously appeared in Dog Day Afternoon and later in The Right Stuff and Aliens. Hendrickson was illiterate when he started acting and here he is in Network spewing out complicated (and accurate) contract jargon.

[@nmrfilms]

Your first Network video got me to read Sidney Lumet's book Making Movies. One of the best books I've ever read. Seriously a game changer for me. Thanks a ton for making these.

[@CinemaTyler]

Such a fantastic book! So many great insights!

[@infonut]

Marlene Warfield's performance is riveting. So overlooked when discussing this film. Im glad you signaled her out. I liked her in The Great White Hope also. She LEAPT off that screen.

[@tylerappleby9]

The Ned Beatty scene MUST have influenced the Coen Brothers. Just feels so within their style. Specifically Barton Fink.

[@89Awww]

I HAVE to see this movie now. I know that some people are upset about Robert De Niro losing Best Actor for Taxi Driver to Peter Finch but after watching your great analysis of this film, I'm convinced that Finch is the rightful winner! Such a shame that he didn't live to receive it though.

[@danholmesfilm]

I guess a deserving "Robert" lost to both post-humous wins :)

[@89Awww]

Haha! As good Robert Downey Jr. was in Tropic Thunder, Heath Ledger was the rightful winner for the 2008 Best Supporting Actor. Coincidentally, the posthumous winners Finch and Ledger were both Australian.

[@89Awww]

@Larry Kin At least Bob won for Raging Bull!

[@brettcoster4781]

@@89Awww Just shows that us Aussies would die for a great part. We have.

[@DontHatemusiK]

Louis and Max's scene of marital dissolution was, in my opinion, the most play-like scene where even though the acting is a bit over the top, it speaks to the level of things that never get said in situations like that - the intensity of the dialogue is a stand in for the internal emotional turmoil that must be evoked and foisted upon the audience. If you have ever been in a violent breakup you'll understand that the ability to speak properly disintegrates into speechless anger that degrades into physical violence.

[@ninaswift6979]

Great comment

[@Poseiden2]

One of my favourite films, as hard-hitting as anything from that uncompromising decade, with sensational directing from the brilliant Lumet & career-defining performances. This was a superb analysis and contained many genuinely surprising revelations.

[@bobbartlett246]

Terrific analysis of a classic film.

[@mikeacton2203]

A brilliant observation piece, pure criticism worthy of Northrop Fry of the sheer intricacy making this film and perhaps indicative of Shakespearean overtones of elaborate set-pieces and lengthy monologues.

[@mmickle6191]

Yep, I am convinced. I MUST see this. This was an excellent duo of documentary pieces. I'd love to watch more about this film's story.

[@NostalgiNorden]

YES FINALLY PART 2! SInce part one i have actually bought the anniversary Network dvd with Lumets commentary track and his book "Making Movies" I recommend them both!

[@CinemaTyler]

Lumet always did the best commentaries. I could listen to him talk for hours and hours.

I enjoyed your work on this Tyler. "Network" is one of my all time favorite films. The film is very "inside baseball". For instance, I love Diana's pitch of Beale's "strip" (as in stripped down to cost almost nothing) show that would only cost $6 dollars per thousand viewers.

[@jimmerhardy]

Thanks. Tonight I'm watching it again after many years.

[@bh1935]

I love network. This is great. Please make more videos on network

[@pommie5093]

I was happy when I received the alert for another video from you-awesome work! Your videos of Network remind me again of just how wonderful the performances were. Keep up the amazing work!!

[@zeronightex]

Oh my god dude, I've been waiting for this for so freakin long! Great job

[@brosephdudeguy]

I needed this today. Keep up the good work Tyler .

[@ops70]

Great video! Thank you very much! It was a pleasure to watch this explanation as well as the movie itself. Keep up with the good work!

[@phillipallen3468]

This is a fascinating series. It really demonstrates what is necessary to produce excellent films. Very well done, Tyler. This being said, I cannot for the life of me understand that one, single dislike (as of 2/14/19). What person would be so ignorant as to dislike such an intelligent, thoughtful series? They must have clicked on this video by mistake, thinking they were actually going to watch some low-brow garbage and instead of just moving on to something more along their own gutter level of intelligence, decided to leave their mark -- a dislike. I can't think of any other explanation for this.

[@glassjaw2007]

Thank you Tyler, i loved this essay, you rock! i gonna try to promote your page, you deserve more subs, best of wishes!

