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Ebba 2022-03-25 09:01:12
Emotions are always interrupted by flashbacks, and I can't remember so many intertwined characters. Until the disappointment of the third act overflows the screen, the favor for this film is not even more than that of "Trumbo". What has been excavated? There are only beautiful words one after another, the freedom and pride of a genius playing in the world. Without seeing the fun, without the grace and arrogance of Quentin's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", there is only the despondency of the...
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Guy 2022-03-25 09:01:12
What happened to David Fincher? Taking advantage of the popularity of Hollywood history to make such a cheap boring...
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Garnet 2022-03-25 09:01:12
The most prominent feature is that David Fincher's ability to do old is too strong. The first shot shows the texture of the films of the 1930s, and the three-dimensional watermark subtitles reflect the film industry capabilities of the new century. Manca should have at least a few Oscars for technical awards, including nominations and even wins for photography. At first glance, I thought it was a tribute to the fan film like Long Live Caesar of the Coen Brothers, but it is not so simple. David...
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Verda 2022-03-25 09:01:12
Not behind the scenes of Citizen Kane, but more like Hollywood and Politics 1930-1940, with the best sculpting of the MGM executives I've ever seen, Mayer and Thalberg are finally not tool men anymore. Is it that the lack of understanding of the studio era may be uncomfortable for the dense name dropping in front of...
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Carol 2022-03-25 09:01:12
Once Upon a Time... in Classical Hollywood. It weakened the hostile attitude towards Orson Welles in the original script of Finch's father, but still achieved the purpose of "rectifying" Mankiewicz's name, but in fact about "How the "Citizen Kane" script was born and the issue of credit distribution" does not seem to be the biggest fun and key to watching this movie (the dispute between the two about authorship only accounts for a small part), but it is about Mankiewy. Qi's daily interactions...
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Madalyn 2022-03-25 09:01:12
A work of die-hard fans of the movie, a love letter to Hollywood, more precisely to the art of cinema. If Quentin's "Once Upon a Time" is a childhood elegy for the golden age of color film, it is a childhood elegy that is framed by convulsions, fascination with bloody hormones, and interweaving of spring dreams and nightmares. David Fincher's "Mank" is a book that stands on the shoulders of giants and inherits the mantle of literati, deconstruction and structure are lingering and compounded,...
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Agnes 2022-03-25 09:01:12
Every year, the film powers produce biopics like this eccentric orgy of fetishes and fetishes, cramming over-loaded textual information into a loose page-by-page "biographical dictionary", and then making a top-level biographical The dubbing actors recite the full text under pressure, and at the end, it is accompanied by exquisite printing, and incidentally, a large number of detailed and perfectly reproduced landscape photos of the era are included. It claims that "you can't capture a person's...
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Jacklyn 2022-03-25 09:01:12
The despair of the old men does not bring any vitality to the world. A lifeless movie. What about the writers of Citizen Kane? I really hate Gary Outman, especially the smell he...
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Linnea 2022-03-25 09:01:12
When the film came up, it was announced on the word card: RKO fully delegated power to the 24-year-old genius director Orson Welles, and shot materials at will without supervision. But why? Finch did not explain. Although I personally understand this matter, as well as the rise of the Greek district to the United States and the rise of Houston with black films, they are all related to the war situation in Europe. In 1940, when Vichy came to power, France and Germany, the place where the culture...
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Martine 2022-01-03 08:01:40
[B] Literally belongs to Vinci's "Hollywood Past", more accurately, it belongs to Vinci's father. In the two-line simultaneous narrative mode, Finch has achieved the ultimate "sense of form" of the film itself: directly use "flashback shots" to straighten out the timeline subtitle performance; fade-in and fade-out transitions always use fixed-point light sources The hotel is waiting for the results of the voting as a connection; a period of high-profile use of expressionist blessing montages;...
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Donavon 2022-01-03 08:01:40
The old-fashioned work that blurs the director's true nature
At this time last year, Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" became a hot topic of discussion, and eventually won more than 10 Oscar nominations, which was a glorious moment, even though it lost to "Parasite." However, this year's Netflix trump card is not as good as last year. Obviously, David Fincher...
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Verda 2022-04-19 09:02:22
Finch has a knack for making big stories small, but not so delicate
As a director who has entered the film industry from advertising, David Fincher is undoubtedly standing opposite Ridley Scott. It's not purely because the latter is the only N-generation veteran of Hollywood epic movies, but Finch is more than obsessive-compulsive-like exquisite, in fact, there is...
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Herman Mankiewicz: [referring to "Citizen Kane"] I hope, if this gets made, you'll forgive me.
Marion Davies: And I hope, if it doesn't, you''ll forgive me.
