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Half-Assed Internet Research

Screenplay dispute, invented Florida scene, Robards background presence, overlapping lines, and Redford handedness

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  • Goldman reported that Bernstein and Nora Ephron secretly drafted an alternate screenplay that elevated Bernstein and contained inaccuracies
  • The Florida office sequence is described as the only wholly invented scene retained from that draft
  • William Goldman skipped his Butch Cassidy Oscar ceremony for a Knicks game
  • Jason Robards reportedly stayed in Bradlee’s office on non-shooting days so his character remained visible in the newsroom background
  • Redford and Hoffman reportedly memorized each other’s dialogue to overlap naturally
  • Left-handed Redford performs close-up writing and dialing right-handed
  • Redford and Hoffman split billing, with Redford leading marketing and Hoffman leading the film credits
All the President’s Men The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

Redford, Robards, Watergate, Pakula, and Goldman

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  • Robert Redford is assigned an apex because his earlier star run enabled him to produce this major success
  • Dustin Hoffman is rejected in favor of later Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, or Rain Man peaks
  • Jason Robards is debated between his stage legacy and this first of consecutive supporting Oscars
  • Watergate is proposed as being at its cultural apex
  • Alan J. Pakula is assigned an apex for his 1970s run and the enduring influence of his films
  • William Goldman is assigned an apex for combining this film, Marathon Man, top stars, earnings, and an Oscar
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The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

Follow the money

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  • The smoking question, Run that baby, Follow the money, notebook demand, danger warning, Haldeman rebuke, and First Amendment speech are nominated
  • Follow the money is identified as the iconic line
  • The Ben Bradlee phone message, paranoia line, and demand to hype with facts are further favorites
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

New York Times omission, Deep Throat identity, and modern political sabotage

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  • The film is criticized for minimizing the New York Times’s competing Watergate reporting
  • Whether life would be more fun if Deep Throat remained unidentified receives agreement, though disclosure is defended as helping Mark Felt’s family
  • Revealing Felt is said to rebut suspicions that Woodward invented or combined Deep Throat
  • Whether Watergate tactics supplied a blueprint for later Russian election interference is debated
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Who Won the Movie?

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Most Rewatchable Scene

Split: Kim being taken; dinner at Jean-Claude’s house

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  • Kim being taken through the phone-call instructions is one preferred scene
  • The dinner at Jean-Claude’s house became the other preferred scene after repeated viewings
  • The apartment raid and the extended ending are also named among five top-tier scenes
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What’s Aged the Best?

Liam Neeson’s action-star reinvention and the phone speech lead several praised elements

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  • The film knowing exactly what it is is praised
  • Liam Neeson’s filmography is said to have been reinterpreted after the role made him an action star
  • The phone speech is proposed as the best individual element but challenged because it was already perfect on release
  • Jean-Claude’s behind-a-desk decline is praised as a recurring thematic joke
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Foreign-villain stereotyping and the U2 premise lead a larger set of objections

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  • The film’s portrayal of nearly every foreign character as murderous or complicit is the strongest objection
  • Teenagers following U2 around Europe in 2008 is criticized as implausible
  • Bryan’s drinks-with-his-buddies scene is criticized as awkward
  • Kim’s rapid recovery without visible trauma is criticized
  • Taken 3 is rejected while Taken 2 receives a qualified defense
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