George C. Scott puts in a better performance than Patton.
Paddy Chayevsky is more focused than in Network.
I agree with your first point, but not the second.
It may be more focused in the sense that the story has a more limited scope, and
"The Hospital" is brilliantly written, to be sure, but "Network" is a satirical neutron bomb: no viable target escapes. Every scene manages to efficiently and devastatingly skewer someone new -- corporate ideology, vapid media coverage, opportunistic revolutionaries, cynical doomsdayers ("It was heavy, baby!"), marketing as *the* guiding force, fraudulent marriages, male menopause, mental illness, and the coming of age of the first generation raised by TV. KABOOM!
(Wrong board for this, I know, but I'd like to add that no seems to remember Bobby Duvall when they talk about this movie -- "Herb's been on the phone for hours! Tell 'em, Herb! The response is sensational! We've got a big, fat, BIG-TITTED HIT!!!" That scene alone should have garnered the man a nod.)
I do agree that Diana Rigg is more attractive than Faye Dunaway. OHMSS has long been my favourite Bond movie.
Disagree, but he's very good. Disagree. Totally agreed on Rigg!
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I agree about the performance of Mr. Scott, but as for the story, it's on par or better here. The personality disorders are the same, sociopathy, along with greed. Both stories reveal a deterioration of our humanity, and a willingness to accept it. Both stories depict that love is a causality of greed.
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