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[a drunken Herman Mankiewicz sits at the corner of a large dinner table at an elaborate costume party, hosted by William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer. Instead of tinking on a glass to get the guests' attention, he slashes his glass with a knife. Gasps fill the room as he rises from his seat]
Herman Mankiewicz: I've got a great idea for a picture, Louis. A picture I just know you're gonna love. It's a modern day version of Quixote!
[Mank realizes his voice echoes through the room, but he continues, circling the table full of silent guests]
Herman Mankiewicz: Now I know none of you read, but you know what it's about. A deluded old nobleman, who tilts at windmills. So how might we update this story?
Butler: [whispers to Hearst] Do you want me to get someone?
William Randolph Hearst: No.
Herman Mankiewicz: How about we make our Quixote... a newspaperman? Who else could make a living tilting at windmills? But that's not enough... no, he wants more than readership. He wants more than adulation, he wants love. So, he runs for public office, and because he's notably rich, he wins... no, w-w-w-wait a minute. Notably rich and powerful, can't win over an audience unless notably rich and powerful sees the error of his ways in the final reel. Notably rich and powerful and making no goddamn excuses for it is only admirable in real life. Isn't that right, Louis?
[Mayer glares at Mank as he drunkenly attempts to light his cigarette with the massive fireplace at the end of the room, unsuccessfully. Marion Davies takes a swig of her drink]
Herman Mankiewicz: So what do we do? Anybody? We give him ideals! Ideals that any dirt-poor, depression-weary audience can identify with. Our Quixote is against crooked trusts, he's for the eight-hour workday, fair income tax, better schools. Why, he's even for government ownership of railroads. And you know what we call those people?
Male Guest: Communists!
Female Guest: Anarchists!
Herman Mankiewicz: No, our Quixote, he's a two-fisted muckraker. In fact, someone predicts that he will one day win the presidency and bring about, get this...
[laughing uncontrollably]
Herman Mankiewicz: ... a socialist revolution!
Louis B. Mayer: What a bunch of bullshit.
Herman Mankiewicz: Is it? Tell him, Willie. Tell him.
[Silence]
Herman Mankiewicz: Upton Sinclair used exactly those words to describe a young William Randolph Hearst.
Louis B. Mayer: [leaping from his seat] You miserable bastard!
Herman Mankiewicz: [bowing] How do you do?
[Some guests begin to leave the room, but Hearst's and Mayer's eyes stay on Mank]
Herman Mankiewicz: Our Quixote, he hungers, he thirsts, he lusts for the voters to love him, love him enough to make him president, but they won't. And they don't. How do you suppose that could happen? Could it be because, in their hearts, they know he values power over people?
[More guests leave as Mank approaches Hearst, still seated]
Herman Mankiewicz: Disillusioned in Congress, he authors not one single piece of legislation in two terms. Can you believe that? That'll take some writing. Placed in nomination for president... it's too radical for the boys in the back, his bid goes nowhere! But we're doing something. We're building sympathy!
[Even more guests leave]
Herman Mankiewicz: Rejected, he flees to lotus land, where his faithful troll, Sancho, has prepared a mythical kingdom for...
[Mank eyes Davies, stopping himself totally]
Herman Mankiewicz: Wait a minute. I forgot the love interest! Her name: Dulcinea.
[Every remaining head in the room turns to Davies]
Herman Mankiewicz: Funny, adventurous, smarter than she acts. Ah, she's a... she's a showgirl! Beneath his social stratum, but that's okay because true love on the big screens, we all know is blind. And she... well, she loves him, too. So he takes her away to his m-mythical kingdom,
[to butler]
Herman Mankiewicz: can I get a bicarb?
[back to the guests]
Herman Mankiewicz: Now, along comes nemesis, that's Greek for any guy in a black hat, nemesis runs for governor, and he's a shoo-in to win. Why?
[points to Hearst]
Herman Mankiewicz: Because he's EXACTLY what our Don used to be! An idealist, ya get it? And not only that, nemesis is the same guy who once predicted that our Quixote would one day preside over a socialist revolution. Our Quixote looks into the mirror of his youth and decides to break this glass, a maddening reminder of who he once was. Assisted by his faithful Sancho
[pointing to Mayer]
Herman Mankiewicz: and armed w-with all the black magic at his command, he does just this. Destroying, in the process, not one man... but two.
[Hearst is clearly furious, but maintains his composure]
Herman Mankiewicz: Well, what do ya think, Louis? Hm? Do ya think it'll play?
[Mank finally belches onto the floor. Any guest who hasn't already left does so]
Herman Mankiewicz: Don't worry, folks. The white wine came up with the fish!
