Not even a little bit.
Clearly, Mangold hasn’t let it stop him.
Mangold isn’t remotely worried people will point toWalk Hardas a lens through which to viewA Complete Unknown.
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“I foundWalk Hardhilarious,” Mangold tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“But I also never understood why satire would negate making the real thing anymore.
That seems a little ludicrous to me.”
Timothee Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’.Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures
“That was just that they had run their course for that moment,” he says.
“Trope is not a negative word if you look it up.”
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“There are traditions that are beautiful to uphold,” he concludes.
I remain resolutely optimistic and idealistic in my work.
I don’t want to be satire’d out of telling the stories.
Just because they have echoes in other stories, that doesn’t mean they’re not relevant."
