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4. The Musical Score Was Recorded With Era-Appropriate Instruments - Mank
David Fincher's Mank is quite unlike any other film the director has made, and similarly, the musical score created by his regular collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is totally new territory for the duo.
Ditching their synthesisers and distorted guitars, the pair instead opted to use only period-appropriate instruments to ensure they aptly captured the Hollywood-aping sound of the 1930s and '40s.
As if that wasn't challenging enough, the score was also produced remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with musicians recording their pieces in their own homes with sterilised microphone kits sent to them by Reznor and Ross.
Yet the end result is shockingly seamless, and you'd never guess it wasn't a conventionally composed score - a fact that surprised even the pair themselves.