>You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE!>Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
>>214518242What the fuck was his problem?
>>214518242>The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! So that's why there's arabs at every boxing match now...
>>214518242God this is such an amazing movie.
>>214518291Mr. Beale meddling with the tidal flows of the dollar. can't you read?
He is correct in a sense. Whilst everyone obsesses over political boxing matches the real power is always economic power and the system that keeps that power intact. Countries don't do shit for any idealistic reason they do it to keep the green line going up no matter the cost.
>>214518353Top 5 movie of all time.
>You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. 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. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
>>214518353>>214518447I found the romantic subplot very dull
>>214518242The gold standard for depictions of Satan onscreen, unmatched before or since.
>>214518242>>214518478This would all be fine if Corpo Borpo Globo Homo was actually steered by evil geniuses analyzing shekels but we've found out they really DO talk just about Marx in their councils and make decisions based on that.
>Hi. I'm Diana Christensen, a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles>I'm Laureen Hobbs, a badass commie nigger.>Sounds like the basis of a firm friendship.
>>214518707You are wrong in assuming they apply their genius to improving the overall economic situation for everyone under their power. They've done just fine at making the upper class wealthier and keeping the other classes impoverished.
