Mank Comments

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Asa 2022-01-03 08:01:40

    Sorry, I can't get in. Movies and people are...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Trenton 2022-01-03 08:01:40

    The threshold for viewing movies is too high, and it is completely impossible to get...

Extended Reading
  • Dina 2022-03-21 09:02:24

    "Mank" Short Review

    The subject matter is as hard-core as I imagined, but "Mank"'s ecological depiction of Hollywood in the silver age is far more penetrating than I imagined. In Hollywood, everything is inseparable from politics, the Great Depression, the governor's election, falsehoods Political films, the political...

  • Roselyn 2022-03-24 09:02:27

    Reprinted from "The Movie Can't Stop"

    In "Mank", why is the actor Mank so obsessed with exposing Hearst's shortcoming? Is he jealous of the latter's wealth? Or are you jealous because of the latter's mistress? No, he was just like Don Quixote, and when he saw the windmill of Hearst spinning recklessly and against his will, Manke felt...

Mank quotes

  • Herman Mankiewicz: That, my friend, is the magic of the movies.

  • 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.