Citizen Kane (1941) is the most admired movie of all time. It wonderful mastery of film elements and intriguing storyline have warranted many studies of it. Orson Welles mastered the medium while approaching it in a completely new way. But many parallels can be found to his own life in this movie. His character Charles Kane especially follows many themes of Welles life. Most notably the overall theme and Orson Welles life. Everyone wants something they can’t have‚ and person and movie show a wonderful
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Citizen Kane is an American drama film released in 1941. It follows the life of the main character‚ Charles Foster Kane‚ and the investigation into “rosebud” – the last word spoken before his death. Kane was a wealthy newspaper tycoon who lived a reserved lifestyle; he had many possessions but isolated himself from the public eye wherever possible towards the end of his life. The director’s portrayal of the films main themes are shown in such a way that a Year 12 group of students would be able to
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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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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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After watching the film Citizen Kane‚ I feel little sad because everything Kane tried to do is nothing behind his dead. In the begining of the film‚ it shows the dead of Kane with the word- a single word: "Rosebud". To continue the film‚ another characters tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane’s life. Charles Foster Kane is the riches and the most powerful newspaper in America. He has more and more power when he marries the niece of the man who will become President
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classic film Citizen Kane‚ director Orson Welles introduces the idea of the American Dream: a life of success and wealth. One ’s formal expectation of this theme would be that of a perfect family life‚ large amounts of money‚ a successful career and ultimately‚ happiness. Welles redefined these expectations through the mise-en-scene of the first flashback in which Kane ’s parents bequeath him to Thatcher. The scene opens with Charles Kane ’s mother‚ father and their banker‚ Thatcher‚ in the Kane boarding
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The plot of Citizen Kane is about the life (and last words) of an extremely rich‚ famous‚ and formerly influential man named Charles Foster Kane. His life is shown through flashbacks and interviews‚ all of which come together to reveal more and more about Kane‚ as they take the audience through important points of his background and life‚ as seen through the eyes of those who knew him. The film starts with Charles Foster Kane’s death and last word‚ which is ‘Rosebud’. After his death‚ a reporter
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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
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The movie Citizen Kane was from 1941 starring Orson Wells who directed and co-wrote the script. This movie was about a man named Charles Foster Kane. Charles Foster Kane was a newspaper tycoon. He was like by many and hated by some. This movie was partly based on the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst‚ Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold Mc Cormick and aspects of Welles’s own life. The movie focuses on Mr. Kane life and what did the last words he spoke on this death
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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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