The Post

The Post (2017)

Timing: 1:56 (116 min)

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Release date

2017-12-22

Country

India, United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, TSG Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Participant, Star Thrower Entertainment, Pascal Pictures

Genre

Drama, History

Budget

$50 000 000

Revenue

$179 769 467

Website

https://www.foxmovies.com/movies/the-post

Director

Steven Spielberg

Actors

Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon
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Scenario

Josh Singer, Liz Hannah

Producer

Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Amy Pascal, Tom Karnowski, Tim White, Adam Somner, Josh Singer, Trevor White

Operator

Janusz Kamiński

Composer

John Williams

Artist

Hinju Kim, Michael Auszura, Aimee Dombo Desmond

Audition

Ellen Lewis

Editing

Michael Kahn, Sarah Broshar
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• The film is based on real events – a journalistic investigation that led to a major scandal.
• Tom Hanks was acquainted with the people on whom the film's main characters are based. The actor personally knew Ben Bradley (1921-2014), whose image he portrayed on screen. He met Kay Graham (1917-2001), played by Meryl Streep, just a day before her death.
• The role of the protester was played by abstract artist Blake Emory.
• Original documents of Daniel Ellsberg were used as props during filming. This includes the papers scattered on the floor of Tom Hanks' character. Ellsberg was a former military analyst and employee of the RAND Corporation who, in 1971, leaked the secret collection "U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study" to the press.
• Some scenes and episodes of the film were shot on the grounds of Columbia University.
• Recordings of President Nixon’s (1913-1994) voice from the White House archives were used in scenes where the President’s voice is heard over the phone.
• Steven Spielberg held a pre-premiere screening of the film for the children of Katharine Graham and Ben Bradley’s widow. Their reaction was positive.
• It almost always rains in the short episodes showing the Vietnam War. Tom Hanks played the leading role in “Forrest Gump” (Robert Zemeckis, 1994), where his character served in Vietnam, after which he occasionally recalled that it was always raining there.
• The scenes aboard the planes show overhead compartments located above the passenger seats. These appeared in airplanes only in the late 1970s.
• Tom Hanks, who is 61 years old, plays 50-year-old Ben Bradley. The real Bradley had a three-year age difference with his wife. The age difference between Hanks and actress Sarah Paulson, who plays Bradley's wife, is 17 years.
• The plot and dialogue of the film are based on three memoirs written by Katherine Graham, Ben Bradley, and Daniel Ellsberg. During filming, Ellsberg was the only one still alive. After a personal meeting with him, the film's director, Steven Spielberg, significantly expanded this role, including a prologue in the film where Ellsberg, disillusioned with the Vietnam War, makes copies of the so-called Pentagon Papers (a collection entitled "U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study"). In the original version of the plot, Ellsberg was supposed to play a less prominent role and not appear on screen at all until meeting Ben Bagdikian (a scholar and journalist, professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the book "The Media Monopoly").
• Original documents of Daniel Ellsberg were used as props during filming. This includes the papers scattered on the floor by the character played by Tom Hanks. Ellsberg is a former military analyst and employee of the RAND Corporation who, in 1971, leaked the secret collection "A Vietnam Study: U.S. – Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967" to the press.
• In short episodes depicting the Vietnam War, it almost always rains. Tom Hanks played the title role in the film "Forrest Gump" (Robert Zemeckis, 1994), where his character served in Vietnam and subsequently recalled several times that it was always raining there.
• The plot and dialogue of the film were based on three memoirs written by Katherine Graham, Ben Bradlee, and Daniel Ellsberg. During the filming, Ellsberg was the only one of the three still alive. After a personal meeting with him, the film's director, Steven Spielberg, significantly expanded this role, including a prologue in the film where Ellsberg, disillusioned with the Vietnam War, makes copies of the so-called Pentagon Papers (a collection titled "U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study"). In the original version of the plot, Ellsberg was supposed to play a less prominent role and not appear on screen at all until meeting Ben Bagdikian (a scholar and journalist, professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "The Media Monopoly").