Sidney Lumet 'Network'
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 worth, 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, God damn it!
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!"
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