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All the President's Men (1976)

Directed by Alan J. Pakula · Cinematography by Gordon Willis

PG138 min239 frames

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What is All the President's Men about?

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

All the President's Men is a 1976 American biographical neo-noir political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by William Goldman, about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Based on the 1974 non-fiction book by journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, it stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, as they investigate the scandal for The Washington Post. It was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.

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Sampled across 200 frames, the coverage of All the President's Men leans on medium shots (60% of the sample) and close-ups (16%). Cinematographer Gordon Willis keeps 38% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 40% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 66% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of All the President's Men (1976) are #322f2c, #0f100f, #d4d2cb, #f8f8f6, #524f4b, #d5cab2 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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