It targets the educated class of the audience

"Mank" ... a masterpiece without a soul due to David Fincher's idealism

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Mank, a Netflix original product, is an experiment by American filmmaker David Fincher, in exploring the conditions surrounding writing the script for Citizen Kane, released in 1941 from the perspective of screenwriter Hermann Mankowitz, or "Mank" for short.

- Venture free of revenue pressures, and plans to Oscar, and wants the grand prize, or best director, or better imaging, or the best actor. The popular characters are three and all of them are women, and they all stand out nicely, but that does not mean that their characters are well written. To view the full article please click on this link.

Much has been said about the movie "Citizen Kane", which almost won the Oscar for best film, had it not been for its director and creative hero Orson Welles's troubled relationship with Hollywood at the time, and settled for the best original screenplay award.

"Citizen Kane" did not find enough recognition in his time, but later generations of critics tasted it better and gave it the recognition it deserves. According to several lists, it was classified as the best film in cinematic history for more than a decade, but recently Vertigo has taken the lead. Some lists in Britain, for example.

"Citizen Kane" is a cinematic masterpiece and a movie written in advance of his time, but artistic tastes differ, and the writer of this topic had an early experience with this film, as it was shown in the Faculty of Media two decades ago as part of the school curriculum, as it is a film dealing with the press industry.

"Mank" in black and white (the second production of Netflix in this format after Rome 2018), and subjected to digital special effects after filming, to appear realistic as if it was made in the thirties and forties of the last decade.

"Mank" may be technically Fincher's most complex film, but he paid a price for that, which is that the film suffers on more than one level because of the idealism of its director.

Fischer is known to scrutinize the details and ask for many replays of some shots, up to 50 replays.

Here, we note that the film is somewhat dry, or without spirit, so we can not feel any character, including the hero.

Sometimes Fencher tries with difficulty to highlight the similarities between the politics and politicians of the 1930s, especially the California elections in 1934 and what is happening today.

For those who know "Citizen Kane", "Mank" is a treasure of knowledge. It is not limited to narrating the events of the two months, which is Mank (Gary Oldman )’s deadline to write the film, which Wells (Tom Burke) specified, but rather includes retrospective scenes of Manke’s previous years and his friendship with Actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried) and her lover, media mogul William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance), a friendship that enabled him to discover scandals and include them in the script.

Although Hearst banned the mention of the film, meaning "Citizen Kane", in all of its publications at the time of its release, Fincher tells the facts accurately as it depicts the film from a script his father wrote in the 1990s.

Most of the movie's scenes in the current timeline (i.e. the early 1940's) take place on a ranch in California, where we see Manke in his bed due to car accident injuries, and he collects more than 300 pages of text.

Mank has two assistants: Rita (Lily Collins) and Frolin (Monica Grossman), and there is the courier John Houseman (Sam Throton), who is the link between Wells and Manke.

The film’s final moments highlight the details of the disagreement that arose between Wells and Mank over the origin of the script for "Citizen Kane", and the split that resulted from that disagreement.

While the retrospective scenes focused on providing context for the following question: "Why did Manek turn against the people who helped him and stood by him throughout his career?"

So he chose to focus on Manke's unpleasant traits and highlight his flaws, on top of which is his addiction to drinking, and his tendency to pretend to know all things and be smart for everyone.

Oldman's performance is beautiful, similar to his performance in the character of Winston Churchill, and he won the "Oscar" due three years ago in "The Darkest Hour".

And news from Hollywood says that Oldman's performance has improved more and more during the many remakes that the ideal director requested and published during filming.

The film's favorite characters are three, all of them women, the first being Marion Davis, a silent movie star who enjoyed immense popularity from 1917 to 1937. The second, Rita, Mank's secretary, and the third, his wife Sarah (Tobin Middleton), all stood out nicely in the script without tarnishing their reputation, but that no It means that their characters are well written.

This movie is for the educated class more than the group looking for pure entertainment, or those looking for a movie that satisfies their emotions.

This time, he is free from the pressures of movie revenues, because he is on Netflix, and because he is referring to the Oscar, and he wants the top prize for his movie, the best director, the best photography, or the best actor.

Technically (photography, lighting and directing), then publishing made a masterpiece, and employed every digital trick to give the shape of the cinematic image that was prevalent at the time, but there are notes for those who go deeper into the history of black and white, the first of which is that Venture uses the wide frame of Scope Cinema for his events in the thirties and forties, and a frame at that time It was not wide but rather square. As for Cinema Scope, it did not appear until 1953 in order to compete with television.

Second, the portrayal of Venture here is not as severe as Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane), and it is not as dark as Stanley Cortez's (The Naked Kiss).

And The Night of the Hunter), it is a very clean portrayal, closer to the portrayal of David Lynch, the master of surrealism.

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