Citizen Kane Essay

If you had the power to control someone's emotions, would you seize it? If you could make someone laugh, make someone cry, feel jealousy, or pride; then you would be one powerful figure in history and life today. This is the job of a Director. Their talents and capabilities are an artform of leadership and individuality that can influence a nation if not the world. In the film Citizen Kane, Orson Welles directs the stage to illustrate the story of how sometimes life places you on a path that you don’t want or desire. With outstanding cinematography and personal style, Orson Welles emphasizes that Power and acceptance can be bought for a price.

Camera art is a form that Orson welles used to his advantage to convey certain emotions while
We are able to see different styles that helped tell the story, that are common in many of his films. For example, Touch of Evil- another one of his movies- opens up with a long and continuous shot or mise en scène to create suspense. This usage of camera work and environment helps Welles define his way of directing and how he likes to keep the audience in a very long moment of suspense, such as the scene at the end of Citizen Kane when the audience is shown all the many statues and treasures that Kane had building up this emotion of pity, sympathy, and almost mocking way of representing his life and what he stood for. This long shot, like the one in Touch of Evil build the audience up into thinking that whatever was supposed to be happening was not going to happen immediately, but with time. And, whilst one shot ended with quite a large explosion, the other ended with the major climax of what “Rosebud” actually was. We are also also able to see an important aspect to Welles through his acting career. While this is not uncommon for many directors, Orson Welles performs in all of his movies, making him not only a recognizable director, but actor as well. Orson has the ability to present power in all of his movies in a way that influences audiences enough to make them understand the meaning behind a film. Touch of evil represents a woman who is confronting a man named Hank. Though small in size, the woman has this