David Fincher proved that he can create masterpieces ("A Curious Case of Benjamin Button") but also that he has problems with the pace of his movies. All substantial dialogues happen in the last 13 minutes of his movie, and the rest, in which he intended to imitate Orson Welles' style is incomprehensible. I spent 3/4 of the length of the movie by hysterically googling the characters and trying to understand why they are there in the shot. My experience was not helped by the fact that the actors playing Joseph Louis Mayer and Irving Thalberg looked almost identical. Was Fincher implying that Irving Thalberg was the son figure for L. B. Mayer before his own son could take the reins? If yes, the hint can be understood only by Welles' buffs. As I already mentioned, a director must not be in love with his characters, otherwise they take over him.
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