18-11-2008, 05:05 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Die Spinne's web is indeed hard to untangle.-------
Many people think Pakula's All the President's Men is a great "conspiracy" thriller, which shows investigative journalism at its finest.
In truth, All the President's Men is a bright shining lie - pretty much from first frame to the very last.
"Deep Throat" is probably the construction of a Hollywood scriptwriter seeking to inject drama into a dull narrative.
Bob Woodward has been Their bitch his entire life.
And yet part of me suspects that Alan J Pakula really did want to reveal some deep political truths, even if he ended up lost in a garden of forking paths and forked tongues...
Jan, I think you are being a bit hard on the Pak-man. After all he apparently already died an Unchristian and UnJew death, when a long contruction steel rod backflipped off a Connecticut (there it is again; Doddge that!) flat bed, through his windshield and rudely edited his palpitator.
This to a guy a guy who also made the excellent The Parallax View... well this could lead to another proverb!
Are you forgetting the famous parking lot scene in Presdients Men where the Deep Throat Character clearly states that the Woodsteins really dont know anything about the deep intelligence background of what was going on with Wattergate?
This scene would seem to make this movie not entirely the enemy of Watergate Revisionists , oder?