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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  • Linnea 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    When the film came up, it was announced on the word card: RKO fully delegated power to the 24-year-old genius director Orson Welles, and shot materials at will without supervision. But why? Finch did not explain. Although I personally understand this matter, as well as the rise of the Greek district to the United States and the rise of Houston with black films, they are all related to the war situation in Europe. In 1940, when Vichy came to power, France and Germany, the place where the culture and culture revered, turned enemies at the same time. Hollywood is bound to follow the turn to foster British cultural elites. No matter what the truth is, Wells can't be counted as a positive image in this film anyway, and only after the final scene smashed the wine box in anger, he provided the ironic inspiration for Manke's drama. At this moment, David Fincher seems to be possessed by Polanski, using the film and off-screen to ingeniously set up the reincarnation of fate - although we all know that Orson himself has always been an outsider in Hollywood, and the self-consciousness of naming everything is surging. There is absolutely no way to become the next William or Louis just by virtue of this convergence of temperaments! ...PS Gary Altman has a precondition for accepting films in the future: the first female supporting role must be a stenographer, and relatives or boyfriends must participate in the war. Whether it is born or not will be discussed later.

  • Marques 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Will Wilson fans want to jump when they see it, haha, hey, the actresses in it are very unsuitable for black and white movies :(

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."