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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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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their themes and motifs. As a master of techniques‚ Citizen Kane falls into the classical category and demonstrating the Italian Neorealism‚ The Bicycle Thief fits the modern class. Both films use photography‚ mise en scene‚ editing‚ movement‚ and story similarly and differently to emphasize their personal themes. In both films‚ photography played a huge role to depict a theme. The use of camera angles‚ specific shots‚ and lighting in Citizen Kane‚ help support the idea of supremacy. In the political
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The golden age in studio film making with movies such as Orson Welles “Citizen Kane “. When the golden age emerged in 1941 World War ll started and when it ended 4 years later it was hard for Hollywood to bounce back to what it was. The making of “Citizen Kane “redefined the look of modern cinema and changed forever the way in which American audience and film historians talk about the movies. In “Citizen Kane “Orson Welles used evocative depth of field (deep focus). Welles’s used this visual style
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Citizen Kane In 1941‚ the dramatic film Citizen Kane was released by first time director‚ Orson Welles. Welles once said‚ “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” With the attitude Welles had in directing‚ it brought him heavy burden filled with controversy amongst newspaper mongrel William Randolph Hearst‚ movie director Howard Hughes and Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull for the adaptation of these three personalities in the character‚ Kane. Upon Citizen
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Realism: Citizen Kane & Double Indemnity Movies have long been known to create a portal through which its viewers can transcend through their own realities and experience the unimaginable. The visual‚ sounds‚ and narrative of great movies immediately attract the focus of its audience as they move into a trance for those 1-2 hours of screen time. While many great movies introduce their audiences to varying experiences that heighten their senses and grasp their focus‚ some measure of relatability
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles‚ its producer‚ co-author‚ director and star. The picture was Welles’s first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories‚ it won an Academy Award for Best Writing by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics‚ filmmakers‚ and fans to be the greatest film ever made‚ Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound polls of critics‚ until it was displaced by Vertigo in
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films‚ including Othello and Citizen Kane. Although his description varies from others‚ it is evident that his remains the same throughout his films. Orson Welles defines the tragic hero as a man who has always had a difficult life yet‚ is a well-known‚ important figure in their setting who‚ although is tall and handsome‚ is two-sided‚ desperate for love and loses everything by his death. Welles’ Othello and Kane are no exception. Othello and Charles Foster Kane were both important and famous
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