Is the "mad as hell" an allusion to the movie Network?

> In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation, persuading viewers to shout, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" from their windows. He is soon hosting a new program called The Howard Beale Show, top-billed as "the mad prophet of the airwaves".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)

Scene:

> It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

> Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

> I want you to get mad!

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RujOFCHsxo

* Transcript: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechne...