All the President's Men story
All the President's Men is a 1976 American political thriller film about the Watergate scandal, which brought down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.
6 total · 3 choice · 3 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| corruption in society | choice | we saw the Watergate scandal and the Nixon administration's shenanigans |
| freedom of the press | choice | central to the story was the government's cover-up and the threat to journalistic integrity |
| journalism | choice | We saw how journalists at the Washington Post may have worked. |
| cooperation | major | we saw how Carl and Woodward became a dynamic duo, after some initial friction |
| integrity | major | the journalists and the Editor all debated issues related to integrity and proved to be remarkably upstanding in the end (story related by themselves, of course) |
| risk taking vs. playing it safe | major | the journalists had time and again to choose whether to be content with a lesser scoop, or whether (riskily) to go after the White House itself |