Finch has a knack for making big stories small, but not so delicate

Verda 2022-04-19 09:02:22

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", which Fincher did not admit to be his own work, was different from the style of Lei Gong's first work. Anyway, "Fight Club" was originally a story like "V for Vendetta", but in the end it only turned into a mental illness. And a subject like "Mank", if replaced by a general director, will definitely become a "Great Gatsby"-like spectacle, and Finch handles it more than Woody Allen's "Midnight" "Paris" is even more narrow, basically focusing on the performance of a screenwriter. The screenwriter's social activities are extremely limited, and the screenwriter in the film still has a broken leg, which is similar to the protagonist being a high-level paraplegic. difference. No matter how much Finch was influenced by his father's script in this movie, I feel that the American drama "Mindhunter" may have had a greater influence on Finch himself in recent years. It and "Mank" should both be works that I watch repeatedly and try to get close, but I dare not make sure that I will fall in love with these two one day, because the amount of information is really "dizzying". Moreover, these faithfully recorded information are not attached or parasitic on the plot, but directly crawled into the dialogue. This is actually like reading a collection of letters of one or more historical figures. Anecdotes and whispers that are inhumane to outsiders are contained and condensed together. You can say that it is a very precious bottle of old wine, but I hope it can maintain a keen appreciation long enough before getting drunk. power, not just a faithful record of ecstasy and hangover states.

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Extended Reading
  • 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 in "Creed" I saw in the car master's broadcast before (a film-controlled obsession), the pincer movement lined up through the gate: the gear of the camera/camera/projector turns the goalkeeper A character is mapped from the present to the past... Isn't it the same with the frequent flashbacks of "Mank"? So, if you think of the pincer movement as a materialized flashback, it's not wrong, then the "director's movie love letter" bean example has one more work.

  • Carol 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    Once Upon a Time... in Classical Hollywood. It weakened the hostile attitude towards Orson Welles in the original script of Finch's father, but still achieved the purpose of "rectifying" Mankiewicz's name, but in fact about "How the "Citizen Kane" script was born and the issue of credit distribution" does not seem to be the biggest fun and key to watching this movie (the dispute between the two about authorship only accounts for a small part), but it is about Mankiewy. Qi's daily interactions with friends, family, work partners, and industry tycoons embed the maverick and unruly side of his character with the "good" tradition of Hollywood Vanity Fair's intrigue and interest-oriented traditions, allowing this genius who is also a genius. Li and the arrogant character of the literati exudes personality charm every second, and the interspersed teasing and irony of the industry can also make people happy. The dialogues of the three receptions are edited concisely and vigorously. Don Quixote refers to Sang and scolded Huai, which can be called the whole film. optimal. In addition, this film can be watched in conjunction with "Trumbo", and the two world-renowned screenwriters will take you on a string of most of the classic Hollywood.

Mank quotes

  • Irving Thalberg: When I come to work, I don't consider it slumming. I don't use humor to keep myself above the fray. And I go to the mat for what I believe in. I haven't the time to do otherwise. But you, sir, how formidable people like you might be if they actually gave at the office.

  • Herman Mankiewicz: As Pascal once said, "If only I'd had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."