The movie NETWORK

[matthew.percy at utoronto.ca]

On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Joe Varo wrote:

> 
> I finally saw the movie NETWORK for the first time over the weekend; the
> local PBS station aired it late Saturday night.
> 
> Anyone else ever pick up some Pynchonian overtones to this movie?
> Especially the scene where Ned Beatty's character reads the riot act to
> the Peter Finch character.  I saw "Them" all through the movie.
> 
> Joe
> 
Yeah, I just saw _Network_ for the first time a few weeks ago.  Brilliant 
movie, with the marks of Pynchon and DeLillo all over it.  Apart from the 
scene where the newscaster lists (on-air) how nations don't matter 
anymore, we are run by corporations (contrast to Pynchon's attitudes re: 
"The Real War is all around us" and attitudes towards multinational 
capitalism), there's definitely threads of Pynchon in the television show 
about the terrorist organization (featuring a real terrorist act every 
week).  Amazing film - I recommend it to anyone who hasn't already seen it.

- Matt