Mank

Mank

  • Director: David Fincher
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, German, Latin
  • Release date: December 4, 2020
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 2.20 : 1
  • Also known as: مانك
  • "Mank" is a historical film directed by Davey, Finch and starring Gary Oldman . The film was launched on the streaming platform Netflix on December 4, 2020   .
    The film tells about the process of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz creating the " Citizen Kane " script and the subsequent series of influences the script has brought to his life   .

    Details

    • Release date December 4, 2020
    • Filming locations Victorville, California, USA
    • Production companies Blue Light, Flying Studio, Netflix Studios

    Movie reviews

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    • By Nona 2022-08-02 10:45:23

      Mank-- A Small Character in the Background of the Big Era

      The story of an idealist who stumbled and survived in the chaotic Hollywood of the 1930s. A small character in the background of the big era. After reading it, he only felt that his mind was empty, and he looked around at a loss. He seemed to understand a little bit, but he knew that it was just all a lie. At the very least, I'm glad I decided to watch Citizen Kane before seeing this film; it's a little background knowledge; otherwise, I'd be stubborn after writing the script...

    • By Reynold 2022-04-19 09:02:22

      View Perspective | He uses "Mank" to trace the Hollywood past behind "Citizen Kane"

      "When I was 7 years old, my father used to explain his point of view to me and introduced a lot of film concepts to me, so I thought at that age that film was going to be my life's work." - Big David Finch

      By Era 2022-04-19 09:02:22

      Interview with David Fincher: "The Movie Really Only Has Two Seasons: 'Summer of Spandex' and 'Winter of Distress'"

      Total Film Exclusive: David Fincher Discusses State of Hollywood

      By Matt Maytum, Jack Shepherd

      David Fincher has wanted to make Mank for a long time. The director has been trying to drum up interest in Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz...

    • By Rubie 2022-04-19 09:02:22

      Interview with David Fincher: I knew from a young age that film was my life's work [translation]

      By Mark Harris/Vulture (October 23, 2020)

      Proofreading: Onegin

      The translation was first published in "Iris"


      David Fincher's 11th feature, Mank, is the most passionate work on the director's resume - a black-and-white drama about the formative years of Hollywood talkies, which he calls The pain and ecstasy between the directors and writers of "Forced Collaboration," and the political...

    • By 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 a kind of film that can make any subject matter " The ability to be small", aesthetic, or impulsive. I'm not here to summarize his career, and I don't want to recall that "Alien",...

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    • By Mallory 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      The production is too delicate, the lighting is too beautiful, and many small techniques restore the texture of the film very well, although I feel that the film noise is a bit deliberate (but fortunately it seems to be only used in the relatively dark part of the picture), watching it at the door of the house In the part where the car came and went, the characters seemed to be pasted on the front of the screen, and the background was like a painting added later. It had the plastic taste of the...

    • By Glennie 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      How many such Hollywood narcissistic nostalgic films have Netflix received... It might not be possible to have Alan Sorkin in the mouthpiece part. This kind of annoying male protagonist should be watching from the sidelines, talented and sharp, but he was written as a cynic. The gangster... and the key problem is that even if his leg is broken, it is difficult to earn sympathy (so the point of the play is to be bad???), which is really a question of value. The fact that the right-wing concocted...

    • By Lizeth 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      The story behind Citizen Kane, the Austrian fans are estimated to be so angry that the screenwriter award under the heavy resistance is an invisible affirmation to Manke. It's just that there are too many capital stories in Hollywood factories, and the big screenwriters are just hard-working workers. There is a sentence in Mayer's film that tells the truth. The only star of MGM is Lyon the...

    • By Jed 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      I don't know if it's because of the cold, but my head hurts. I feel that Don Quixote is not David Lynch's style, and he is more suitable for making Psycho Killer. He is not the opponent of the Coen brothers and the Nolan brothers for this kind of screenwriter's...

    • By Russell 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      The film itself is great Amanda is beautiful but it's a little too difficult for me to understand every...

    Background creation

    The script of the film was created by director Davey, Finch's father Jack Finch. It was originally planned to be produced by Polykram in the 1990s. Before the sexual harassment scandal, Kevin Spacey was considered to play the leading actor Herman. Mankiewicz and Jodie Foster are considered to play Marion Davis. However, because of Davey, Finch insisted on shooting the film with a black and white lens as a tribute to the photographerThe...
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    Evaluation action

    "Mank" is not so much an analysis of the birth process of an outstanding film, as it is an ode to the bitterness of a certain period of old Hollywood: some like love letters, some like proverbs, and some like mysteries   . The film has faded the veil of Hollywood mythology, and at the same time involves the creator's self-loathing, identity, alcohol dependence, fear of failure, literal value and other themes, sometimes savage,...
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    Movie quotes

    • John Houseman: [panicked] I've never been fired.

      Herman Mankiewicz: I've never not been fired.

      John Houseman: I don't get fired.

      Herman Mankiewicz: It's not as unpleasant as you might imagine. You worry too much. What do you do for pleasure?

    • Herman Mankiewicz: [about Louis B. Mayer] If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap.

    • Joe Mankiewicz: People are speculating that 'Rosebud' is Hearst's pet name for Marion's genitalia ..

      [later on leaving]

      Joe Mankiewicz: it's the best you've ever written.