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James L. Brooks discusses Broadcast News, one of the ten best movies of the '80s and almost certainly the best of his career. If you have yet to see it you should leave work right now and go home and do so. [Via]
Lemme guess Balk, during the airport scene you were crying so much that you pulled a tissue out of your bra to daub your eyes?
How many times did I pause/rewind the scene with William Hurt's penis shadow?
Yes!
"A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!"
This movie is singlehandedly responsible for me wanting to be a journalist.
Thank God I didn't succeed.
This movie is almost singlehandedly responsible for my becoming certain that being a girl and wanting to be a journalist meant that I could never have a satisfying personal life. Over the years, I've come to think of it as a pernicious Trojan horse of a movie, setting up a strong female lead to fail because of what I now perceive as a failure of imagination on Brooks's part. That said, I still can never look away from the "and I'm in love with you" scene — it is perfect.