Since then it has been lauded as an “American classic” by two sorts of people: lachrymose Southern chauvinists, who have a stake in its themes and its lawdy-lawdy-god-amighty prose and political junkies, who cull it for points of contact with, or divergence from, the contemporary scene. A few years ago, Caldwell dropped a bunker-buster of a negative review on Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men.Īll the King’s Men … won the Pulitzer Prize for Robert Penn Warren half a century ago.
My vote is six.I blame Christopher Caldwell, I really do.
The cinematography and art decoration are very beautiful, but I did not like the story. His romance with Anne Stanton, performed by Kate Winslet, is simply awful and unreasonable, and I do not know why the relationship of Jack with Judge Irwin is only disclosed by Mrs. The dramatic and tragic story has some good moments, when the Machiavellian Willie Stark uses his political skills to develop strategies and revert situations, but the lead character of Jude Law is annoying. In spite of having a constellation in the cast, "All the King's Man" is a low paced and boring soap opera. When the influent Judge Irwin (Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy (Jackie Earle Haley) the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden (Jude Law) the lobbyist Tiny Duffy (James Gandolfini) and his mistress Sadie Burke (Patricia Clarkson), to face the opposition of the upper classes. In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes.
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