âMankâ Is Fake News About Fake News
But by inventing a plot point in his biopic about Herman J. Mankiewicz, David Fincher creates an inadvertent truth about our political moment.
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Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his assistant (Lily Collins) enjoy a beverage in âMank.â
Central to the lore of classic Hollywood are tales of disconsolate screenwriters rendered cynical and self-loathing by the indignities that producers and studio moguls heaped upon them, and by their own failures to walk away because they were being paid too much to leave. From F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs
The Last Tycoon to the Coen brothersâ