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks!

[@bastmode882]

"You know about comedy, i know divorce" Great clip.

[@singlesideman]

BTW, you meant to say that the winter romance scene was originally preceding the Max and Diana getaway scene - but I knew what you meant. As for the overdub of emeritus years, the specific problem with the audio is that the overdub doesn't have any room tone. As a musician and producer this jumped out at me right away, and what I never understood is why they didn't just take a Nagra and record the dub in a room with the same mic setup.

Is one of my favorite movies. You know, Mike Nichols also have that theater background in his movies. A movie I really enjoy of him is Closer. Would be great to watch a video essay from you about it.

[@thomassimmons1950]

Lumet was the best of the best. As an actor, I hope he's in Heaven, as I never got the chance to meet him in this material dispensation.

[@frankcox6447]

Stella video! thanks so much, always look forward to your content

[@Zig_Was_Here]

Another great series of videos on another classic movie! A+ 👍🏼👍🏼 thanks Tyler! 🤜🏼🤛🏼

[@jpcinema4574]

Great JOB, once again!

[@user-dj7zs2ng3c]

I like this movie because it doesn't pull punches, it never feels like time is wasted, there's no fluff. It's a very slender film so to speak.

[@MarkArandjus]

The fact that this video didn't even crack 20K views is a CRIME! So well researched.

[@d1want34]

Frank hackett was a prick but that means he delivered his character perfectly

[@richardadesmond]

1:52 kind of similar to Kubrick's approach, notably in the Shining. great video BTW.

[@4n6design]

Brilliant exposition.

[@larrydrozd2740]

Wow...I can't imagine a movie being made today without explosions and super hero's.

[@Lmaoh5150]

Must not be looking very hard

[@larrydrozd2740]

@@Lmaoh5150 I was also being sarcastic.

[@agl9591]

You're still not wrong lol

[@josephcouture7908]

Thanks for these NETWORK shorts! Sorry to be a nitpicker, but misspellings gnaw at me and force me to act. When Robert Duvall is yelling at Faye about Mr. Jensen's anger about Beale's blowing the whistle about the loan, some silly bunny doing the sub-titles has Duvall yelling "Two billion dollars isn't peak; it's the wrath of God!" It's not PEAK; it's PIQUE!Ned Beatty SHOULD have won Best Supporting actor!

[@CinemaTyler]

Thanks! Just fixed it!

[@madahad9]

I wish Cheyevsky were alive to see the state of modern American television. He'd be proud how he called it back in '76. It's hard to pick a single favourite scene but Ned Beatty's monologue has to be high in that consideration. If the film was played more straight it would look embarrassingly out of place, especially when he shouts: " You. Will. Atone. " It takes on a very Shakespearean quality in tone and performance. It is meant to scare that 💩 out of Howard Beale. I imagine that a modern audience will find it very silly, but it fits within the reality of the film. Anything else would have diminished the effect. The film is not much of an exaggeration to what is around today. Now it is time for a sequel.wherein the anchors at Fox State News devolves into an all-out civil war.

[@kingofcool]

Great stuff!

[@abecallard442]

great intro dude keep it up

[@lonellfletcher]

I still cannot believe that Duvall wasn't nominated. Network could've been the first film to sweep all four acting categories if he had been, IMO.

[@homermontana2392]

it's not a guarantee he would have won since ned beatty who was nominated lost to Jason Robards for all the president's men

[@MarkRyniker]

Network is in my TOP TEN

[@davidvenable9257]

Very nice ...may I suggest original version " Flight of the Phoenix " ?

[@Dyros55]

Fun fact: I still seed this movie on BitTorrent...3 years and counting.

[@AlmostEthical]

Is there a modern movie that balances entertainment and depth as well as Network? If so, I'd like to see it.

[@MichaelJohnson-kx3ln]

The 70s movies were great. They can't do that type of movie making today...nuff said.

[@YoungNino2017]

It's because they don't make movies for adults anymore

[@BlackPDigitalMedia]

people don't have the emotional background to understand this level of acting.. too much ADHD .. not enough education to understand the words being spoken..

[@ops70]

It is a pity it does not have subtitles in other languages. I would be glad to subtitle in Portuguese

[@tonywords6713]

awesome

[@edfagan4251]

2:50 Ha! That's hilarious...nice self-knowledge!

