well, watched ‘mank’ and boy that movie is up its own ass

“Pops,
this is
Her­man Mankiewicz,
but we
have to call him
Mank.”

 

Mank (2020) had a fair­ly in­ter­est­ing sto­ry (which pos­si­bly is not en­tire­ly true, but what­ev­er, Hol­ly­wood does that) told in an over­ly-styl­ized way that dis­tract­ed from said sto­ry.

Movies made in the 30s–40s were heav­i­ly in­flu­enced by vaude­vil­lian styles, which tend to grate on me be­cause they feel so ham fist­ed, and I know Finch­er was try­ing to recre­ate this, as well as the noir tech­niques Or­son Welles would em­ploy …

So half the time – through deep fo­cus, cameo light­ing and long takes – I didn’t know what they were say­ing be­cause of the way they were talk­ing, but it end­ed up not mat­ter­ing.

The first half of the movie felt point­less and parts of it only be­came sig­nif­i­cant in hind­sight when it fi­nal­ly got into the po­lit­i­cal grav­i­ty of Mank’s mo­ti­va­tion be­hind writ­ing Cit­i­zen Kane (1941).

Aman­da Seyfried was great as Mar­i­on Davies, but her char­ac­ter was al­most en­tire­ly ir­rel­e­vant to the sto­ry. You could have cut out most of the scenes with her and the movie would more or less be the same.

Gary Old­man is 63 and they cast him in the role of a 44-year-old who had flash­backs to when he was 34.

The real Mank and his wife were born the same year, but the ac­tress who plays her is 30 years younger than Old­man.

*shakes head*

 

Also, were they not al­lowed to say Cit­i­zen Kane? In the award scene when he and Welles are an­nounced as the win­ner, I thought I heard it un­der the loud ap­plause and sound edit­ing but I could be wrong.

Yes, we all know it’s Kane and don’t re­al­ly need to be told that but I swear it wasn’t said once .…

*but wait there’s mor*

 

 

No, there re­al­ly isn’t.

 

Just
stop
what
you’re
do­ing
and
look
at
this
bird.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2021 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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