Health care vigilantes have been a Hollywood trope for decades. Now some people are cheering on a killer the way they would an onscreen antihero.
That was January of 1970 and the Oscar-winning Chayefsky was not actually planning to solve his problems with homicide. He had a movie idea that would hit back at the medical industry instead. Then best known for 1955’s warm-hearted Marty, and later for 1976’s blistering TV critique Network, Chayefsky was devising a dark satire called The Hospital, in which a series of vengeful killings of hospital staff would underscore the kind of miseries experienced by patients like his wife, Susan.
“One of the reasons the idea of an assassin has been so fascinating, going back to movies like Le Samouraï with Alain Delon, is that there is a catharsis that comes with the assassins doing what we can’t see ourselves doing,” he says. “I think it’s more of a vicarious experience. A lot of human beings feel helpless and want to vicariously live through those characters.” In the aftermath of Wednesday’s shooting, some health insurers took down public bios about their executives.
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