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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born 11 th February 1909 in Pennsylvania. His first movie job was working for Paramount, Berlin as a translator. He moved on to become a dialogue specialist and even a screenwriter on a number of Hollywood Paramount movies.
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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993) was an award winning U.S. movie director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote and directed many well known movies such as, "A Letter to Three Wives," "All About Eve," "Guys and Dolls," "Cleopatra," and "Sleuth."
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In ''No Way Out,'' an exposition of anti-Negro prejudices, Mankiewicz uses such savage dialogue as ''Dirty Nigger'' and attacks prejudice with melodramatic intensity. In ''All About Eve,'' the story of an understudy's shameless abuse of people in her climb to theatrical fame, the author-director stalks his victim with all the cunning of a panther. His dialogue, as even a hurried reading of the script reveals, is smoothly sophisticated and honed to keen cutting edge.
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From the first scene of his first film as a writer-director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz has been concerned with women and their realistic, three-dimensional representation on screen. When Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) in Dragonwyck (1946) urges her mother to open a just-arrived letter instead of waiting for her husband (“It's for you. You've got the right.”), Mankiewicz sets out on a quest to reshape
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Selon Gilles Deleuze, Mankiewicz utilise le flash-back pour ausculter les bifurcations perpétuelles de la psychologie d'un personnage. Les points de bifurcations sont souvent si imperceptibles qu'ils ne peuvent se révéler qu'après coup, à une mémoire attentive. C'était déjà la question constante de Fitzgerald, dont Mankiewicz est très proche : "Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ? Comment en sommes nous arrivé là ?"
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In The Honey Pot, Mankiewicz's pivot approach does not work. Since it is a mystery, the film's pivots must remain hidden, which conflicts with Mankiewicz's technique of exposing and exploring moments of choice. On top of this mismatch of genre and style, the released version is 20 minutes shorter than Mankiewicz's final cut, further damaging the film.
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