MONOLOGO DE NETWORK : I´M MAD AS HELL

Este monologo, nos deja atónitos por su actualidad, siendo la película de 1976. 

Sin duda, una de las mejores películas de Sidney Lumet, Network, funciona como sátira muy mordaz y ácida,  de los emporios de la televisión de los años setenta, pero, que no extrañamente, resulta  terriblemente relevante en la actualidad.

Fernanda Bargach-Mitre 


CITO:


Un análisis sobre el poder de la televisión, que retrata un mundo competitivo donde el éxito y los récords de audiencia imponen su dictadura. Howard Beale, veterano presentador de un informativo, es despedido cuando baja el nivel de audiencia de su popular programa. Sin embargo, antes de abandonar la cadena, en una reacción inesperada, y ante el asombro de todos, anuncia que antes de irse se suicidará ante las cámaras, pegándose un tiro en directo. Este hecho sin precedentes provoca una gran expectación entre los televidentes y los propios compañeros de Howard. (FILMAFFINITY)

Basada en una premisa fascinante, este film indaga en la crueldad del mundo corporativo y los medios de comunicación ligados a estos. Un drama electrizante!

I´m Mad as Hell

monologo- escena subtitulada.

 “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 TVs 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. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna take this anymore!’

Autor; guionista:  Sidney Aaron “Paddy” Chayefsky.