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Rickey 2022-01-03 08:01:40
Success is also visual, failure is also drama, clues and background information are too complicated, basically explaining the background, most audiences can not substitute, can only serve a small group of audiences who understand that period of history and love the movie "Citizen Kane" . But it is still very emotional to present it with the same visual tone. Vinci is mainly to fulfill a wish of his old man. Old Vinci should also be a complete idiot, not only focusing on the creation of this...
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Merle 2022-01-03 08:01:40
Where did you feel this superiority...Did Vinci and Quentin change their stalks in private? Isn't it ironic that works about the industry itself require a higher...
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Lesley 2022-01-03 08:01:40
The resurrection of sleepiness, waiting for black and white to overflow as "old reconstruction". There is no longer any need to believe in images: the darkness in the corner is gradually emptied, and forgetting not only exists in every overexposed gray-white face. The line of sight is also blurred, and the language has never been so weak, as if temporarily throwing strong energy to "him" who is still in a confused conversation-(by) the author who left the scene pretended to tear the light from...
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Rhett 2022-01-03 08:01:40
The problem with the script is not small. Compared with the intertwined narratives of "Citizen Kane" and "Social Network", it seems too fragmented to achieve the effect that this structure should be able to bring. Too many characters are involved, and the skill to write group dramas is not good, which leads to a lot of waste pen and makes people incomprehensible. The function of the scene is single and blunt, and I can't wait to tell the audience directly what I want to express in this scene....
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Asa 2022-01-03 08:01:40
Sorry, I can't get in. Movies and people are...
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Neoma 2022-01-03 08:01:40
I am very afraid that David Fincher will reproduce "Citizen Kane" and copy Orson Wells in the audiovisual skills. Fortunately, I think too much. Fincher only made it on the technical level. The retro feeling of the times, when it is watched on TV, it is still a new movie, and the audiovisual language is still very finch and very modern. Looking at the dense lines, the simple sets of shots are precisely edited, and it is still Vinci’s consistent style, including the story itself and the shadow...
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Enola 2022-01-03 08:01:40
The final monologue saved Manke's personal image, otherwise this piece would be a gorgeous empty account with numerous clues. The great thing about "Citizen Kane" in film history is that it is the first film with no answer and no chronological sequence. Each flashback is a separate piece to build a Kane that cannot be coherent with before and after, memory. The multi-layered conflict created Kane's most dazzling image of Shakespeare. If Fincher understood "Citizen Kane", he would not use...
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Giuseppe 2022-01-03 08:01:40
After the Hainan Festival and the tour around the island, I returned to my home in Beijing, and I can start watching the movies I want to watch again. Film-students are familiar with the classic film history "Citizen Kane", but most of them know little about the man and credit of one of its screenwriters, Herman Mankiewicz. This film is a biopic about the process of writing the script of "Citizen Kane" by him (Mank for short). It is worth watching for those who study and teach the film. Black...
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Lyla 2022-01-03 08:01:40
In fact, "Manke" is really not a problem with the threshold of viewing movies, but any biographical film should not only be shot to familiar audiences, not to mention that on a platform like Netflix, it needs to be given to unfamiliar audiences. We have a reason to watch the movie. But after watching the movie, it is still very blurry. For another example, Vinci is doing various attempts to restore, or in his words, to reproduce "Citizen Kane", then why not use 1.37:1, but 2.20:1, why use...
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Trenton 2022-01-03 08:01:40
The threshold for viewing movies is too high, and it is completely impossible to get...
Mank Comments
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Carmela 2022-03-22 09:02:11
Who should the movie be made for?
After 6 years of absence, David Fincher finally brings his new film "Mank" - a biopic about the screenplay of "Citizen Kane" written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, a screenwriter of the golden age of Hollywood . And before the author found the time to sit down and enjoy it, the viewing guides for "Mank"...
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Kennedy 2022-03-23 09:02:25
Behind this first Hollywood movie is a poignant satire on the original sin of capital and fake news
"Mank" tells the story behind the creation of the script for the classic movie "Citizen Kane". Compared to director David Fincher's other suspenseful films, this black-and-white period film, which mixes studio struggles with real-world politics, is a fairly high-ticket film. To understand this...
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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!
