00:01Mank?
00:03It's Orson Welles.
00:06Of course it is.
00:08I think it's time we talk.
00:10What is it the writer says?
00:12Tell the story you know.
00:18Hello, everyone!
00:20Make yourself to home, Mr. Mankiewicz,
00:22or shall I call you Herman?
00:23Please, call me Mank.
00:24Mank!
00:25Mank!
00:26Mank!
00:27This is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank.
00:30Mankiewicz?
00:31Herman Mankiewicz, New York playwright and drama critic
00:35turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst.
00:37This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory.
00:41What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it.
00:44That's the real magic of the movies.
00:46Thunder, lightning, blood, fire, religion.
00:49Help! Someone save me!
00:51All in one film.
00:53That's director-proof.
00:54That's why I always want Mank around.
00:57I hear you're hunting dangerous game.
01:01God bless William Randolph Hearst.
01:04Ready and willing to hunt the great white whale?
01:07Just call me Ahab.
01:09Do come in.
01:10At this rate, you will never finish.
01:12You said 90 days.
01:13Welles said 60.
01:14I'm doing the best I can.
01:16I've put up with your suicidal drinking,
01:18your compulsive gambling,
01:20your silly platonic affairs.
01:21You owe me, Herman.
01:24Who do you think you are?
01:26You're nothing but a court jester.
01:28What I want to know is what you think of it.
01:31It's a bit of a jumble.
01:32The collection of fragments that leap around in time like Mexican jumping beans.
01:36Welcome to my mind, old sock.
01:38Him, I get.
01:38But what did Marion ever do to deserve this?
01:41It's not her.
01:42Not all characters are headliners.
01:44Some are secondary.
01:46You pick a fight with Willie.
01:47You are finished.
01:48Mayor can't save you.
01:50Nobody can.
01:50Especially the boy genius from New York.
01:52I removed any distraction.
01:54Eliminated every excuse.
01:56Your family, your cronies, liquor.
01:58I gave you a second chance.
02:01You cannot capture a man's entire life in two hours.
02:05All you can hope is to leave the impression of what.
02:08Why Hurst?
02:09Outside his own blonde Betty Boop,
02:11you're always his favorite dinner partner.
02:13Are you familiar with the parable of the organ grinder's monkey?
02:20You're a little girl.
02:21You're a little girl.
02:21You're a little girl.
02:22You're a little girl.
02:22You're a little girl.
02:22You're a little girl.
02:22You're a little girl.
02:25You're a little girl.
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