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| https://nixonscandal.wordpress.com/differences-and-similarities/differences/ -- Lindsey Sowers | https://nixonscandal.wordpress.com/differences-and-similarities/differences/ -- Lindsey Sowers |
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| | According to the Washington Post, the movie left out important people that were involved in the events. It explained that the absence of the City Editor Barry Sussman was missed. Sussman played an important role in helping Woodward and Bernstein “piece their discoveries into a meaningful pattern but was entirely written out of the film, just as if he never existed.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/ringle.htm |
| | -Amiti Colson |
| ====== Things the Movie got right ====== | ====== Things the Movie got right ====== |
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| | A lot of the WaPo editors played themselves in the movie. John McMartin, Foreign Editor, Paul Lambert, National Editor, Basel Hoffman and Stanley Bennett Clay were both Assistant Metro Editors. cite:Blu-ray commentary and documentaries, and American Film Institute/:https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/53913 --Andrew Mullins |
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| The movie used the actual names of the Watergate burglars along with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's real names of investigative journalists who wrote about Watergate. --Caroline Collier | The movie used the actual names of the Watergate burglars along with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's real names of investigative journalists who wrote about Watergate. --Caroline Collier |
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| All the President's Men came out in April of 1976, as the United States was deep into the Democratic Party primaries ahead of the November general election. This was the first Presidential election since Nixon had been reelected, and the first one since the Watergate scandal upended American politics. This movie serves as a good primary source for it's time because it is clearly intended for an audience deeply familiar with the scandal and aftermath, and it's release coincides with the Democrats "Washington outsider" candidate Jimmy Carter gaining traction and steam towards his eventual nomination. At one point in the film Woodward and Bernstein repeatedly state that everybody was in on what the Committee to Re-elect the President was doing, the entirety of the intelligence community. I think that reflects the general lack of trust that the entire country had at the time towards Washington institutions, the same distrust that would lead them to nominate and elect Jimmy Carter as their next president. - Sam Hartz | All the President's Men came out in April of 1976, as the United States was deep into the Democratic Party primaries ahead of the November general election. This was the first Presidential election since Nixon had been reelected, and the first one since the Watergate scandal upended American politics. This movie serves as a good primary source for it's time because it is clearly intended for an audience deeply familiar with the scandal and aftermath, and it's release coincides with the Democrats "Washington outsider" candidate Jimmy Carter gaining traction and steam towards his eventual nomination. At one point in the film Woodward and Bernstein repeatedly state that everybody was in on what the Committee to Re-elect the President was doing, the entirety of the intelligence community. I think that reflects the general lack of trust that the entire country had at the time towards Washington institutions, the same distrust that would lead them to nominate and elect Jimmy Carter as their next president. - Sam Hartz |
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| | It’s interesting that this movie came out in a time when everyone was probably tired of hearing about Watergate, it had just happened. Bernstein and Woodward were still active, they were fresh and able to give direct advice on the movie itself, even though it’s been said that they were hesitant to participate in the film. Redford emphasized that the movie was about those two guys themselves, that their story on unfolding the bigger story was the movie. It’s great that Redford went after this film, that he told the story of Watergate within the same decade it happened. Even though it was still fresh in people’s mind of the time, it allowed for them to see further insight into the events that took place and to gain a greater understanding of the backroom scandals that politicians can involve themselves and their country in. There’s an article online by the Washingtonian that recites interviews from Redford, Hoffman, Bernstein and Woodward, and various other major people involved in the events and the film. It goes into the backstory on the production of the film and the major characters’ thoughts on it during the time it was filmed. https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/04/03/all-the-presidents-men-movie-oral-history/ |
| | -Amiti Colson |
| ====== Comparing the reading to the movie ====== | ====== Comparing the reading to the movie ====== |
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| The time frame between Watergate and when this movie came out is very interesting I think; Nixon resigned less than two years before this film was released in theaters. All the President's Men shows the power that journalism and a free press have in this country. Two men helped to check the power of the President of the United States when our other institutions failed, and I think it was an important message to tell to a nation that was probably feeling at the time pretty helpless and concerned about what the future would hold. - Sam Hartz | The time frame between Watergate and when this movie came out is very interesting I think; Nixon resigned less than two years before this film was released in theaters. All the President's Men shows the power that journalism and a free press have in this country. Two men helped to check the power of the President of the United States when our other institutions failed, and I think it was an important message to tell to a nation that was probably feeling at the time pretty helpless and concerned about what the future would hold. - Sam Hartz |
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| | Redford bought the rights to //All the President's Men// on July 7 1974. On August 6, the White House Nixon tapes showed the president approved the cover up, and on August 9, 1974 Nixon resigned. The movie was made and released in 1976 right before the election between Ford and Carter. Although Gerald Ford was fairly popular, albeit pretty boring, it is argued that the release of the movie in the Summer of 1976 had a direct impact on Carter winning the election. --Andrew Mullins |
