{"id":6593,"date":"2021-04-09T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:07:21","slug":"all-the-presidents-men-the-film-you-never-knew-you-needed-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2021\/04\/09\/all-the-presidents-men-the-film-you-never-knew-you-needed-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All the President\u2019s Men\u2019: The Film You Never Knew You Needed to See"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d: what can I say? It\u2019s the action film that swapped guns for typewriters and bullets for ink. It\u2019s the action film that proved white collar crime can be just as exciting as cold-blooded murder. It\u2019s the action film whose true events inspired generations of future investigative journalists and filmmakers alike. It\u2019s the action film that won four Academy Awards. And it\u2019s the action film that you need to see, if for no other reason than the fact that watching two unlikely heroes take down a criminal president is uniquely American. And that watching a man, a woman and pen and paper change the course of events is, well, cool.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You, the viewer, will follow the story of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. They\u2019re two of the journalists responsible for exposing the events of Watergate. Watergate was a political scandal in the seventies. Several burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee, which is a building within a large group of buildings in Washington, DC. They were connected to President Richard Nixon\u2019s reelection campaign, and they were looking for documents and trying to wiretap phones. President Nixon took great lengths to cover up the robbery, but as you\u2019ll see, two journalists made sure that the American public knew the truth. <\/span> They battle their board of editors, chase sources, collect evidence and publish their findings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This film is both a masterclass in journalistic integrity and immersion through ultra-realism. That\u2019s making the audience feel like a part of the story by making the story look like the real thing. You\u2019ll experience wide shots that make you feel as though you are watching the characters through binoculars. And that you, yourself, are being watched by someone else. You\u2019ll experience the kinds of high-intensity situations that journalists do. The camera will constantly be giving you all sorts of information to comb through. You\u2019ll be exposed to scribbled notes you can\u2019t seem to read fast enough. You\u2019ll listen to conversations you can\u2019t quite hear. You\u2019ll be frustrated alongside the characters as they struggle to hear interviewees over the phone because people are working in the background, too. Just like you. Another special camera lens will make you nearsighted. You\u2019ll be able to see two characters in perfect focus at the same time, even when they\u2019re seen from two very different distances. It’s up to you who you watch more. The newsroom you\u2019re plopped into was carefully reconstructed by set designers to be as identical to the real thing as possible, down to exact measurements and the same model of work desks. The papers scattered about are real trash from the Washington Post\u2019s offices. At some point during the film, you\u2019ll start to feel like the third journalist within this power duo. It\u2019s an uncommon audience experience, and you\u2019ll want to take part in it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a time where love for your country had to outweigh criticism of it, exposing the president was off-limits. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein\u2019s actions proved that no one was above the law, even the commander of it. They secured the future ability of the media to uncover important truths about the most powerful of people. That\u2019s huge. So, if you want, give it a watch. Feel like a journalist for a couple of hours. Live a different life. If for no other reason, try it out because any action film that swaps the intensity of the car chase opener for the intensity of the clacking typewriter is worth watching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d: what can I say? It\u2019s the action film that swapped guns for typewriters and bullets for ink. It\u2019s the action film that proved white collar crime can be just as exciting as cold-blooded murder. It\u2019s the action film whose true events inspired generations of future investigative journalists and filmmakers alike. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}