1. There's a lot of commentary on Mank which re-litigates the old authorship dispute of Mankiewicz versus Welles, which I think is a disservice to both the film & to larger story of the making of Citizen Kane.
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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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