Rhapsodies

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

I’ve been wanting to do this one all month.

I know it’s from having just watched it for the first time this January. But this is the one film was one of the few that I knew exactly what I was going to draw as soon as drew it’s name from the hat and as the day’s went on I became increasingly frustrated that I hadn’t gotten it yet.. (It was getting to the point where I was beginning to worry that it would be the thirtieth slip of paper (not a good thing in a February challenge)

But anyway I love this scene. A lot of people remember this as a scene where a news anchor finally works up the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice and speak truth to power, and while this is technically true Howard Beale has done this because he has had a nervous breakdown, he’s just arrived in the studio wet from the rain in an overcoat over his pajamas and really is in need of psychiatric help. The thing is the Network won’t let him get it because his ratings are just too good.