Mank Comments

  • Christiana 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    This year's films are somewhat unsatisfactory, and many directors have lost their heads because of nostalgia or returning to their old ways. It is indeed a very unfinished film, and a Finch film without color foreshadowing and pop music is indeed quite boring, but it is very 1940s, the texture of the shots and the dubbed dialogue feel like it was shot in that era. Restoration is really hard work. In the past, Finch's movies did not require any "pre-class preview", but even if you watch "Citizen...

  • Violette 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    Unlike David Fincher, which got me excited before this one, it's like he's washed all the money away, the rebellion of old Hollywood, the admission of talent, and I don't quite understand Manke after listening to that paragraph at the banquet. The reaction and the plot with Orson Welles afterwards is a bit strange, obviously embarrassed and ashamed, but forced to authorize the...

  • Ethyl 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    The lighting was a mess, and the group play scheduling was completely ineffective. Photography leave, acting leave, adjustment leave. No matter how old the picture is, a look at the frame and the Steadicam will tell you that this is a very poor fake. From text to video to performance (except for Amanda) is dead, less than one ten thousandth of "Once Upon a Time in...

  • Eliezer 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    7.5 I thought it was a "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" without the so-called violent scenes, but although it will also make some noise and cigarette branding, "Manke" is not that kind of "love letter to the movie", and it doesn't focus too much on it. A castle in the sky, but instead shows us the dark shadow of Hollywood. I didn't feel bad for Xiao Lizi when he flopped, I shouldn't feel that way about Mank, maybe it's the stack of powerless incidents that ruined his image, maybe the problem...

  • Kay 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    It's not simply Hollywood gossip and nostalgia for the golden age, but more importantly, it is a satirical critique of American politics today by describing the struggle for power and money in Hollywood politics in that era. In fact, like "Citizen Kane", it's just "Mank "The direct shot is more straightforward. Therefore, the signature conflict between Mank and Orson, the core contradiction in Daddy Finch's original script, was only taken by Finch. In fact, I want to see Fincher shoot with...

  • Federico 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    If you can make people believe that King Kong climbs the Empire State Building, why can't people believe that one-party politicians save the empire; the heroine who has left the stage will never turn back and say a single word for you; a box of bullets and six bullets; "poor wife" "The only motivation to keep the marriage going is to wonder how you will end up; Don Quixote, the prototype of Citizen Kane, analyzes drinking talks and monkey parables; destroys the idealistic self of the past, and...

  • Maribel 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    Finally heard the deliberately old dialogue and effects,...

  • Dwight 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    I really struggled to see the information density of this dialogue. / Mank, who was deeply involved in alcoholism, gambling and self-righteousness, finally held on to his authorship and earned due credit, because he knew that he had bet on this creation and gave all the social resources he had....

  • Elaina 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    David Lynch has finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish to make a movie about his father Jack Finch's script decades ago. From colors, shots, sets, and even theatrical lines, David Lynch used everything he could to unabashedly pay homage to the "greatest movie" in Hollywood history. But "Mank" downplays Orson Welles' feud with Herman Mankiewicz, and instead uses Gary Oldman's seamless performance, through Mankiewicz's talented but also possessing The two-sided and contradictory characters...

  • Maximo 2022-04-21 09:02:46

    Together with "Creed" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", it is a life-changing trilogy - and they all require the audience to absorb information through their own self-organization, which can be said to be very "ugly" movies. The look and feel of "Mank" actually coincides with the previous David Fincher's "Mind Hunter", which is the exploration of some meta-rules on the eve of a new order... There are discussions in similar directions in it . Off topic, the scene of the most primitive movie...

Extended Reading
  • Lue 2022-01-03 08:01:40

    Viewing David Fincher's Confrontation and Perseverance from "Mank"

    Author: Haining

    "If the history of film can only talk about one film, then I would definitely choose Orson Wells' "Citizen Kane", because its appearance makes film art seem to have moved forward for ten years overnight. "

    I just started to get involved with film history in my freshman year, and the...

  • Sadye 2022-01-03 08:01:40

    This is certainly not a film review

    Is there really a movie review under this item?

    The movies I went to the theaters on weekends, as an old movie lover, I was very happy, because it created the details of the studio era well. It can be said that it is the most "Olympic" movie of various similar era backgrounds in the past decade....

Mank quotes

  • Orson Welles: I'm toiling with you in spirit.

  • 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.