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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Streep, Hanks, and Spielberg Rushed to Get The Post to Press: "This couldn't wait."
Saw The Post yesterday, and when Kay Graham said, "We publish," the theater audience broke out in whistles, cheers, clapping, stomping, and whooping, and again at the end of the movie.
What an inspiring and timely movie.
Very interesting Vanity Fair article here. Spielberg first saw the script in Feb. of last year and rushed to get the movie into production and out into theaters:
Why Streep, Hanks, and Spielberg Rushed to Get The Post to Press
"This couldnt wait, Steven Spielberg explained after The Posts first awards-season screening in New York City Sunday night. Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, and costume designer Ann Roth joined him once the credits rolled on this David-and-Goliath story, which follows The Washington Posts Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee as they fight to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Among the more striking behind-the-scenes tales was just how swiftly this project came together.
What could have inspired you to make a film about journalists standing up to an adversarial presidency? panel moderator Mark Harris dryly asked. Spielberg then wowed the insider crowd by explaining that producer Amy Pascal handed him 31-year-old screenwriter Liz Hannahs spec script for The Post a mere nine months ago.
The director was actually in the middle of post-production on next years special-effects-heavy Ready Player One when he ducked away to quickly shoot The Post. The motivation for his unorthodox moveand his swiftnesswas the desire to tell this story today.
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Some of the greatest stories that havent been told are the low-hanging fruit of our collective history, Spielberg said, getting the discussion back on track. The relevance is up to everybody, to strike their own balance between the news then and the news today. But sometimes bad things do happen twice.
More at link:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/the-post-movie-steven-spielberg-tom-hanks-meryl-streep-pentagon-papers
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)They cheered in Plantationn (Fort Lauderdale) as well
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)marlakay
(11,457 posts)Which is very conservative, but Ashland which is progressive is only 20 min away so who knows who was in audience.
We live here in Medford, loved the movie and whole audience applauded here to.
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,355 posts)in Sarasota Florida and surprising the audience cheered and clapped at the end. Spielberg using Nixon and Ellsberg recordings was brilliant.
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)But I did hear a gentleman before we went in, when asked about the movie, opined at great length how many correlations there were/are to today. I would have loved to have more conversations with him.
Edit to add, the theatre was full, 2nd day out here.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)What a remarkable story of her life, DC and its media!
withoutapaddle
(263 posts)dsc
(52,160 posts)the other film he did that with is Schindler's List (made while finishing Jurassic Park). He could well get another Oscar and it would be deserved.