Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President’s_Men_(film)
Despite 3 Days of the Condor being one of my favorite films, I never got around to watching All The President’s Men until a couple days ago.
My god, what I’ve been missing.
It’s truly a masterclass in film making. It’s a slow burn, but never feels it. There’s always something interesting happening, some new piece of information revealed, tension always building, and acting so damned good I didn’t move from the sofa until the end.
There’s some really impressive cinematography in this, but something that consistently impressed me was the level of acting of even minor or unnamed side characters, who do virtually as good of a job as the leads in feeling absolutely believable and natural.
If, like me, you just haven’t gotten around to this film, I really recommend making it your next watch.
I can’t wait for the remake about the Trump presidency.
It can’t really be made, he creates at least a scandal the size of Watergate a day, often more. Nobody is keeping count anymore, and even those who try gets nothing, because noone can be held responsible or feel moral obligations to truth or law anymore like they did back then. It is noticeable that Nixon fell because of his fellow Republicans, that would never happen today, they are all in cahoots and as criminal as their president, so they can’t even turn if they wanted to, because they would go down as well.
The power of the press is long gone, and thus a pillar of modern democracy, which cannot exist without it. It is a sad situation all around with no real solution, except tearing it all down, but that isn’t really a solution either.
So a soap opera then?