{"id":15526,"date":"2013-09-13T06:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:31:34","slug":"paddy-chayefsky-on-network-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/09\/13\/paddy-chayefsky-on-network-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Chayefsky on Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Paddy-Chayefsky-on-Network.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15527\" alt=\"Paddy Chayefsky on Network\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Paddy-Chayefsky-on-Network.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The late screenwriter describes the culture that led him to write one of the classic films of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paddy_Chayefsky\">Paddy Chayevsky<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074958\/\">Network<\/a> (1976) even <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movieposter.com\/poster\/MPW-68503\/Network.html\">the poster said it was &#8220;outrageous&#8221;<\/a>, perhaps anticipating the critics who felt it went too far in its depiction of the TV industry and the wider culture.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidney_Lumet\">Sidney Lumet<\/a>, it was to become an astonishingly prescient satire, anticipating the descent of network TV into a ratings obsessed monster.<\/p>\n<p>Here on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Shore\">Dinah Shore<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah!\">daytime show<\/a> he discusses the film:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNa019FaNW0\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074958\/\">Network at the IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/05\/22\/movies\/chayefsky-archives.html#document\/p1\/a21519\">Interactive NYT feature on Chayefsky&#8217;s script<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late screenwriter describes the culture that led him to write one of the classic films of the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1946,1945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}