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The last scene of the film is the beginning of "Presidential Team" in 1976. "Presidential Team" tells the story of a reporter from the "Washington Post" who brought President Nixon down for exposing the "Watergate Incident."
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In all the scenes where President Nixon’s voice appears, the real voice of the President himself in the White House video tape is used.
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Tom Hanks's role model in the film, Ben Bradley, and director Spielberg are neighbors, and they have lived on Long Island, New York for many years.
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The prototypes of Hanks and the two main characters in the film have intersections in real life-he not only knows Bradley, but also the day before the death of Catherine Graham, the prototype of Aunt May's character, he just met Pass her.
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In "The President's Team", Bradley's role is played by Jason Robards, who played Hanks's boss in the 1993 "Philadelphia Story".
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This film is the fifth collaboration between Hanks and Spielberg, and it is the same as Harrison Ford's record, but Fober's part in "Alien ET" in 1982 was cut. Hanks has collaborated four times before: "Saving Private Ryan", "Getting Away", "Happiness Terminal" and "Bridge of Spy"
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This film is the first "official" collaboration between Aunt Mei and Director Si. Prior to this, Aunt Mei had dubbed the "Blue Fairy" in "Artificial Intelligence".
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This film is the first collaboration between Hanks and Aunt May as actors on the big screen, except for "Mamma Mia!" produced by Hanks. "Aunt May also dubbed another film "Don't mess with ants" produced by Hanks.
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This film is the 28th collaboration between Spielberg and film scorer John Williams. The soundtrack in the film combines orchestral and light electronic elements.
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"Washington Post" is the second film related to the whistleblower in 2017. Another similar film is "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House" starring Liam Neeson. As the "Deep Throat" himself, Erte exposes the experience of the "Watergate" incident.
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In "Forrest Gump", the "Watergate Incident" was accidentally stabbed by Tom Hanks's Forrest Gump.
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Coincidentally, there is Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood in both films. He played President Kennedy (JFK) in the 2000 "Thirteen Days", and in this film he played JFK's Secretary of Defense.
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Bruce Greenwood and Sarah Paulson, the "Banana Sister" in the film, co-starred in the American drama "American Crime Story".
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This film is the third time in the career of one of the screenwriters, Josh Singer, to explore the role of journalism in exposing political scandals. The first two are the film "WikiLeaks" around Julian Assange, and the "Focus" that shined at the Oscars the year before.
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Hanks previously starred in 2007 "Charlie Wilson's War" with John Slattery in this film. Slattery played Bradley in "Focus" (the role prototype of Hanks) ) Son.
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The "coquettish lawyer" Bob Odencock and the "low-profile motor" Jesse Premont, who starred in this film, are both familiar characters in "Breaking Bad"; Kelly Kuhn and Michael · Stuba played the third season of "Ice and Blood Storm."
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The Pulitzer Prize in 1971 was only awarded to the New York Times, which was the first to publish the "Pentagon Release", but not to the Washington Post.
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This film is Spielberg's first 1.85:1 film since "World War" in 2005, and it is also his first film in Super 35mm film format.
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Director Si believes that this film is his first political thriller, and he said "Bridge of Spy" is a spy thriller.
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Catherine Graham, the prototype of Aunt May’s role, is also called "Iron Lady" by her colleagues, and Aunt May, for her role in another "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher in 2011, "Iron Lady: Strong Tenderness", Won the Oscar queen.
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Jules 2021-12-02 08:01:26
Best of the year, incoherent: tribute to the feminism reawakened in the 1970s, tribute to the true journalists who guard conscience, tribute to freedom of the press, tribute to journalism professionalism, tribute to the golden age of newspaper industry. To pay tribute to this stirring story, not to sing praises for the king, but to speak for the common people.
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Ruben 2021-12-02 08:01:26
It is suspected that the screenwriter had already started writing on the night Trump was elected. Otherwise, how could he get a movie that talks about freedom of the press and inserts praises of powerful women so quickly? Although everything is as familiar as a formula and the political goals are very obvious, I really admire the liberals' ability to instigate emotions by relying on movies, and they are not sloppy. Even if they do not understand the events at the time, they will not affect being moved at all. That's NYT's slightly lying gun...
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Daniel Ellsberg: But it didn't take him long to figure out, well, for us to figure out if the public ever saw these papers they would turn against the war. Covert ops, guaranteed debt, rigged elections? It's all in there. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson... they violated the Geneva Convention. They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. They knew we couldn't win and still sent boys to die.
Ben Bagdikian: What about Nixon?
Daniel Ellsberg: He's just carrying on like all the others, too afraid to be the one who loses the war on his watch.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Someone said this at some point about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me.