2. Screenwriter versus director, Mank versus Welles is a tired debate because like almost every film aside from Brakage-style independent movies all film is collaborative (and Brakage, to be frank, had a lot of help from his family!).
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3. On the Mank/Welles credit, I think
@tnyfrontrow is judicious: “Mankiewicz’s work was fundamental, and Welles’s revisions were transformative.” But of course the film was also made by more than just the writer & director: there's the whole rest of the crew.Show this thread -
4. Leaving aside the tired Welles debate, what Mank gets right is Mankiewicz as an emblematic figure of the 1930s Hollywood left, uneasily a pet of the rich, whose folly & corruption he lashes out at.
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5. The real triumph of Mank is that it helps us recover Citizen Kane as a Popular Front movie: an attack on plutocrat made by people who were close enough to wealthy to see the threat the posed to democracy. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mank-welles-mankiewicz-kane/ …
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And certainly any discussion about artistic contributions and authorship on CK has to include Greg Toland
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exactly. It's not spelled out enough the free reign that Welles gave him. Welles may have been a "genius," but he still was only 25
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well, given that he was 24 years old & it was his feature debut, he did a pretty good job, then.
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