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All the King's Men is a 2006 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Steven Zaillian based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. All the King's Men had previously been adapted into a Best Picture Oscar–winning film by writer-director Robert Rossen in 1949.
All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935.
- Robert Penn Warren
- 1946
All the King's Men: Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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- Steven Zaillian
- 2006-09-22
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Reporter Jack Burden is sent on assignment to write about Willie Stark, a man running for county treasurer in an unnamed Southern state. Stark's campaign is run on honesty and talking about the corruption of the local politicians. Burden meets Stark and his family and writes an inspiring story on Stark's honesty and courage. Using their power, incl...
Writing
Before Robert Rossen was hired, Norman Corwin was hired by Columbia Pictures to adapt Warren’s novel into a screenplay. A Writers Guildarbitration board later awarded sole screenwriting credit to Rossen. Rossen’s script makes several changes to the novel, including shifting the main story perspective from reporter Jack Burden, the novel’s narrator, to Willie Stark himself. The film also removes any direct references to the state in which the film is set, as well as specificities of Southern A...
Casting
Rossen originally offered the starring role to John Wayne, who found the proposed film script unpatriotic and indignantly refused the part. Broderick Crawford, who eventually took the role, won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actor, beating out Wayne, who had been nominated for his role in Sands of Iwo Jima. The casting of Crawford was considered risky at the time, as he was not known as a leading man, nor considered a box office draw, but primarily a character actor. Columbia Pictures chief...
Filming locations
The film was shot at various locations in California using local residents, something that was fairly unknown for Hollywood at the time. The scene near the beginning of the film, where Stark is arrested for unauthorized public speaking was filmed on the old Suisun City, California, Plaza, and the officer that warns, then arrests, Stark was played by the then-Sheriff, A.C. Tillman. A house in nearby Fairfieldwas used for the exterior of Willie Stark's house in the film. Sets were built in the...
Critical response
The film received wide acclaim upon its release. Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and its direction in his review, writing, "Robert Rossen has written and directed, as well as personally produced, a rip-roaring film of the same title ... We have carefully used that descriptive as the tag for this new Columbia film because a quality of turbulence and vitality is the one that it most fully demonstrates ... In short, Mr. Rossen has assembled in this starkly unprettified film a piece o...
Later analysis
Film historian Spencer Selby calls the film "[A] hard-hitting noir adaptation of Warren's eloquent novel". Joe Goldberg, film historian and former story editor for Paramount Pictures, wrote about the content of the plot and its noirish fatalistic conclusion, "The plot makes sense, the dialogue is memorable, the story arises from the passions and ideas of the characters. It deals with graft, corruption, love, drink and betrayal, and the subversion of idealism by power, and it might even make s...
Accolades
In 2001, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved All the King's Men in 2000. As of 2022[update], it is the last Best Picture winner to be based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
All the King's Men (2006 film, directed by Steven Zaillianand also based on Warren's book)Bibliography
Silver, Alain and James Ursini (editors). Film Noir: Reader 2. All the King's Men film noir themes discussed in essay, "Violence and the Bitch Goddess" by Stephen Farber, pgs. 54-55 (1974). Proscenium Publishers, Inc., New York (July 2003). Second Limelight Edition. ISBN 0-87910-280-2.
All the King's Men at the AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsAll the King's Men at IMDbAll the King's Men at AllMovieAll the King's Men at the TCM Movie DatabaseStarring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet All the King's Men (2006) Official Trailer 1 - Sean Penn Movie Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie...
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All the King's Men: Directed by Robert Rossen. With Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek. The rise and fall of a corrupt politician who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
All the King's Men (bra: A Grande Ilusão [1] [2]; prt: O Caminho do Poder [3] [4]) é um filme estadunidense de 2006, dos gêneros drama e suspense, escrito e dirigido por Steven Zaillian, com roteiro baseado no romance homônimo de Robert Penn Warren.