[@mackb909]

Marlene Warfield, New York-born and -raised theatrical actress, was terrific as Laureen Hobbs, the young U.S. Communist Party apparatchik (modeled at least in part on Angela Davis) who runs interference between the Old Left and the '70s-era media-savvy revolutionaries. She has more screen time than Straight, and deeply deserved at least a supporting actress nom if not the actual award (racism?). And both Duvall and Beatty in their respective roles deserved the supporting actor award.

[@mybrickhead]

imagine getting yelled at and mooned by robert duvall ☠

[@JiveDadson]

Link to part one please.

[@rupertcornelius]

ur stuff alright, keep it up

[@barrygray3615]

6:45 hate to do this to you again, but “beaux-arts” is pronounced bow-ZART.

[@thorn262]

Same thought here, an unhappy linguistic fingerprint. The very fine Cinema Tyler reveals, he nolo speakee de Fransay-Oh. But then, like 'poetic license,' let's just call it, 'poetic slippage,' and move along with, ‘Keep up the good work, CT!’

[@rdecredico]

And the "r" is pronounced in the word "foyer"

[@CinemaTyler]

...I should just accept that it wouldn't be a CinemaTyler video if I didn't mess up the pronunciation of at least one word... ;)

[@barrygray3615]

CinemaTyler That’s okay, I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@singlesideman]

Barry Gray minus the T at the end.

[@jefferysmom696]

The Warfield scene you could cut

[@oobrocks]

I'd hate to act in a film inwhich we can't change any words

[@someenglishguy]

Does anyone know who the original actor who played Arthur Jensen was? I've looked in loads of places but couldn't find anything.

[@CinemaTyler]

According to Dave Itzkoff's book, they originally hired Roberts Blossom. It's really hard to imagine him in the role (probably because he's usually known for playing crazy old men). No Small Parts did a fantastic episode on Blossom. Here's the full quote from page 119 of Itzkoff's book: "Roberts Blossom, who was originally cast for the role, had been cut loose in early January after Chayefsky and Lumet disagreed over his performance."

Don't know, but I'd love to have seen the part as played by Jason Robards.

[@peteradaniel]

"I'm gonna make a tv star out of you, just like Archie Bunker"

[@petertard]

Robert Duvall is way OTT.

[@valinormons]

I ain't no cinephile. I've just been watching movies for at least 3 times your miserable life span. But I do like Network and I guess the best way to watch it is to buy it. I've already seen it 1st run in cinema but that was around 48 years ago. I'm not sure why it's never left my consciousness other than all the little details that occasionally pop up now and then. And stop begging for money. You're hardly worth the expense.

[@singlesideman]

Oh, and beaux arts is pronounced "boze-ar", not "beau arts".

[@quantumofhate]

I'M SCARED OF EATING KFC TOO...NOPE JUST KIDDING,I'LL EAT IT OCCASIONALLY WITHOUT THE WODS OF COTTON WOOL....

[@oobrocks]

I Adore this film but i never saw the humor. I c pure drama

[@garyaugustus690]

BLAM..!!! "..Maan, give her the #%*&@! overhead clause.."

[@Jay_Sullivan]

I think it would be better if she mispronounced a word- something which happens a lot in reality -rather than dub over it -something which never happens in reality. Didn’t you previously say that every actor was the first choice?

[@apollion888]

515 to 1 on the likes/dislikes. Jesus, Mary and Joseph

[@JohnSmith-ds7oi]

The acting is so bad and overwrought. The movie is exhausting.

[@cultfilmvideo6936]

Robert Duvall is annoying, but a good actor.

[@JonasRosenven]

He is the only actor that always comes off as totally belieavable to me. His effortless performances always surprise me when I see him in a movie.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Cult Film Video you’re annoying, and an asshole.

[@KnjazNazrath]

>Vegetarian spits out chiken and cintinues to eat more every take That's a few levels of hypocritical, I must say.

[@garyaugustus1009]

Apparently you missed the narration when it mentioned that after each take, he'd spit the chicken out and wipe out the insides of his mouth...

[@DontHatemusiK]

Louis and Max's scene of marital dissolution was, in my opinion, the most play-like scene where even though the acting is a bit over the top, it speaks to the level of things that never get said in situations like that - the intensity of the dialogue is a stand in for the internal emotional turmoil that must be evoked and foisted upon the audience. If you have ever been in a violent breakup you'll understand that the ability to speak properly disintegrates into speechless anger that degrades into physical violence.