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All the President's Men (1976) Audio Commentary
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| Robert Redford discusses strategy for the staring contest he's about to have with the camera |
RC-2013-114: All the President's Men (1976)
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Perhaps the greatest typewriter fetishist movie ever! Focusing on storytelling, I describe how Goldman's script hinges on scene-by-scene conflict and speculate about the mysterious Ephron-Bernstein draft. I argue that Woodstein's reporting was unbiased, then revel in my own bias by audibly scoffing at the idea that Nixon was a "complicated" figure who "also did some good things." Amid analysis of the actual movie, I explain why Nixon was a racist, astonishingly petty, and hopelessly corrupt scoundrel who got off easy. Gordy Willis and John Dean get praised. G. Gordon Liddy and the Intelligent Design-promoting crybaby known as Ben Stein get criticized. I screened the Blu-Ray. To sync, hit "pause" when the Warner Bros. logo fades to black.
Show Notes
- Redford's documentary
- Goldman's script
- Woodstein reflect on Watergate
- The breathtaking inanity of Ben Stein
- Mary McCarthy's book
- The Nixon tapes are here and here
- Ordering break-ins
- Suggesting that black people make bad spies because they're stupid
- Saying Jews "own the media"
- Using the IRS to "pound" his critics
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