The year is 1976 and a crusty but benign TV newsman crosses paths with a beautiful girl TV producer

Who wants to make news entertainment the movie network

Welcome to unspooled. I am Paul Sheer. I'm Amy Nicholson and this is the podcast where we watch one film from the A.F.I's top

100 films of all time list to find out if they are really as good as people say do they hold up and how have they

influenced the filmmakers of today. This week we'll be talking about network last week

We were talking about the Philadelphia story a movie that surprisingly had some BDE that you didn't even know about

But no you do you I want to actually start with a bit of a me a couple because I was ragging hard on the Carrie Grant character

For not I think having an arc for showing up and being like love me

Yeah, you have to change Catherine Hepburn and many people pointed out that I was not giving full credit to the absence of a change

That Carrie Grant's character had changed before he ever showed up that he had given up drinking as part of his apology

And I get it like we don't ever really see him drinking before in the flashback when he stomps out

I don't know I mean maybe like it doesn't kind of that the arc happens outside of the film

But that he at least had changed for love and I was like he just acts like he only she has to change

I mean so they did a little bit of work

So I guess when he is talking about reading books to keep him sober

He is kind of reflecting back on the change. We just kind of meet him a little bit maybe if it's that of breaking like a golf club

She had broken a whiskey bottle. I wouldn't be so dumb. All right. Well, you know to this point Josh Ferguson says I agree grant

Isn't as most charming, but maybe that was a choice. You know, he's not trying to win Hepburn back

He's trying to make her stumble and he's a steward to do it to charming and maybe she just runs back to him without growing

That I kind of disagree with because I think he is protecting her

I don't think he's trying to win her back per se I think I can see him as like a minitar in the middle of a maze

knocking down all the walls being like she got to come back over here eventually well, I also kind of see

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