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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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Isai 2022-04-20 09:01:59
Regarding Herman Mankiewicz, I prefer to understand him as a literate man who is proud of his talents, who is in Vanity Fair, but he has a high-minded attitude towards businessmen and politicians. I feel that he is not a pure idealist. Although he has some style, he can also pretend to be a follower. What made him stick in the end was his experience, and if it hadn't been for that election night, there might not have been the great work of Citizen Kane.
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Melisa 2022-03-26 09:01:08
It is more academic than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the threshold for watching movies is also higher. Finch's father's posthumous work, the director uses black and white images to outline the complicated past of the golden age of Hollywood. The focus of Manke's character itself and the political contradictions in Hollywood's upper echelons that he evokes are well balanced. Citizen Kane is not the center, the film is a Ukiyo-e of WWII Hollywood. However, even the Americans are not so familiar with these Hollywood insiders, and the inner core of the left is not so straightforward. The word of mouth and the knife are definitely not as good as the director used to.
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Herman Mankiewicz: That, my friend, is the magic of the movies.
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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.
