Mank (2020)
Directed by David Fincher · Cinematography by Erik Messerschmidt
R131 min54 frames
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What is Mank about?
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.
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What does the cinematography of Mank look like?
Across 54 sampled frames, Mank builds its coverage from medium shots (52% of the sample), with wide compositions (26%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. 46% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 59% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of Mank?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mank (2020) are #010101, #303030, #8c8c8c, #fdfdfd, #6d6d6d, #cacaca — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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