![]() ![]() Naturally, the film unfolds via a series of flashbacks, Kane-style, including a fun scene in which the MGM writing room pitches a remake of Caligari to Irving Thalberg, off-the-cuff. And also, how his words were received in San Simeon, Hearst’s famous Californian castle. Mankiewicz, holed up in a desert ranch with a collection of broken bones, wrote that incendiary movie script. That’s a moment captured in David Fincher’s fascinating new film Mank, which dramatises the process by which Herman J. Charles Foster Kane was modelled, blatantly and pointedly, on Hearst himself, and within its fiction, Citizen Kane contained some painful, and subversive truths. Can a fictional film damage a real person’s reputation? William Randolph Hearst certainly thought so, as he mobilised to stop the screenplay of Citizen Kane being turned into a movie. ![]()
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