Citizen Kane – The Characters that Surround Charles Foster Kane was a man of an egotistical behavior. Since he was robbed of his child hood‚ he never fully received the love and skipped out on the upbringing of being a child. This in turn stuck with him as he grew‚ believing that he could buy the love of the people through money and manipulation. He pursuit of power and control impacts his life negatively as he pushes everyone that loves him away like Susan. Kane evokes a sense of sympathy‚ as
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In Citizen Kane‚ Welles once in a while foregoes altering for the long take; on the other hand‚ he additionally embraces altering procedures from Hollywood‚ such as the shot-reverse shot technique. Obviously‚ Welles gives the breakfast scene his own specific touch‚ giving a montage arrangement chronicling the breakdown of a relationship. He additionally uses stun cuts‚ as in the presentation of the News on the March grouping or the slice to a screeching cockatoo later in the film. Sound assumes
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looking at the film Citizen Kane‚ it uses mise-en-scene to help paint a better picture throughout the film. Mise-en-scene‚ better known as staging‚ is the overall look and feel of a movie (Barsam;Monahan p.542) The first example that comes to mind when thinking about mise-en-scene is when Charles Kane Foster is running for office‚ he is giving a speech and in the background is a large poster of his face. For the majority of the film there are very few shots taken where Kane is not present somehow
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The Movie Citizen Kane‚ considered by many to be one of the greatest movies of all time‚ is one of those movies that tells its story visually just as much as it tells us verbally. One such sequence is the Jigsaw puzzle sequence which shows us the dwindling marriage of Charles Foster Kane and Susan Alexander Kane as we see her building jigsaw puzzles that once was a past time. Now it is the only thing that keeps her going as she lives in a palace that feels more like a prison. This sequence is probably
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Throughout Citizen Kane‚ a number of themes are explored by Orson Welles. What Makes a Man is the central theme; the audience was told much about Kane’s life but during the course of the film‚ it all comes from the perspective of someone else. This proves how difficult it is to interpret a person’s life because people might interpret it in such a way of how they know the person‚ and the final cry for Rosebud shows that even those who alleged to know Kane best were unaware of certain things about
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way. In the film‚ Citizen Kane by Orson Welles‚ Charles Foster Kane attempted to live his life unconstrained but rather ironically‚
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In Rushmore and Citizen Kane‚ both protagonists are very determined to achieve their goal. Despite having very different settings‚ the unique characteristics of these two movies are very similar. In both films‚‚ the missing mother figure for both protagonist is very significant‚ as they try to fill that void with something. Also their action is very unique as it ruins their social life and cause the drastic events. The missing mother figure in both films impact them differently‚ yet they try to
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when I saw Citizen Kane the first time. When it was over I couldn’t believe my reaction. My hands were shaking‚ my palms and arm pits sweaty. I felt my heart race like a jackhammer and I knew I more than watched a movie‚ I experienced one. True‚ I didn’t understand all the complexities of Kane‚ but I understood the phenomenal acting and fantastic drama. Years later I would understand more‚ but in that moment at 13 I saw storytelling for more than a two-dimensional celluloid. Citizen Kane really wasn’t
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Subject Movie Citizen Kane is about Charles Foster Kane‚ and his life story and it’s kind of told by a reporter asking his “friends” order rather than make all them people whom he may have known deeper than just saying hello to. The movie starts off with Kane laying in bed and then dying while saying the famous quote from the movie “Rosebud”. Then it goes to reporters watching the news on the March which is a bit basically a short five minute documentary on Kane’s life. Then after that they saw the
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Battle over Citizen Kane I really enjoyed watching this extremely interesting and entertaining documentary about all of the aspects of this film. In most aspects‚ Orson Welles was the most interesting and fascinating character. It was almost as if I had wanted to learn more about him for a really long time and I never had. It was very well put together and had some great stories. It seemed that I made the similarity of Orson to Marilyn Monroe. I am not a scholar on Marilyn‚ but I know that
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