Episode 61: Mank

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses Mank's "old Hollywood" visual style, the scripts's unusual structure and meandering plot, and where the film fits into David Fincher's filmography.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.7	Today we are talking about Mank, the 2020 film directed by David Fincher, screenplay by Jack Fincher.
0:15.6	I'm joined by the lesson from screenplay team, Trisha Rand.
0:18.5	Hello, everybody.
0:19.4	Brian Bittner.
0:20.2	Hello, hello.
0:21.1	And Alex Cayeros.
0:22.2	Hi.
0:22.9	And we are, of course, talking to you from a theater where we're playing back the audio that
0:28.0	we recorded.
0:29.3	We recorded it in a theater to make sure there was actual honest reverb to recreate the sound
0:34.1	of the 1930s because we know that's how people like to listen to their podcast now.
0:39.9	So,
0:40.5	we might have to explain that one.
0:42.2	Yeah.
0:42.7	Well, we'll talk about.
0:43.9	We'll get to that.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:45.3	So we're going to talk about Mank,
0:46.9	lots of different things.
0:48.3	So there's all the technical details that went into creating this film and making it
0:53.8	look and sound like a 1930s, 40s,
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