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.
On the bluray’s special features of All The President’s Men, some journalists they interview about the film mention that nowadays it would be insanely difficult if not impossible for a journalist to get a story like watergate published, since the thousands of independent news agencies have been drastically reduced and consolidated into the hands of a few corporations who would never dare publish such a hostile story that could hit shareholder profits and get them sued.
However, I think a response to that is Citizen Controlled Media, of which the fediverse such as lemmy and piefed are now a part of, and they can bypass the control of the corporations.