The Most Explosive Speech Ever Put in a Movie | NETWORK

Added: 2026-06-06

[00:00:02]The final revelation is at hand.

[00:00:05]I have seen the shattering fulgurations of ultimate clarity.

[00:00:09]The light is impending.

[00:00:11]I bear witness to the light!

[00:00:35]Good morning, Mr. Beale.

[00:00:36]They tell me you're a madman.

[00:00:38]Only disil to relieve.

[00:00:39]How are you now?

[00:00:40]I'm as mad as a hatter.

[00:00:42]Who isn't?

[00:00:44]I'm going to take you into our conference room.

[00:00:46]Seems more seemly a setting for what I have to say to you.

[00:00:51]I started as a salesman, Mr. Beale.

[00:00:54]I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hairbrushes, and electronic equipment.

[00:01:00]They say I can sell anything.

[00:01:03]I'd like to try to sell something to you.

[00:01:10]Valhalla, Mr. Beale.

[00:01:12]Please sit down.

[00:01:43]You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!

[00:01:51]Is that clear?

[00:01:52]You think you merely stopped a business deal.

[00:01:55]That is not the case.

[00:01:57]The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back.

[00:02:02]It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity.

[00:02:05]It is ecological balance.

[00:02:09]You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.

[00:02:15]There are no nations.

[00:02:16]There are no peoples.

[00:02:17]There are no Russians.

[00:02:18]There are no Arabs.

[00:02:19]There are no third Worlds.

[00:02:21]There is no West.

[00:02:22]There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.

[00:02:36]Petrodollars, electrodollars, multidollars, reich marks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

[00:02:46]It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.

[00:02:55]That is the natural order of things today.

[00:03:01]That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today.

[00:03:13]And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature.

[00:03:20]And you will atone.

[00:03:26]Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

[00:03:32]You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.

[00:03:43]There is no America.

[00:03:45]There is no democracy.

[00:03:48]There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.

[00:03:59]Those are the nations of the world today.

[00:04:03]What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state?

[00:04:06]Karl Marx?

[00:04:07]They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, min and max solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

[00:04:18]We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

[00:04:22]The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.

[00:04:36]The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

[00:04:41]It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

[00:04:48]And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality.

[00:05:10]One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

[00:05:42]And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

[00:05:50]But why me?

[00:05:53]Because you're on television, dummy.

[00:05:57]60 million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

[00:06:03]I have seen the face of God.

[00:06:08]You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

[00:06:12]That evening, Howard Beale went on the air to preach the corporate cosmology of Arthur Jensen.

[00:06:17]Thanks, Larry.