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Dec 8, 2020 · Imagine Ben and his family’s astonishment that his grandfather’s life has now received the big-screen biopic treatment, courtesy of David Fincher ’s “ Mank .”. “We thought then, what ...
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- 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
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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.
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Dec 4, 2020 · Mank 's answer is, well, Mank. The real answer is far more complicated and can really only be summed up as: we're not sure. What is true in Mank is the set up – the broken leg, the dry ranch ...
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Apr 19, 2021 · To twist the knife, Mank invents two major plot points: First, that Mankiewicz gave Thalberg the idea to hire paid actors to play “real” Sinclair voters—“You can make people believe that ...
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Dec 8, 2020 · Ben Mankiewicz Shares What Happened After the Events of ‘Mank’ — and His Role in the Film. Hearst began a vendetta against his grandfather, the TCM Host tells IndieWire. He also shares how ...
Nov 12, 2020 · Mank arrives late in a year in which movies big, small, and Nolan-sized have struggled for critical and commercial traction; the emerging narrative is that it is an awards season contender—a ...
