FILM SCRIPT Network [1976]

I want you people to get mad –
You don’t have to agonise or
Wait for reformers –
You just have to get mad


Initial mad idea By Paddy Chayefsky.


If you haven’t seen Network, I recommend you watch it.

Network [1976]

Facsimile script 147 pages

Network

* Script for searches – now look for how mad as hell turned out in the script


Script of the Week: Network

–in AFEKT scripts. This about page is worth a read.

The Notes Behind ‘Network’
–Thirty-five years after the release of “Network,” the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay.


Read, learn, and absorb this screenwriting gem

From Cinephilia and Beyond.

This post includes Chayefsky notes which can be seen in Notes Behind ‘Network’ and adds a video extract from the film and a 14 min. interview with Chayefsky.

You don’t get a title at the top of each post in Cinephilia, but each http has a title. The side links to lots of other similar posts (check out the Haneke for example) is way down on the left.

Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell

By Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 19 May 2011


Anchorman : ‘Mad as Hell,’ by Dave Itzkoff

Reviewed by Rob Lowe, New York Times, 13 Feb 2014