"Mad as Hell" Speech, Network (1976)

Self-governing democratic republic not controlled by oligarchs (depends on) anti-trust enforcement.

Complete honesty …

Christmas Eve at the quarter century, a fog lay thick and expectant across the bay, draping out over the city with whom it shares a name—an eldritch and unnatural thing in the unseasonal warmth, one that could well have concealed most anything. The living land is bounded by two …

Rakonto pri la Perdita Generacio de Usono, en Eŭropo kiu, kiel tiom da bonaj rakontoj, okazas ĉe vojkruciĝo.

Usona popolkanto, kantita de Leadbelly (Plumboventro) kaj Kurt Cobain.

It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moonlight.

Kristnaska fantomrakonto.

Preternatura teruraĵo en suda Florido.

My first Mardi Gras was 20 years ago, on my birthday—New Orleans being a place that truly embraces the spirit of my birthday—and for some time, from within a crowd across the street, just after dusk had given way to night; I saw, then watched, the ghostly-blue visage …

Meeting an anthropomorphic personification.

A showman and the madness of crowds.

The genie does not remember.

Why does no one see him?

Never look through the veil that divides our reality from the unseen real reality.

Describes old-fashioned English Christmas customs.

Trivial things may be important.

An unexpected inspiration at the cinema.

In the 18th century, daring outlaws terrorized the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.