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David Fincher lays down plenty of track on the great big electric train set of “Mank,” the filmmaker’s return to the director’s chair after “Gone Girl” in 2014. Depending on one’s interest in the evergreen legend of “Citizen Kane” and the politics of classic Hollywood, mileage may vary, but Fincher’s detailed visual style and an invested performance from Gary Oldman not to mention the talents of several entertaining supporting players combine to form yet another purely speculative chapter in the cottage industry of films toying with the mythology of one of the most venerated motion pictures ever made.
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Mank is now on Netflix, which for some means it s as good a time as any to remember or re-watch the cinematic classic
Citizen Kane. Orson Welles movie didn t just change the game of modern cinema, the making of the film, as
Mank will show, was worthy of a story all on its own. A brief look at some of the behind-the-scenes facts will confirm this and is certainly worth looking into for those unfamiliar with some of the wild stories attached to this movie.
And when it comes to
Citizen Kane, the tales of scandal, sabotage, and deception are seemingly endless. Some of the factoids behind this movie sound so outrageous they can t possibly be true, but with the length to which the movie has been studied and the exhausting number of times Orson Welles was interviewed about it throughout his life, it stands to reason that many of these crazy things are true.
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Citizen Kane.
ne of the most iconic moments in Orson Welles
Citizen Kane comes near the end, as the aging and once-powerful newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, now at the lowest point in his life, shuffles down a corridor between mirrors on opposite walls. Dejected and deflated, his ghostly pallor is reflected infinite times, appearing to get smaller and smaller as he shrinks into the void. This is a fitting image, because
Kane is itself a hall of mirrors, one that unintentionally reflected the future downfall of its most boisterous creators. David Fincher s
Citizen
Kane origin story, detailing the real-life social and political turmoil that inspired the film s ripped-from-the-headlines themes. It also apes the arch tone and heightened style of 1940s cinema, down to the black-and-white cinematography, monaural sound mix and fake reel-changing cigarette burns in the corner of the screen. And like
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