Mank Comments

  • Katrine 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    In recent years, the movie with the highest threshold for watching movies is so high that it is difficult to digest it if you sink your heart and savor it carefully, but if you are a loyal fan of David Fincher, this movie will definitely make you fall in love with it. From the set props to the old-fashioned texture of black and white tones, returning to the Hollywood era at that time, the use of symmetrical composition, few words and no nonsense dialogue, montage of drunken fans in the bar,...

  • Jordi 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    Not Fincher's best work, but still sincere and infectious. Not only lighting photography, but also the narrative structure pays homage to the original work. In choosing to be a biography of Mankell, Finch may have seen the real idealism in him, a man who is arrogant and domineering but tries his best to be friendly, a great and remarkable person. There's Herman J. Mankiewicz behind "Citizen Kane," and there's a David Fincher behind...

  • Pearlie 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    50/100, the trivial incidents of shady splicing failed to restore Mankiewicz, not like "Citizen Kane" has a strong drive, nor like "The Social Network" to compose a suite of the times, but from the film itself to the content, it fully satirizes Hollywood. industrial system. Does David Fincher, who has never experienced it, love that era? As if he just loves his father. Efforts to do old is not a grand reminiscence, otherwise why would you use a 2.2:1 format? It's just a more personal paranoia,...

  • Sunny 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    The threshold for watching movies is extremely high, and it is strongly recommended to watch Citizen Kane and behind the scenes of Citizen Kane first. The audiovisual level is worthy of the obsessive-compulsive Finch, which should be the most realistic digital photography that imitates the texture of film I have ever seen. The film grain has been done almost as if it were real, but unfortunately it still lacks the smooth texture of the emulsifier of the film image because the sharpness of...

  • Greyson 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    I don't understand, but I'm blown...

  • Jasmin 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    Formally intertextualizing with Citizen Kane is foolishness, and the repeated typewriter sound effects with the words flashback are simply incomparable to the time images presented in that masterpiece. At first, I thought it was a strict imitation of the old Hollywood format. After watching it for a while, I gradually realized that I just used the extravagance and exaggeration of the production level to fill the dry and boring script. This mediocre book is more of a knot than a long-cherished...

  • Marion 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    92/100. I don't know Mankiewicz, and I haven't seen Citizen Kane, but David Fincher gave me a window into this eternal monument of cinematic history. Thanks to the perfect coordination of all aspects of the whole film, even though the first half has a large influx of unfamiliar characters, as I gradually immersed myself in this theme, I gradually felt a bright light in the dust of Hollywood of that era. Mankiewicz, he's an alcoholic, he's a geeky guy, maybe someone who can never be understood...

  • Stephon 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    If the restoration of "The Other Side of the Wind" is a victory for "Netflix takes over the traditional author theory", then "Mank" means that the streaming media platform can also reproduce a "hyperreal" film through lens language and digital technology. Effect. It is full of exquisite archaism and the "Hollywood Modernism" structure that self-deprecates as "requiring the help of a roadmap", and it forms some kind of isomorphism and reference to some real events. Of note is a series of...

  • Melvin 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    A super boring movie. I wanted to confront and exchange texts with Citizen Kane, but I failed. Formally, "Citizen Kane" guides the audience to piece together the truth, and "Mank" throws the audience into the abyss of the labyrinth. In terms of content, "Citizen Kane" changes postures to make people climax, "Mank" slaps people from head to toe, not a single hole is found, and finally a drop is squeezed out of the shriveled core, but there is fluid and no sperm....

  • Jaden 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    Like "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", this kind of film recalling film history is really ugly! ! Long and boring. white...

Extended Reading
  • Ophelia 2022-03-24 09:02:27

    narcissism, self-deprecating

    Talking about Mank (2020)

    This 2020 film was nominated for 10 Oscars, but only got back two. In fact, looking at the subject matter and the trend at the time, we know that the film will not gain much. The Oscars are always more than just film awards, politics and trends also play an important role....

  • Vinnie 2022-03-24 09:02:27

    Castrated Mank

    1. It will feel a little trivial and dull at first, but as the timeline gradually unfolds, it will be more interesting to know more about the background and characters of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. David Fincher's biopic about "Citizen Kane" screenwriter Mankiewicz, of course, is not...

Mank quotes

  • Herman Mankiewicz: That, my friend, is the magic of the movies.

  • Herman Mankiewicz: Irving, you are the shrewdest executive in this town. Why are you acting like some dumb ward heeler? You don't need my donation. You don't need anybody's. You have everything it takes right here.

    Irving Thalberg: Meaning?

    Herman Mankiewicz: [sighs] Meaning you can make the world swear King Kong is ten stories tall and Mary Pickford a virgin at 40. Yet you can't convince starving voters that a turncoat socialist is a menace to everything Californians hold dear? You're barely trying.