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Clips from Mank

Movies 2020 131 min ★ 6.8/10 (106,116 ratings) 1,923 clips

Credits

It's all right. I've got this. I'm good.
Here.
The ladies will scandalize the neighborhood
by occupying both bedrooms.
I will be staying in town at a bucolic spa called,
if you can believe it, the Shoulder Arms.
I will do my editing there.
As you know,
she studied nutrition back in the old country.
- Ja, liebes Fräulein? - Jawohl, Herr Houseman.
It's a dry house.
The owner of the ranch doesn't permit alcohol.
But you're from Pennsylvania.
You're no doubt used to it.
Saved by the proverbial bell.
Set it here, please.
And, uh, careful.
Careful. Thank you.
Observe.
Naturally, you'll do your damnedest to get at it.
you should be a world-class sprinter.
Rita, come in here, will you?
This is Mrs. Alexander.
Rita Alexander, Herman Mankiewicz.
How do you do, Mr. Mankiewicz?
Uh, that's a big question.
Her husband is one of our bold lads in the RAF.
- Flies… What is it, Rita? Spitfires? - Hurricanes.
- My sympathy and prayers. - I beg your pardon?
I hope we won't need your sympathy, Mr. Mankiewicz.
We'll do the praying and the fighting.
We're expecting great things.
What is it the writer says? "Tell the story you know."
Hmm.
I don't know that writer.
Hello.
Yes. Yes, he's right here.
- Yes? Hello? - They're getting him.
Orson, hello. We just got in.
Oh.
- Hello. - Mank!
Houseman tells me we have you just where we want you.
Lucky me.
Excellent.
Ready and willing to hunt the great white whale?
Just call me Ahab.
I understand we've 90 days.
Let's aim for 60.
He's just cut a month.
There are no studio notes.
We'll have no one but ourselves to blame.
- Sixty days and a noodle. - Mr. Welles, we're ready.
Gotta run. I'm doing tests for Heart of Darkness.
Oh, little that, lesser Joe Conrad.
If anyone should ask, tell 'em you're adapting.
Break wind at Hollywood and Vine,
No, I don't know this burgh, not yet.
No notes.
And then he turns 24.
Trapped.
Uh-uh.
Let me take off these clothes.
They let me go just as I achieved perfect equilibrium.
I won't work with half the producers on the lot,
and the other half won't work with me.
What's this, a racing form?
You stop reading, you stop learning.
Hold still.
Lay back.
Cigarette, please.
Hermie, if a match gets anywhere near your breath,
you'll burst into flames.
Even the dog's name is awful.
Sounds like a Japanese houseboy.
You mark my words, Sara.
The Wizard of Oz is gonna sink that studio.
Sleep. You're driving to New York tomorrow.
Remember when you used to take the train
from back East?
I also remember how I spent my honeymoon in Berlin,
with hookers running up and down the stairs all night
Weren't those the days?
Yeah, yeah, and the nights weren't bad either.
- Schnutz. - For the last time, what?
- What year is it? - Herman…
- I should have done something by now. - Oh, Hermie…
Give me a sign, oh, Lord.
Go to sleep, meshuggener.
- Schnutz? - What?
Why do you put up with me?
I don't know.
That bush in the front yard,
if it catches fire tonight, you will let me know?
I mean, you know all kinds of things.
Iambic pentameter, the words of the great poets.
What about the way she signed it? "Always, Ethel."
Can you beat that? Not just "Ethel." "Always, Ethel."
Tommy, if we can find civilization by sundown,