Movie Post 1 (Invitation)

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All The President's Men





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The guest list:
Mark Felt
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Richard Nixon
Ben Bradlee
Julian Zelizer
Robert Redford
Dustin Hoffman

         For the showing of All The President's Men, the guest list has been expertly crafted. To watch the film we first need all of the key players in this movie to attend. That would be Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward the junior editors who cracked open the Watergate case along with their counterparts in the movie Robert Redford playing Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman playing Carl Bernstein. These characters will help to give us a full understanding of what really happened during the Watergate Investigation. And the actors will help to give a well-rounded view since they were immersed in all of this history during the making of the film. I think it is also of the paramount importance to invite the mentor-like figure in the lives of Woodward and Bernstein, the editor of the Washington Post during the time Ben Bradlee, to revel in the success of his gamble, and to discuss the importance of taking risks. Without Bradlee's support of these two men, the story never would have been published. We must also invite the man who made it all possible Deep Throat, whose real name is Mark Felt, whose courage and cooperation helped Woodward find out what exactly was going on in the White House. Then, to have the major villain of our story, Richard Nixon the President of the United States during the time, who was involved in the scandal, will attend so that we get his perspective on why he did what he did. Then our last guest will be Julian Zelizer who is a history and public affairs professor at Princeton who will serve as a historical critic of the movie. I have no doubt that this will prove to be a very entertaining night.

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