Re-visiting All the President's Men

ChallengiA for a blueish Monday -- I ended one comment yesterday with:

Quo Vadis?

PDRM - RIP?

You know aht Quo Vadis means -- What happens next?

Try to educate Desi what RIP means...can you, my ER?

But whatever happens, life must go on, mustn't it?
Next challengia, no, I withdraw that, everyone knows this one, or maybe some not. -- Who was Deep Throat?

AS one deputy IGP knows it, he's a rogue. He whistle-blew. He caused the beginning of the downfall of a US President, and that's not good.
The status quo must be protected at all costs.

Who remembers the (IN)famous Vijendran tapes?
They did not successfully prosecute the "perpetrators" -- the actors, actresses, the film-maker or the"messenger/s" who exposed the expose.

Too many questions on a usually Blues Monday.
I'll just stop after a short commentary and a recommendation -- see Da Movie, go invest RM15.00 at your nearest home video shop, unwind that, from the shop furthest from you -- you don't want to be seen in the company of a "messenger".
In Our Country, They shoot the messenger, don't they?

So Desi is preparing to be less of a potential mess-enger, gonna be a 'ollywood, or itit 'olyCow. scribe, hence:
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All the President's Men

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford

This is the landmark event in journalism history by which all investigative jornalism in future would come to be measured against. If journalism thrillers be thy cup of tea, order two tehtariks this afternoon (after doing thy work, okay! Earn your B&B, throw in some kaya too!), sit back and appreciate how Deep Throat unwound his venom to bring down that mighiest man in the world at that time -- Richard Milhouse Nixon, President of the Greatest Power in the 'hole wide worlda.

All the President's Men. featured Dustin Hoffman (remember him as the young graduate who enjoyed the most envied status to be seduced by ...ne'er mind, I digress, it's definitely not for I.Cs -- could also be charged for corrupting YoungMinds2!)

Dustin (see, I'm now into first name basis, claiming to be a film-sript writer-to-be...)and Robert Redford were matched respectively as The Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate Caper, eventually snowballed into the Watergate Scandal, eventually led to President Nixon's downfall in 1974. Their bestselling exposé was brilliantly adapted by screenwriter William Goldman, and director Alan Pakula that dramatised vividly what could have been a difficult progression of Da Washington politics quite beyong Malaysians in general to follow. WE only could understand the simple politics of Money, Money, and more Money down the corridors of the PWTC Great Hall, Wisma MCa, maybe Wisma micKEY?.

Featuring Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, the two-hour movie must surely rank as a Classic, along High Noon, Casablanca, Gone in 60 Seconds?!No, it was Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable's GONE WITH THE WIND.

The film is a dramatic account, based on the two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters' book of the same name,(I have a copy, on loan at USD5 per minute! It's autographed, don't believe me, see me next April, first date!:(

It we had the likes of a deputy IGP during those days in charge of US security, President Nixon would have been laughing all the way to his grave. The scandal that brought down a Presidency and changed the course of world history would have been a mere incidental event stopped in its tracks in the first seven days of budding. No budding award-winning investigative journalism.
If there was no film-maker willing to stick his/her neck out to "capture" the naked woman order to do the ear squats at the PJ Police Hq, we wouldn't have the scandal expose, would we?
We would not have our Esteemed Prime Minister Pak Lah giving his edict to "uncover" the roguish acts and the perpetrators, would we?

But now they are out to nab the messenger.
I'm so afraid.
The thriller of Malaysian security movie in the making.
They say, in life, Fact is Stranger than Fiction.
In Our Country, it often proves to be true. (NO) Thanks to the shooters of messenger boys/gals2.

Tune in tomorrow -- Patience, can? for
ANSWER to ChallengiA, not fair to reveal the answer as Patience is a commodity running dry fast, and furious2! has to be re-fostered and recultivated, has to be H2O-ed. Halo-hello-ed!
Truth be told, if you were any nigh a thriller fan, Deep Throat came forth with his tru identity some months back, Uou miss'd the boat, didn't you? Oh, I don't blame thee -- maybe you're under aged when it happened, or maybe, not born yet, three decades ago. How time slipped us by.