Dick Movie Review, Watergate Parallels and Bernstein Portrayal
A review of the 1999 film "Dick" highlights its comedic take on the Watergate scandal through the perspective of two teenage girls. The portrayal of Carl Bernstein is criticized as potentially offensive, while the film's premise is contrasted with modern political climates. The discussion notes that unlike current events, the Watergate era involved documented physical crimes and payoffs.
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00:00 Like, oh yes, great. MP3 is dead! It's dead! It's officially killed! It's dead! Adam Curry John C. DeVorah And it's Thursday May 18th 2017 and this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 930 This...is no agenda four branches of government so you don't have to and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet in the capital of the drone star state here in the click-click Cluedio. In The Morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where my printer is only printing in brown. I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill! Well now that we have that important news out of the way...
00:39 Time for a disclaimer. I have the important news of the day, i have to tell people in advance that i won't be able to make a report that i would normally do because we have too much other news than social news. Oh, i know and i saw it had aired and thought to myself, i said self, i don't think John did it. No, i haven't recorded it yet but i watched the show. But i didn't have time to piece together the fabulous bit that I usually do. I totally understand, I totally understand. However, I did do my extra homework...I'm not saying you didn't do a lot of work but i watched the movie Dick! Ah good for you But this was kind of common- I thought this was a kind of recent movie so I'm searching around on Netflix and Amazon's and by the way if you go online and search for Movie Dick is it not a good search term?
01:32 And then I got distracted for a couple hours and yeah, very hard. Yeah nice one John. One after another even Dick the movies hard to come by you there you go but i will say this is a very good film first of all it's funny in a 1999 kind of way right was the 1999 film very...it's old and the premise is you know the deep throat these two girls 15 year old girls And they wind up through a whole bunch of crazy circumstances actually helping Woodward and Bernstein, which in that movie Will Ferrell plays Woodward.
02:10 And I forget who's Bernstein, but if I were Bernstein, I would hate this movie. Because Bernstein is portrayed as this little natty Jew boy. Just trying to slip in all that...I mean really pretty anti-Semitic. Wasn't it Dustin Hoffman in that movie? No, no, no, it wasn't Dustin Hoffman. Okay. That was All the President's Men, wasn't it? Oh yeah, he was actually...he played the actual...right. What am I thinking? That would be funny! But it was very good and you realize throughout this movie and first of all I can totally see where the current script comes from for oh Watergate impeachment is one important difference there wasn't actual crime an actual break-in there was money being paid off they're all kinds of things going on which is far from what we're hearing today
