Will Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward be portrayed in this film? No one is listed as playing Woodward on the cast list. Difficult to show Felt's career without his relationship with Woodward.
shareIt's more about his life. He was not deep throat for wholly altruistic honest means. He was guy who got passed over for job he believed that he was rightly entitled to.
shareHe is in the deleted scenes, but oddly not prominent at all. Not sure what the decisionmaking was there. Were they thinking everyone has seen All the President's Men and therefore no need to retread the territory?
shareThat could be it. I'm planning on watching both movies back-to-back as "companion pieces" sometime soon. I wonder what my overall impression will be after watching both like that.
shareNot sure. Suspect the two movies are pretty compatible. They probably don't disagree much. Interesting project though!
shareWoodward is in the film, and their first underground parking lot-encounter is depicted.
sharethis shows it from a different angle. He was pretty high up and did it basically bc he got passed over for a job and had the inside dirt. If he had been appointed as the next director, would he have kept his mouth shut--and would we have found out about watergate etc?? Interesting to ponder and a different kind of suspense. It's not open cloak and dagger but workplace politics can still be pretty intense.
shareFelt wanted to fight against the corruption, and keep the FBI as an autonomous agency (not working for the White House).
The reason he wasn't chosen as director was because he wasn't Nixon's guy. He wouldn't have done Nixon's bidding like Gray did.
That's the impression I got from watching the movie. Still, he wasn't a saint. The movie also goes into that at the end.
no he wasn't perfect. Saves the movie The side plot of trying to find his daughter especially pre-internet is 'funny' .They readily could have done it now. Makes me thankfull we do live in the internet age lol
shareI tend to go along w/ that explanation. Otherwise, he's just a petty back-biter, and Felt's career belies such a low self-serving motive. He know EVERYTHING Nixon's people were doing (e.g. stealing the shoes of Democratic operatives left out for shining, obviously bugging the DNC, writing a letter smearing Ed Muskie's wife, just doing every kind of nasty despicable thing you might imagine).
Maybe there was something in his being passed over, but he was fiercely committed to the FBI's independence, not politically congenial to Nixon and disgusted by their fairly unprecedented level of corruption, so he likely had a number of mixed motives in going rogue.
Such a story is kind of hard to put over. I thought the film was interesting, well crafted.