Thankfully, after 6 years, David Fincher finally remembered that he was actually a film director. (Hahaha)
Black-and-white films, personal biographies, and scripts written by my father, I am really afraid that the film will not look good.
But this is David Fincher!
As a fan of David Fincher, I did it for the first time to see the explosion!
1. First brush
Black and white films also failed to prevent David Fincher from shooting all the light with a texture. It is still a dizzying information element and precise control. It is difficult for David Fincher to give his smooth film a chance to talk nonsense. If you are in a movie theater Watch in, then you need at least two brushes. Fortunately, there are resources to watch the classic parts of the screen repeatedly. Even so, there is still a lot of content that I have to skip temporarily to keep up with the rhythm of the film.
I almost forgot, thanks to the Yuanjian subtitle group for the first time!
Regarding "Citizen Kane", I have forgotten seven or eight. The only thing I remember is that the young genius Orson Wells, with this film, showed his talent to the world. So, "Citizen Kane", the most proud work of Mank's exhausted life, is his all?
Let David Fincher tell you!
You can't show a person's life in two hours, you can only hope to leave an impression of a person.
Mank sees himself this way:
His wife looked at him this way:
Mank, your damn charm!
As you know, this is a literary film.
However, as you know, literary films are not very marketable.
At the same time, this is also a movie about movies.
From the perspective of the prototype of "Citizen Kane": Mank is the monkey that the monkey juggler holds and thinks he is very important.
In my opinion, Manke is a good man with a real temperament.
He is brilliant, he is fragile and sensitive. He used alcohol to act recklessly, his thoughts were clear, his lips were sharp, he sympathized with the bottom, and he was oligarchic. He is the living Bodhisattva who saved 100 Jews, and he is a real villain who broke his promise and only kept his name in history. He is the uncontrolled cannonball, wherever it falls, there is a loud noise. However, today, he has become unknown, but this does not mean that such a real, flesh and blood person has never existed in this world.
It's so exciting, so many pictures have been cut. If there are more David Finchers in this world, will the world of literary films be better? (My brother's thoughts, light spray)
It's late at night, the first brush ends here, and the second brush is about to be done!
Two, two brushes
Watching the second time, because I did a lot of homework, some of them can be integrated more like puzzles, although there may be at least 30% of the stalks I have not caught yet, so I chose to ignore it.
The second time I saw Mank's impression was a little fuller, and I also understood a little bit about David Fincher's intentions.
The reason why Mank wanted to grab the signature right was because he thought this story was between him and Hirst and Marion Davis, while Oswilson was just an outsider. He could shoot whatever he wanted, but the story was his Life. Signing is just to make it clear to Hirst! When I saw it the first time, I thought that Manke thought this was his best work, so he chose to grab the right to sign it. My understanding was a little superficial.
Most importantly, at the beginning, Vinci explained that Orson is solely responsible for the movie, and he does not want Orson to change the story too much. With reference to Upton Sinclair, who he supported, he sold his work but did not allow him to change a word.
Finch is still that Finch. Although the black and white old effect makes people criticize, it is still too powerful for two hours, with so much information content, and the rhythm is so fast that you dare not blink your eyes. "Mank" can be regarded as a biographical version of "Citizen Kane". In this film, Hirst interprets "Citizen Kane" in another form. David Fincher didn't use too many dazzling techniques, even so, this "Manke" may not be much more relaxed and tensional for anyone to shoot.
So, expect David Fincher to get his own golden figure.
As for whether the film is too difficult to understand, David Fincher had already figured it out.
Three, my homework
1. In the film, Mank's younger brother, Joe, won the 22nd Oscar for Best Director, Best Screenplay and 23rd Oscar for Best Director, Best Screenplay. Looking at his resume, we can see that Joe is equally or even more talented.
2. If Hearst, the prototype of "Citizen Kane", was not the spread of this movie, he might have been forgotten. Even if he has a huge newspaper empire, his ability to influence future generations is far from Pulitzer who is a newspaper tycoon.
3. The MGM executive Owen Thalberg, who died early in the film, was awarded the Owen Thalberg Memorial Award by the academy after his death.
4. The reminder in the film, the little prince John Hausman won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1973.
5. David Fincher's father also wrote Howard Hughes's script, which is the prototype character of "The Aviator", but it was not adopted later.
It should be good if Vinci shoots "Aviator" once.
6. In the film Orson Wells asked Mank if he was ready to do something big? (Take the analogy of hunting a beluga whale)
The source comes from Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick", "The novel describes the story of Captain Ahab in order to chase and kill the moby Dick (actually a white sperm whale) Moby Dick, and finally died with the moby. The story is the story. It creates an atmosphere in which people are sailing on the sea, encountering various dangers and even death at any time, which is the author's representative work."-"Baidu Encyclopedia"
7. In the film Orson Wells said that he was going to audition for "Dark Heart", and then the one that Mank said was not the one he was going to audition for, because there is no movie that was shot around 1940. Name, so David Fincher may have teased Orson Wells, because the dark heart will not be released until 1991.
According to Douyou Ben’s correction, "The Heart of Darkness" was a work prepared by Orson Wells at the time, and the inspiration for "Apocalypse Now" came from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", but it fell into disarray later. "
8. Because the screenwriter Jack Finch used to work for the magazine, the Charlie in the film may be he who is teasing himself.
9. Lily Collins is so beautiful, Mank also fell in love with her typist a little bit in the film.
10. No one would believe that Mary Pickford is a 40-year-old virgin, well, very vulgar praise.
11. The secondary characters in the film praised the film so that it can be seen flying, but I have not seen it and temporarily cannot perceive it.
12. To be honest, most people don’t think about that at all...
13. This is probably also a spoof, because Fitzgerald died in December 1940.
14. Mank supports Upton Sinclair, probably because he is also anti-fascist and sympathizes with the people at the bottom.
15. The story period of this film is mainly divided into two parts.
One is the period when Mank wrote the script of "Citizen Kane" in 1940 and later, and the story that happened after it was written.
The second is the Mank Hollywood era starting in 1930.
World background:
1929-1933, the Great Depression in the United States, the capital world encountered an economic crisis.
On September 18, 1931, Japan invaded China and the September 18th Incident broke out.
In January 1933, Hitler came to power.
In March 1933, Roosevelt came to power and implemented the New Deal.
Hollywood background:
Quoting Zhihu Wang Yizhi:
"Warner's "The Jazz Singer" (The Jazz Singer) in 1927 announced the arrival of the sound film era. The subsequent upgrades of studios and theater projection equipment aggravated the subsequent financial crisis of "Hollywood". Between 1920 and 1930, Wall Street’s investment in "Hollywood" has soared tenfold, from 78 million to 850 million U.S. dollars, of which more than 90% was deposited in theater construction and equipment investment."
You can get a glimpse of the coming winter from Mayer's salary cut speech at MGM.
And 1930-1948 can be said to be the golden age of Hollywood's development.
16. IMDB good and bad reviews:
Finally, please allow me to quote the screenshot of "Mank" for the last time.
If I am talented enough, then I will write this short article a bit shorter.
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