Ned Beatty 89th birthday Network performance
by Capucine · old hollywood: Movies
Remembering Ned Beatty on what would have been his 89th birthday. His legendary performance in "Network" (1976) earned him an Academy Award nomination, even though he appeared on screen for less than six minutes.
Transcript (en)
The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. Why me? Because you're on television, dummy. 60 million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday. I have seen the face of God. You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
