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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Citizen Kane Citizen Kane‚ a movie that was nominated for nine academy awards and won the Academy award for best writing is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. In order to understand why Citizen Kane has been so beloved in the world of film because of how realistic it felt although being a work of fiction or as the French call it a film à clef (French for Film with a Key) one must pick apart the all the parts that make a movie successful from its actors‚ lighting‚ plot‚ etc
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Through all that it is able to produce one more quality: the quality of becoming timeless. The movie “Citizen Kane” is widely regarded to be one of the best films of all time‚ and it was released over 70 years ago now‚ but because of the quality effort and innovation that went in to the production‚ it has been able to stand the test of time. The good films
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Orson Welles’ undeniable masterpiece‚ Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed and discussed films of all times‚ having also frequently been awarded with the title of “greatest film ever made”. The critics and audiences’ fascination with the picture is deeply linked to its acknowledged status of nonconformity and defiance towards the formal rules that made up the classical Hollywood cinema film style between 1917 and 1960 (David Bordwell‚ Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson 1985). Effectively
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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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Philip Lee Joor Baruah Monday- 11:15-12:30 Film 20A 30 October 2014 Citizen Kane Sequence Analysis Essay Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography and editing are visual elements in film that create meaning in the shots/sequences of the film. Ultimately it is these factors that can establish narrative agents and their relations‚ drive the narrative and place the view in a certain point of view of the narrative. Orson Welle’s 1941 film‚ Citizen Kane‚ is considered significant for its technical innovations with its
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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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similarities and differences to the movie Citizen Kane. The Prestige¡¯s starts up with an eye grabbing scene where a man is murdered after performing an ¡°electrifying¡± magic trick while another man watches him die. This is much like the beginning of Citizen Kane‚ where a man also dies‚ but not as exiting as in The Prestige. The beginning of Citizen Kane is more mysterious and dark‚ while The Prestige is very exiting and more used as an attention grabber. Both Citizen Kane and The Prestige use flashback
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Citizen Kane Scene Analysis The scene we’re analyzing starts off with a shot of the New York Daily Inquirer. It’s a close shot‚ taking up the entire screen. I feel this close up is to show the viewer that the newspaper company is going to be the primary focal point for Kane‚ and his two partners at this point in the film. After the close up‚ the camera pans down to show Kane and Leland sitting in a car looking up at the building. Kane says “Take a good look at it Jedidiah‚ it’s going to look a
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Citizen Kane is not a movie that you see everyday‚ creatively speaking. Even with today’s standards‚ there’s something still special about the style and what makes this film just as famous as its main character. While the film explains Kane’s life‚ it’s also is an investigation into film style by challenging classic Hollywood styles with a different and darker look. Citizen Kane made advances on many fronts ‚ in-regards to cinema‚ and its most significant contribution to cinema came from the use
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