All The President's Men

This was an extremely long movie for me to sit through and watch, I found myself getting up an doing things through this show.  It could be that I don't have an interest in these types of shows, it didn't even have a lot to keep my interest.

Watching the show and seeing how things were so different back then, like having to look through a phone book to get addresses, or having to write everything down, and take notes.  We have so much technology now, you can get most of your information through the push of a button.

The film was very dark most of the time, and when Bob and Carl would be out driving in the daylight, and go to someones house, all of a sudden it was dark.  When they went to that ladies apartment to try ans get information from her, the entire background was black. They had to do much research, with running around and making phone calls, I can't even imagine the work they had to put in to get a story, even with work they had to do to get such a high profile story, like the Watergate.

They didn't seem to scared at the time when they were working on this story, but when Bob met with his informant in the parking garage, who could tell he was starting to get scared, because this story ended up being bigger then either Carl or Bob realized.  The way they showed us how the inter workings of a newspaper was back then.  Even realizing no matter where you were back then you could smoke, as Carl always did.

The acting in this movie was very simple acting, they just had straight faces, with a lot of talking and finding the facts for their story.  The editor always seemed to have his feet up on a desk throughout the show.  You could tell this movie was made in the 70's from the colors throughout the movie, which were white, red, blue, and yellow.  They had many stand-in actors in this movie, which they had to do to make it look so very busy, which I'm sure it was.  The sounds of the typewriter was very prominent in this movie, there really wasn't much music, just the hustle and bustle of being a newspaper writer.