Mank Comments

Rylee 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Quentin is actually filming Once Upon a Time in New Hollywood, and Finch is filming Once Upon a Time in Old Hollywood. Contrary to expectations, the story doesn't dwell on Citizen Kane's signature koan (the Finches are certainly Pauline Kell's supporters), and Orson Welles is completely reduced to a functional character. The whole movie is a process of inference, that is, why Mank created Citizen Kane—the trigger goes back to 1934, when media oligarch Hearst instructed Louie Meyer's MGM to run...

Candace 2022-03-26 09:01:08

The choice of subject matter and shooting technique is hard not to suspect that Fincher has an ambition for awards season, and it has a strong purpose. The use of Mankiewicz to restore and connect Citizen Kane from characters to pictures is very interesting, but the so-called "signature truth" behind this is not very attractive to me. Then there is the aesthetic fatigue of Gary Oldman's...

Lucinda 2022-03-26 09:01:08

7. A screen full of anachronisms about the Hollywood industry. In fact, there is still a strong sense of contemporary film, from editing to lighting, deliberately old is just adding filters. But this project can be produced, it is already a kind of Hollywood...

Oceane 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Time management guru David Fincher, the workload of "Mind Hunter" is 90 hours a week. After two seasons of shooting, he can still shoot a 130-minute feature film, replace it with Netflix, and pay for his father. For a director to be at the top of the industry and maintain a good competitive state, energy and focus are...

Camilla 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Both satisfied and disappointed. For fans familiar with the golden age of Hollywood, this film is nothing less than a time-travel full of streamers, so it still deserves four stars. But it is very unfriendly to ordinary audiences, and the torrent of trivial information is enough to make people dizzy. However, the main flaw is that, compared with Quentin's unbridled and joking [Once Upon a Time in Hollywood], [Manck] seems more like a mediocre film still stuck in the abyss of imitation and...

Mona 2022-03-26 09:01:08

6/10. Finch tried to be as close to Welles’ creations as possible in terms of visual aesthetics: the upside-down, bumpy opening credits, the montage of cannonballs at a campaign night reception, and the tonal depth and sheen of black-and-white footage. But Finch does not have a contradictory character with huge charm like Kane to support the chaotic time and space switching. In fact, Manke's creative motivation is so superficial that it can be summed up in one sentence: Hollywood's hard-line...

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...

Kiel 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Hearst, the prototype of "Citizen Kane" (there are not many shots in the film, but the image of arbitrariness is really full) made every effort to prevent its release. Several studios such as LB Mayer and Warner refused to release the film in their theaters, causing RKO to release the film. The loss of $150,000 also deprived Welles of the final editing rights in subsequent filmmaking. The ps film favored Mank in the dispute over the authorship of Mank and Welles, but in the 1971 "Kane...

Emmitt 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Expected too high, a little disappointed. Three-and-a-half stars, the feelings are added. I believe the real Mank doesn't get half of Oldman's charm here. The script itself is also a dramatization of history. The overwhelming details in the film are actually just a disguised reality. This kind of story is really not approved by big manufacturers, and the script is still missing something, not to mention the success of Netflix or...

Uriah 2022-03-25 09:01:12

David Fincher's most neat, serious, dull work. The threshold for watching movies is extremely high, and it is necessary to do your homework before watching, otherwise at least half of the time will be cloudy and foggy, which is too picky for the...