The whole movie was risky; nobody had any idea the movie would work. Every power on television—they all began in newsrooms. You just knew his lawn was cut. And what I concluded was that the thing that was submerged was a killer instinct. He would not let Bernstein get ahead with an assumption, and that was tension. New Yorker writers reflect on their favorite works of art.
His performance is a star turn—simply by standing onscreen, Redford imbues Woodward, the Post , and all of journalism with Hollywood glitter. The tightrope walk that his screenplay braves—remaining informative, comprehensive, and reasonably accurate to the book while telling a compelling movie story without slipping too far into hagiography and glamour—is so deftly mastered that a viewer barely notices the tricks that make it work.
We were, moreover, dealing with a case of instant legend. I have no doubt that a century hence, Watergate and Nixon will be the stuff of which great drama will be written, but we lacked the luxury of time for perspective. Goldman cuts the book in half. My dad was a journalist, and I was intimate with the sights, sounds and smells of a newsroom.
I lived through the Watergate hearings. My parents watched seemingly every moment of them on our only television set in the house, along with every newscast related to it. I was nine years old, and much to my dismay, there was a decided dearth of Star Trek re-runs in my living room in during those hearings.
But finally, in , I gathered with some friends and went to an anniversary screening of the Oscar-winning drama. I was riveted. A few years later, I found myself advising a student newspaper. In , we still did manual paste-up, complete with a waxer and oversized design tables. My student staff members were paid in pizza and assurances that this was great pre-professional training for the hours they spent creating a weekly newspaper.
There were no scholarships or paychecks. Production nights often lasted until 3 or 4 AM for most of us, and because we published mid-week, all of us had class in the morning. This movie shows that right being used properly. An important event happened, and the journalists searched endlessly for answers, no matter how many times they were told no by the people involved.
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