The threshold for watching this movie is relatively high. I fell asleep twice after watching it. If you are not interested in biography of Hollywood characters, if you do not understand the background of Citizen Kane, it is recommended to give up directly. The reason why I read it through gritted teeth is because of director David Fincher, after all, he has made excellent movies such as "Seven Deadly Sins", "Fight Club" and "Zodiac". The main actor is also my favorite actor, Gary Oldman, the villain of "This Killer is Not Too Cold", and also played Churchill.
Let's talk about "Citizen Kane" first. This 1942 film is based on the American journalism magnate William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century. lifetime. The director is the screen debut of the recognized genius Orson Welles at the age of 26. The theme is profound and highly ambiguous, the non-linear narrative of multi-perspective memories, the use of wide-angle lenses and deep-focus photography, and low-angle camera positions With the complicated closed composition, brilliant montage, and sophisticated and metaphorical costumes and sets, this black and white film is destined to be a great work.
And "Mank" is about the story behind "Citizen Kane." Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, the film tells the road of cooperation between the two. Mankiewicz is a Hollywood maverick and a critic for The New Yorker, widely acclaimed for his brilliant film dialogue, sharp insight, profound knowledge, and at the same time a man of arrogance. Disrespectful, cynical alcoholic. In the summer of 1939, he accepted a job offer from twenty-four-year-old Orson Welles, who was injured in a car accident and lying in a villa near Hollywood, dictating the script for "Citizen Kane." Orson Welles rose to fame as a teenager, a stage star at sixteen, a mainstream theater director at twenty, a radio star at twenty-three, and the cover of Time magazine. But he needed Mankiewicz's influence in Hollywood, and the contract they signed was for Orson Welles to produce, write, direct and cast, and he could make the final cut. After the film became a great work, and won an Oscar for screenplay, how the film was signed became a bone of contention. In the end, it ended with a joint signature of the two. But it is Orson Welles who is still in the annals of film history and is remembered by people.
Black and white images, a lot of dialogue, disorderly editing and flashbacks, deliberately aged textures, and film that pauses from time to time, this is completely David Fincher's nostalgic and tribute to that movie era. Only during the long holiday of the Spring Festival can I calm down and review "Citizen Kane" and watch this 2020 recommended movie "Mank".
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