Fincher tries again with another biopic, I thought the screenplay of the social network makes its conflict and characters have far more meaning to whatever this was.
While the production design and costumes are pretty good, it doesn't take away the lackluster story and characters. While i don't mind its usage of as little context to its world as it drops you right in, its also a double edge sword because the film actively wants you care about many things and show you life of herman but Im never invested in him despite oldman's good performance.
(Watgh my feature film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )
Mank
Rating
1.5 (1)
Release Date
11/13/2020Runtime
132 minsOverview
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
How It Feels
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A stylishly crafted black-and-white descent into the ego and excess of 1930s Hollywood, seen through the lens of a brilliant, self-destructive screenwriter racing against time and his own demons to write a masterpiece.
Mood
ContemplativeBittersweetDefiant
Themes
Art and creationAddictionPowerCorruptionAmbition
Tone
Ironic
Pacing
Steady
Look
Black and whiteFormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Framed flashback
Heads up
AddictionSexual content
Gary Oldman
Herman Mankiewicz
Amanda Seyfried
Marion Davies
Lily Collins
Rita Alexander
Arliss Howard
Louis B. Mayer
Tom Pelphrey
Joseph Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton
John Houseman
Ferdinand Kingsley
Irving Thalberg
Tuppence Middleton
Sara Mankiewicz
Tom Burke
Orson Welles
Joseph Cross
Charles Lederer
Jamie McShane
Shelly Metcalf
Toby Leonard Moore
David O. Selznick
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