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* SpiritualSuccessor: The later Arthur Hiller film ''Film/{{Teachers}}'' is very obviously an attempt to import this film's style to an educational setting. ''Film/{{Network}}'' continued the BlackComedy tone that Chayefsky established here.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The later Arthur Hiller film ''Film/{{Teachers}}'' ''Film/Teachers1984'' is very obviously an attempt to import this film's style to an educational setting. ''Film/{{Network}}'' continued the BlackComedy tone that Chayefsky established here.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Bock is the protagonist, but there's a huge mass of doctors, nurses, patients, staffers and protesters in the film as well.
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** The famous {{impotence}} monologue, ending with "Impotence is beautiful, baby."
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** The famous {{impotence}} [[TheLoinsSleepTonight impotence]] monologue, ending with "Impotence is beautiful, baby."
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''The Hospital'' is a 1971 satirical film, written by Creator/PaddyChayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller.
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''The Hospital'' is a 1971 satirical film, written by Creator/PaddyChayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller.
Creator/ArthurHiller.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Amongst all his other problems, Bock is impotent. When Barbara starts coming on to him, Bock goes on a rant about it.
--> '''Bock''': Well I'm impotent and I'm proud of it! Impotence is beautiful, baby!
--> '''Bock''': Well I'm impotent and I'm proud of it! Impotence is beautiful, baby!
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A big hit with critics and audiences, this film earned Chayefsky his second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Screenplay (after ''Film/{{Marty}}'').
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A big hit with critics and audiences, this film earned Chayefsky his second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Screenplay (after ''Film/{{Marty}}'').
''Film/{{Marty}}''). Creator/StockardChanning made her film debut in a bit part as an ER nurse.
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* CreatorCameo: Paddy Chayefsky does the opening narration.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first see Dr. Bock he is passed out in a chair, still in his clothes, the TV still on and showing static, and a 2/3 empty bottle of vodka on the table next to him.
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A big hit with critics and audiences, this film earned Chayefsky his second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Original Screenplay (after ''Film/{{Marty}}'').
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A big hit with critics and audiences, this film earned Chayefsky his second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Original Screenplay (after ''Film/{{Marty}}'').
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''The Hospital'' is a 1971 satirical film, written by Paddy Chayefsky (''Film/{{Network}}''), directed by Arthur Hiller.
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''The Hospital'' is a 1971 satirical film, written by Paddy Chayefsky (''Film/{{Network}}''), Creator/PaddyChayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: As to be expected in a Paddy Chayefsky script, there's a surplus of articulate WriterOnBoard monologues written to within an inch of their lives.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Drummond]] has a valid point about how horrible the health care is at the hospital, but arranging for staff members to die is perhaps a bit of DisproportionateRetribution.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Bock, but he's interrupted by Barbara.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Bock finally decides to end it all in a very clinical, medical way, but Barbara, realizing that he was serious with his suicide talk, comes back to the office.
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* ShownTheirWork: Chayefsky did lots of research for his script, examining malpractice suits and getting actual horror stories from health care professionals.
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* BerserkerTears [[spoiler:Drummond]] cries when he realizes how horrible the conditions at the hospital are, [[spoiler:and how in his mind they justify his killing spree]].
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* BerserkerTears BerserkerTears: [[spoiler:Drummond]] cries when he realizes how horrible the conditions at the hospital are, [[spoiler:and how in his mind they justify his killing spree]].
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->''"On Monday morning, a patient named Guernsey--male, middle 70s--was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains. He had been referred by a nursing home, where the doctor had diagnosed his condition as angina pectoris. It is axiomatic that nursing-home doctors are always wrong. The intern who admitted Mr. Guernsey, however, accepted the diagnosis and prescribed morphine: a drug suitable for angina, but not at all suitable for emphysema, which is unfortunately what the old man actually had."''
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->''"On Monday morning, a patient named Guernsey--male, middle 70s--was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains. He had been referred by a nursing home, where the doctor had diagnosed his condition as angina pectoris. It is axiomatic that nursing-home nursing home doctors are always wrong. The intern who admitted Mr. Guernsey, however, accepted the diagnosis and prescribed morphine: a drug suitable for angina, but not at all suitable for emphysema, which is unfortunately what the old man actually had."''
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->''"On Monday morning, a patient named Guernsey--male, middle 70s--was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains. He had been referred by a nursing home, where the doctor had diagnosed his condition as angina pectoris. It is axiomatic that nursing-home doctors are always wrong. The intern who admitted Mr. Guernsey, however, accepted the diagnosis and prescribed morphine: a drug suitable for angina, but not at all suitable for emphysema, which is unfortunately what the old man actually had."''
-->-- '''Paddy Chayefsky''', [[DescendedCreator voicing the first lines]] of the opening narration.
-->-- '''Paddy Chayefsky''', [[DescendedCreator voicing the first lines]] of the opening narration.
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* GranolaGirl: Barbara isn't all that exaggerated as a character, but she definitely fits this trope.
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* OnlySaneMan: Dr. Bock, but when the "normal" character is a suicidal emotional wreck, you know you've come across a vary dark movie.
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* OnlySaneMan: OnlySaneMan:
** Dr. Bock, but when the "normal" character is a suicidal emotional wreck, you know you've come across a vary darkmovie.movie.
** Barbara seems down-to-earth at first, but in her confessional monologue we find out that she's a psychological mess as well.
** Dr. Bock, but when the "normal" character is a suicidal emotional wreck, you know you've come across a vary dark
** Barbara seems down-to-earth at first, but in her confessional monologue we find out that she's a psychological mess as well.
