Diary entries forAll the President's Men
All the President's Men
Saucy
All the President's Men
it was hard to keep up with everyone involved in the government but damn what a thrill! rip robert redford
All the President's Men
Heightened phone calls, naturalist note-taking, and being dwarfed by colossal, menacing structures in an urban abyss. Riveting!
All the President's Men
Descanse en paz, Robert Redford. Una de las últimas leyendas del cine de antaño.
All the President's Men
It always feels good to see a true story depicted in a film. While the story didn't completely impress me, it was still nice to have seen the film.
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Apparently this came out like 2 years after the scandal happened, which is pretty BOLD. Perfect film for me since it has one of the best movie tropes, which is actors researching with documents/files. Redford and Hoffman are incredible, and I love their dynamic. They made asking people and taking notes exhilarating. Great looking film and has a lot of split diopter shots!
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Watched it in honor of Robert Redford. Watched this with the commentary by Redford. Still the best thing ever
All the President's Men
Rien compris au Watergate
All the President's Men
Do you ever watch a movie and it makes you stop and go, "Huh, holy shit, that was like...a film"? That's what "All The President's Men" was for me when watching it. I love a good thriller/mystery/conspiracy flick, and this one heavily delivers. Incredible lighting and cinematography (take a shot for every split-diopter shot; I fucking dare you) with some great performances by Dustin Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, and Jason Robards. Redford, the reason I watched this since he recently passed, was alright here. Clearly his character is meant to be more of an "everyman," and it works well here. I think the only issue I had with the film was the actual ending. Maybe it's my unfamiliarity with the book and the nitty-gritty details of the Watergate scandal, but the ending felt very abrupt and honestly unfulfilling. Other than that, though, it was a really good watch, and I'd highly recommend it!
All the President's Men
95/100 Best thrillers - https://boxd.it/p7sYS My highest rated - boxd.it/oBwAc (https://boxd.it/oBwAc) First of all, RIP Robert Redford. We live in a day where the Epstein files were released, sparsely at that and almost everything potentially incriminating is redacted. What Woodstein managed to do back in the 70s might just not be possible to do anymore. What they did back then was a miraculous feat in itself, I mean if your work leads to the resignation of the president of the United States and a reshuffling of the government, you know you’ve carried out journalism of the highest order. Journalism is holding people in power accountable to the public that appointed them. In reality, true journalism is what represents the public, or at least the intellectual public capable of looking past what is fed to them, the public able to criticise the leaders they put their faith in. If that’s not how a country runs, how else should it? I’m not gonna bother going on a rant about the present day as that would be an injustice to this incredible investigative journalism thriller. I think these kinds of films are one of the biggest challenges in filmmaking. You don’t get too many in this genre because it takes a lot of research, a lot screening, a lot of permissions and quite simply a ton of dialogue that needs to be structured in a manner that the audience can follow, not watch it at home, rewind when possible or pause but actually follow through and understand what is being presented to the dot. “In a conspiracy like this, you build from the outer edges and you go step by step. If you shoot too high and miss, everybody feels more secure.” This is said by Deep Throat, perhaps not verbatim but it is said in effect to the story as well as the film itself. Usually, it’s not difficult getting the audience into the subject as your average human will always find scandals exciting but it is keeping them invested, not bombarding them with information but gradually feeding them facts and conversations slowly persuading them to keep up with the investigation, all of which requires a director and the writer to work in complete harmony, these types of films are in my opinion exemplify the highest order of chemistry between the two. You shoot for the stars, you better not miss because it takes one rebuttal to tarnish the accuser’s reputation and the accused in power will always have the backing of the masses until concretely proven otherwise. Deep Thorat aka now revealed to be Mark Felt - the then deputy director of the FBI only confirmed it was him before he died. I don’t think we realise how much pressure this man must’ve been under to help bring this investigation to a close and yet remain in the shadows because bureaucracy persists, there’s always gonna be someone tied to your old days, tied to Nixon’s entire party who will be there to get you. The paranoia must’ve driven him insane. Investigative journalism is based on courage, courage on both fronts - the journalists and the sources but more so the sources because for them, it’s their lives on stake, quite literally in a case of this magnitude. The constant fear of being watched, recorded and yet having the will to tell the truth is why there’s still a shred of humanity left, if we lose these sources, consider the public isolated. Nothing will ever bridge that gap between the elite and the working class if people like these don’t exist, don’t sacrifice their mental health and potentially their life for the greater good. This is why I thought they ended on a good note, mentioning that their lives were at risk was essentially a homage to the work these men are doing, their sources are doing. It amplifies your curious investigative lens into something more sympathetic, you are left looking into your protagonists and their real life counterparts to see how their lives are going, it’s brilliant.
