Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Directed by Robert Greene
Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.
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At one point, Sheil explains that the 1976 film Network is based on Chubbuck’s story.
Two years later, Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay for Network pivoted on a news anchor announcing his suicide on air.
Early on, she notes how, despite Chubbuck’s suicide inspiring Paddy Chayefsky’s iconic screenplay for Network, that “Network took this depressed woman and made her a macho, angry man.”
The suicide is wrongly thought by some to have inspired Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay for Sidney Lumet’s 1976 satire, “Network,” whose protagonist, Howard Beale, a network anchorman, inveighing against the evils of television, creates a national sensation by threatening to kill himself while on the air.
Today, she's all but forgotten by everyone apart from lovers of dark and bizarre history or ardent cinephiles who know that Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning "Network" screenplay was directly inspired by her story.
If Chubbuck's case is remembered at all today, it's chiefly for its parallels to the 1976 Sidney Lumet film Network.