{"id":106860,"date":"2020-11-07T03:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mank-celebrates-both-the-writers-and-the-words\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:18:04","slug":"mank-celebrates-both-the-writers-and-the-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mank-celebrates-both-the-writers-and-the-words\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Mank&#8217; Celebrates Both the Writers and the Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Mank&#8217; Celebrates Both the Writers and the Words<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7-->Early on in <strong>David Fincher<\/strong>\u2018s sharp, smart, and beautifully shot <strong><em>Mank<\/em><\/strong>, the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> mogul William Randolph Hearst (<strong>Charles Dance<\/strong>) shares an exchange with screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (<strong>Gary Oldman<\/strong>) about the value of words. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper tycoon rightly predicts that talking pictures are the future, and they\u2019ll \u201cneed people who honor words to give them a voice.\u201d Mankiewicz, or Mank to those who know him, is cynically surprised to see the \u201cmuckraker\u201d express a care for the integrity of the written word, but as both men built their careers on the idea, this agreement marks the beginning of an increasingly combative relationship \u2014 and the seeding of what would one day become Mank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> for a little film called <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> (1941).<\/p>\n<p>Fincher\u2019s latest, written by his late father <strong>Jack Fincher<\/strong>, is less about the making of Orson Welles\u2019 masterpiece than it is about the changing of a man and the industry he calls home. <em>Mank<\/em> moves back and forth across a decade, grounded in a late 30s desert retreat where a recuperating Mank, left mostly immobile after a car accident, has been sequestered by Welles (<strong>Tom Burke<\/strong>) to write the script that would become <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>. His two months there alongside a secretary (<strong>Lily Collins<\/strong>) and a nurse (<strong>Monika Gossman<\/strong>) are alternated with flashbacks showing him at the height of his Hollywood success\u2026 and the fall that followed. It was a fall of his own choosing, as Mank\u2019s cynicism towards \u201cthe hand that feeds him\u201d leads him to take alcohol-fueled bites again and again until they cut off the trough.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also less about that redemption, though, than it might seem. Mank spends most of his time here as an already enlightened man, and instead it\u2019s his journey in the shadow of Welles and the Hollywood system that the two Finchers bring to the screen so eloquently. He wins few allies along the way, but those interactions \u2014 with the wunderkind filmmaker given carte blanche by RKO Studios, corporate-minded studio heads like Louis B. Mayer (<strong>Arliss Howard<\/strong>) and Irving Thalberg (<strong>Ferdinand Kingsley<\/strong>), his more publicly palatable brother Joseph (<strong>Tom Pelphrey<\/strong>), and Hearst\u2019s ingenue girlfriend (<strong>Amanda Seyfried<\/strong>) with whom he forms an affectionate but platonic relationship \u2014 paint an engrossing portrait of a man finally choosing to stand in the sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Mank\u2019s story parallels social upheavals across the land as the Great Depression ravages the economy and California\u2019s governor race heats up. Upton Sinclair (<strong>Bill Nye<\/strong> in a brief cameo) is running to improve things for the little people while his GOP opponent is heavily backed by some of the biggest people in the state. Familiar cries of \u201csocialism!\u201d fill the air as those at the top with money and power shout down and befuddle those beneath them, and Mank grows visibly weary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you keep telling people something untrue, loud and long enough, they\u2019re apt to believe it,\u201d says Mank, paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels\u2019 propaganda machine, and that sad observation continues to ring far too true. His swank and disinterested fellow partygoers ignore him, just as they ignore and dismiss talk of Hitler\u2019s rising power overseas, and conclude only that \u201cYou don\u2019t turn your back on a market as big as Germany.\u201d Jack Fincher\u2019s script gives these Hollywood bigwigs plenty of juicy lines including some that Howard\u2019s Mayer tears through with increasing befuddlement and rage. \u201cThis is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory,\u201d says Mayer to the brothers Mankiewicz. \u201cWhat he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. That\u2019s the real magic of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>.\u201d Today\u2019s studios haven\u2019t looked back since.<\/p>\n<p>Fincher\u2019s choice to bring the film to the screen in black &amp; white \u2014 reportedly the reason it took so long to find a studio willing to fund it \u2014 results in a beautifully captured world of old Hollywood glitz, glamor, and shadows. Cinematographer <strong>Erik Messerschmidt<\/strong> finds richness in the details capturing everything from the fast-moving writers rooms to the opulence of Hearst\u2019s grand estate. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross reunite with Fincher for the score, and they adapt their stylings well to the period creating compositions that help bring moments both dour and jazzy to life.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Mank<\/em>\u2018s time-hopping narrative emulates that of <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> \u2014 an aspect of the older film\u2019s script that someone attempts to criticize here as jumbled and confusing \u2014 Fincher keeps his stylistic flourishes to a minimum. We\u2019re given the occasional visual nod, and time period changes are identified with on-screen text lifted from the script page, but the film is mostly a dialogue heavy watch. Thankfully, Fincher\u2019s dialogue is sharply entertaining and effortlessly holds sway whether taking flight as soul searching monologues or screwball banter.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is found frequently in Mank\u2019s conversations with Marion (Seyfried) making it clear to see the draw that each feels toward the other, but they also share an affection that marks few other relationships in the writer\u2019s life. His wife Sara (<strong>Tuppence Middleton<\/strong>) allows these platonic friendships as she herself has come to enjoy something similar with her husband, and these two aren\u2019t alone. The film features no big outbursts or proclamations of love, but it\u2019s visible all the same in Mank\u2019s quietly impassioned interactions with his brother, the women helping him recover, old friends begging for scraps, and more. \u201cI\u2019m washed up,\u201d says Mank to his brother after being berated by Joseph for baiting Hearst with the script, \u201chave been for years.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the best thing you\u2019ve ever written,\u201d comes the reply, and while it\u2019s a non-controversial take on <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>\u2018s soon to be sterling reputation, it\u2019s a much-needed exchange between brothers at odds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mank<\/em> is an appreciation of writers, both Mankiewicz and Fincher included, who take the time and effort to craft and respect the words. It\u2019s witty, sad, and enlightening for those who see <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> purely as a Welles joint, and what it lacks in money shots or big bombast it more than makes up for with warmth and integrity. \u201cWho was that again?\u201d asks someone already disinterested in the answer. \u201cJust a writer,\u201d comes the reply. 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