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The Cine-Files

William Goldman & All The President’s Men

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Last week we lost the great author and screenwriter, William Goldman. As the writer of groundbreaking movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Princess Bride and Misery, William Goldman is one of the most influential writers in the history of Film. This week we honor Mr. Goldman’s passing by re-releasing two of our favorite episodes, All The President’s Men and The Princess Bride Later in the week. Don’t forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFilesPod/?ref=bookmarks John @therochasays Steve @srmorris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Cinephiles for a very special edition.

0:03.6

We've had kind of a tough week.

0:04.8

We've lost two great writers.

0:07.1

Stan Lee that you're going to hear about later in the week and we also just this morning

0:10.4

lost the great William Goldman. Yeah.

0:13.1

And so we thought we'd re-release.

0:14.6

We have two episodes that we did of William Goldman.

0:17.1

And the first one that we're releasing here

0:18.6

is all the President's Men.

0:19.9

Yeah.

0:20.8

That's a fantastic movie, and I gotta gotta say still really applies today.

0:25.0

Yeah and especially with the other news that broke this morning and the news that seems to be breaking recently over the last few days and rumors about indictments and whatever so this is so insanely topical what

0:36.4

almost 40 years later yeah 45 years later and it's kind of mind blowing in that way so

0:42.0

William Goldman just an incredible writer wrote so many things that,

0:46.8

how many writers credit him,

0:49.6

influence him, then become screenwriters,

0:51.9

and write so many things.

0:53.1

And wouldn't it be ironic that a writer who influenced may end up writing about this whole

0:56.8

Trump situation as a separate film to rival all the president's men?

1:00.6

That's a great point.

1:01.6

And honestly, how many screenwriters does the general public know yeah and I think a lot of people know William

1:06.7

Yes absolutely you know between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid princess bride marathon man tons of great screenplays.

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