The U.S. Cinema Industry (Essay)
The U.S. Cinema Industry
ESCP-EUROPE 2013-II
GARCIA RUIZ, Gabriela
ESSAY
Final EXAM
PART I: Choose one element that particularly struck you, briefly analyze it justifying your choice (10 pts.)
1. Citizen Kane: Rosebud
I chose “Rosebud” because this word evolves the main sense of the whole movie.
From the beginning with the scene of Kane dropping a crystal snowball before dying and whispering “Rosebud” to the end when the last scene shows us the image of a chair burning in which back this word was written, “Rosebud” may resume that part of Kane that hadn’t been seen or that never went to the public sphere.
At the beginning we can read this phrase: “But America stills read Kane newspapers and Kane himself was always news”. And from that we can realize that all the time
Kane’s life has gone public, he has always ‘been’ an ‘American’, meaning that he reached the “American dream” a synonym of success but also being on the spot, being watched and never escape from the public eye. But if there’s one thing Kane never told anyone that was “Rosebud” and people saying that they never heard of it give us the impression that was too personal and too related to his own private life that he kept it on the secret. The reason why Kane never talked about it must be related to his memories going back to his childhood when he was just only a kid and didn’t know anything about the future he will have years later.
The scene of about 5-10 minutes that show not Kane but Charles Foster Kane, not in a bad mood or showing off but an innocent kid with besides his mother makes us notice the fragility or vulnerability of this character that we won’t see again during the movie in which Kane is represented as a serious, powerful, unsatisfied man.
This scene shows Kane’s mother aim to desire the best for his child, even if he had to leave their town with the purpose of “conquer” the Big City and succeed.
At look in detail, the crystal snowball encompasses this whole
ESCP-EUROPE 2013-II
GARCIA RUIZ, Gabriela
ESSAY
Final EXAM
PART I: Choose one element that particularly struck you, briefly analyze it justifying your choice (10 pts.)
1. Citizen Kane: Rosebud
I chose “Rosebud” because this word evolves the main sense of the whole movie.
From the beginning with the scene of Kane dropping a crystal snowball before dying and whispering “Rosebud” to the end when the last scene shows us the image of a chair burning in which back this word was written, “Rosebud” may resume that part of Kane that hadn’t been seen or that never went to the public sphere.
At the beginning we can read this phrase: “But America stills read Kane newspapers and Kane himself was always news”. And from that we can realize that all the time
Kane’s life has gone public, he has always ‘been’ an ‘American’, meaning that he reached the “American dream” a synonym of success but also being on the spot, being watched and never escape from the public eye. But if there’s one thing Kane never told anyone that was “Rosebud” and people saying that they never heard of it give us the impression that was too personal and too related to his own private life that he kept it on the secret. The reason why Kane never talked about it must be related to his memories going back to his childhood when he was just only a kid and didn’t know anything about the future he will have years later.
The scene of about 5-10 minutes that show not Kane but Charles Foster Kane, not in a bad mood or showing off but an innocent kid with besides his mother makes us notice the fragility or vulnerability of this character that we won’t see again during the movie in which Kane is represented as a serious, powerful, unsatisfied man.
This scene shows Kane’s mother aim to desire the best for his child, even if he had to leave their town with the purpose of “conquer” the Big City and succeed.
At look in detail, the crystal snowball encompasses this whole