I see Howard Beale as a latter-day prophet. A magnificent, messianic figure inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times. A strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday that I tell you, Frank, could just go through the roof...
12 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:26:11.029 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- We just increased our audience by 20 or 30 million people in one night.
- I want that show, Frank. I can turn that show into the biggest smash on television.
- What do you mean you want that show? It's a news show. It's not your department.
- One show like that could pull this whole network right out of the hole.
- Now, Frank, it's being handed to us on a plate. Let's not blow it.
- Yes? Tell him I'll be a few minutes. Let me think it over.
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