He""s articulating the popular rage.I want that show, Frank.I can turn that show into the biggest smash on television.Hackett: What do you mean, you want that show? It""s a news show.It""s not your department.Diana: I see Howard Beale as a latter-day prophet, a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, a strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday.[The film deliberately contrasts appearance with reality - the normally-romantic, glamorous setting of canals in Venice is really the setting for the mundane collection of garbage.Robinson), the two California settings (Los Angeles and Berkeley) and S.and N.California cultures (materialistic vs.intellectual), and the division in Benjamin""s character (morally drifting and indecisive vs.committed).There was already a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo and middle-class values, and the breakthrough film mirrored hat anarchic mood perfectly for America""s youth of the 60s during he escalation of the Vietnam War.The Salkinds produced the first threeSupermanfilms, and then sold the rights to Cannon/Golan Globus Productions who released the fourth film - the least popular film in the series and a major flop.The son delivers he message of war to his father and both leave to enlist:Son: Fort Sumter has been fired upon.