Mank with Sean Fennessey

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Nerts! Are you folks ready to get MANK-PILLED? We advise that you start by “mankro-dosing” David Fincher’s 2020 exploration of the life and times of cantankerous screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey joins us to chat about Fincher’s first Netflix feature, and we’re asking all the important questions. Would this film have a better reputation if it had been titled “manK!” ? Will there be a film made 40 years from now entitled “SORK” about Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, and the making of THE SOCIAL NETWORK? Is Mank the “Jabba the Hut of cynicism”? Will Griffin use this episode as another excuse to talk about The Offer?

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0:00.0	Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank,
0:08.0	Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bank, Bankk, mank, mank, mank.
0:14.0	I'm Gary, old men.
0:17.0	My name's mank.
0:20.0	Uh... Thank you're Amanda Cy freed.
0:27.0	She says, Nerts.
0:30.0	My leg is shot. I drink a lot. Orson wants me to crack the plot.
0:40.0	Manking the bank.
0:45.0	Blank check with Griffin and David, don't know what to say what to expect.
0:59.0	All you need to know is that the name of the shadow is a blank check.
1:08.0	This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory.
1:11.0	But we bought still belongs to the man who sold it.
1:14.0	That's the real magic of the podcasts
1:16.4	and don't let anybody tell you different.
1:18.5	That line is the crux of the movie.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:21.0	Louis Mayer.
1:22.1	Still true today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah's still true today, Griffin.
1:24.0	You ever think about that?
1:26.0	Yeah. That's what they went on strike about.
1:28.0	Can I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna come in with the hot ticks right off the bat.
1:32.0	Arles Howard kind of underrated chameleon.
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