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Mar 15, 2021 · The good parts of Mank—Seyfried’s performance, the homages to the era, and the cinematography—may outweigh the bad for some.It certainly seems to have outweighed the bad for the Academy, and ...
- Anna Menta
- 2 min
- Herman J. Mankiewicz – Played by Gary Oldman
- William Randolph Hearst – Played by Charles Dance
- Marion Davies – Played by Amanda Seyfried
- Louis B. Mayer – Played by Arliss Howard
- Irving Thalberg – Played by Ferdinand Kingsley
- Orson Welles – Played by Tom Burke
- Watch Citizen Kane
The central figure of Mank is screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is played in the film by Gary Oldman. The movie’s story covers moments from Mank’s life from 1930 up through early 1940, and it’s important to know that in 1930 Mank was one of the highest-paid Hollywood screenwriters in the world. He helped usher in the age of “talkies” working a...
The main inspiration for Charles Foster Kane was William Randolph Hearst, played in Mank by Charles Dance. He was a massively successful American businessman and newspaper publisher who also won two elections to Congress, yet failed to win his elections for Mayor of New York City and later Governor of New York State. While he initially ran as a pro...
First a chorus girl, actress Marion Davies garnered a career in motion pictures after being spotted by William Randolph Hearst on the stage. He financed her first films himself and helped promote her career through his newspapers, but she found success all the same thanks to her knack for comedic roles in silent films. Davies struggled with the tra...
Louis B. Mayer is a larger-than-life figure who loomed over old Hollywood as co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and who served as inspiration for the character of Mr. Bernstein in Citizen Kane. During the time period in which Mank takes place, MGM was one of the biggest studios around – but Hollywood was also suffering the effects of the Gr...
Hot-shot producer Irving Thalberg (Ferdinand Kingsley) made a significant mark on Hollywood at a young age and helped create MGM alongside Louis B. Mayer. He was immensely successful, helping shepherd productions like Ben-Hur and Mutnity on the Bounty, and as head of production at MGM interacted directly with Mank and Davies during the time in whic...
You may be surprised to learn that Mank isn’t so much about the making of Citizen Kane as it is about the inspiration for it, and to that end Kane co-writer/director/producer/star Orson Welles only plays a small role in Fincher’s film. But it is an integral one. At the time that Welles approached Mank about writing Citizen Kane, the two had been co...
The best prep you can do is to watch Citizen Kane before you see Mank, and my colleague Matt Goldberg wrote a whole essay on why.
- Adam Chitwood
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Dec 4, 2020 · Mank: Directed by David Fincher. With Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey. 1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- David Fincher
- 2020-12-04
Dec 5, 2020 · [Editor’s note: The following article discusses specific story points from the entirety of the film Mank.If you haven’t seen it, turn back now.] When it was first announced that David Fincher ...
- Adam Chitwood
Dec 7, 2020 · Mank talks about how an uncustomary style of storytelling came into existence, the cynical and often deranged minds that triggered a change, the politics, the controversies, and the fabled Hollywood of the early 40s. Mank is a narration of a narrative. It is a story that traces the baby steps which brought about a shift in the perceptions.
Dec 4, 2020 · Mank. The virtuosic American director David Fincher gets credited with quite a bit, but one quality he’s not credited enough for is playfulness. That’s understandable in a sense, given the themes and subjects of his movies. Serial killers, obsessive entrepreneurs, master manipulators of reality itself: these and their metaphysics are ...
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” Watch trailers & learn more.
