{"id":1817064,"date":"2023-01-20T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817064"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:26:09","slug":"why-hollywood-cant-get-enough-of-watergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-hollywood-cant-get-enough-of-watergate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hollywood Can\u2019t Get Enough Of Watergate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-hollywood-cant-get-enough-of-watergate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Watergate is a scandal that has been resonating with Hollywood studios and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Deception! Intrigue! The White House is in crisis mode<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder Hollywood created memorable films tied to the scandal over the years, notably \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d \u201cFrost\/Nixon,\u201d \u201cNixon,\u201d Even better! \u201cForrest Gump.\u201d How could this industry resist?<\/p>\n<p>Except Hollywood can\u2019t quit Watergate, even if audiences may be tiring of the subject. Last year, we saw a star-studded recreation of the GOP crisis, and we\u2019ll soon see another high-profile series based on Nixon\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hardly a secret why Hollywood keeps cranking out Watergate-related stories. The media loves taking shots at Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hugh-hewitt-the-real-story-of-the-most-famous-political-scandal-in-u-s-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watergate<\/a> It is too scandalous to be left in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This era is a reminder of a time when journalists pursued truth relentlessly and held the powerful accountable. Unfortunately, this is not possible if a Republican is elected to the Oval Office at the 21st Century.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s not forget how Hollywood liberals lionize reporters any chance they get.<\/p>\n<p>Watergate refers both to the D.C. hotel where Nixon\u2019s minions broke into the Democrat National Committee\u2019s headquarters and the machinations behind it and the cover up.<\/p>\n<p>The last few years have seen major films tied to President Richard M. Nixon\u2019s undoing. The 2017 drama featured Liam Neeson as Deep Throat. \u201cMark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film was released in the midst of the awards season but was quickly ignored by Hollywood voters. The film received little respect from critics and the masses.<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, Tom Hanks &#038; Meryl Streep joined forces for \u201cThe Post.\u201d The film took a loving look at both The Washington Post and its reporters\u2019 efforts to publish the Pentagon Papers. President Nixon anchors the film\u2019s waning moments as The Post investigated a curious burglary at the Watergate hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Watergate was also a popular topic for documentarians. <\/p>\n<p>The 2022 film \u201cThe Martha Mitchell Effect\u201d (40 minutes) The wife of the U.S. Attorney General tried to warn the public about the nefarious acts within the Nixon White House. Some within Nixon\u2019s inner circle tried to dismiss the charges by alleging Martha Mitchell suffered from mental health woes, but the facts eventually proved her right.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ and CBS teamed up last year to bring you Last Year&#8217;s Special. \u201cWatergate: High Crimes in the White House.\u201d The documentary, released 50 years after the initial burglary, looked at how a seemingly minor crime ballooned into a crisis that ended Nixon\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>CNN also produced a docuseries titled &#8220;Anniversary&#8221; in response to the occasion. \u201cWatergate: Blueprint for a Scandal,\u201d John Dean, an ex-White House counsel to Nixon, is the narrator.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all Watergate-themed projects attract a crowd. \u201cMark Felt\u201d Earned $768,946 in U.S. theaters and Starz series \u201cGaslit\u201d Pop culture zeitgeist almost ignored them.<\/p>\n<p>That 2022 series boasted two Oscar winners \u2013 Sean Penn and Julia Roberts \u2013 plus stories that allegedly got less attention during the 1970s. Martha Mitchell (Roberts), and her efforts to expose White House malfeasance were part of the limited series.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux team for HBO\u2019s \u201cWhite House Plumbers,\u201d Partly based upon the book \u201cIntegrity\u201d by Egil \u201cBud\u201d Krogh and Matthew Krogh \u201cPlumbers\u201d explore how Nixon\u2019s saboteur dream team \u2014 Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt and Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy \u2014 ended up doing more damage to the cause than good.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Rich, liberal writer, co-produced the project. The film focuses on both the humor and the technical details of the initial theft.<\/p>\n<p>The drip-drip-drip Hollywood projects are based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watergate-doesnt-mean-what-press-thinks-it-means-andrew-klavan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watergate<\/a>? The industry knows the soft power of storytelling and applies it to all aspects of its creative work. It\u2019s why we see a similar onslaught of stories based on the 1950s blacklist era.<\/p>\n<p>That historical chapter showed the GOP\u2019s cartoonish overreach, plus it paints Hollywood figures like screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in heroic fashion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood isn\u2019t done with the Blacklist era, either.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we\u2019ll see \u201cMcCarthy,\u201d Michael Shannon has written a feature-length biography about the senator who was hardworking.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, artists can use these films and TV programs to not only explore history but also use it as a tool against their ideologies. The film\u2019s direcTor, V\u00e1clav Marhoul, made \u201cMcCarthy\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/mccarthy-director-michael-shannon-mccarthyism-symbol-evil-1235036853\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draw parallels between the senator and modern politicians.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people are very dangerous. And I realized this when I watched the news in January and saw Donald Trump and his call for the Capitol attack. But it\u2019s not just about Trump. Over the past decade in Europe and all over the world, there are so many Joe McCarthys. For instance in Brazil it\u2019s Bolsonaro, in England, it\u2019s Johnson. It\u2019s about populism,\u201d Marhoul stated.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists will encourage stars to make statements that support one party or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watergate scandal is perfect fodder for both journalists and Hollywood studios. Deception! Intrigue! A White House in crisis mode! It\u2019s no wonder Hollywood created memorable films tied to the scandal over the years, notably \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d \u201cFrost\/Nixon,\u201d \u201cNixon,\u201d and even \u201cForrest Gump.\u201d How could the industry resist? Except Hollywood can\u2019t quit Watergate, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1817067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3680,6202,4361,15764,6195],"class_list":["post-1817064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cant","tag-daily","tag-hollywood","tag-watergate","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}