Kennedy’s press secretary, ran George McGovern’s presidential campaign and co-founded what became National Public Radio - writes in ‘ So As I Was Saying…‘ that his father, Herman Mankiewicz, agreed to a shared credit as a favor to Welles. “Orson Welles wrote ‘not one word’ of Citizen Kane,” insists a posthumous memoir by a son of the man who shared a Best Original Screenplay with the director of the 1941 classic. Post story, titled “My dad wrote Citizen Kane - not Orson Welles.” But it’s called Mank and not Orson…I felt like was okay in context.”įrom a 2.28.16 Lou Lumenick N.Y. The other critic agrees that Fincher’s film “ does make that argument. The nearly 80-year-old argument that will never die, just slumber for years before being shaken awake again.” “This will unfortunately reignite the old Pauline Kael debate decades after she was rightly discredited for her shoddy research.
Mank “makes the implicit argument that Welles didn’t deserve co-screenplay credit,” says one. Two critics who’ve seen David Fincher‘s Mank (Netflix, 11.13), which is largely about the Manckiewicz-Welles relationship during the writing and making of Citizen Kane, are saying that the film revives the Kael view. Kael’s essay was later called into question if not discredited. Mankiewicz as the principal author of the Kane screenplay, and in so doing tarnished the contributions of director-cowriter and star Orson Welles. Partially drawing upon research by UCLA film professor Howard Suber, Kael sang the praises of screenwriter Herman J. Everyone is familiar with the nearly half-century-old “ Raising Kane,” a 50,000-word Pauline Kael essay about who really wrote Citizen Kane.
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